Different weights and measures

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by aron

But my question here has been, why could no one correct Witness Lee? Why is it that he sent out, again and again, various visions, flows, and moves, which resulted in turmoil, confusion, discouragement, and divisions among the flock, and the problem was always deemed overzealous and semi-rogue lieutenants? The "Young Galileans Affair" also comes to mind. Lee would whip up the troops, and when the dust settled, the mess was always someone else's fault.

Originally Posted by aron

Why is it that we were encouraged to publicly point out the defects of "fallen Christianity", including prominent leaders, even Biblical ones, but Witness Lee had to be "covered"?

Because Witness Lee was "today's Paul", and was God's Avatar? Deputy God?

Thus, the incessant "storms, turmoils, rebellions" following this man and his ministry. Yet we are by definition precluded from objectively examining the teachings, understandings, and shared values which support this societal "cosmos", or arrangement. "I'm proud to be an ostrich with my head stuck in the sand!" was how one of the Anaheim elders put it, as a turmoil was wracking the assembly there.

In the Great Lakes Area it was common knowledge that Titus Chu was like an umbrella to protect the region from all of those crazies in Anaheim at LSM. Endless winds and waves from the "extreme weather center" in Anaheim would go howling through the Recovery, with death and destruction in their wake, and we would regularly thank God for our "umbrella."

Never did we, or at least me, consider that the eye of the hurricane was Lee himself. That would be an unthinkable thought. Instead we constantly believed Titus Chu that Lee was God's anointed and his "spiritual father," whose many problems "were none of his business." All of the problems were sourced in those spiritual flunkies who constantly surrounded Lee. Note that these minions were purged with each successive "storm" in order to keep Lee's pristine image intact.

Was not this constant cycle the very definition of insanity? Or at very best, the manifestation of hypocrisy, leaven, and scapegoating?

[aron]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Was not this constant cycle the very definition of insanity? Or at very best, the manifestation of hypocrisy, leaven, and scapegoating?

Unless we're allowed to measure Nee and Lee with the same scales and yardsticks as everyone else, the cycle will continue.

And as Drake helpfully points out, yes that includes us. May we all find the magnanimity and broadness that seemed to be signally lacking in Lee.

"Until we all arrive..."