Relationships/Courting

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Freedom

WL made many such statements, and these types of statements serve to show how legalistic he really was. It doesn't help matters any that everything he spoke is taken to heart.

I have heard people in the LC go so far as to deny that WL was ever legalistic. They will say that legalism only comes from brothers here and there who are "unbalanced". There is no admission of any root problem.

Freedom,

Brother Lee was not legalistic in the sense you mean it. . In his personal life he was legalistic or strict and organized. However, he would coach the saints with stories about "socks in a glass" exhortations usually meant for church life matters such as care in hospitality. Or receiving a tie as a gift that he did not have the peace to wear but neither the peace to give away..,, "what to do?"... or in describing "Japanese umbrella haircuts" as a lesson in how not to shepherd others....

I found his sense of humor delightful. But sometimes when he was serious and the saints would laugh he would often say "I am serious, don't laugh" which made us laugh all the more. Yet, I found moments of complete gravity and the Lord's speaking in his speaking and streaks of extreme enlightenment and conviction. But not in a legalistic sense of following outwardly but an examination by the Lord Himself and followed with dozens or hundreds of conversations with Him.

I don't reject claims that some leading ones in some localities may have been legalistic and if Brother Lee ate Cocoa Puffs so would they. Just in my experience I never saw that and no one ever imposed any personal matter like clothing, grooming, car I drive, shoe shines, etc. on me.

Drake