Double Standards

[aron]

Originally Posted by Ohio

You are so right about the Full-Timer Caste System. This really took off in the mid-80's in Taipei during the so-called "New Way." Lee constantly extolled his young "Blue Jacket" trainees, and regularly trashed LC elders. Some have said that his tactics were taken from Mao's playbook. Brothers would advance in the system just by their zeal for Lee and his ministry.

I was there in the early '90s when the New Way and door-knocking was being replaced by the Campus Work. Even then it was clear that divisions were arising - we were told in the FTTA to go for "typical Americans", and if you were too dense they made it explicit, Caucasians.

Also, if you were a student in an Ivy League or Cal Tech or MIT you were a star, if you were in a state college, OK, if you were in a community college, meh, not so much. "Good material" clearly was aligned with future earning prospects. James' epistle rightly called this out. (But they didn't care much for James, as he didn't have 'the vision').

And then the poor, the aged, the infirm - forget about it! Don't waste your time, we were told. If they can't pay you back in this age, drop them. Let some other ministry care for them.

[SAAggie]

Thank you all for your comments.
I guess every organized group needs their own sgt-at-arm's\enforcers\Blue Jackets\Loafer footed thugs- to keep the lower caste in line.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by aron

I was there in the early '90s when the New Way and door-knocking was being replaced by the Campus Work. Even then it was clear that divisions were arising - we were told in the FTTA to go for "typical Americans", and if you were too dense they made it explicit, Caucasians.

Yet Paul clearly instructed us in I Cor 12.25 that the members of the body of Christ should have the same care for one another ... that there would be no division.

I am constantly amazed at how Witness Lee could twist Paul's message to the Corinthians to deceive us, and it worked, for a while at least.