OT -- RSQUBF discussion forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [8], 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 02:05:54 08/31/04 Tue
Author: Mike K.
Subject: OT
In reply to: Nick T. 's message, "what is the Local Church about?" on 13:40:57 08/26/04 Thu

Nick, if you're more interested, then maybe we should go into the Offtopic forum for this, as I think this would lead us too far OT here.
In principle, the LC is built around the ideas of one person from China, who most interestingly goes by the name of Lee (Witness Lee, that is).

I've started to develop an aversion against the name Lee since I got my fingers burnt 2 times...

Let's just say that for the most part, the LC is very okay.
For some 95%, I'd undersign the ideals of the LC as my own.
But then, there's a big discrepancy between ideal and practice, you know.
And when you look at what is practiced, it's not really what is being taught - in essence you get another authoritarian system where the head is "God's oracle in this age".
They have a few problematic doctrines but their real problem is (yet again) a refusal to be accountable.

They use the same harp like UBF "If you'd look upon Jesus, you wouldn't have a problem [with the son of a leader raping a married woman, with another son of a leader diverting 7-digit offering monies into their private pockets etc]".
And of course, the founder, Lee (now deceased) was totally paranoid. Anyone who dared to criticize him was an "opposer", a "rebel" etc. and he even wrote a book where he slandered very sacrificial people who devoted more than a decade of their life to his ministry only because they dared question his judgment regarding the things in brackets above. He considered it as a personal attack against him and even against the almighty God Himself.
So - authoritarian leadership in its purest form.

Anything further, I'd send to the Offtopic and I'd reply there.

In Christ,
Mike K.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]