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I have heard second or thirdhand that Rosalie has made the statement that one of her goals is to get HQ to the point where they are not dependant upon the income of the Way of the USA to be sustainable. Now while that sounds like an admirable "corporate CEO" type of statement, when you dig down into it it is somewhat alarming. First of all, in the broadest sense the only reason for the existence of TWI is a service organization. Yes, Biblical RTF of course, but we've already seen that those 3 things are really not the focus or even a reality. Research - non-existant, Teachings - highly organized but scripted and dull, Fellowship - secondary to political aspirations. So the original tenets of why TWI made sense aren't really holding up - that the basic Christian church was not really teaching people the Bible. Of course that was always somewhat of a sham, and it rode in on the naieve attitudes of the hippy culture and has hung around. Even in Jesus own teachings, he who would be greatest let him be servant to them all. So in other words, you can measure the value of an organization by the amount of service it provides people. And in TWI's case, the focus over time gets gradually less and less towards serving people and more and more towards building political infrastructures to ensure the ongoing existance of the organization. In other words - the focus is self-perpetuation. They are not serving people, they are being served by people. Micro management doesn't serve the lower ranks, it uses the lower ranks to serve the higher ranks. All of TWI is built in this fashion. In reality, TWI is an antiquated vehicle. It has no real Christian purpose in a modern world. It has grown into the ivy towers where dull denominational traditions rule over believer's deeply springing powers (from the inspirational poem that VPW plagiarized along with so much else). This is why they are seeing attrition. The attrition is basically hidden and masked by R^pp who teaches all his direct reports to lie about numbers and require "approval" by the Way of the USA before saying it's OK to remove Johnny Jumpup from the rolls even though he's only been to 1 fellowship over the past 2 years. They lie about numbers to protect their positions - as if people leave they blame the lowest level of leader they can get away with blaming. Usually that's Way Corps as they have little leverage over a fellowship coordinator. The Corps should wake up too - how much of your life is controlled by someone labeling you a "status"??? I am going to respond to this by making up my own "status" for the directors - "clueless". Do you want a truthful picture? Blame the highest level of responsibility for the attrition. People leave because you, Rosalie, are not doing your job. You are not leading TWI in a strategic direction that leads to growth. And your lap-dogs on the Cabinet are smooching your behind because they know you are a monster and will axe them with little provocation. You are a retired schoolteacher in a CEO position, without the training or experience to even know what strategy looks like, little less execute on one. And when you retire, there are more clueless morons waiting to fill your shoes. So stop blaming other people, and look in the mirror. That's where the problem is. It can't be fixed. The best thing to do is to let natural progression follow its course and watch it die on it's own momentum.

Be wary as a snake, Jeff (see my tag line). John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. Acts 17:11 These [bereans] were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 1 Thess 5:21 Prove [test, check out] all things; hold fast that which is good. (Readiness of mind alone is not enough to keep you safe. You risk being blown around with every wind of doctrine - false doctrine - which, as you already know, means trouble ahead.)

Apathetic in everything except bringing in the dosh. No outreach. No helping others. No development of compassion, kindness. No looking at the lifestyle of Jesus, or study of the gospels. Lots of study of the epistles, where many many times Paul exhorts fellowships to "be followers of me" - though TWI was somewhat forgetting the next phrase: And so we were to follow our leaders at TWI, follow 'em right off the cliff. But they forgot this, and encouraged us to do likewise: That and the "busy work" to no particular purpose distracted followers from what (who) it's all about. You only have to see the falling numbers at HQ to see how spiritually apathetic they are. Yet for those who genuinely want to reach out, to help others, to be followers of Christ...the harvest is still plenteous.

I don't think Wierwille wanted us to have a "a much broader scope of living the bible and keeping the weightier matters of grace, mercy, justice, and truth in perspective" Oldskool! IMO it turned to more of a mindless retemorie academy so as to not interfere w/ his sport. <_< Always good to keep enough genuine folks around to keep selling the class though.

For me it seems somewhat humbling too. The things that I might speculate about based on my ex's loyalties and Barnard's reported habits in River Road Fellowship I refuse to do for the sake of my son who might read this someday, or be told about because of certain manipulators and the like. But that does not negate the feelings of betrayal and foolishness on my part, sometimes more than others. I think that for many people; especially those that just want to love an unseen God perhaps; there can be a tendency of taking people at their word. And in case of The Way International it seems obvious that some people were willing to replace a normal and healthy conscience with the party line, others were surely devoid of a healthy conscience from the beginning. I ignored signs of trouble in the group and in my marriage only to be sold out by people (of whom I have no doubt anymore) more wicked than anyone else I have actually met. How the heck is anybody who is prone to be trusting and honest not likely to be fooled by folks like these? I kind of wonder how those that knew of the wickedness but did nothing will fare someday, y'know!?