Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the
multitude of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14
There are people in the FOC who think they
can logically disprove anything I write about my experience in the group by
saying, “Nope, that’s not us. Your family was just weird.” Or, “How would you
know what we were taught…”. You get the picture. They don’t want me talking
about the group, so they try to claim that I don’t know anything. And even if
their claims were accurate, they bring up a really serious issue:
leaderlessness.
What happens when you get a group of twelve hundred
to two thousand people and nobody’s in charge? According to the scriptures, the people
fall. After more than forty years, what has happened to this group? The people have their “pet doctrines” - a fact that was prophesied by the late Walter
White. The members argue, bicker, and disown each other. Young people suffer and
die. And can you get a straight answer on why these dearly held practices and
beliefs continue? No. Every group, church, organization, and family needs
leadership.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
