I received an interesting note from someone in San Diego:
The San Diego church is not healthy. There are terrrible reports about the Larsens. Especially Gilee Larsen who has become the Marilyn-empowered monster down there. An ex-LW-elder said that in the whole history of the walk, these are the worst cases of spiritual abuse he has ever seen. Gilee has become really mean and nasty to people. If you don't bow down and kiss her ass as the representative of Marilyn, you get blasted, or shown to the door. The numbers are dwindling quickly down there.
Some stirrings about a possible lawsuit, as there appears to have been a line crossed. One person who left recently, automatically became an enemy of the fellowship and special meetings were held to warn the remaining congregants to not talk to this person. Bruce Larsen was quoted as saying:
"...if you even have thoughts about wanting to talk to XXX, you should take your hands and put them around your own neck and strangle yourself until
you pass out and those thoughts go away." This "word" is now part of the SD church reference library and church members (who were not at that service) are supposed to go and sit in a room with a librarian (or Gilee) and listen to the CD recording of this service. It is mandatory listening. I think this looks
like a good case of defamation of character. I'm pretty sure there is a good shot at something regarding the "alienation of affections" with his kids, as Gilee has convinced both of his daughters that he is of Satan and they are not to talk to their father.
Another change that has happened is that now, all churches send all of their funds to the central LW trust. There are almost no local funds being kept in local bank accounts. Some think this "centralization" of the finances is G&M getting ready to collect it all to them. And maybe the trust is a further protection from lawsuits at the local level. Maybe G&M keep their "hatchet-boys" in place, so they have "plausible deniability" if something goes wrong at the local level. They can claim that they didn't know this was going on. (However, it is clear that they know, since many have communicated this to them)
The San Diego church is not healthy. There are terrrible reports about the Larsens. Especially Gilee Larsen who has become the Marilyn-empowered monster down there. An ex-LW-elder said that in the whole history of the walk, these are the worst cases of spiritual abuse he has ever seen. Gilee has become really mean and nasty to people. If you don't bow down and kiss her ass as the representative of Marilyn, you get blasted, or shown to the door. The numbers are dwindling quickly down there.
Some stirrings about a possible lawsuit, as there appears to have been a line crossed. One person who left recently, automatically became an enemy of the fellowship and special meetings were held to warn the remaining congregants to not talk to this person. Bruce Larsen was quoted as saying:
"...if you even have thoughts about wanting to talk to XXX, you should take your hands and put them around your own neck and strangle yourself until
you pass out and those thoughts go away." This "word" is now part of the SD church reference library and church members (who were not at that service) are supposed to go and sit in a room with a librarian (or Gilee) and listen to the CD recording of this service. It is mandatory listening. I think this looks
like a good case of defamation of character. I'm pretty sure there is a good shot at something regarding the "alienation of affections" with his kids, as Gilee has convinced both of his daughters that he is of Satan and they are not to talk to their father.
Another change that has happened is that now, all churches send all of their funds to the central LW trust. There are almost no local funds being kept in local bank accounts. Some think this "centralization" of the finances is G&M getting ready to collect it all to them. And maybe the trust is a further protection from lawsuits at the local level. Maybe G&M keep their "hatchet-boys" in place, so they have "plausible deniability" if something goes wrong at the local level. They can claim that they didn't know this was going on. (However, it is clear that they know, since many have communicated this to them)