I guess my biggest beef against Jim is his seeming irresponsibility with leaving us all in a lurch, by disappearing with no explanation. It leaves so many questions and confusions. A hunch hat I have is that Jim became anti-GCI due to seeing the cult of personality he had become was counter-productive to the mission. But that hunch has a million holes in it.
In all the times I heard Jim speak, the video link was the first time I ever heard him squarely address Roman Catholicism. Which in itself makes me wonder if certain realizations about church history made him somehow begin to have misgivings over his great commission mindset.
I've also suspected for a long time that when all the leaders came together with him in D.C. he began to see that he wasn't going to always get his way as he had in past years when it was mostly just he and Dennis calling all the shots.
I have to say though that Jim, as can be seen in the video, is a true philosopher and man of ideas. I think this was one of his main qualities that captivated so many people. That he could see so clearly through the fog way better than most anyone else. That he could come to very solid conclusions and articulate them so well.
But as the teacher is, so are the disciples. And I think Jim's weaknesses were unwittingly emulated by his followers. And one of those weaknesses, I believe, was using deceptive and manipulative means to make disciples. I think this was largely a blind spot for Jim that was very difficult for him to see. As is usually the case with highly driven leaders - their confidence becomes a real liability.
RE: about this video clip - http://gcxweb.org/Misc/ApostleshipVideo/Default.aspx
