[UntoHim]

The real problem is not that Witness Lee taught that there will be reward and punishment for believers, (the Bible clearly teaches this) the problem is that he taught, in so many words, that the reward and punishment is going to be based upon how one treated his person and his work. If one did not fully accept his authority as the One Minister, the sole Oracle of God on earth, and fully accept his ministry as the One Ministry for the Age, they were never going to be an overcomer.

For confirmation, I submit a direct quote from Mr. Benson Philipps, President of the Living Stream Ministry:
“In any case, do not leave the Lord’s recovery. I can assure you that if you go away from the Lord’s recovery, you will have no way for the process of sanctification to go forward within you. Instead, you will just enter into a bankrupt situation. I know of no one who has left the Lord’s recovery and today is a great spiritual person on the earth. The sanctification process is carried out in the Lord’s recovery”
(The Ministry Magazine Vol. 8, No. 1 Page 189, first paragraph)

This statement is not surprising at all to any of us who spend any significant time in the Local Church of Witness Lee. If one leaves their tiny little, insignificant personality cult, not only will they never be an overcomer, they won't even be able to have "the process of sanctification" go forward within them. And they wonder why people call the Local Church a cult.
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