I followed the link to
Should we not warn other people? As I read through the first paragraph, I began to realize
they're talking about themselves.
It starts out with a verse:
“For the time will come when they will not tolerate the healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap up to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and they will turn away their ear from the truth and will be turned aside to myths” (2 Tim. 4:3-4.
Then they note that Paul's words are being fulfilled, by those teachers who are avoiding the warnings. Yes! Absolutely true. WE have been WARNING THEM!!! Many of us who have been subjected to their heavy handed "shepherding" have been warning them for years.
On this forum, and in many other ways, they are being warned that
their teachings are not healthy. They have turned away their ear from the truth being told to them, turning aside to the mythical teachings of Witness Lee to scratch their itching ears.
They point the finger at "others" who seek/need "comfort and affirmation". Do they not have a website called
"Affirmation and Critique" wherein they affirm their own words
with their own words? Do they listen to anyone but themselves? Are they not the "
Christian teachers avoiding the warnings..."? See the
Open Letter: To the Leadership of Living Stream Ministry and the "Local Churches".
They imply that there is something wrong with "comfort and affirmation". Comfort: Healing begins when the pain of being spiritually wounded begins to subside. Affirmation: It helps to know that you're not crazy for suspecting that something is not right in the Local Churches of Witness Lee.
Do they find it "
uncomfortable" to hear the voices of those on this forum who are crying out to be heard?
Then they actually say they should
heed these warnings for ourselves and warn others out of a proper heart and motive. When is that going to start? When are they going to heed the warnings from those who post on this forum?
So "
should we not warn other people?" Yes. Of course we should. We, this forum, are doing exactly that, and have been doing so for a long time. We are warning others about the unhealthy and sometimes heretical teachings of Witness Lee.
Another warning:
Matt. 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
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