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"When we experience Christ as our person, his taste will become our taste, his feelings will become our feelings, his inclinations will become our inclinations, and his preferences will become our preferences." Witness Lee
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Sounds good, right? How bad could it be? Other than not supported by Scripture, it sounds pretty good. It's what I'll call a "teaching" non-essential to the Christian faith, as are many of Witness Lee's "teachings" in his "ministry".
Lee used such non-essentials to maintain control over the faithful. Said practice continues today in the "church life" and in websites like faithfulword.org. For example, the non-essential "Overcomer" teaching causes/caused fear among the believers, rather than a loving relationship between God and his children. We are left to do as we are told by a few men, rather than learn to trust and obey our Father.
The question remains, as in "overcomer", how do you know when you are experiencing "the person of Christ"? How do you know his taste, his feelings, his inclinations, and his preferences? Speculation? We know that Jesus is God. We read descriptions of his actions from the accounts in the gospels. Past that, we can only speculate on his personality. There is no indication that these descriptions are a prescription for how we should live our Christian lives.
In fact, we know that God made each of us as individuals with tastes, feelings, inclinations and preferences of our own. Why would God require us to surrender our individuality...our uniqueness?
We are individual in our body, soul and spirit. Our bodies are distinct right down to the molecular level...our DNA. Of the billions of humans who have ever lived, from eternity past, no two are alike. (Of course, identical twins excluded.)
God created us and gave us individual tastes, feelings, inclinations and preferences. Combined with many other things, this makes us who we are. He wants to grow in us in all things. Witness Lee wants to indoctrinate us to become something we are not, and never could be.
IMHO
Nell