I was visiting some old LSM-affiliated friends once, after leaving the LR. I was now living in another state. After the meeting, and some small talk, my acquaintance, after hearing my new physical location, asked skeptically, "Are there any saints there?" I instantly said, "Yes, thousands of them." He shifted uncomfortably, and said, "You know what I mean". I stared right at him and said, "No, I don't."
At that point I'd not been on any internet chat rooms or discussion boards, knew nothing of Daystar or Philip Lee. I was still "positive" but had become tired of meeting with the same few people week after week, going over the same footnotes, telling ourselves we had the high peak. Something fundamental was missing. Always talking about Elden Hall but the Spirit of Elden Hall was long gone.
So I went back to "Fallen Christianity". I still thought God's Economy of Witness Lee was the best teaching, still thought that they had - in some fashion - the fabled "Ground", but there were Christians around us! Why not greet all the believers in Christ? (Phil 4:21, 1 Thess 5:26). Why only greet the few who read the same books as you? The "Way of the Chosen Few" turned out to be very isolated, very insular, very lonely, very dry.
Even then, I knew something was off. But I kept circling back, because they were my friends. Then one day, I went to a meeting and someone said, "Titus Chu rebelled" and I went on the internet and that's when the chains started to fall.
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Originally Posted by LeftLR
They only read witness lee's writing / messages as their primary source what they call "The Highest Truth and only real message of Jesus Christ."
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I don't doubt the fire-breathers in the pews say stuff like this. The house organ has to be careful because if they say this too plainly, then the lines between the Collected Works of Witness Lee and the Book of Mormon start to get blurry. The old "c" word starts to circle around. So they speak carefully of their Christian bona fides. But probably they do everything in their power to make the rank-and-file think like what you wrote. Jesus is no longer the Way. Now it's the Processed God, the Central Lane of the Divine Economy, the Interpreted Word, or whatever it is they're selling this week.