Re: Minister of the Age
Not only is the concept of a minister of the age missing from the Bible, the opposite, many ministers working together to preach the gospel and build up the church is prevalent, and those who wanted to be first and wouldn’t receive other ministers were condemned.
While it is tempting to think that the apostle Paul was “the minister of the age” because he wrote so much of the New Testament (something Witness Lee promoted), the apostle Paul chastised the Corinthians for believing that sort of thing. He was just a servant, and the other apostles were too, God was (and is) the one giving the growth.
Furthermore, what we we do with Peter, or John, or Matthew, or so many others the Lord used to preach the gospel and build the church and churches who all lived at the same time? Did that title bounce around?
Reread Third John to see what the apostle John said about Diotrephes, and contrast that to how John worked together with Peter, Phillip, James, and others, and to what John said about Gaius and Demetrius who received ministers from other places to preach Jesus in their churches.
Diotrephes sounds an awful lot like the Witness Lee I observed for 20 years. When did he ever “share the microphone” with anyone?
JJ
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