[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by WitnessLee

My children often ask me when I can take a vacation, and I say, “My vacation is to work.” The Lord did not give me the opportunity to take a vacation. If all the churches progress, I will take a vacation, and I will be happy. I must labor until I go to be with the Lord. I will not rest, because the burden is heavy. Everything is in the hands of the Lord, and He can make us strong.

Originally Posted by GraceAlone

It’s a humbling acknowledgment of that fact when our striving-prone selves step back and rest. Lee’s last line seems to nod to that truth, but it’s also incongruous with his boasting above.
It’s hard to recognize his God sometimes.

Thanks for this one GraceAlone! It almost sends chills up my spin when someone actually verbalizes what many of us have known in our hearts and minds for decades - - At times it seems that the "God" that was preached and taught in the Local Church of Witness Lee is a different god than the God that we see in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. It's a very, very hard thing for many of us former LC members to wrap our minds around. But this is nothing new in Christian history. The apostle Paul warned the Corinthians about receiving "a different Jesus", "a different Spirit" and "a different gospel" (2 Cor 11:4) And to be sure, Witness Lee was/is not the only one to preach a different Jesus or a different gospel, but since Lee is the one we are most familiar with, and the one who affected our lives the most, I think it is most appropriate for GraceAlone to make such a shocking statement!

Lee’s last line seems to nod to that truth, but it’s also incongruous with his boasting above.

When I read this I immediately thought of another time when Paul was chiding the Corinthians - "Your boasting is not good". (1Cor 5:6) Witness Lee was a very boastful man, and most of the time his boasting was not good, in fact many times it was downright shameful and embarrassing. But his captive audience ate it up. And now the this boasting has been codified, formalized and systemized into the lifeless and wooden man-made religious sect of the Local Church/Lord's Recovery/Living Stream Ministry. May God have mercy.
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