[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Scribe

UntoHim, I am not sure what you are looking for here. Is the title of this thread merely a statement of UntoHim declaration of what the gospel means to you, or is it invitation for us to also share what the gospel means to us?

Well the title is "What the Gospel means to me" so I guess you could call it a declaration if you want. "Declaration" sounds a little too official for my taste, but yes, since I'm posting this on a public forum there is an expectation of dialog. I welcome it, it's what this forum is all about. I think the problem may be that you are holding on, to one degree or another, to Witness Lee's "additional" gospel, and Lee's gospel, at the very least, is an additional gospel to one I am speaking of. While Lee and his followers would call his gospel "a higher gospel" or "recovered truth", many Christians, including a number of former LC member such as myself, would beg to differ.

The Gospel that was preached by the Lord Jesus, and then by his chosen witnesses in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John has been accepted and taught by the majority of the Christian church for about two thousand years now. Of course there have been a number who have preached and taught an "incomplete" gospel, or even a corrupted gospel. History is replete with these "another gospel"s. Then there are those, such as Witness Lee, that fall on the other end of the spectrum - they preach and teach an "additional" gospel. Witness Lee is not the first one to proclaim that Paul's teachings were to be considered "higher" or "deeper" or even “further” then The Gospel that is proclaimed in the Matt, Mk, Lk and Jn. Lee is the one that I am most familiar with, hence I am most comfortable in discussing it with others.

So yes, I invite any and everyone to discuss what The Gospel means to you, but I will be challenging anybody who wants to make Witness Lee’s teachings as the baseline for what is to be considered The Gospel. As I noted before, even Lee himself stated, in so many words, that he had an additional gospel to preach and teach. A few years ago one of the “trainers” at the official “training” related this very thing – that Lee and his followers have a different or further (I’m paraphrasing) gospel then Christianity, and that they had been getting it wrong for all this time. A part of this message is posted somewhere on this forum – I will point you to it when I have time to dig it up.