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Originally Posted by UntoHim
In regards to elders/co-workers advising the members to avoid The Spiritual Man, the problem is that Witness Lee claimed that Nee was the One Minister of the Age and the One Deputy Authority of God on earth. He never said that Nee's earlier ministry was to be avoided. Actually he said just the opposite. And neither have the Blended Brothers officially repudiated one single word or iota of Nee's writings. Not one.
(I'm assuming that JPL is Jesse Penn Lewis)
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Yes, Penn-Lewis. Note that she authored a periodical named
The Overcomer. Of course, both Nee and Lee followed her lead to endorse this special class of believers.
I have similar concerns about Nee's
later ministry. Lee "restored" Nee, yet without a public repentance, implying that the blame should be on the elders for wrongly disciplining him six years prior to this. Apparently the first thing Nee did was to require the saints to "hand over" their belonging to his ministry. Then it is alleged that he made secret deals with the new communist government on behalf of the saints. Sounds more like a "pope" than a "humble servant."
At the FTTT in 1986-87, WL and the Blendeds began to introduce this "hand over" teaching to the elders and workers, (
cf Acts 4.34-35) but note that this practice was never *prescribed* as an apostolic teaching, but rather only *described* as what happened in the church post-Pentecost, and that the proceeds of sales were never given to the ministry to build conference centers, but to the needy believers. The Apostles never taught this, and after the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, it was never mentioned again. The RCC, however, back in the dark ages revived this practice and demanded this of all their priests and nuns.)