[UntoHim]

In regards to the "conferences" referenced by JJ, they were mainly messages given by Ingalls et al in which they reiterated many of the basic principles which Watchman Nee and Witness Lee had been teaching and preaching for over 50 years - to wit: That the local churches were "administration local, each answering to the Lord", and that any extra-local ministry was to be for the building up the local churches, and not the other way around.

We now know that it is a historical fact that Witness Lee not only allowed, he actually encouraged, his alcoholic, porn-addicted, sexual predator son, Phillip Lee, to interfere with many of the local churches in America and throughout the world. When Ingalls and others called Lee out on this, the One Minister with the One Ministry for the Age went bonkers and set out on a misinformation campaign which culminated in "Fermentation of the Present Rebellion". There a lots of gory details to get into here but anyone who wants to know can just parous this forum for those details.

If it wasn't so sad, the whole thing would be rather funny. Up until this "turmoil" in the mid-late 80s there had been very little talk of "apostles" in the Local Church. In fact, when asked about whether or not he was an apostle, or considered himself an apostle, Witness Lee scoffed at the very notion. When asked under oath in one of the various civil lawsuit depositions, Lee vehemently denied that he considered himself an apostle, and stated that he told others not to call him an apostle, or consider him as an apostle.

We know the rest of the story.
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