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To further underscore UH's statements, Nee is highly revered within many that I would refer to as second-tier leaders. While he may not be referenced much within schools of theology (I really don't know one way or the other on this, but suspect this is the case), I have been involved in at least one adult education class at a Bible Church the did a series on Nee's Sit Walk Stand.

While I had been busy critiquing Lee on this forum and its predecessor, I had never delved into Nee's works and hadn't expected to find much there. While most would have considered Sit Walk Stand as a more pedestrian or "safe' writing, I began to recognize the precursors of Lee's "wait for the anointing" buried in its sequential structure that was stated as a pattern for spiritual growth. Since the class was both discussing Nee's book and going through Ephesians, I simply avoided the conversations on Nee's words and stuck with the scripture.

But at that point, I was ready to dig into Nee and first read a little of his 3-volume tome, The Spiritual Man (I couldn't take too much of it). After that, Authority and Submission / (Spiritual Authority) came up in some discussion and I was onto it. I ultimately concluded that Nee could not be trusted at all. Not saying that nothing he said was correct. But you can say he same about Lee. It is the overt sprinkling of mishandling of the scripture that makes it unacceptable for anyone not fully on guard to it.

Add the mounting evidence that he was sinful in a manner that should have disqualified him as any kind of spiritual leader and his position in the ranks of Christian writers should tank.

The sad thing about this is that Nee begat Lee. And while we don't like to cast aspersions on the others that went out from Nee, and they may not have been a Lee, but they started with Nee and that is now disturbing to me.