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Originally Posted by aron
For example, Watchman Nee was said to have used a library of some 3,000 "Christian classics" from which he gleaned all the riches of the spiritual life and practice. Yet who wrote all these 3,000 classic books? A series of Ministers of the Age? Or a plurality of believers? How can you say the 3,000 books by probably hundreds of different authors were somehow restricted to "one flow" before Nee showed up? The narrative contradicts the concept.
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"plularity of believers"... Apostles
S' Teaching...
In
The Orthodoxy of the Church W Nee accounts how the Lord raised up the initial Philadelphian age with the Brethren during the time of J.N. Darby, J.G Bellett, George Muller, C.H. Mackintosh, James G Deck, George Cutting, William Kelly, F.W Grant, Robert Anderson, Charles Stanley, S.P. Tregelles, Andrew Miller and R.C Chapman to name but a few.
W Nee said of these men that they were
"brothers God has given as gifts to His church. These were the brothers at that time. If we recount in detail others among the brothers, the number of all who were greatly used by the Lord would exceed at least a thousand. Now we will see what these brothers gave us: They showed us... We thank the Lord that the problem of the church is solved by the movement of the brothers".
This is W Nee's take on the (initial) fulfilment of the prophecy of Philadelphia (Rev 3:7) through the
plurality of believers.
Any sober minded person will have to concede that what W Nee describes and identifies as Philadelphia in The Orthodoxy of the Church is irreconcilable with the testimony and practises of today's Lord's Recovery.