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Originally Posted by Nell
The attach[ed] transcript was a message given by Sparks and translated into Chinese by Lee. Sparks was critical of Lee's "ministry" regarding One Church One City, and Lee was forced to translate this message to his assembly.
Nell
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I would propose that there may have been an
additional factor of offense which arose between WL and TAS during that 1957 visit.
Aside from the humanly understandable reaction when an outsider, someone deemed important by many, had just dismantled Lee's OCOC doctrine, it's noteworthy that in the final session #14 of that visit by Sparks,
at 18 minutes, in answer to a woman's question, Sparks suggested that
sin in the lives of leaders could likely be the factor behind a stagnant situation in the church there. How offensive those words must have been to the ears of a prideful WL who had no choice but to translate them into Chinese?
And since the main subject matter for that 1957 gathering was the book of Ezekiel, I would also like to point out that in Witness Lee's own Life Study of the Bible, he conveniently side-stepped any mention of
the vision of leadership corruption that is revealed in Ezekiel chapters 8 and 9.
Sin by omission is just as deadly as the more obvious flavor. But to my recollection this matter of sin-by-omission was something I never heard talked about in the Lords Recovery. The closest thing to that may have been "don't be guilty of failing to celebrate the ministry of WL"...
P.S.