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Originally Posted by PeterG
TheStarswillFall, what you say is right for building up the single local body. But what about church history? After Christianity was fully degraded by Catholicism, didn't God initiate a recovery? Didn't it progress in stages and rediscover step by step lost spiritual truths? And did God not work with “ministers” of his work in these ages, beginning with Luther? Don't we all stand on their shoulders?
But I agree with you that Lee was not sent by the Lord, but by Watchman Nee - but only to Hong Kong.
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What about church history? "Church history" is man-made, is it not? "Church History" is laced with the opinions and observation of man. However accurate or inaccurate some of these historic observations may happen to be, "Church History" is, and always be, the making of man with more "authority" bestowed upon it by men than maybe God himself would commit.
Did God initiate a "recovery"? Again, this is a man-made opinion. Did anything of the work of God ever need to be "recovered"? In God's mind, was anything he ever did "lost"? God and all his work is eternal, is it not? God's work never went anywhere.
These man-made matters today have reached the level of "gospel". In my opinion, these man-made opinions have indeed ushered in the beginnings, if not full-blow, condition of the church in Laodicea. Man-made "Church history" has superseded the voice of God in the church today.
Has God committed himself to this man-made "Church History"? Maybe it's time to put "church history" in its place as subservient to the voice of God, and put God in HIS place as the living, loving God of the universe.
Witness Lee trumpeted "degraded Christianity", but he failed to acknowledge that his own "church" was as degraded, if not worse, than his Christian brothers' organizations.
Nell