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Originally Posted by rayliotta
Steve, I'm incredulous reading this quote. I guess nothing should surprise me anymore.
Is Witness Lee really comparing the "one accord" with having a political party? Is he really saying you have to "stress" an "ism" to "have what we call the one accord"? Is this the same man who condemned "all the 'isms'" and claimed his group was something different?
Incredible. Someone tell me I'm "misunderstanding" this.
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In a movement an "ism" is needed.
For two years Witness Lee did not attend church meetings in Anaheim leading up to his announcement in Oct 1984 that the Lord needed a new move. Concerned for the stagnation among the churches in the U. S. and around the recovery, Lee asserted that since 1973 ambition had come in with the elders and co-workers as “the real gopher" in the recovery and that this “gopher” had been growing - he not considering that in that same period, 1974 to 1984, the "gopher" of setting up Brother Lee as a kind of “pope” had been growing. The man and a ministry movement is the “real gopher” that had been growing.
Instead of repentance for this “gopher” and for Daystar and other serious matters that would result in life and biblical one accord, “ministry stations” emerged that produced “ministry churches” to be in "one accord" with the man and ministry movement.
It was an organized movement orchestrated by one man, mindful to Chinese saints of the movement(s) in China that stressed an “ism” for their one accord; that is, "the same kind of thinking that comes out of the same kind of knowledge”, as brother Lee indicated was needed for his movement. No one can deny this was a movement. Look at the fruit. Division everywhere to this day, not caused by so-called "rebellious ones" to Witness Lee's movement, but by those in "one accord" with the man and a ministry movement in rebellion to scriptural revelation and genuine one accord.
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www.HidingHistoryintheLordsRecovery.us/Mao.pdf
refer to Elder's Training books 7 & 8 for brother Lee's extensive word on what he felt was the "key" to the "Lord's new move".