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Originally Posted by RollingStone
My apologies, I do not have a current copy or any recent ones,, I was giving WL some benefit of the doubt since he has passed. The last several times I attended a LSM type meetings I left with tears in my eyes. The last conference I attended was in Washington DC about 4 yrs ago and I wept for hrs deeply afterwards. I heard a lot of ambition and a lot of telling people what they had to do to be in the next move of God. "since they had everything" "the ministry of the age" "They need nothing cause they had everything" I remeber sitting there thinking I was in Laodicia. Just as the Recovery version footnotes descibed Laodicia I experienced it first hand. There were threats made about those who were publishing other things. They told us that they needed a lot of the saints to migrate to different parts of the world. To me it sounded like they just needed to have the saints go all over to get people to use and purchase LSM books and materials. It wasn't about sharing Christ It was about doing a work to bring Christ back and that those following LSM were the ones that were going to do it. I still want to believe that WL works are being twisted or taken out of context somehow to promote the views and concepts of the BB and to take those following them down a different path. Am I wrong about this too? Ned
With love in my heart
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Hello dear RollingStone,
I feel for you and I understand your tears and your weeping. I have experienced those same tears and that same weeping for LSM and the LC. I wish I could say that Witness Lee left behind a legacy that was without reproach and that it is only the Blending Brothers who have deviated from that legacy. Alas, such is not the case, dear one.
If you go one step further back from WL in the history of the Local Church movement, you will come to Watchman Nee. While all of us here agree that WN made some serious errors in his teachings, especially in the areas of "The Work" and "Deputy Authority", WN's standard for Christians and for churches was a very high standard and WN at least lived what he preached. A prime example of this is WN's book
The Normal Christian Church Life. If we skip over the chapter which talks so much about "The Work", we can see a really beautiful standard set forth in this book regarding matters such as churches being open to all Christian ministries, no one group of workers exercising world-wide control over churches, elders being raised up only from local men, brothers and sisters being open to fellowship with all other Christians, etc.
Compared to this standard, and compared to the way WN did not allow the brothers and sisters to speak much about him, we can see that things definitely got seven times worse under Witness Lee than they were under Watchman Nee. WL compromised and violated many of WN's high standards. Even worse, the BB's have made things seven times worse then they were under WL. In some key areas where WL showed restraint, the BB's have cast off that restraint. This has resulted in the sad Laodicean situation which you experienced first-hand. You now have brothers motivated by a terrible spirit of religious jealousy for WL trying to spread their mis-guided devotion to WL to others.
I weep with you, dear one. May the BB's forsake the terrible spirit of religious jealousy which motivates them and allow the Spirit of God to lead them into a deep experience of repentance. May this experience of deep repentance pervade the LSM-loyal churches all over the globe.
May God have mercy on us all, dear RollingStone.