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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Wikipedia defines STEWARDSHIP as an ethic that embodies responsible planning and management of resources. The concept of stewardship has been applied in diverse realms, including with respect to environment, economics, health, property, information, and religion, and is linked to the concept of sustainability. Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given to household servants to bring food and drinks to a castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs.
All of this sounds very much like what Witness Lee taught. He always said "I stand on the shoulders of others." So to even call the heading of this discussion "Witness Lee's economy" is misleading.
- a genuine believer
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If you look at Jesus' parables, He taught a lot about stewardship, and not a lot about dispensing.
Stewardship is the responsibility of the steward, not the Master. The Master dispenses; then the steward has an obligation to manage independently.
Witness Lee turned the stewardship of the disciples into "masticating the processed and consummated Triune God to become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead."
The parables of Jesus were much less focused on the dispensing of God than on the stewardship of the believers/disciples. The "responsible planning and management of resources" which Wikipedia references, Jesus also referred to: but with regard to the slaves/servants, not the Master. Different focus entirely.