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Originally Posted by Igzy
It isn't an issue unless the ministry teaches their microscopic view is the most important thing going. Which Lee did.
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Paul said that
he planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. Dispensing is God giving the growth. God's dispensing really needs our cooperation. Lee felt that most of Christianity was entirely focused on man's doings and not on God's, hence his teaching about dispensing. If we only look at archaic ecclesiologies and liturgies like that of Rome and the state churches, he might be right, but the body of Christ is far bigger than just those.
Taken by itself, this teaching on dispensing may be unhealthy. It's too bad that some of the teachings of Lee could not be balanced by others, or be complementary to others. Lee was elevated as the consummate MOTA, which was totally absurd. His minions taught that Lee's teachings subsumed every ministry before him. He supposedly consummated the interpretation of scripture.
It is these ridiculous claims which spoiled the whole, not the over-emphasis on particulars. All ministers take the license to over-emphasize their own points, especially in their spoken ministry. That was nothing new with Lee.