[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by PriestlyScribe

the quote that follows will probably not be received well by most ex-LCers, but here is an older [1977] litmus test for Genuine Oneness spoken by Witness Lee himself:

"..Oh, so many sick ones, hurt ones, and young ones need to be taken care of! How can we come together and praise the Lord for our oneness if we are not willing to shepherd the saints? ("All Ages for the Lord's Testimony" by Witness Lee, May 1977, page 38 - Living Stream Ministry)

This wise word was being spoken on Ball Road during the same weekend that the Young People were "melting down" further up the coast in Berkely Calif _(.

I'm not sure about most ex-LCers, but as one of the young people who were melting down further up the cost in Berkeley , in retrospect, I know that the same fellow who spoke that "wise word on Ball Road" was the same fellow who caused the melt down in the first place. Witness Lee blamed it on everybody but himself - Max Rapaport...Sal Benoit...you name it. But Lee was the Leader of the movement. He got ALL the credit, so he gets ALL the blame. I know this will not be well received by those who still think the man walked on water, but...hey, the truth hurts.

Witness Lee created Max Rapaport. Witness Lee created Sal Benoit. They were "super" followers of a man, and those who followed them in turn paid the price. Witness Lee was constantly talking about those who would "pay the price". These two guys paid the price big time....then so did those who followed them off the cliff. Only through the grace and mercy of God himself did some of us live to tell about the fall off of that cliff. Some of us still have the broken bones and scars from the fall....but at least we made it.

I am going to be brutally honest here. I think our dear brother David Canfield is asking people to march forward and fall off the very same cliff that many of us fell off so many years ago. In the words of my brother Paul Cox...."David Canfield is trying to resuscitate a CPR dummy"...yeah...what he say.