The LRC movement is inextricably tied to men and their supposed authority. To those in the movement, God's authority is all about submitting to men and their "vision."
If you do not understand this mentality, then the LRC is like a puzzle with no solution. Whether they admit it or not, it's all about the men, or, rather, the man.
Lee fully bought into this. He considered Nee a seer of the divine revelation. (Note not just "divine revelation," but "THE divine revelation.") Lee states at the end of his
biography of Nee that he felt no shame that he followed a man.
This says that Lee believed to truly follow divine revelation one must find a man--the man--that has it and follow him with little or no question.
To Lee, you can't get "the divine revelation" on your own, you have to find "the man." He believed Nee was the man, and later he believed that he had become the man.
Lee said he felt no shame in admitting this. He'd give lip-service to the "I'm just a little preacher" stuff. But he never believed it. His core belief was about "the man." He said he felt no shame about it, but he should have, because such a view is absolutely unbiblical. The NT makes clear that revelation comes from many sources. Paul never endorsed the idea that he was the source that trumped all.
But, regardless, I'd like to know how a group, with such a philosophy and belief at the core of its essence, avoids becoming a personality cult. How?
I'd like LSM to explain this. They can't of course because they
did become a personality cult. And we should not be surprised given their views about "the man."
How do you stop from going over the deep end when you start out over the deep end?