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Originally Posted by Igzy
I know you meant who really is in charge. But in order to answer who should be in charge you have to be able to define a "Recovery" according to the Bible. But unfortunately, the Bible doesn't tell us what a "Recovery" is. So upon reflection we should realize we cannot know how such a thing is supposed to be organized.
The LRC plods along like everyone involved should know what a "Recovery" is and what its rules of operation are. But that in fact is not true. No one knows. That's why there is so much confusion. Is it a church? Is it a denomination? Is it a movement? Is it God's unique move on the Earth? Who knows? God never meant for us to be organized as a "Recovery."
But the least they could do is admit it's just a movement--a movement God may have used, but nothing but a movement nonetheless. All the other stuff is self-delusional hype. The sooner you realize that the quicker you'll get to 20-20 clarity and moving on in a healthy way.
The whole "we are not a movement, we are God's move" was a bold thought. But saying it don't make it so, and verifying it is impossible. Therefore it was a stupid thing to say.
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Stupid thing to say? Perhaps, but I bought into the whole program completely. For many years. I was not alone either. I can still vividly remember Witness Lee forcefully declaring, "
my ministry is not another piece of Christian work."
Who are the real "leaders" in the Recovery? I think that is the question every saint was confronted with. When the GLA went back to read Nee's book
TNCCL prior to the quarantine, I was shocked to read that Nee's thought that the local elders were the "
highest court in the land," and there is "
no organization to which the church must submit," since each church is "
under the immediate control of Christ the Head, and is directly responsible to Him alone." Nee's entire book, page after page, repudiates LSM on every front. Whether anyone agrees with
TNCCL is another matter, but one thing was for sure, what was going on in Anaheim had absolutely nothing to do with what Nee initially taught.
Though Titus Chu recommended that all the GLA leaders read that book, he actually was shooting himself in the foot. Nearly everything in Nee's book also contradicted TC's practices. Like I said, whether anyone agrees with
TNCCL is another matter, but after reading Nee's book I was convinced that the "local ground" as I knew it, was just a farce. What we were practicing neither matched Nee's book nor the Bible, and the whole conflict between Anaheim and Cleveland was just a power struggle, and we were simply the spoils of war.