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Originally Posted by Igzy
I have long figured that if we focus on building up the believers, the building up of the Church will take care of itself...The problem with focusing on "building the church" is that it so easily morphs into focusing on things other than people..."The Church" thus becomes an abstraction which is idealized and served while ignoring its members...The LRC thinks of focusing on "The Church" as a breakthrough virtue, but actually it's a pretext to treating people as disposable items.
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Amen! Very well said.
Along the same line Witness Lee taught that if you take care of "the church" the Lord will take care of your families. He especially emphasized this with coworkers and elders. Obviously with his own family this kind of philosophy didn't work out. The premise of this idea is that your family members are not part of the church who require and deserve your utmost attention and priority.
A subsequent tangible "benefit" the LC systems received with this kind of teaching and practice was free labor by elders instead of having to pay them a salary. They worked two full time jobs and had no time left for their families. (Witness Lee seemed to like the idea of using free labor to build his work!)