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Originally Posted by Igzy
He's like the Barry Bonds of Christian teachers. Uncommon talent, but he broke the rules. Great player? Yes... and no. Should he be in the hall of fame? Not on the first ballot, that's for sure.
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But what was his actual talent in? At times I wonder if he was ever legitimately a Christian leader that went awry. Maybe a Christian with natural abilities and some natural desires who realized that he would rather be fed by followers than an employer. Who could see a "Christian" philosophy in Nee's work that he could make into his own and become the supreme leader.
At times I truly wonder if he might be one of those who will declare in "the day" how much he did for the kingdom (or at least his version of it) and will find that it was all wood, hay, and stubble from the very beginning. I just have a hard time buying that, as a leader, he was ever just a great anything that mattered who also cheated at the rules. If he thought in later years that he was so special as far back as 1945, I suspect that he already had the beginnings of that delusion back then. And isn't that about the time that he brought Nee back into ministry? This story that has been discussed ad nauseum in a recent thread?
I pray that the response to the membership is "you have been faithful to me as you were taught" and not "how could you not recognize the robber who came into the sheep pin by climbing over the fence" or something like that.