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Originally Posted by OBW
I have never suggested that we got nothing. But did whatever we got that is of lasting value come from the special teachings of Lee and the LRC, or was it something else? Are we unwilling to let go of the idea that, while we gained some freedom from old ways, was the substitute truly better, or just a pot hole on the way to the true road?
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IMHO Witness Lee didn't teach anything really special or "new". For the most part his teachings were from the Brethren and inner life movements and later he added in some from the Eastern Orthodox. What was new for some was hearing something for the first time - so in effect it
was new to them. Considering that Brethren, inner life and Eastern Orthodox teachings were not common fare in the U.S. this kind of experience is a natural outcome. It's like learning anything. What seems new to the students is really from an existing knowledge base that they just didn't know about.
I thinks it's only after you leave the LC system and look back on it with some objectivity, perspective and sense of history that you realize there really wasn't anything new or special at all.