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Originally Posted by alwayslearning
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.
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I am sure many on the forum know saints who went along with this type of faulty teaching "the church" the Lord will take care of your families" that resulted in divorces.
Some may believe the teaching "if you take care of "the church" the Lord will take care of your families" was not the problem, but one of the spouses was not as absolute for the ministry as their husband/wife was. The problem was absolving one's self of responsibility for the household.
As NFNL pointed out in another thread nearly every night there's some type of meeting going on, brothers don't know their spouses as they ought and brothers don't know their children as they ought.
Getting back on topic I tend to believe all the members build up the church, but need the perfecting of gifted members to help with the building.