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ZNPaaneah · 02-16-2013, 02:12 PM

James explains why we were deceived by Witness Lee. I think this is something that everyone who visits this forum wants to know. How was I deceived? How do I prevent it from happening again?

1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.

If you are not familiar with the word “upbraideth” it means to find fault with someone, to scold. God is not here finding fault, on the contrary our experience in the LRC showed we had some basic failings and if we pray God will provide the wisdom we need. Later in the book he spells out exactly what should have exposed Witness Lee to us as a fraud and why we didn’t see it.

1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Surely we questioned the things we saw in the LRC. Didn’t you see saints publicly shamed in the meetings? Did you question that without wavering, or when you were told that focusing on the negative things is “death” did you get driven by the wind and tossed? I am very thankful for my experience in the LRC because they taught me you cannot waver. When I was younger I spent a lot of time on the ocean. There is only one good way to take on heavy seas and that is head on. If you turn to the side you will be flipped, if you try to run with the waves they will drive you into the rocks. In the LRC it was the same. If you are going to rebuke BP then you have to do it head on, to his face, in a meeting with a hundred witnesses.

1:7-8 For let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

The LRC taught me I could not be double minded. Almost immediately I was called into a meeting in Houston with RG, JD, and a number of other elders and was told “I already had 2 strikes against me”. No one told me what the two strikes were but I understood this to mean that if I got another one of these mysterious strikes I would be excommunicated. So I had to decide “LRC or conscience”? I decided if I wasn’t true to my conscience I didn’t want to be in the LRC. So I decided to ignore the warning.

02-16-2013, 02:12 PM	#7
ZNPaaneah Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,105	Re: The book of James and the LRC James explains why we were deceived by Witness Lee. I think this is something that everyone who visits this forum wants to know. How was I deceived? How do I prevent it from happening again? 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. If you are not familiar with the word “upbraideth” it means to find fault with someone, to scold. God is not here finding fault, on the contrary our experience in the LRC showed we had some basic failings and if we pray God will provide the wisdom we need. Later in the book he spells out exactly what should have exposed Witness Lee to us as a fraud and why we didn’t see it. 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Surely we questioned the things we saw in the LRC. Didn’t you see saints publicly shamed in the meetings? Did you question that without wavering, or when you were told that focusing on the negative things is “death” did you get driven by the wind and tossed? I am very thankful for my experience in the LRC because they taught me you cannot waver. When I was younger I spent a lot of time on the ocean. There is only one good way to take on heavy seas and that is head on. If you turn to the side you will be flipped, if you try to run with the waves they will drive you into the rocks. In the LRC it was the same. If you are going to rebuke BP then you have to do it head on, to his face, in a meeting with a hundred witnesses. 1:7-8 For let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. The LRC taught me I could not be double minded. Almost immediately I was called into a meeting in Houston with RG, JD, and a number of other elders and was told “I already had 2 strikes against me”. No one told me what the two strikes were but I understood this to mean that if I got another one of these mysterious strikes I would be excommunicated. So I had to decide “LRC or conscience”? I decided if I wasn’t true to my conscience I didn’t want to be in the LRC. So I decided to ignore the warning.