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Originally Posted by Ohio
I never thought anything about those ugly gold chairs was funny.
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Forgive me if I made light of your experience. I just felt it was God's mercy, combined with His sense of humor. James the brother of John was beheaded with a sword, and eventually Peter also was girded and taken somewhere he didn't want to go.
In your case, it was gluing particle-board chairs back together. God is merciful.
Question (unanswerable perhaps): Did Witness Lee initiate the "myriad of chairs" arrangement, or was this pushed onto him by one of his 'business associates'? I wondered if maybe someone gave him a 'get out of jail free' card at some point, and this was the payback? Or was this a further fallout of the Daystar fiasco, with a factory that needed to produce something, as
OBW suggested?
I am wondering because I wonder if Lee the merchant led Lee the Bible expositor, or vice versa. Was the merchandising of the Gospel an outgrowth of a desire for the spread of the Gospel, or was the Gospel seen as a lucrative niche for a would-be merchant? Perhaps the two are so intertwined that unraveling them is not worth attempting.
With Lee the chair 'salesman', and Lee the installer of his neer-do-well son (sorry, 'unspiritual') as the head of his 'publishing company', I see Lee the businessman. Like a line from Marlon Brando in the
Godfather movie: "I am a businessman." Oh, really? What business do you do? "Business". Really, chairs or motor homes or rainbow tracts is irrelevant. It is business. In the end it's all about business.