[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Indiana

NEE: Let us ask ourselves: Does our work minister to our satisfaction or to the Lord's? I fear that when we have worked for the Lord, we are often thoroughly satisfied before He is satisfied. We are often quite happy with our work when He has found no joy in it. Blessed are they who can differentiate between ministry to sinners or saints, and ministry to Him. Such discernment is not easily acquired. Often it is only by much drastic dealing that we learn the difference between ministry to the Lord Himself and ministry to the House.
Let us seek the grace of God that He may reveal to us what it really means to minister to Him!

The only true way to know for sure what satisfies God is to measure, compare and contrast our efforts and experience with what is plainly written for us in God's word. Nee seems to ignore this fact - that we actually can know what satisfies God from His Word. "Who can differentiate", "Such discernment is not easily required" and then the kicker..."only by much drastic dealing". It seems to always come down to this with Watchman Nee. Most of the time it seems that Nee favors the subjective over the objective, experience over knowledge and even discernment over the written Word of God. This wouldn't be so bad if he was including the subjectivity, experience and discernment of many other men and women of God, but it is only Nee himself at the top of this pyramid.

Of course this kind of pyramid dynamic was implemented to the fullest by Witness Lee. The end result is a bunch of naïve followers of a man running around saying things like "even if Witness Lee is wrong he is right!" and "we're Witness Lee's company!" and that Lee is "the one minister with the one ministry for the age". These kind of silly and absurd notions are the fruit a system of error that springs from the kind of teachings we find in this booklet. Again, I don't think it can be shown that the main thrust of what Nee has written here can be found in the Word of God. There are spiritual and even scriptural elements to be found within his writings, but the conclusions he comes to indicate that the Word of God and genuine inspiration of the Holy Spirit are not at the foundation of his understanding.