[OBW]

Now I know that someone is going to say "there goes that OBW again, dissing Lee and Nee."

And it really is getting that way. But it is not because I don't like them. It is because when I read their works without first assuming that they are correct because I already believe they are, it doesn't stack up.

Read the whole booklet in the Online Ministry Books. Note that Nee says what he says over and over. He just starts in with the assertion that his conclusion is simply true. He never really supports it other than with vague reference to this passage in Ezekiel many paragraphs into the booklet. By then you are either fully on board and need no encouragement or you have quit reading.

But if you start from the premise that everything that sounds lofty or spiritual is not necessarily so, but needs sound reason and support in scripture, then no matter how lofty the writing, it is nothing until it is given a foundation in scripture.

What I find in this little booklet is an effort to assert that God is first seeking sacrifice, then obedience. That despite the scripture's assertions to the contrary.

Now that Steve wants to turn our attention to the "ground of the church," we should be ready to show how that little bit of fantasy is not based on scripture, but on opinion from a few scriptures at the expense of simply ignoring others. Why did we let them get away with it before? Because we were convinced that if Nee and Lee said it, it was right even if it was wrong.