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Originally Posted by Terry
I can very well understand aron's point if your are referring to the late Witness Lee and his handpicked "blended brothers". However if you are referring to other brothers Nee had discipled, I say you're going too far.
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I was writing from a reference point of being part of the Living Stream group, and then observing its progeny:
Arvore da Vida
http://www.arvoredavida.org.br/
and the group run by Chu.
http://ministrymessages.org/
I am aware that Nee influenced others, but don't know many details of their teachings, activities and organizations, and did not mean to disparage them. Actually I don't disparage any person, but rather the teachings which allowed so many in the flock of God to become controlled by rebellious forces, who set themselves up as 'authorities' on earth. Nee was perhaps a better man than I. But his ideas have splintered and stumbled the flock of God now how many times? Too many to count. And his heirs that
I am familiar with (Witness Lee, Benson Phillips, Titus Chu, Dong Yu Lan) have certainly followed Nee's 'authority' teaching to its natural end: centralized control, with an 'acting God', followed by the inevitable turmoil and further splintering, and with bewildered sheep wondering what happened to the vaunted "oneness" of their flock. If Nee's teaching on authority was any good, why have its fruits been so persistently bad?