Quote:
Originally Posted by aron
Again, Watchman Nee:
"Whether the one in authority is right or wrong does not concern us, since he has to be responsible directly to God. The obedient needs only to obey...Insubordination, however, is rebellion, and for this the one under authority must answer to God."
Notice how easy it is to slide from this to "Witness Lee: even when he's wrong he's right." Turns out that God is a respecter of persons, after all.
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Apparently Philip Lee's favorite quote from the ministry is, "
we don't care for right and wrong, we only care for life." After hearing of his lack of respect for other persons, this quote becomes more than fitting.
This diseased distortion of the truth concerning righteousness and the law ran rampant throughout the Recovery due to many of Lee's errant teachings. I remember the time a family with children took hospitality with us. When I told the ~10 year old boy to please get his shoes off my couch, he informed me ever so matter-of-factly that "
in our house, we don't have rules, because the law kills us." I didn't know who to wallop, him or his mother. Anyways, "sit up straight!"
Because both Nee and Lee were elevated to positions of such spiritual authority, far beyond the limits prescribed by the New Testament, their unbalanced sayings took on a life of their own. The basic foundational support of every child of God -- the plain words of scripture -- were superseded by Nee-isms and Lee-isms. When the Minister of the Age's own grown son, an unbelieving profligate and womanizer, is placed in charge of his entire ministry, something has run horribly amok.
It started with Nee's errant views of deputy authority. They were the open door to a whole host of evils.