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Originally Posted by aron
"Sparrows fly in company, but the eagles fly alone. If we can only fly low and not suffer the loneliness of flying high, we are not qualified to be an authority."
This seems to be some kind of "folk wisdom", unrelated to either the Bible or the Christian life. Every Christian who follows the Lord will be lonely and rejected at some point. To present some special "Christian in authority" who fulfills such statements in a unique way as above, seems to go against the gospel of Christ.
I may be reading WN out of context here. But these teachings don't seem to offer life, and potentially present the opposite: new doctrinal/behavioral chains.
You know who I see as a pattern to the church? Dorcas. And Paul, similarly, lowered himself, and poured himself out for the saints. I don't see Paul "flying high and alone." Again, maybe I am misreading WN. But I don't see WN's imagery aligning with the Bible at all; either the letter OR the spirit.
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Talking to a former LC friend the other day. He mentioned that he has one Nee book by 4 different publishers, and they are all quite different.
I do believe that the Nee in the Recovery is strongly biased by the oft-times dominant Witness Lee. We have no idea what Nee really said, but it seems that Confucius and Chinese culture often supersedes the influence of the Bible. I have no other way to explain the extreme authoritarian views of Nee-Lee-Chu than to recall 5,000 years of dynasties in China.
The Apostle Paul that Nee-Lee espoused may appear to be "
flying high and alone," but I don't see that in the Bible.