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Originally Posted by aron
Two questions come to mind. WN supposedly read all the "classics" of christianity, and vetted them for us. So all we simple folk have to do is just read "the ministry". Because it has "all the riches" of christianity, and brother WN removed all the wrong parts which might lead us simple folk astray, we who lack discretion to discern the leaven therein.
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Equally amazing to me was Nee's take on J. N. Darby and the Plymouth Brethren. In his book
Orthodoxy of the Church, Nee elevated them to the glorious stage of
Philadelphia. Then, of course, having met at length with James Taylor Sr., rightful heir of the exclusive Darby lineage of "oracles," Nee decided that their entire movement was now deserving of those
Laodicean curses.
Since Nee too was for the most part without "peer review," as leader of a new movement, did he not consider the same misfortunes that beset the Exclusive Brethren would befall them also, or did he think that all the talk of "virgin Chinese soil" would save them from fleshly dangers? Never did Nee actually point out the failures of Darby and the exclusives, hence Lee was free to repeat them, and that he did. Nee would only say that the Plymouth Brethren fell into an obsession for "objective doctrines," never providing the actual reasons why
objectivity always seems to replace the anointing of the Spirit.
Ironically, Lee and his Blended company became obsessed with "
objective doctrines of the experience of Christ." How else could one explain "
let's all stand and call on the Lord 5x" while quarantining Titus Chu for allowing electric guitars and publishing his own books? Look, I'm obviously not the "brightest bulb on the tree," but even I could learn the real story of the Brethren split with just a little online reading. How much more should the "Seer of the Age" have been able to discover and teach these things?