Turmoils Manifest Approved Ones
1 Cor. 11:19 – “For there must even be parties among you, that those who are approved may become manifest among you.”
from DCP book,
Properly Discerning Spiritual Authority to Rightly Follow the Lord, p70
“At times the Lord sovereignly allows turmoils in and among the churches. These turmoils serve to purify the churches and to manifest those who are approved.
.”During the desolation of the church, the different kinds of confusion, errors, and corruption function to manifest the ones approved by God. Whoever passes the tests and is approved by God will be manifested through the desolation.
“God does not desire the desolation, but in His hand it functions to manifest those who can pass the tests. Without desolation, confusion, errors, corruption, and darkness, we would not be able to see each individual’s condition.” - W. Lee
DCP assertion: “In our history, such turmoils have often been caused by brothers of some prominence in the work. This should not surprise us. Remember that the 250 who followed Korah were ‘leaders of the assembly’ (Num. 16:2). What then should we do when those who seem to be authorities deviate from the truth?”
The implication given here is preposterous by men whose practice is to deflect the truth and disseminate lies in the churches - “that brothers of some prominence” have caused turmoil and desolation in our history; when the brothers they refer to in the late 80s were actually men of conscience objecting to the formation of a party during a movement set in motion by Witness Lee and recklessly promoted by LSM co-workers, causing turmoil and division.
DISASSOCIATION LETTER
This letter addresses major concerns that “brothers of some prominence” had during the late 80s turmoil, which LSM / DCP withhold from the churches while also suppressing other serious concerns which clears the way for their fabricated version of church history.
“Dear brother Witness Lee,
It has come to our attention recently through several witnesses that gross immorality and some other sins mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5:11 have been committed by your son Philip Lee (who is identified as your Ministry Office) on more than one occasion over a long period of time. This deeply disturbs us. It grieves us even more that you and some of your close co-workers were aware of the situation and yet not only tolerated it but covered it up. What is worse is that, while this was happening, you and your co-workers were promoting and exalting him to the extent that he was able to intervene in the churches’ affairs in recent years. The peak of this promotion was evident at your elders’ training in Taipei in June 1987. Some of your co-workers were not only themselves under the influence and control of Philip Lee, but were also openly bringing elders and young people of many local churches to come under the same influence and control in your name and for your sake. The five brothers whom you and your Office sent to Europe in your place in May 1986 were trying to do the same here. Our young people who went to your training in Taipei have also testified of the same.
Before God, before the brothers and sisters in the local churches, before the Christian public, and for the sake of the Lord’s testimony, we are compelled by our conscience to fully disassociate ourselves from such sins and behaviour in your work”.
(signatories were twenty-one brothers from nine churches in Europe who effectually withdrew from the recovery with this letter on September 17, 1989)