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Originally Posted by Indiana
John Ingalls..."Brother Lee strongly vindicated the way he had taken against all criticisms. He drew a line; any who would not take this way, he said, are “dropouts”, and the Lord will have no mercy. Addressing the brothers, he said that none of them understood what he was doing. None knew what he was doing in Taipei; hence there was no one that he could fellowship with. When I went to Taipei, he said, “I did not fellowship with one person concerning what I was going to do.” He continued: “None of you is perfected. Who can say that he is perfected? So you are not qualified to criticize what I am doing. I didn’t include you in my fellowship – how can I? So let there be no more talk about anything I do. You criticize my young trainers in Taipei, telling me their mistakes, but I was doing everything; what they did was to carry out my burden.
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This nicely sums up the attitude and arrogance of Witness Lee. It displays what he really thought about the coworkers and elders. At other times he called them nothing but school boys, etc.
And basically here he is once again reinforcing that he is the boss of "the work" and what he says goes. He can do whatever he wants without fellowship and if you don't like it too bad - you're not qualified to fellowship with him anyway. He is far too superior. To fellowship with you is beneath him.
Further in a surprising moment of candor - which he probably hoped would never be repeated - he admitted that all the crazy things being done and said by his young trainers came with his blessing and therefore nobody is allowed to criticize it. And this means that mere hoi polloi should not question such things as: "Follow Witness Lee blindly; even if he's wrong he's right", "Philip Lee is brother Lee's top coworker", "We should learn from the Red Guards", etc.
Of course there are countless problems with this sort of thing but the one that stands out the most to me is this: a good leader produces good leaders and a good teacher produces good teachers. And they are not threatened in anyway when these leaders and teachers emerge and are better than they are. It is an indication that they did their job well. So if what Witness Lee said is true it is to
his shame and exposes
his complete inability to train and equip people. You have no one to fellowship with about the direction of the work after almost 30 years in the US? Really? Then shame on
you!
You are a disgrace!
You should be fired immediately!