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Originally Posted by Ohio
Brother awareness, actually the Brethren had something very precious from The Lord, and a genuine move of the Spirit. Most of their early leaders were all extremely gifted and quite talented, with a healthy devotion to God Himself.
It was only when Darby and Co decided that they must rule the program, eliminating any potential "rivals," that all the negative elements crept in and eventually swallowed them up.
One major factor of their decline occurred when Darby influenced many that their factor of oneness was not the oneness of the Spirit, but the mandatory and universal judgment of evil by all Brethren. That left the door wide open for the most "influential" leader -- Darby -- to decide who and what was evil.
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I agree with you bro Ohio. But couldn't it be said also of the proto-Roman orthodox, and even the early Roman orthodox as well?
And then we have Lee's conception of the Recovery ; how it would begin to be a movement of God -- Luther -- and then fall back ; wonderful beginning and a fall back, over and over up to the Brethren, and finalizing in Witness Lee.
Then even Lee's movement has fallen back.
So why go back to the Brethren? I use to like Darby ... now he leaves a bad taste in my mouth ... pooy fooy.