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Originally Posted by Ohio
It has always amazed me that the justification for regular leadership "dress-downs" by both Lee and Chu were sourced in a missionary sister from England. Supposedly M. E. Barber's brutal rebukes of Watchman Nee, which reportedly "perfected" him, gave all subsequent leaders the privilege to repeat such a shameful practice with others. For a collection of brothers, so "faithful" to the pure word of God, it is quite surprising since the New Testament provides not even a single verse fragment warranting such a leadership style. How do we attribute this ongoing practice to a sister, and without any scriptural support, if Chinese culture is ruled out?
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One of the interesting things about culture in general, and religion in particular, is that we build shrines to stuff from days gone past that we never would allow in present time. So we had all these sisters in the LC narrative that would never be allowed to function today. M Barber was only one of them... I remember Peace Wang, Dora Yu, etc. I forget all the names that were reverently cited in the LC lineage. Probably none of them could exist in the present organization.
I think Jesus mentioned something about building shrines to martyred prophets. Quite similar. We eulogize stuff we'd never allow today. Welcome to planet earth.