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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Local Church song from the 70s:
We have found the way to live by Christ -
Pray His Word and call His name!
"Pray His Word and call His name."
If only that is what we actually practiced. As it turned out, we spend more time praying the words of a man than we did "His Word". If we were actually reading, meditating on and yes, even praying the Word, as much as we were praying and reading the words of Witness Lee, this forum would probably not even exist. (and boy, wouldn't some fellows over there on La Palma Ave. in Anaheim be liking that!)
As to "calling on His name"...well I think this a very good thing...but one must take care with this practice lest he end up being on the wrong side of the infamous rebuke: On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?
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So you think the problem is that we weren't praying the Word enough? Where I was we prayed the Word plenty. I think a bigger problem was at least one of emphasis when it wasn't one of outright error. OBW has already identified the huge gap in Lee's moral/ethical teaching. Lee went so far as denigrating Christianity for it's moral ethical teaching. He claimed that he had a DEEP teaching. And we bought it. All we had to do was eat and drink Jesus and spontaneously, automatically Jesus would get worked into us and reconstitute our being. We would express God automatically because we were reconstituted with the substance of God. Right choices, acts of compassion, obedience to the actual principles promulgated by the Bible didn't matter. It was that you were somehow magically getting this God stuff into you by Lee's prescribed practices. You didn't need to think about or understand it. In fact understanding it was just being in your mind--a hindrance to the proper mode of consumption.
The church was a hive. Lee's ministry was the honey. Our job as worker bees was to take care of the honey. The other bees didn't matter except insofar as they helped care for the honey. All Lee's gems of insight were the flowers. The rest of the world didn't matter, except as a source for more worker bees. If you agree with Lee's vision of God's Eternal Purpose this metaphor should please you. Feel free to use it in your next testimony.