Great to hear from you Eph ...
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I will never forget once in a brother Lee's meeting I prayed to God that let me be like brother Lee so that all my problems will be gone. It is my eastern mind telling me that, not brother Lee nor others. I don't believe brother Lee intentionally teaches that everyone should be like him.
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Just yesterday another brother and I were laughing at the idea of being a mini-mota, or a wannabe mini-mota.
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But somehow I came up with that idea--to look to an authority, a deputy, someone tangible, like a quanyin goddess. So it came, don't defy, don't question, just follow.
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Do you think this is where Nee came up with Deputy/Delegated Authority? Was it a cultural source/cause?
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Originally Posted by Eph
I somehow wept when I heard brother Lee passed away in 1997, so did many of Chinese believers in the local church. (Maybe not Western minds, please correct me.)
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WITNESS LEE, CHRISTIAN TEACHER - not scholar, not theologian ... just teacher ... got that:
http://www.lcinfo.org/?page=writings/media/obituary