[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by OBW

Even though the ground of the church lived on, Lee had written enough about it to no longer need to refer to Nee's writings as support. Lee was now established in his own mind as a standalone MOTA.

By the time I "came into the church" (circa late 1975) Watchman Nee was only mentioned as the revered (yet long, long departed) founder of the LC movement.

Of course, much later, I realized the abject hypocrisy of Lee's claims that he was "following brother Nee because he was the one who brought the recovery to all of us blind, mooing cows". Much (and by much, I mean MOST) of the teachings and practices in the Local Church today were invented out of whole cloth by Witness Lee. You will not find "calling on the Lord (oh Lord Jesus), or anything approaching "pray-reading", or calling other believers all sorts of derogatory epithets (blind, mooing cows, dead, etc, etc) in the writings of Nee. I'm not saying that some of the seeds of these unbiblical teachings and practices were planted by Nee, only that Witness took the errors of Nee and magnified them many times.