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Originally Posted by Roger
Speaker ...Brother, you seem to like to segregate yourself from "normal LC detractors;" as if you are not one of them ... Guess what, brother? The only difference between you and I is the degree to which we detract. Believe me, just based upon what you said in the above quoted post, you are not only considered to be a detractor by the Blendeds, but an outright "opposer." Let’s see, you are under “quarantine” now, right?
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Roger,
I'm glad you posted this because I have considered retracting a bit of my last post. I had the thing all written but wasn't clear whether or not to publish.
Anyway, you are correct in your point about the difference in detraction being just a matter of degree. I'll tell you where the line is. I do not think Witness Lee was anything other than a minister of God. I know about his failures. They don't change my view on his being a minister of God. I think most of the negative stuff written about him is mostly just a criticism of his leadership style, one which admittedly really chafes North Americans. My most severe critique of him is that he allowed the Blendeds to move into place and he allowed the exaltation of himself to go unchecked. Huge mistake there.
But so much of what he ministered still speaks richly to me. Maybe he got it from someone else, maybe I need to read more people, I don't know, but it still speaks to me. For instance, the matter of God being "processed." I know that offends the heck out of a lot of people, but it really feeds me to see God in this way. Most people I know view God in a multitude of ways -- powerful, a Santa Claus, nebulous, aloof, whatever -- but no one I have ever spoken to outside of the "recovery" has ever talked about the Architect God with the elaborate, amazing plan which would involve He Himself actually going through changes in order to accomplish the plan, even dying. God dying! Shocking. (DJohnson just blew a gasket.) But I have lived over half a century, all of it talking with other Christians and I don't believe I have had a single conversation with another believer who mentioned this aspect of God.
I remember when Lee talked about the infinite God being limited to the size of a human fetus, hidden away in the womb of a woman. How marvelous. How amazing. Remember the song that offended all the non-LCers: How Small Thou Art? Well, what a great song. Who ever thinks of God that way, as minutely tiny so that He can be ingested by human beings?
You are right, brother, that I am the offscouring of the LSM society. That used to hurt, but no more. My thirty plus years in the LC helped me develop callouses to help with that.
As far as what I wanted to adjust in my last post, I feel I went too far in giving Matt credit concerning idols in the LC. I really find his whole argument tedious, offensive, and counterproductive. But I allowed that there possibly were idols within the LC because of the way we exalted Lee. I would now state simply that we over-exalted Lee. Let God judge whether or not it was an idol.
Sorry for the rambling response. I do appreciate what you've been saying in defense of the saints within the LC. I agree with you.
SC