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Dave · 09-16-2014, 09:04 PM

I am just a newbie on this site but at first glance I am dumbfounded. My experience was that I was introduced to WN in 1965, "The Normal Christian Life" which completely impacted my life. In 1969, in Santa Cruz, when I met Karl Hammond, the editor of "The Normal Christian Church Life" which is when I first heard of WL I was enamored with it all. When WL in 1971 personally asked me to move to Detroit I immediately moved.

Why were we so impressed? Because of the influence of WN which was really the influence of Angus Kinnear who published his books in England. We had read WN, we were impressed and then we find someone who was a "co-worker" of Nee. Witness Lee..... Wow. We are caught in the net and our hearts and souls are open to all kinds of mischief. We can only reflect on what happened. So far, all the scripture quotes, greek interpretations, elaborations etc are simply working through the process of "what just happened" in our local church experience. Its great and helpful but let's not take all of this too seriously. As I have said previously, until one completely extracts themselves from this process it will go on and on with no end. It is not easy to walk away from all of this and go on with our lives.

Maybe we have spent so many years in the LC that we just can't stop talking about it or analyzing it or its interpretations of scriptures. I am not discounting Nigel or others who are trying to clarify some critical issues of scripture etc for former members of the LC. My point is simply that there seems to be some freight trains which are kind of running off track. I mean, I have a cousin who is a Christian but is heavy into the Israeli thing. I just don't see how that is relevant on this site but I am a newbie and maybe I just don't get it.

09-16-2014, 09:04 PM	#10
Dave Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 641	Re: ... What HE says! I am just a newbie on this site but at first glance I am dumbfounded. My experience was that I was introduced to WN in 1965, "The Normal Christian Life" which completely impacted my life. In 1969, in Santa Cruz, when I met Karl Hammond, the editor of "The Normal Christian Church Life" which is when I first heard of WL I was enamored with it all. When WL in 1971 personally asked me to move to Detroit I immediately moved. Why were we so impressed? Because of the influence of WN which was really the influence of Angus Kinnear who published his books in England. We had read WN, we were impressed and then we find someone who was a "co-worker" of Nee. Witness Lee..... Wow. We are caught in the net and our hearts and souls are open to all kinds of mischief. We can only reflect on what happened. So far, all the scripture quotes, greek interpretations, elaborations etc are simply working through the process of "what just happened" in our local church experience. Its great and helpful but let's not take all of this too seriously. As I have said previously, until one completely extracts themselves from this process it will go on and on with no end. It is not easy to walk away from all of this and go on with our lives. Maybe we have spent so many years in the LC that we just can't stop talking about it or analyzing it or its interpretations of scriptures. I am not discounting Nigel or others who are trying to clarify some critical issues of scripture etc for former members of the LC. My point is simply that there seems to be some freight trains which are kind of running off track. I mean, I have a cousin who is a Christian but is heavy into the Israeli thing. I just don't see how that is relevant on this site but I am a newbie and maybe I just don't get it.