Re: A Wake Up Call - God is Speaking to Us
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Originally Posted by zeek
Sadly Watchman Nee and Witness Lee had little direct experience of democracy before Lee came to the United States. Nee's prognosis of the inevitable democratic failure mirrors the struggle of Sun Yat-sen to establish a democratic republic of China. But, Sun Yat-sen's dream was never fully realized and the Communists took over. So, Nee and Lee may be excused for their ignorance. We, on the other hand, should know better. If Cahn's aim is to transform the U.S. into a theocracy, we can look back at our Local Church experience as evidence of what a bad idea that is. His argument is based on the lie that the U.S. was a Christian nation to begin with. Thus, it is based on a false premise. The whole idea that we should roll back history to the New Testament in order to recapitulate the "Church Life" or role back the American experience to recapitulate the nation of Israel ignores the progress in political thinking that resulted in the establishment of our nation as a democratic republic. We took our freedoms so much for granted that we forsook them to get involved in the Local Church -- a top-down authoritarian organization where we had no rights. Our LC experience ought to be enough to motivate us to reject the peddlers of American Theocracy.
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As awareness has pointed out, was it more that we took our freedom for granted, or that we didn't really like/want our freedom all that much?
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And for this cause, the Good Shepherd left the 99 pieces of crappy building material, and went out to recover the one remnant piece of good building material. For the Lord will build His church, and He will build it with the good building material, not the crappy kind.
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