[Mephibosheth2]

Originally Posted by Igzy

Mephi (I can call you Mephi, can't I?),

That a highly cognizant and experienced Christian like yourself can separate the wheat from the chaff in Witness Lee's teaching is not the only issue.

Another question is what about that Christian who finds one of Lee's titles like "The Mystery of Human Life" (one of Olvin's favs no doubt) or some other grandiose thing on Amazon.com and says to herself, "Oooh, he's going to tell me what life is all about!" So she orders it and reads it and while Lee is telling her the mystery of her life he also injects "Oh, by the way, you need to join one of my churches and major in my ministry and submit yourself to the 'unique leadership' and reject 'Christianity' and burn your past or you won't be an overcomer and blah, blah, blah."

What about those people? Do they have the discernment? Thousands and thousands of people sidetracked by the LC say "no."

I'm not saying never read Lee. I'm saying you need to be careful when doing so. Reading Lee is like jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit. Lots of thrills but lots of risks.

...yes, Igzy, you may call me Mephi...or, if you like, Meph (it has a hard, ungirlish edge to it that appeals to me)

I get the point you've made above. It's true, thousands stand in danger of getting sidetracked...but at the end of the day, how much of it all is really down to good, old-fashioned commonsense? It is actually more common than you might think. Actually, my educated guess would be that many more countless thousands have exercised their commonsense in relation to things spiritual than the thousands who haven't; sometimes to their profit, but sometimes to their loss (one doesn't enter the kingdom of God through their commonsense). How else would you explain the fact that the LC simply does not have the numbers that would justify either the high output of its printing presses at LSM, or the aggressive and relentless pushes onto campuses around the country, and just about basically all of its overall expenditure on evangelism in general...Ethiopia seems to be an exception.

A case in point: many years ago I was in a certain city in Africa. A locality had just sprung up. But many, many of the believers in that city refused to join that church. And the reasons they gave, though wide and varied, all reflected an 'uncommon' capacity for commonsense. Unfortunately, however, a good number of these believers, having seen through the LC, sometimes end up, if you will, running from one wolf to the next wolf and are, instead, routinely hoodwinked by unscrupulous pastors. Religion is, after all, an opiate; it drugs the masses; and oftentimes one's smarts serve as no insulation whatsoever. Any believer, young or old, should know that, and be wary. The key is the Spirit.

p.s. ..."highly cognizant"?...I laugh out loud...I hardly think so...