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Originally Posted by aron
But I say that this "order" is confusion. It is the Babylon building and it will of necessity be rent with division after confusion after turmoil after schism after rebellion.
Jesus talked about this at some length, and repeatedly: the way of the Gentiles vs the way of the disciples.
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Great observations.
This is a point that perhaps will never be clear to the disciples until they personally get "burnt" by the alternative. It's so easy to consider that if man does not "order" the assembly, then there will be chaos. Fallen man loves ordered structure, even in the assembly. I lived thru this with all of my LC contemporaries. We were naive to the blatant demands of "oneness with the ministry" even after literal wars erupted. We were trained to believe that the one accord could only be achieved when all the saints were "
one with the Apostle, just as in the book of Acts."
It has been said that our conscience does not instruct us to do what is right, but to do the right thing. As such it becomes readily apparent that it can be incorrectly "trained," either by parents, or teachers, or ministers. This is why the Apostle Paul warned the elders to watch for those who will "
rise up among yourselves speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after themselves." Perverted things are those distorted things which resemble the real thing, yet have been twisted or deviated for personal gains.
Consider what happened in the Recovery. Once Lee had persuaded the entire Recovery to buy into his brand of "oneness," he turned over the controls to his fleshly profligate son Phillip. This enforcer of the oneness exercised great license to dominate all the workers, elders, and churches. Supposedly this was to bring tremendous "order" and the restored blessing to the Recovery. The glorious days of "Elden Hall" would thus be duplicated, and the whole earth would be evangelized. Who could argue with such a "sales pitch?"
But, how in the world would God the Father bless such a system which violated every principle of His throne? One with a fallen man rather than one with His Only Begotten Son? Whose kingdom would this be on earth? Who would get all the glory, a sinner or His Beloved? Could our Heavenly Father allow "Phillip the Molester" to carry out His eternal plan rather than His own Spirit of reality?
It's no wonder that Lee's ordered plan produced such chaos.