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Originally Posted by Freedom
Unregistered, it sounds like you don't trust the CFP version of Nee, and you are asking if the LSM version is any more trustworthy. Maybe it is. They have gone through all the trouble to publish their Collected Works of Watchman Nee, so I have no doubt that they had the intention to make most/all his works available. My hesitation with both LSM and CFP is that both Lee and Kaung used Nee as their claim to fame. Why wouldn't Lee and Kaung "color" Nee to suit their own agendas?
With Lee's biography of Nee: Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age, isn't the purpose of a book like that to turn Nee into some type of larger than life figure? That's really the big danger in the LSM version of Nee, he is viewed as someone whose words take higher precedence over any other Christian teacher. I have read some of Nee's writings that I feel need to be taken with a grain of salt. That is why I started the thread titled "The lesser known ministry of Watchman Nee". Also, in the LSM version of Nee, they emphasize things that suit their agenda. One example that comes to mind is his teaching on Deputy Authority. Steve Isitt recently posted a writing on Nee, which addresses Nee's excommunication from the Shanghai Assembly. That is something I have never seen fully addressed in LSM's Nee books and I presume it also isn't addressed in CFP's books. Why? Because that view of Nee doesn't help support the agenda of either publishing house.
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Great points
Freedom.
It was a real eye-opener for me when I carefully read Nee's LC classic
The Normal Christian Church Life. Lee and LSM had promoted that book since Lee first came to the USA. Now leaving aside whether the book matches the scripture or not, I just could not believe how much that book was at odds with LSM. Did no one at LSM ever read that book? That book was at odds with every practice at LSM. From what I have read about LC history in China, it seemed Nee and Lee did not practice it either.
There was a brother in Anaheim back in the 80's who did exactly as I did with
TNCCL. He compared the book with LSM's practices. He went directly to Witness Lee with his most serious "concerns" as btw the scripture instructs us. Lee's arrogant response was quite telling, "
Don't tell me about that book, I was there!"
The REAL apostles did not respond in this way. When Paul rebuked Peter in Antioch, Peter did NOT reply, "
Don't tell me about eating with Gentiles, I was there!"