[TLFisher]

From Kindle Location 2199 of 4086 in Chapter 6

"With Brother Lee, we can testify that his living was the best interpretation of what he taught. In the 1980's, he released many messages on taking Christ as our person and living Him out. He himself had put that into practice. He often said that he had been repenting for not being faithful and living Christ in his daily life. What he lived out and worked out was the very essence of the message he constantly delivered to churches in the recovery."

From Witness Lee's A Word of Love:

"The Lord can testify for me that I don’t condemn anyone…We love people. We love the opposers, and we love the top rebels. I really mean it. We love them and do not hate them. Who am I? I am not qualified to condemn or hate. Am I perfect? Even the prophet Isaiah when he saw the Lord, said, “Woe is me, for I am finished / For I am a man of unclean lips, / And in the midst of an unclean people I dwell” (Isa. 6:5). Who is clean today? If we criticize people and say something bad about them, we are not clean."

Prior to his death, there was no indication of loving the opposers or even the top rebels. With Witness Lee now been gone for 17 and a half years, how much of his speaking have the Blendeds taken to heart and lived out? Do they love the top rebels? Words without action is simply clanging cymbals.

The following is a good word from the attached pdf Basic Need:

"Do we really love the “opposers”, even the “top rebels” as brother Lee said we should do? Is our view of them fair? Is our view of each one right according to God? Is the Person of Christ involved in our judgment of them? I can testify that in my little bit of contact with a few former elders, their spirit of love and careful manner today in handling the saints is evident, such that I have not seen in the recovery. Their testimony in this regard is that once they left the church life, they began to seek the Lord Himself. He was their Shepherd, and they learned to shepherd and care for one another. They did not become unsaved when they left the church, and they did not become beasts of the field wandering about like Nebuchednezzar. They have learned the way of shepherding and caring for one another’s needs. These were the casualties of the new way.

We should listen to their stories and their testimonies, brothers? If “something is wrong” among us, maybe listening with respect and regard to our brothers and sisters will help us to understand our lack of feeling and sensitivity to the Lord’s heart and mind for others, even those He bought with His own precious blood and had brought at one time into the church. Not walking “according to love”, brothers, is surely our basic failure; and walking in love our greatest need."