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Originally Posted by Toledo
Not a bad assessment, Ohio, but you left off the first part of the quote.
I would have to add that I never considered myself to be a follower of Witness Lee. Rather I was (and am!) a follower of Jesus Christ. I got a lot of help from Brother Lee, but I never followed him.
Now the so-called Blending Brothers insist that I follow them. That is why I treat them differently than I treated Brother Lee. I ignore the BBs altogether.
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Yeah, I didn't want to get involved with the loaded question "
To those of you who consider yourself, to one degree or another, a follower of Witness Lee ... "
I honor your stand,
Toledo, and, of course, we all, I assume, would say the same thing concerning following Jesus Christ.
The problem is that I was surrounded by brothers for decades who essentially said, "
I follow JC, and I am one with brother so-n-so." I can also say, especially after the start of the "New Way," that WL also required us to follow him. His demands for allegiance were on the same order as the BB's. I could also make a case that TC's demands for allegiance were not too dissimilar from either WL's or the BB's.
This was the dilemma I faced. I got tired of the word games -- proclaiming one thing, yet serving under another set of rules. Eventually I was forced to come to the conclusion that being a denomination had nothing to do with "a name," but had everything to do with headquarters, and the required allegiances placed by those at headquarters upon the churches.