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Originally Posted by Freedom
While Lee was alive, his ministry was dynamic, and it might have been possible for them to be in line with something that God was speaking. After he died, his ministry became static. Obviously, the blendeds completely reject this notion.
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I would not say that the situation is completely static, even with WL no longer speaking. The Blended Curators have the same dynamism (subjective interpretation) available for WL's ministereal corpus as he did with his predecessors Nee, Pember, Govett, Alford, Luther et al. So there's a capacity for light, and new speaking. But it grows increasingly limited. The scope of dynamism shrinks, while God's speaking expands around it. Thus, instead of the whole Christian world rushing in to hear the "High Peak" ministry of WL, it grows increasingly marginalized. In this view it does seem static indeed. It nearly shrinks to nothing.
It does this in two ways: first, the ministry misses the riches in the word. I didn't get my "Psalms" revelations in a vacuum, but repeatedly exposed myself to the ministry of others, while being immersed in the word, and a vision began to grow within me, ever stronger. This word of Christ indeed began to dwell in me richly. Like WN had before, I sorted through the works of others, did my own "mix and match", and a compelling narrative emerged. But unlike WL claiming Nee to be the "seer of the age", I don't imagine that every other ministry then becomes null and void. On the contrary, at best I have a tiny piece of the puzzle, and if I got anything real and solid it was within the context of that larger ongoing discussion.
Second, the LC ministry became marginalized because it placed the burden of God's so-called oracle on the shoulders of one man. Only Jesus can bear this; He alone is the sole vector of God's message of love. So WL not only missed riches of Christ staring him in the face, in the plain words of scriptural text on the page, he then had to constantly churn out new material. And what was the content of his novelty? Various "moves" and "flows" and "works". Revelations of things which took our eyes off of Jesus. The Body, the New Jerusalem, the Church, the Ministry, the High Peak Processed and Consummated Corporate Expression of Divinity and Humanity, etc.
I think these visions grew ever more esoteric because they were increasingly removed from the person of Jesus Christ, plainly revealed to us all in scripture. But with a little humility, and a little seeking - remember "seek and ye shall find" still applies today - the revelation of Jesus Christ will blossom as fresh as the day that you, like the Samaritan woman, wanted to run around and bang on doors and exclaim, "Is this not God's Christ?!" WL robbed us of our openness, but it is still there, waiting, around us. It's still there.