[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Terry

In the LC mind, when it comes to quarantines, to seek the other side of the story is going to the Tree of Knowledge. If you accept without question what the LSM co-workers say, that's the Tree of Life. It's the systems method of controlling the brothers and sisters from seeking information dare the Local churches turn into the next Mars Hill church fallout.

Actually what happened at Mars Hill is exactly what needs to happen in the Local Church of Witness Lee. Of course what happened at Mars Hill - finally holding the lead apostle of the movement accountable for his actions - cannot possibly happen in the LC because Lee is dead and buried for 18 years now. Many of the elders at Mars hill finally did some long-needed soul searching (after throwing many of their fellow elders/leaders under the bus over a period of years...sound familiar?) and came to the conclusion that the Mars Hill movement had become something of a personality cult. They knew the only way out was to confront and hold accountable "the personality", which was Mark Driscoll. Thankfully, Mars Hill's by-laws had a mechanism in place which made finally holding Driscoll accountable a regrettable, but necessary option possible. Eventually they did the right thing and removed him as the leader of the movement.

We all know that no such mechanism exists in the LC movement. Even in death, the person and work of Witness Lee rule and reign supreme. No mere mortal is allowed to measure his person or work. Even the most reasoned and altruistic attempt at measuring Lee or his ministry is looked upon as abject rebellion against God Himself, and met with the severest of sanctions, or even the dreaded "quarantine". The Blended Brothers are really and truly "brother Lee's continuation" - They shamelessly exalt his person (just as Lee did when he was alive) and endlessly promote his work (aka "the ministry of the age") until everything, including the Word of God, is placed so far in the background as to fade to insignificance among the true believers.

The brothers at Mars Hill finally faced The TRUTH. I'm sure they didn't feel much "life" in the actions they took. But the simple fact is that it is a falsehood to say that truth is in ANY SENSE antithetical to life. In fact, if any teaching from mere men, no matter how much it claims to have "life", is found to be at variance with, much less directly contradict the truths we find in the Word of God, it is to be rejected. Furthermore, the teacher of such doctrine is to be firmly corrected, and if no change and repentance is shown, is to be rejected himself. A lot is at stake. The apostle Paul instructed the believers to reject those who "teach differently". He didn't recommend that we firstly "check with our spirit and see if we feel the sense of life".