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Originally Posted by Shawn
Brothers and Sisters,
The question is: Can a group of believers practicing the church life as outlined in the ministries of Witness Lee and watchman Nee have a victorious Christian experience, individually as well as corporately, with the given that the abusive leadership issues that plauged certain localities, never materialized in this hypothetical church.
Specifically, can the teaching of the ground of the church lead to a true oneness if practiced as it was written, or is it doomed to failure.
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Hi
Shawn,
Grace to you, (dear friend and brother) and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
[Ephesians 1:2] 
First off...let's remember, any religious or made made work OUTSIDE of GOD'S True Word is going to fail and be burned up as wood, hay and stubble.
So if the church life is practiced according to Lee and Nee's teachings
and not the anointing of the Holy Spirit, it is going to fail.
Now let's say for a moment, they had a true revelation of the church life
according to the Word of God and did their best to present the vision given to them by God our Father and His Word to the church. According to the measure of Faith given to them, if they themselves practiced it unto the LORD...then they obeyed the Holy Spirit's leading.
However, If they took the vision shared with them and
abused the vision, well...that's between them and the LORD.
As for the church life......God certainly instructs us
not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of some. (Hebrews 10:25)
We ARE instructed to exhort one another, and so much the more AS we SEE the DAY approaching.
[Come
QUICKLY LORD JESUS!!
The Spirit and the BRIDE say "COME".]
So...if the saints in the LSM see and follow the instructions in accordance to the Word of God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they will be blessed.
But the blessings begin individually...not corporately for each of us as individuals will stand before the Son of Man at the Judgment seat of Christ. We will NOT stand corporately together!
So that lends to the question
the importance of assembling together.
The answer to that is simple there is STRENGTH in Numbers. Where 2 or three are gathered, our LORD JESUS is in our midst!
(Matthew 18:20)
We have a common enemy: Satan and his cronies.
Now, we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another...for the building up of the Body of Christ...
Together.....we overcome the enemy, the thief, whose goal is to steal, kill and destroy our love for the LORD, for the Brethren, our families, our relationships, our health, our Faith.
Together by the BLOOD of the LAMB and by the Word of our Testimony,
we overcome the enemy.
Don't forget:
Ecclesiastes 4:12
if
one prevail against him,
two shall withstand him; and
a threefold cord is not quickly broken.