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Old 11-17-2008, 07:17 AM   #59
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Default Re: "Early Nee" vs. "Later Nee"

To me the whole problem with the ministries of WN and WL comes back to the problem of erroneous concepts on authority which find their seat in the teachings of deputy authority, locality and the general idea of the Lord having "one move." All these teachings have been exposed as little more than pernicious justifications for dictatorial control. Perhaps Nee didn't mean it that way, but that's the fruit which they have borne.

If you really consider the concept of deputy authority, its potential for abuse is so enormous and so likely that the fact that the teaching really does not exist in the Bible should be enough to throw it away and have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Likewise the teaching of locality is untenable, as there is no way to verify for sure who the real elders of the "one church" in the city are and thus be able to discern definitely between two groups claiming to "hold the ground." I have discussed this at length is this thread.

Considering the matter of "giving all," of course we all must give all to the Lord. He owns it all anyway. But Nee was way off if he meant a potential servant of the Lord has to sell his house and car and boat before he can be effective. This is nothing more than his own opinion, which if your combine it with the belief that he had some kind of deputy authority, becomes yet another abuse and potential misleading.

In my experience, the way to get clear on the LC movement, and on WN and WL as well, is to get clear that their ideas on authority and submission were grossly mistaken. How to deal with everything else falls into place once you get clear on that.

Why would anyone be concerned about anything Nee or Lee said or wrote unless he or she still thought they were imbued with some kind of special authority? Once you realize they weren't, you are free to discard their chaff just like you would anyone else's. And they both had their share.

I think you can bank on the fact that God doesn't want you to eat their chaff, which you would have to do if they actually did have deputy authority, which is another reason they didn't.

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