[kisstheson]

Dear ones,

All the recent fellowship on this thread has been very helpful to me. How healthy it is to be able to discuss both the “wheat” and the “chaff” in WN’s ministry. May we acknowledge that which is really of the Lord in WN’s ministry and be willing to be taught by it. At the same time, may we also acknowledge that which is not of the Lord and be willing to be warned by it. While WN, like all of us, was a weak and fragile vessel during his entire lifetime, it is good to be able to recognize the purity in the ministry of “early Nee” up through 1942. I echo dear brother UntoHim's plea: “May we all receive grace and mercy enough to be one tenth as profitable and useful as ‘early’ Nee.” Amen and Amen!

I appreciate the critique of the whole idea of “recovery” as well. The great recovery work our God is doing is the inward working He is doing in all of us. Amen! The whole idea of one group being able to claim that they are uniquely “The Lord’s Recovery” on the whole earth is, sad to say, another bad fruit that arose in seed form during the ministry of “later Nee”. In his well-known 1934 message entitled “What Are We?” WN soberly viewed the move of the Spirit in China as only one aspect of God’s testimony on the whole earth. In stark contrast, the tone is completely different in WN's 1948 message entitled “God’s Work of Recovery (1)" (This 1948 message was an updated version of 1934's "What Are We?".). In this 1948 message, WN stated that as far as they knew, WN and those with him in China had reached the “final recovery” and God’s “recovery” work on the earth had to do solely with them.