Amen, dear brothers Hope and Ohio,
You have brought up some very important points which require serious reexamination by all those who, like me, "bought into the whole package".
The sweet portion shared by dear brother Nigel was spoken by WN somewhere between July of 1938 and May of 1939 while WN was in Europe. That places this sweet speaking squarely within the period of "early Nee".
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"Wheat is sown, grows ears, is reaped, and then the whole plant, even to the root, is plowed out. That is the Church, never rooted permanently in the earth. God’s work is spiritual to the point of having no earthly roots, no smell of earth on it at all. Men pass on, but the Lord remains."
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Amen and Amen! What a view. The Church is never rooted permanently in the earth. There surely is both a time to plant and also a time to plow out, even down to the root. Instead of putting all our efforts into preserving a movement which has already fully run its course, we should rather be open to whatever God is doing to bring forth something so new and fresh.
BTW - There is an excellent message spoken by a leading brother in Toronto regarding "David serving his own generation". Go to
http://churchintoronto.org/Video.htm. Click on the message entitled "
Acts 13 & 14". One warning - at the end of this message, there is a VERY touching tribute to a certain class of sisters. I had no idea that this tribute was there and it snuck up on me. I was so touched and I almost cried my eyeballs out!
Make sure you bring plenty of handkerchiefs! This is by far the most touching tribute to sisters I have ever seen in any Local Church setting.