[aron]

Nee's ecclesiology is not followed by Lee's Local Church movement. Nee said there should be no "hidden strings" extra-locally. Tell that to the Christians on Campus groups, who say, "Oh, we are just Christians from various backgrounds, meeting as the church." Yeah, right - no hidden strings?

Secondly, note all of Nee's influences: Post-Reformation. He didn't get much exposure to the first 3/4 of the Christian church's history. Evidently everything before Martin Luther was corrupt and useless. Probably he had very little access. So therefore it had no value. Eastern Orthodox: what's that? Everything has a Protestant reference and a Protestant worldview.

And third, if Nee's group was so focused on doing things exactly as the Bible, what happened to the "much discussion" among peers in Jerusalem in Acts 15, verse 7? Where was that found in Nee's proposed 'normal church'? Nowhere. Oriental culture trumped the word of scripture, elsewhere supposedly scrupulously followed. "If it occurs in the NT, then it's the rule".... except where it conflicts with cultural norms.