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Originally Posted by Indiana

As some of you know I respect the teachings of brother Lee, but not in the way of the blending brothers... elevating him and his ministry led to the building up of the ministry churches of Witness Lee, rather than, in inclusive love, building up the Body of Christ.

As brother Lee shared, "in the last few years, we have appreciated the Lord's showing us the high peak of the divine revelation. My concern is that although we may talk about the truths of the high peak, love is absent among us. If this is the case, we are puffed up, not built up. The Body builds up itself in love” (A Word of Love, 1996)

But it is not love that prevails in the Local Churches; rather, the thing brother Lee feared has prevailed, having grown and become more manifest in an atmosphere of high teachings and an attitude of being "above the rest"..

Here's a comment posted on Jane Anderson's The Thread of Gold website:

Dear Jane,

Attached is a copy of the outline of BP’s sharing. He was on II C 2. After saying that natural affection will become rottenness in the church he gave this testimony about you and your book. It is an exact copy from the tape:

"I was looking at a book the other day and in this book this sister gives her life’s story. Well, she was a good sister at one time. Then eventually she was defeated by the enemy because of her natural affection toward other sisters and she lost everything. Brothers, in the church life we don’t have any natural affection—we don’t have friends; not friends naturally, but everything must be in the Spirit."[emphasis added]

Someone whom I told about this comment wrote me the following:

Note BP said, “…in the church life we don’t have any natural affection”? In saying this, he puts himself and others in the same category as those Paul mentioned in 2 Timothy 3:1-5:

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Witness Lee summed it well: "My concern is... that love is absent from among us."