[Freedom]

I’m sorry I realized I’ve missed a Chinese cultural factor in previous discussion about Lee. When I was in China mainland, I observed Chinese teachers (tutors) taught things with authority like the knowledge invented by them (at least in primary and middle school). Besides this, we studied most of knowledge satisfied with reciting or writing down not for application. Even if someone learns knowledge for application, it would be assumed students not teacher applies them. Therefore, if a teacher teaches ethnical topics, he/she may give students teachings sound very high standard for talking in their daily life so that they may not be despised by their folks. These practices contradict to Jesus’ teaching (Matthew 23:1-4). So small Christians like me would expect big figures like Nee or Lee (at least they were Bible teachers) follow Jesus’ teaching (opposite to scribes). But quite possibly, Lee followed Chinese cultural tradition behaved like scribes. That’s why I was interested in whether Lee applied his above teaching.
Anyway, if Lee did apply, I apologize for my bad mouth and confess my sins to Jesus.
On the other hand, I myself affected by above culture factor. When I talk with other brothers or sisters in Church life or daily life, I more or less speak in a way like an authority. May Jesus’ blood cover my sins, cleanse me and wash me.

It's hard to know what WL actually applied in his personal life. That is a only a guess to those of us who didn't know him. My own view of WL is formed from what he spoke in his ministry, and also the writings of former members, that most LC members have never read.

It does seem like WL viewed himself as the teacher and everyone else as his pupils. For rank and file members to call the teacher into question would have been unthinkable. Actually, when WL was eventually called out for not staying true to what he had spoken, he made the following statement: "None of you is perfected. Who can say that he is perfected? So you are not qualified to criticize what I am doing." WL didn't like anyone attempting to hold him accountable, and that has the obvious implication that he didn't practice what he preached.