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Originally Posted by Freedom
The following quote is something I posted on another thread, but I think it applies here too: I brought the recovery to the United States, and you received it. You are the result of my work. Should I not expect that you all would be one with me, cooperating with me to promote the Lord's recovery? What is wrong with this? -- Witness Lee, The Eldership and the God-Ordained Way, Volume 1, pg. 86
WL made it clear that he expected an attitude of reciprocity within the LC. Everyone was supposed to feel "indebted" to him, and this was supposed to be repaid through loyalty to him and his ministry office. |
This is a very accurate observation,
Freedom.
I left in 2005 during the ugly fighting that surrounded the GLA quarantines. Basically the question presented to each and every brother and sister was this:
Who do you belong to? Whose fruit are you? Who raised you up? To whom do you owe your allegiance? Are you Witness Lee's fruit or are you Titus Chu's fruit? To whom do you owe your life?
I decided that when there is no good answer, then the question must be wrong. Like the Corinthians of old, I was neither
"of Lee" nor was I "
of Chu." (I Cor 1.12-13, 3:4-5) They were not crucified for me. I am of Christ, and it is now time for me to leave, because the apostle Paul would call all of these men "
fleshly."