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Originally Posted by Ohio
In Corinthians we have "many members but one body" in each church, which is the program I initially bought into.
Over time Lee surreptitiously morphed this into "many churches but one body," and somehow convinced us that the only true "body" was at LSM.
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And Lee convinced us that the true head of the true body occupied a certain chair at a certain desk in a certain room at LSM HQ. This deputization of God, on earth, was a blatant usurpation of the theocracy of God. Yes God is indeed deputized on earth, but in all the members. And whosoever wants to be great should be the least. Interestingly, on another thread I recently quoted Nee as saying that women could be great in works but not in persons (CW Set 3, vol 58, ch 13, sec 1). So, men can be great in persons? Contrary to Jesus, who lowered Himself and became least of all? Contrary to Paul, who was less than the least of all the saints? Those who presume greatness in this age are the least in the next. Matt 23:11; Mark 10:43; Luke 22:26; Matt 20:26. These are not esoteric, hidden truths. They are plain facts, repeatedly stressed in scripture by the Lord Himself.
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OBW observed, our teachings become the bases for our experiences. So this stress on subjective experiences, within the context of a man-exalting, rigidly centralized and controlling system, is also suspect. And the proposition that students at seminaries lack subjective experience is prima facie absurd. How do you know this? Or is it just convenient to your argument?