Quote:
Originally Posted by Ohio
Every time I think about this post, I can't let it go and just be silent.
Every single brother I knew believed that our mission was "Christ and the church," and that we gave our lives for the building up of autonomous local churches. That's why many of them left their denominations. Every message Lee and others gave in the beginning days supported this mission statement. Many who came this way did so after reading Nee's book TNCCL.
Now whether Lee, or leaders like RK, BP, TC or others had this view is doubtful, since I have witnessed so much meddling in local affairs by these ones.
|
And I think we really believed it. But after the fact, I think that we were fed false information as to what was truly Christ and the church, therefore we were misguided, even from the beginning. We just didn't realize it. We brought a desire for Christ. We got fed something that was labeled "Christ and the church" and we accepted that it was real. Only when the mantra began to alter did we leave.
And though I do not think we were really that "right" before, at least we woke up. But I am becoming more and more convinced that even many of our positive experiences in the earlier (earliest) days were tainted by the shadow of a leavened teaching. Even Christ and the church, because we were misdirected to a version of both that was not true to the Word.