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Originally Posted by Ohio
Jesus also commands us to pray in our closet.
Rules out every local church and especially LSM.
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Paul said every elder should have believing children. Lee's children, by his own admission, were "unspiritual". Yet he made one CEO of a company set up with local church "investors", which went belly up quicker than a beached RV. The other one was in charge of LSM until his immorality finally was too much.
John said, "Diotrephes loves to be first". Fits WL's profile to a 't'.
John wrote that unless you held the mark of the beast, you couldn't buy or sell. In the local churches under the "One Trumpet" edict, you can't buy or sell unless it has the mark of the LSM on it. (To avoid confusion, of course.)
Paul said that he didn't permit women to teach. Watchman Nee was taught by at least a half-dozen women, from ME Barber, to Jesse Penn-Lewis, to Elizabeth Fishbacher, Jean Guyon, you can look them all up.
James said that we shouldn't be respecters of persons and give chief seats to wanna-be satraps. I saw people posing by Witness Lee's chair, like they were at Mount Rushmore. Getting family photos around "the chair". This kind of misplaced zeal was only winked at.
Paul said, Don't be "of Paul, of Cephas, of Apollos", yet the individual LC websites all had on their headers, "Lovers of Jesus affiliated with the ministries of Watchman Nee, Witness Lee." What is "affiliated with" except "of".
1 Timothy 3:3, 6:10, 2 Timothy 3:2, and Hebrews 13:5 all warn about a love of money. Lee's many business ventures give lie to his orientation. Eventually he found the perfect captive market - The True Church and God's Oracle. All high peak truths, all for sale, for only a few dollars. No competitors allowed.
All of these things, and many more, disqualify the LC to represent God's Christ. Worst of all is the constant despising attitude towards "poor Christianity". What happens is that if you sit in a meeting, and silently receive the words of condemnation, or worse yet "amen" it, you are now under it's power. You have assented to condemnation of all outside the LC. So you then have to overlook all those reasons that disqualify the LC as a legitimate NT Christian expression, and live with all the obvious contradictions that entails.
Just sing "splendid church life, His green garden" three more times and everything will be fine.