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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
I think you know why. Jesus Christ established only one Church, one ecclesia, not a collection of different churches.
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What I cannot understand is why Watchman Nee left the Protestant denomination to form his own church. Paul said, "In what you were called, in this remain." Nee did not remain.(1 Cor. 7)
Why leave a Protestant denomination, which according to Brethren teachings had a genuine lampstand (see RecV footnotes in Rev. 3) and go to the Philadelphia lampstand? Why leave one church for another?
My sense here is that it was like the rest of his ministry, and Witness Lee after him: untrammeled subjectivity. "When we do it, it's not sectarianism."
Like the 'recovery' of the principles of authority and submission, which conveniently occurred only after his senior co-worker Leland Wang was removed from the scene. Nee and Lee were both adept at uncovering biblical principles which applied to all but themselves.