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Originally Posted by Terry
Oregon,
Point #1
That's been the teaching, but not the practice. Let's consider Moses Lake. By the time I moved to the NW, this locality was no longer considered a lc although I consider the Church in Moses Lake to be a genuine local church. There were saints who were clearly bothered when Moses Lake disassociated with Living Stream, so they moved to localities such as Spokane or churches in Western Washington.
In the last few years the same practice has occurred in places such as Toronto. Instead of keeping the genuine oneness of the Body, new local churches are created.
Point #2
That has been my experience too. I've read many books of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. In reading these books, I have gravitated more towards Watchman Nee. I just found WN's books easier to digest.
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Terry, Igzy, Oregon and everyone lurking around......
I too find Watchman Nee's works more profound, yet easier to digest than Lee's. I have found many contradictions in Lee's writings in the RcV's footnotes as well!
He doesn't compare scripture with scripture all the time. I'll have to start writing some of the contradictions & post them. As an example, I have found he expounds a scripture on a footnote. Fine. He'll give a crossreference to it...but when you go to the referenced scripture/footnote, it's contrary to what he stated in the other footnote. And if not contrary, quite confusing!
The other thing about the LSM/LC is the 'Blended leading ones' don't study the Word of God for themselves. They take everything Lee wrote and have no clue that the LORD continuous to reveal His Word to us.
10-20 years ago, many things were hidden in the Bible. It was not time for the Lord to reveal the deep things of God to us. But today, God is opening our eyes...or at least those who are praying for God to open our eyes.
I've heard many a Bible 'scholar' say what they could not fathom or understand back then, the Lord is now revealing Himself in His Word.
The LSM/LC leaders won't do that! If Lee taught it, he couldn't have been wrong! Giving him the 'benefit of the doubt', maybe, JUST MAYBE, if Lee was alive today, he might have scrapped some of his preconceived thoughts.
Who knows... But it does take a humble spirit to admit you were wrong.
As for 'the church'...I don't keep up with all the discussions on the 'ground of the church'. Every born again believer is a member of the Body of Christ and the bible tells us the Body of Christ is the Church.
There should NOT be any divisions, any denominations, any non-denominations...no LSM/LC, no Pentecostals, No Evangelical movements, charasmatic movements, fundamental movements.
We have ONE BIBLE. We have ONE LORD. We have ONE FATHER. We have the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit residing in us.
What a testimony it would be and one day it will be.....to the world that we indeed are brothers/sisters in Christ..nothing separating us.
Nee & Lee and others I'm sure did have the teaching of 'one church..and how we should meet. But as Terry wrote, it was not the practice. In some places...perhaps...but not everywhere.