[Cal]

Well, it seems that the verdict is in and none of our dear LCM apologists have been able to or have really tried to defend the idea that "the Recovery" (aka the movement started by Nee and Lee) is the "unique move of God." Presumably they will continue to believe it even though they cannot or will not defend the idea publicly.

Again, this is typical of the most outrageous of Lee's teachings. LCMers just expect everyone to be smart enough to swallow such ideas whole, even though they wither under public scrutiny. I guess we're all too stupid to understand how true these indefensible ideas are.

So much for sarcasm. Yes, God has a unique move. After all, there is one unique God. The move is his. Only he really knows what he is doing. The LCM is not wrong to say God's goal is to build the Church. Where they go wrong is insisting "building the Church" equates to their definition of it and of the details of how it must be carried out.

For example, the LCM decided the Church cannot be built without local churches (just like theirs) where members are set free to "function" (meaning speak in meetings). The problem is after 50+ years of this exercise there is no evidence that it has lent to the "building of the Church" to any greater degree than the various other means of building each other that believers employ. There is no evidence of superior spiritual maturity in the LCM over what you see among groups of serious Christians in other congregations.

In short there is NO evidence that this movement is the "unique move of God." And they've had over 50 years to prove this grandiose and outrageous claim. So the mantra has grow quite tiresome, and the damage it has done had grown even more tiresome. They must be tired of it too, given the lethargic response in this thread.

I've always felt the LCM had something to offer. Imagine that instead of holing up and being greedy and proud about what the Lord had given them, they had, as it says in Ecclesiastes 11, "cast their bread upon water." Good and helpful ideas like calling on the Lord, pray-reading, the human spirit, simple Christian community, the priesthood of believers and so forth (before they became so stamped with LCM proprietary spin that they lost their general appeal) could have truly helped millions of believers.

But instead they became greedy. They wanted to build their kingdom more than they wanted to help strangers. They insisted that they and they alone were qualified to transport the Ark. And, because of their arrogance, they became irrelevant. Ideas which were so fresh and appealing in their general essence 50 years ago have found their way into the Christian mainstream by other paths. God will always find a way. But how different it could have been, if only for a little humility.