Quote:
Originally Posted by A little brother
Exactly! Then why would the Recovery want to distance itself with Christianity as in "6. We need to maintain the gap between the Lord’s recovery and Christianity; the wider this gap is, the better, because it is a gap between us and the present evil age"?
Don't you see the hypocrisy there?
"Dear brothers in Christianity, we do love you. We are slapping at your face just to wake you up and let you know you are living in the present evil age. Oh, you need some help? Sorry, I am busy widening the gap between you and us."
Never forget why Jesus became a man and went among sinners in the first place.
Dear Evengelical, I think you can do better than using stock answers and tweaking terminology. Think hard, pray hard. Open your heart, turn to your spirit. Aim not at winning an argument. Aim at knowing our Lord and winning life. Care less about whether the teachings offend you, care about whether they offend God.
P.S. Be careful when you say the outlines are just "stock standard beliefs". The leading brothers say they are not just cut and paste from old standard messages. They are supposed to shed new light in every training. You might hurt their feelings.
|
I don't really get your point regarding hypocrisy.
For example, in preaching the gospel, we wish to save sinners in the world, and we also wish to distance ourself from the world as much as possible. It is not hypocrisy to want to distance ourself from the world the sinners live in, while wishing to save them. I don't see that as hypocrisy. That's how it's meant to be.
So, in regards to the Church, we wish to distance ourselves from the evil system utilized by Satan, yet we wish to save the people in the denominations.
I think it is fairly clear that when we speak of the evil we are not referring to the genuine believers but the evil system, as this quote shows:
"In every denomination, including the Roman Catholic Church, there are real, saved Christians. They are God's people belonging to the Lord. But the organization of the denominations in which they are is not of God. The denominational organizations have been utilized by Satan to set up his satanic system to destroy God's economy of the proper church life."
Witness Lee, "Message Thirty-Four" in The Life-Study of Genesis
(Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1987), Vol. 1, p. 464