[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Drake

But i am sensing some sarcasm and perhaps a taste of badgering?

My friend I have neither the time nor the heart to be badgering anybody. Sorry if you got that impression. If I sound sarcastic at times, it’s only because of my 40+ years of personal experience and close observation of the persons, places and things that are discussed here on our little popcorn stand. I’m naturally inclined to sarcasm…God is not through with me yet…as the bumper sticker says.

Under those circumstances I am not inclined to share something that is deeply personal and a treasure to me in my spiritual life. Vision is not a doctrine, rather, it is a visitation, at least it was to me. Still, I will share an abbreviated version of the vision that captured me and how it came about. It is personal and may hold no real interest to you or others.

Speaking for myself, anything to do with a genuine vision and/or visitation from God is extremely interesting and important to me. No sarcasm here bro. When God talks I listen…whether it be through a bolt of lightning….or through another member of the Body of Christ. The key is – is it genuine. Your little testimony here has me convinced that your vision/visitation is absolutely genuine. I know this for a fact because I have longed for these things my entire Christian life. Some things were fulfilled in the ministry of Witness Lee and in the Local Churches, some were not. Some have been fulfilled at other places. Some have not. I am convinced that some more will be fulfilled before I breath my last…some will not. Such are the life and times of a sojourner whose citizenship is in heaven, and whose hopes and desires will never be totally fulfilled here on earth.

Then I started to attend some meetings of the local church but just part time. Yet, here I began to experience life and care and shepherding in the Body and I started to see the Body life could be experienced in a real and living way in my daily life. I then understood the meaning, significance, and profoundness of grace upon grace. For the better part of a year I met with the local churches part time as I was very engaged in the denomination i was a leader in. With one foot in each world I was able to compare firsthand the difference.
Still had not heard the name Witness Lee.

Drake, this is where your testimony comes off the rails. Are you actually telling us that you attended meetings of the Local Church (albeit “just part time”) for about a year and never heard the name Witness Lee? Surely this is a typo. Lee’s name is everywhere you look. Local Church meetings are based on the spoken ministry of Witness Lee. The footnotes in the Recovery Version…did you think those were from John MacArthur? I think in a sincere, but misguided, attempt to give our readers the impression that Lee had nothing to do with your original visions and visitations, and Lee’s ministry simply confirmed them, you misspoke in a major way. Maybe you would care to take a mulligan on this one?
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