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Originally Posted by Ohio
Couple this with Paul's desire to preach "Christ and Him crucified," and we have the highest gospel of all.
Where's that verse in the great commission charging us to preach the "proper ground of the church?"
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If you look at Acts 1:3 it was all about the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This was the singular event in human history, which gave every other event, including the crucifixion, their meaning.
If it happened, then we have hope. If it didn't, then we have no hope; we are the most hopeless. ~1 Cor 15:14-19
In Acts 1:3 Jesus didn't give them "irrefutable proofs" of his sevenfold intensification during those 40 days; no we had to wait for Lee's strained speculations for that. Or the 'gospel of the church', in which we were induced to take our eyes off Jesus and place them on LSM's captive assemblies.
The gospel is not about the church, the ministry, or the oneness. It is about Jesus Christ; how God raised him from the dead and gave him glory, and a name which is above every name, both in this age and that which is to come.
Everything before this singular event looked to it; everything afterward got its sole reference from it. Nothing has any meaning apart from it. It was the moment that fallen creation became new creation. "Behold, I make all things new".
I'm sure that Witness Lee gave a couple of good messages on the resurrection, somewhere. Then he moved on to other pursuits.