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Originally Posted by Indiana
These posts have been thought-provoking to me and I believe to many looking on. (I sent emails out also.) I got an email response at the start from a long-time sister in the church in Houston, not happy with me, or with Stephen Kaung, or with anyone on this forum who does not agree with her perception of the ground of oneness. (She did sign off with, "Your sister in Christ, .....), but the subject is evocative to her and to many holding this aggressive concept dearly.)
Then a brother wrote to me with several decades of experience also, including with the church in Houston, and a Kaung-associated assembly in Houston, and now associated with neither but meets in a home meeting church life in Houston. His perspective was amazingly different than the sister's. (He had no problem with Kaung. "Stephen Kaung and Witness Lee are total opposites".)
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Her heartfelt email, echoing the sentiments of many......
Brother Steve,
You mean Stephen Kaung couldn’t take the way of the ground of the churches which is fully revealed in the Bible? Perhaps Kaung’s ambition to have some kind of position caused him to stumble. The Seattle Christian Assembly is a “division”. There is only one church in one city and all the believers in that city should meet as the church in that city. You know this! God’s eternal purpose will be carried out in only one way ... God’s way. To be “similar in heart” and yet be divisive is not the reality of the church. Regardless how pitiful the church looks from man’s eyes, she is glorious in God’s eyes. He finds no fault in her.
The way back into fellowship with the church is to “enter the narrow gate and walk the constricted way” which is your mingled spirit. Allow the cross to deal with all your division. Be humble. Retract your “In the Wake of the New Way” or whatever the name of the booklet you inspired that has caused you so much trouble.
I left the “local church discussions forum” because it had become too toxic for me to stay. They were not interested in real, honest discussions. They were bitter and angry against brother Lee. Perhaps they held brother Lee so high on their “apostolic” pedestal that when he made some mistakes they couldn’t take it anymore.....
.......So the way to return is simple ... enter and walk.
Your sister in Christ, (part of the email)
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