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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I know the difference between faith and works. You are preaching to the converted, not a Catholic. Both Nee and Lee taught that it is a mistake to think that salvation comes to us freely while overcoming comes as a result of our own effort.
See Collected Works of Watchman Nee, The (Set 2) Vol. 24: The Overcoming Life by Watchman Nee
I can provide other ministry material references if you like.
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You already made the point that you have an intellectual understanding of the differences between faith and works through your argument here. No one questions that you are a convert of Witness Lee and not of the Catholic church. By making that remark maybe you assume I'm Catholic. Otherwise why would you so randomly bring up Catholicism here
Why do you insist on providing me with references? I certainly don't question your willingness to defer to links and other's material because you've demonstrated this over and over again. If I'm looking for a reference, I'll be sure to ask you at this point although I'd rather you yourself articulate what it is that you believe Nee and Lee taught. Otherwise by you constantly deferring without an actual argument in support of your reference, I question if you truly understand what you are presenting here of if you are simply doing so to hint at a perceived ignorance on my part.
If Nee and Lee taught that salvation does not come freely by God's grace and that overcoming the world comes by works like praying or reading scripture or setting up a one church per city model like the Latter Rain Pentecostals taught and not by faith (1 John 5:4-5), they taught wrong.
"4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 Jn. 5:1 ESV)