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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I would replace your term "accusation" with another word: "try". As mature Christians we are not called to accuse, per se, but we are called to try, to test and to discern. "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1) "But have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false." (Revelation 2:2)
Clearly, Witness Lee and many of the teachings and practices he established in the Local Church, have been "tried and tested", and have been found wanting at best, and in many cases found to be patently false. Witness Lee, in so many words, and in so many ways, and through so many deputies, proclaimed himself, not only "an apostle", but "The One Apostle for the age".
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Amen to this. Paul exhorts us to "
test all things, hold on to the good." (I Thess 5.21) Now dear brothers like
Drake would love for us to abandon instructions such as this one, but when the children of God are hurt and stumbled, then the admonition of the scriptures should be our guide.
Here's another scripture (Proverbs 28.13) which Lee and the Blendeds should have heeded over the years:
"Whoever conceals his sins shall not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy."