[UntoHim]

Drake,

Sorry but aron himself IS A CREDIBLE SOURCE. He had been a devout member of the Local Church of Witness Lee for many years. He also has gained huge credibility on this forum for his measured, sensible and decidedly informative posts on this forum for about a decade now.

Now why wouldn't a religious group's "behavior" and culture be heavily influence by it's founder and the culture it was born in? The Calvary Chapel movement is heavily influenced by the person and work of Chuck Smith and the American Jesus Movement culture it was born in. Same goes for the Vineyard movement, except you can replace Smith with John Wimber. Same goes for any number of Christian movements/ministries around the world. So why would the Local Church be excluded from cultural influences? The vehement claims of Witness Lee and his followers notwithstanding, the Local Church/Recovery movement is most certainly not excluded nor immune from such influences.

Now let's return to the original quip that apparently got your feathers so ruffled:

Originally Posted by aron

It is Asian culture, manifesting itself in human relations. Nothing wrong with that per se, except it was fraudulently sold to us as divine.

Ta Da! I know that you are desperate to make an end run on this one. (trying to "duck" the real issue at hand, are we?) There is a reason why quite a number of Christian apologists and other keen observers have said many of the things that aron and others have said. The Local Church of Witness Lee screams out "We are of Lee!" "We are of and for this Chinese fellow and anything he says!" "We have one of strongest cultures you could imagine but we really don't have culture!" (just like we don't have permanent and official leadership!)
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