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Originally Posted by Ohio
And how in the world could they use this "one publication work" to excommunicate Titus Chu of Cleveland, Ohio and Dong Yu Lan of Sao Paulo, Brazil, who were ministering, writing, and publishing their own messages?
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I think this is important because otherwise one may think "one publication work" is a voluntary restriction by a publisher to limit themselves to one source: "Nee and Lee". But in actuality, or reality, or truthfulness, it's a fiat, an edict, an imposition by a publisher on all who attempt to meet together as the church in that locality. Anyone who tries to minister in that locality from what God has shown them will get excommunicated, as Chu and Dong were.
So, for example, if God shows me that "all your waves and breakers have gone over me" in Psalm 42:7 is the same phrase Jonah used (2:3), typology similar as well to Psalm 18:4 and 18:16, and that since Jesus strongly identified with Jonah's experience, this may be worth ministering to the Christian flock, suddenly I'm a rebel because Witness Lee said these psalms were natural human concepts. Like Chu & Dong, suddenly I'm "thinking differently" and "speaking differently".
As soon as God shines something to you in the Local Church assembly from His Word, you're in danger of being called ambitious and divisive, drawing others after yourself; you'll either be silenced, marginalized, or pushed out of the one-church-per-city assembly. Because in truth, or reality, it's a one-
ministry-per-city assembly. The "recovery of one church per city" was a ruse, a lever, an engine to divide the flock, so that it might come solely under the thrall of a single person.
Paul had written, "Whenever you come together, each one has" a portion to share (1 Cor 14:26); the "one publication work" edict, and its enforcement on those like Chu & Dong, shows that in the LC, whenever they come together, only one person has a portion to share. The rest must "get in line", per Watchman Nee, and be "one with the current speaking", per the Blendeds of LSM. The Nee/Lee ministry as promoted by LSM is the sole reason they exist as a distinct group; it's the person of the LC, not Jesus Christ.
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Originally Posted by Drake
We regard participation in the local churches and this ministry as a personal matter between each believer and the Lord Himself and we consider it a special calling that without we would have no reason to exist as a distinct group.
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In this they show themselves as spiritual heirs not of the "recovery of Luther" but of "the restrictions of the RCC" - anyone who gets new light from God's word must either keep their mouths shut or risk be expelled.