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Originally Posted by Kevin
Both of these dear brothers the Lord used to far exceed the spiritual writings of "spiritual writers" in the Twentieth Century, as evidenced by the way brother Nee's "inner life" books were all bought up at once when they came out in the 1960s. This brought many Caucasian saints into the local churches in California at that time, because the people experienced so much reality. "The reality is in Jesus." Ephesians 4:21
Brother Witness Lee became the most prolific writer of "inner life" spiritual books in history. He studied the bible for 69 years. He said that outside of what the Gospel book room published in Shanghai of brother Nee's writings in the 1930s and 1940s and what came out of the LSM in more recent times, were not worth reading, because they lacked the experience of the Spirit of Life (reality) who dispenses God's life into man.
This account speaks nothing of the love and life these brothers brought into so many lives, all over the earth, long after both brothers had "fallen asleep" in the unselfish service of the Lord.
I never forgot a revelation brother Witness Lee gave me that has stayed with me for 41 years. "In His Body, there is only room for Christ."
1978
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This is where this post you quoted goes off the rails. Since opening my heart to the rest of the body of Christ 22 years ago, I can testify that
it is an absolute falsehood to say WL was the most prolific spiritual writer of the 20th century. There are others and just too name one - T. Austin Sparks. Sparks had a very high and clear vision of Christ and the church, and there are many thousands of pages of his speaking and writings in print. (and yes, WL produced copious amounts of "Life Studies")
I can strongly testify that the Lord personally led me, very specifically, to other writings that are full of the focus on Christ that were nourishment to me, and good for building up in love.
And this is not to disparage brother Lee's contribution. Just this morning, after a breakfast fellowship, a brother and I were talking about this. I told him how I appreciated that he did not shy away from mentioning brother Lee if there was something nourishing that came from him. As I like to say,
"We all have warts." I doubt we can point to any saint (including WN and WL) and say that they were spotless and without warts. Bro Lee saw things that helped many of us. But I can name many others in public ministry from whom I've received good nourishment from God!
And praise the Lord this brother saw through Lee's speaking that "In His body there is only room for Christ."
Us humans like to take things too far in one direction or another. We get something of value from a source and want to hold it up as the best and only thing out there. That's a clear error. But isn't there also a saying about dirty bath water and babies?