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Originally Posted by Jo S
StG, I assume you're referring to my post. So I'll respond and leave with this;
I see others on the board struggling with the same question that Ohio posed; "How could something so good become so bad?".
Watchman Nee's vision that gave birth to this movement through the doctrine or ground of locality, in my view, wasn't based on God's truth.
If it's true that the sole identity of the Lord's Recovery was founded upon and rooted in a lie, how could this movement ever be considered to have been something good?
But if you maintain your position that the Lord's Recovery was good in the beginning, you would have to agree with Nee's vision. And since God doesn't lie or contradict His Word, in order for the LC's to have been a genuine move of the Holy Spirit, God too would have had to agree that all Christians need to gather in one location within every city under one minister. Yet what I see in God's revelation is Jesus Christ gathering his entire church into only one city, the New Jerusalem.
You just can't have it both ways.
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Thanks for the response, Jo. I can certainly see how you think that! However, I also think it may be a false dilemma . . . This is because we all have warts, and God works through us-ins - people with warts. There is no perfect, without error move of God, because is it done through us! But glory to God, what is truly amazing is He still gets it done somehow!
In reading a bit about church history, it is filled with those clearly in error. But God starts small, with the imperfect ones. Think about the 12 disciples - why did He chose this rag-tag bunch to start His worldwide ministry through? God chooses the foolish, the low, the motley crew, to confound the thinking of the supposedly wise.