[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Let's face it, to our eyes the church is a mess, but God loves her just like in the book of Hosea where God tells him to love the whore.

Our eyes are not qualified to see or know if the church is a mess. And it certainly is not the calling or job of any self-appointed apostle wannabe to go around telling gullible people that all of protestant Christianity is "Christless". No man could possible know this...unless he was omnipresent like God. Witness Lee based most of his criticisms on his experience with foreign missionaries in early-mid 20th century China - hardly a large enough of a sampling of the Christian church throughout time and space. But this is the last significant contact the Lee had with "poor, poor Christianity". Lee's followers should have known this, but we were so enthralled with this Godman that we swallowed everything hook, Line and sinker.

I think if Witness Lee had spent more time emphasizing the "Indwelling Christ in our Human Spirit" than ranting and raving about the shortcomings of others, the Local Church movement would have come a lot closer to being the true recovery of the proper church instead of the personality cult that we see today. May God have mercy.
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