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Originally Posted by aron
Now here's this guy Jesus being presented in the NT. He was the personification of the preceding paragraph. He was THE OBEDIENT JEW, and as such he was and is the King of Israel, the King of the Jews. He alone was the truly righteous one. "I always do the Father's will". Not sometimes - always. And now we recognise who he is, and what he is, and surrender. He's the King. As the Obedient One he's the Lawgiver, the New Moses. And as he obeyed the Father, we must obey him. That's our faith: to believe, to confess, and to obey. To hear, and to follow.
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Ironically, LSM has always touted Watchman Nee for taking just this approach - he availed himself of thousands of sources of Christian learning. Witness Lee said that Nee had a library of 3,000 Christian books. How many different views did he open to? How many unique and disparate points of view, by quite different authors? Shouldn't we all do the same? Why limit ourselves to only one source? What do you think Nee's spiritual output would have been, with just one source of interpretive guidance, one source of spiritual light?
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aron, reading this post of yours a couple times, I saw a far more sinister irony in the Recovery. Consider the continual message and taglines we were continually fed for decades on why the Recovery was unique and exceptional.
First, the gospel of poor, poor degraded Christianity. It was all about
this guy Jesus in the N.T. whom God raised from the dead. He was a man who did the Father's will. He was born of a virgin. He was crucified. He saved us from sin. God raised Him up and exalted Him high above all. We were told this was the "Low Gospel." It merely provided us with hopelessly divided Christianity.
Nee and Lee, however, were special, recovering the church back to God's Economy. They were MOTA's were uniquely "raised up" by God on "virgin" soil. As such God now had genuine "Deputies" on earth to "act" on His behalf, speaking as His oracle. We were told that they "made mistakes," yet none of these were ever acknowledged. Instead we heard how every other N.T. minister had failed, including Peter and Paul. Nee and Lee, however, were scandal-free, so-called, and pure as the driven snow.
Jesus might have saved us from our sins, but Nee and Lee gave us the church, the Recovered church. They gave us the body of Christ. They gave us god-man living for the building up. They taught us how to meet, what to think, how to talk, how to walk, how to live our lives. They gave us the "High Gospel."
Pretty convincing, eh?