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Originally Posted by googlelight
He said He would. In this time of confusion, I would love to hear how you believe He builds His Church?
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I had the same question a few years ago when I finally left TLR for good.
The answer is simply that The Lord Jesus is building His church just as he said he would. It just isn’t being done in a sensational grandiose way, nor “in life” as Witness Lee always said was the key, by people following one super-apostle.
Reread what Ephesians 4:1-16 says about how the church is built
https://biblehub.com/bsb/ephesians/4.htm
Lot’s of gifted saints under Christ’s headship and Holy Spirit’s working are involved in many different ways to minister to the body so it can build itself up in love. I’ve seen it with my own eyes going on among many humble saints in every city I’ve lived in and visited, among different groups. Yes in “poor poor Christianity”!
As aron shared keeping eyes on Jesus instead of selves is huge! Yes, there are lots of failures, but lot’s of successes too, just not always so publicly seen.
I’ve stopped trying to figure it out or be responsible for a huge part of it, just let Jesus do it the way He said He would, and do my part.
I’ve also found it helps to drop Watchman Nee and Witness Lee’s (and other “pillars” they emulated) top-down version of church administration where apostles are like kings of the earth, and other serving ones are their court. That’s not the way Jesus presented servant leadership to work.