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Originally Posted by Ohio
YP, I heard that phrase a number of times, and it became almost symbolic. The actual event was the finish of the outlines and notes for the Acts Training in Irving winter 1984. I was there, staying in Arlington. WL used the event to imply that his Lfe Study work in the US was finished, and he was moving to Taipei to start something new.
At least that is how my memory remembers it, but I couldn't point to a book, I don't remember reading it. After that training, subsequent ones became wild promotionals for recruitment of full-timers and the FTTT.
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I'm in agreement that the phrase took on a particular significance for at least a brief while but I never got completely clear on what it was supposed to mean before everything became about the practical issues of the "new way."
Do me a favor and keep this question in mind in case you think of something more specific about it or somehow run across it again.
My first training was Winter 1985 and the title then was "The Conclusion of the New Testament Part 2" with messages on The Spirit and The Believers. I had never heard of Witness Lee before September 1985. I am thinking it may have been spoken during this training which is why I do not recall it so clearly and did not have a strong sense of what it meant. I imagine you may also have heard this phrase at the Summer 1985 training, if you were there. I have no idea whatever became of my notes and outline from this training but I do somehow still have the abstracts and, of course, the printed version. I'm going to put it in line to comb through these and see what I can come up with along these lines.
I suppose it may well have been, upon concluding a careful study of Acts, that Lee concluded, "Our practice is not like this, either in the US or in Taiwan. I will go back to Taiwan and see if we can get our practice to match what we have seen in the Acts." But significantly, he ascribes the problem in Taiwan since 1955 to T. Austin-Sparks from that "put down my pen" time and I do not see that conclusion as directly resulting from his study of the New Testament.
Like I said, please keep this question in mind if you come across it somewhere...