[UntoHim]

Many thanks to OBW, JJ and aron for your incredibly insightful posts! I don't think it is any coincidence that the views that these brothers have shared are coming from longtime former Local Churchers who have gone through the crucible of years within the LC movement, some years in the wilderness, and many years working their way back to some semblance of a biblically healthy place. Of course I wholeheartedly agree, for I have gone through the very same crucible.

The simple fact is that Witness Lee's "God's Economy" is man-centered, man-focused, and when all the dust settles, entirely man-made. And this is the reason that Lee and his followers have such a poor appreciation of the Gospel. They virtually ignore all the biblical passages that plainly show that the focus of the entire Bible is God-centered and God-focused. - "In the beginning was God". "Say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you". "The end of the matter; Fear God and keep his commandments". "For God so loved the world". "The Kingdom of God is at hand!". "Then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all." “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God".

Of course these are just a few verses out of the thousands in the Bible, but I think when taken as a whole - the whole counsel of God - the Scriptures are shown to be altogether God-centered, God-focused, unlike Lee's "God's Economy", which is altogether man-centered and man-focused.
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