FPO:
In case you didn't get it, this is a direct quote from Lee, as cited.
Here's the gem that immediately precedes it...
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RECONSIDERING OUR WAY
We need to take Haggai's word and consider our ways (Hag. 1:5, 7). We—especially the elders and the co-workers—need to reconsider our church life and our work. We need to consider what has been the result of our living day by day. We cannot allow ourselves to continue in our present way.
In the new localities in Southern California, the rate of increase was high initially. However, I found out that when the number attending the meetings in a locality reached one hundred, the rate of increase slowed considerably because the brothers there did not know how to go on. In the beginning they practiced the group meetings spontaneously, because the number was small. But gradually they grew out of the practice of the groups into the practice of having big meetings. The increase in those localities was reduced because they had only the big meetings without the proper group meetings.
I have given a number of messages presenting the principles and the detailed instructions on the practice of the group meetings, but until now I have not given you the steps on how to form the groups. I have been expecting day after day, month after month, and year after year for seven and a half years to see some of you rise up to do something organically to form the groups. However, I have not seen the result that I had hoped to see. Therefore, I feel burdened that I myself need to do something.
Witness Lee, Fellowship Concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups
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This has apparently been the substance of the teaching since around 1991.
Difficult to do, but this has left me speechless...