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Originally Posted by Trapped
Yep, and you've just hit the nail on the head of what a particular subset of church kids have lived under for several decades of their life into adulthood - that it's God's good pleasure to crush us.
What a poisonous, acid-dripping, caustic lie from the devil, liberally spread throughout the local church. It just makes me mad.
There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
No condemnation! Think of how much condemnation came from and comes from the ministry and the co-workers over the saints about their condition, absoluteness, lack of being in the ministry, lack of migration, etc, etc.
But.......
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free!
Why did He set us free?
So we would actually, really be free!!!
Awesome.
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Awesome indeed!
We should, IMHO, always bear in mind that, after being a Christian for 50 years, Lee himself confessed struggling under the weight of his own ministry.
In this particular quote, he reveals his own judgmental persona and projects it onto God, and prescribes that all believers become as judgmental as he is. “God’s good pleasure to crush us?” No. It was
Lee’s good pleasure to crush us!
His ministry was based on his own personality.
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Originally Posted by Nell
"Living Christ" by Witness Lee Is a series of 3 messages and is a pretty quick read, but I'm referencing the first message.
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As Jane Anderson notes in The Thread of Gold, Chapter 24, 11h, "... he was struggling under the need of constant confession, trying to do something he called "living Christ", failing in his attempt, repetitively analyzing the matter, and then telling others they were failing in a worse way. He was certainly not preaching Christ or words of faith. His testimony was one of hopelessness and futility. This testimony was actually his own admission that what he had been teaching for many years was not working well at all."
If you struggle or struggled under the weight of Witness Lee's ministry, you're not alone.
Nell
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