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Originally Posted by Nell
Perhaps the worst, most insidious teaching of all is this one:
Benson Phillips: "All Non-Local Churchers are Unsanctified and Bankrupt"
“In any case, do not leave the Lord’s recovery. I can assure you that if you go away from the Lord’s recovery, you will have no way for the process of sanctification to go forward within you. Instead, you will just enter into a bankrupt situation. I know of no one who has left the Lord’s recovery and today is a great spiritual person on the earth. The sanctification process is carried out in the Lord’s recovery”
The Ministry Magazine Vol. 8, No. 1 Page 189, first paragraph - emphasis added
This is heretical. This teaching flies in the face of the redemptive work of Christ. This teaching is the most common stumbling of those who post on the forum about the suffering they are experiencing in the Local Church of Witness Lee. They stay in the Local Church of Witness Lee because they are threatened. They are afraid to leave.
Despite the "assurance" of Benson, this speaking is a lie of the devil. It teaches fear. The most common commandment by Jesus in the New Testament: fear not.
Nell
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Benson's quoted comments here are arrogant, elitist, divisive and fleshly, and emanates from blindness of their own gross, Laodicean situation. How did I ever swallow such utter nonsense (of course, all of us who came out ask this question)!?!?
For the record, I know many who left the LC who have had a great deal of the Lord's sanctifying work operating in them since (and actually much more sanctification since they left the LC).
Swallowing this nonsense makes ones mind pickled with an element which poisons someone from having true fellowship in oneness with other believers. When in the LC, we all carried this with us . . . "We believe we have seen something so much higher than you!" still rings in my head, which is what a LC brother told some other Christians who were just enjoying quietly singing Jesus songs in a restaurant. Me and the brother that said that had been completely duped by LC nonsense to think we were the more/better spiritual ones . . . (but in my spirit, I surely knew something was wrong)