[aron]

What is "the vision at the beginning of the Recovery"? That there was some "pure" church life which needs to be re-created? If so, then it seems that salvation is transferred from God's Christ to "the proper church life" as Nee or Lee defines it. Problem being, the proper church life is whatever Nee or Lee want it to be this week, to deal with whatever they have in front of them. The so-called proper church life is a moving target, and we found out that Lee was never satisfied. If we would just take his latest "move", he'd say, everything would be fine and the "recovery" would spread over the earth like waters over the sea. Wrong. Five years later there would be a new "five year plan" with new dictates and new promises. All to be abandoned later on, and forgotten. And if you looked back, you could see all the wreckage "in the wake of the new way."

So what is the vision at the beginning? I say it is Jesus Christ, God's sent Messiah. He is Lord of all. Some "recovered church" is just going to eventually collapse from its own dead weight. Our faith is in God's mercy and grace, not in some organization or in a "recovered truth".