The below quote is from another thread, on Lee. But it seemed appropriate to consider here, as well.
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Originally Posted by OBW
But the fluid rules that underpinned Lee's theology were not something he didn't already know. He knew he was going toward Deputy Authority. And there was always going to be the one who was the most spiritual in any room. And it was always going to be Lee. He just couldn't spring that one on us so early.
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Leland Wang was born in 1898. Watchman Nee was born in 1903. According to Nee, Miss Barber said that the younger should submit to the older. I suppose that Leland Wang, a fellow pupil of Barber's, was one of the older ones that Nee mentioned struggling with.
Evidently Wang couldn't see that Nee was the most spiritual one in the room, so Nee had to let him go, eventually. According to Wang, it was he who rented the hall that became the Shanghai Assembly; he was joined by Nee, and others. But ultimately it was Nee running the place.
And yet, Wang clearly didn't fall away from his initial calling, becoming an influential preacher. Why didn't Nee receive him as a peer? Even a superior? Why did Nee tell T.A. Sparks that he had no peers, no confidantes? Something seems wrong with the picture, here.