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Originally Posted by aron
"The Lord is not building His church in Christendom, which is composed of the apostate Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant denominations. This prophecy is being fulfilled through the Lord's recovery, in which the building of the genuine church is being accomplished."
Look at that quote: no mention of the Eastern Orthodox churches, mainly the Russian and Greek. No mention of the Syrian or Egyptian believers. No mention of the Abyssinian (Ethiopian) Orthodox church, which was arguably founded in the pages of the book of Acts and has been there holding forth the testimony of Jesus ever since.
Witness Lee would create a "straw man" argument and then react against it. But he was just reacting to his own imagination. And thus his will was not pure. His intention was distorted, and corrupted. Lee would tell us about "Christendom" and "Christianity" and then hold forth his supposedly pure alternative. But it was an alternative to a figment of his imagination.
And as anyone who tried to follow him can attest, if you uncritically received his imagination as if it were real, and substantive, then you were subject to all the vagarities of this same fallen imagination. Various "flows' and "moves" ensued; how very apt as descriptions; how about also being "buffeted by winds" of Lee's imagination?
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Once we can prove that Lee's "pure" alternative,
aka The Recovery and the Living Stream Ministry, was anything but pure, and required endless quarantines to smear the reputations of the prophets God sent to them, then we must also realize that Christianity is not as hopeless and helpless as we were taught by Lee.
Within the "greater" body of Christ, composed of all God's children, the Lord is building His church. One cannot see this unless they have the eyes of faith.
Those defending the Recovery will always use the excuse that "nobody's perfect," while never allowing the same excuse to be used by Christianity. Those defending the Recovery will always proclaim that only they are trule "one," while never owning up to all the divisions which have spun off from her.