Witness Lee's economy

[cityonahill]

God's economy according to Lee, as we all know is:

"God’s economy is His plan to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people as their life, their life supply, and their everything in order to gain a corporate expression of Himself, consummating for eternity in the New Jerusalem. This divine economy is the subject of the Bible, the meaning of human life, and the desire of God’s heart.

Most people, including many Christians, are unfamiliar with the application of the word economy in relation to God. Economy is the anglicized form of the Greek word oikonomia, which occurs throughout the New Testament (1 Timothy 1:4; Ephesians 1:10; 3:2; 3:9; 1 Corinthians 9:17; Colossians 1:25)."


This concept invented by Lee's word games deviates from the main message of the New Testament which is Christ.(anyone who tells you there is another main message of the NT teaches the doctrine of demons...) god'seconomy.org goes as far as to say that many Christians are unfimiliar with this teaching. If this was the central theme of the NT, then why didn't Paul and others speak of divine-dispensing and all the other WL terms of "proper" Christian living according to God's economy???...

It is interesting to me that when one in the LC is backed into a corner they always reply with "God's economy" rhetoric to justify anything (including one publication, ministry of the age,...)This is their means to make complicated that which is not complicated!

Just as Martin L. apparently "recovered" justification by faith, Lee has apparently recovered "God's economy"...Let's examine this further:

Justification by Faith is simple to understand: it's clearly in the bible and fits perfectly into the context of the passage it is found.(unlike God's economy where Lee needed to alter the context to define it) The church of the middle ages did not encourage believers to read and study for themselves . Rather, they spoon-fed everything to the saints and told them they had done all the work for them. There was no need for personal revelation...
What ML found was not an abstract, hard to understand truth that was kept hidden until his age. Rather, passages like Romans 1:17 became his battlecry as he sought to reform the corrupt controlling church he was apart of... "The Just shall live by faith"-simple as that. He did not expound on this concept as WL has done with his economy theology. Rather it is the pure and simple word of God that the New Testament plainly taught! Martin Luther did not bring the church into a New age of ministry; nor was he a minister of an age. He simply brought the corruption of controlling doctrines and leaders into the open by bringing them back to the central teaching of the NT New Covenant age, which is that we are saved by grace through faith! Not quite as complex, selfish, and insignificant as "divine dispensing..."

We are still in that New covenant age today and God's economy is not the main teaching of the NT nor does it provide answers to all those questions listed on god'seconomy.org!!!

let's examine a passage Lee quotes for confirming his "economy" doctrine:
1 Timothy 1:4

1 Timothy 1:4-This passage fits best into the whole context of verses 3-11...
"God's work" or "economy" found in 1:4 is a small part of Paul charging Timothy to oppose false teachers. They are characterized as teaching false doctrine, building up endless stories based on obscure passages and genealogies,(alot like Lee's economy...) using talk that was meaningless(alot like Lee's terminology that he invented), wanting to be teachers of OT law, teaching ascetic practices,...and so on...There is no mention here of the "way" or of "divine dispensing" or anything else. Lee's interpretaion of 1:4 is merely a foothold for him to wedge his controlling and false doctrine into the NT.(even claiming it is the central theme of the NT!)

We can easily see that Lee's economy has no biblical fidelity, or historical orthodoxy, when compared to that of Martin Luther's works of faith and grace.

Let's get real for a second: Anyone can find a random word in the NT, use their imagination to create a theology around it and connect the dots to claim it is THE theme of the NT!

Saints!!! Don't be decieved!!!