Music in the LC

[aron]

Originally Posted by holysmokes

I had a big aha moment when I posted in a church group about discovering some lovely Christian music I had discovered and wanted to share. I asked testing the waters if anyone had other offerings on music they liked. Nothing- 1200 members and nothing. Lots of veils taken away today folks. .

I thought this was an interesting topic, and perhaps worthy of some discussion. I said,

Originally Posted by aron

why is it that any Christian music pre-Nee can be held as part of the LC's "goodly heritage"; but after Nee began to write hymns they were from "degraded Christianity" and got rejected without consideration? Does this not yell, loudly, "Beware! Personality cult approaching!"??

To which I got this reply:

Originally Posted by Drake

Aron,

Anyone who has spent even a little time in the Lords Recovery knows that thousands of songs have been written post Nee, sung in meetings, recorded and distributed in cassettes and CDs, and now posted on the internet, and were a spontaneous overflow from the life, enjoyment, and light being experienced by the members. Those songs, in any number of "supplements" are a distinguishing hallmark of the Lords Recovery. Probably most ex-members here have favorites they still sing or hum and perhaps still chuckle over.

No where else will you find a such a collection or a practice and a true manifestation of "each one has" in song.

Drake

The original poster shared some music from "outside" on an online forum or usegroup (so I suppose) of 1,200 LC'ers. No response.

We all know: no outside music in the LC. They don't have the ground, so they don't have the anointing.

So my point was, why did Nee draw on hundreds of Christian songs, and then once he began to write his own, no one else could do so?

Yes songs were written within the LC, but they were nearly all paens to the ministry. If you look at the supplement, they were almost invariably encomiums to the 'light' that Lee was putting forth. Each song in the supplement was covering a Witness Lee message.

And no song came in from "outside". Yet at the start they took hundreds of songs from outside. Weird.