A Sister's Testimony

[aron]

Originally Posted by formermember

A phrase was used that I think was one of the most damaging concepts in the LC: when Nee was excommunicated, he "bore the cross." The implication is that Nee didn't respond to false accusations, and didn't try to vindicate himself. He suffered in silence, so that his "flesh could be dealt with."

To add to my comments in the previous post (#43), Watchman Nee was apparently quite capable of defending himself, or his work, when he felt that he could do so safely:

Originally Posted by JTH Lee, p. 87

The most serious challenge facing the Little Flock was the continuous organization of mass campaigns by the government. The large scale campaigns against reactionaries and class enemies purged Chinese church leaders who had worked with foreign missionaries. In particular, the Three-Anti campaign in 1951 to combat corruption waste, and bureaucratism, and the Five-Anti campaign in 1952 again bribery, tax evasion, fraud, theft of government property, and leakage of state economic secrets gave rise to a nationwide attack against a the churches. In September 1951, four Little Flock members in t Nanjing Assembly denounced Watchman Nee as a reactionary. In response, Nee launched a counter-denunciation campaign and disciplined those pro-government Little Flock members. But one year later, he was arrested.

Here it says that Nee started his own public denunciation campaigns... not so "spiritual" after all, it seems. Will we ever know the truth about this guy?

Lee, J. T. H. (2005). Watchman Nee and the Little Flock Movement in Maoist China1. Church History, 74(1), 68-96.