Witness Lee and AW Tozer

[Freedom]

Originally Posted by Ohio

For a group which prides itself in "true" church, I found the insistence on "bleached" flour a little disconcerting, since it was not "invented" until the late 19th century. Imagine that, almost 2 millennia of believers breaking bread to remember the Lord, and then Nee comes along in China to tell us that we never did it right until we stopped using whole wheat flour. Thank God for the Recovery, now we can remember the Lord properly.

For me, this all got exposed just prior to our departure. The sisters had an awful time making a bread that wouldn't crack prior to the official "cracking" by the brothers. One young sister, assigned to make the bread that week, mistakenly used whole wheat flour. For shame, for shame! Oh how we loved our traditions, making void the word of God. The leading sister saw it and broke it up so that it could not be used in the meeting, and then demanded that a "proper" bread be made.

It's interesting that you mention this. I have noticed that the LC has a lot of peculiarities in regards to what they think is the "proper" way to do certain things. In reality, so many LC practices are just religious traditions they've developed over the years, the same thing that they criticized other groups of.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Freedom

It's interesting that you mention this. I have noticed that the LC has a lot of peculiarities in regards to what they think is the "proper" way to do certain things. In reality, so many LC practices are just religious traditions they've developed over the years, the same thing that they criticized other groups of.

That ... my friend ... defines religious hypocrisy ... condemning others for doing what you also do.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Freedom

In reality, so many LC practices are just religious traditions they've developed over the years, the same thing that they criticized other groups of.

I tend to see it as baggage from their previous fellowship.
For Nee, Lee, etc it was their time with the Exclusive Brethren.
For a dear family friend, it was the Mennonites.
For others Baptists
For another brother, Jehovah Witness and so on.