History, Not Hagiography - "Great Leap Forward" "The God-Ordaned Way" TOMES

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Originally Posted by UntoHim

However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Brother Lee succeeded in bringing the recovery into this practice.” Of the “New Way’s” four steps only prophesying was proclaimed “a success.” But is it really a success? LSM’s “blended brothers’” have shifted the emphasis from God’s Word to “the ministry.” In many churches “pray-reading” has been replaced with “PSRP,” denoting “Pray-reading, Studying, Reciting and Prophesying.” Significantly, the object of PSRP is not the Bible it is “the ministry,” Bro. Lee’s writings in HWMR. More often than Scripture, his words are memorized and recited in the “prophesying meeting.” The saints are encouraged to be “tape recorders,”45 so “prophesying” often amounts to reciting the “high peak truths” from Bro. Lee’s writings. The net result is that “one man speaking” has been replaced by the “speaking of one man”—Witness Lee! Yes, there are many speakers, yet they are all reciting Witness Lee’s words. Hence, it is, in fact, “the speaking of one man”—W. Lee via many surrogates. Moreover, under “the Old Way,” the “one man’s speaking” differed from locality to locality according to the ministering brother. Now, in LSM-local churches, the “speaking of one man” is virtually uniform around the globe.46 We question whether the Apostle Paul would recognize this as the prophesying he described in 1 Corinthians.

Clergy Laity describes this portion Nigel wrote about. Sure there may be different ones speaking, but it's still the speaking of one person. It has the same effect as a 7th grader being asked to memorize and recite Jabberwocky.

Being Witness Lee "tape recorders", what it does is suppress the spiritual gifts of each individual member for the purpose of exalting a minister and his ministry. The goal is to make everyone the same as in uniformity.