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Originally Posted by Ohio

Knowing the Lord and His word is one of our greatest treasures . . . .

And this is something specifically from Nee or Lee? I hear this all the time without any reference to either. And it was around before them.

These kinds of responses just come across to me like desiring the leeks and garlic of Egypt. Not meaning you are bad or anything. Just not seeing that we were in an environment that when you did learn something true about the Lord, you were told that you couldn't get that anywhere else. And when it was different, are you really sure that it was actually true? Too many bad teachings to be found to be so general about thanking the LRC for it.

Thank God for it and move on.

Does every group do it with the gusto of the LRC? Probably not. But those are not peculiarly of the LRC, LSM, Lee, or Nee.

Give them credit for remaining enough within the core of true Christian teaching to maintain those things — at least in word.

But when we read through verses and now and realize that what we are reading does not say anything like what Lee taught us, then how much did we really get to know the word? And if we really didn't know the word that well (truly know it) then how can we say that we really knew the Lord that much more than anyone else? Maybe even less in some ways.

I honesty think that we are over-impressed by the feeling we got from those early days and do not take time to realize that the feeling was not because we knew the Lord better, but because we were among a rather loving group of good Christians. And another part of it was the enthusiasm we could whip ourselves into over almost anything. Someone stands and declares boldly "I'm home in the church! I've ended my search!" and the whole place would go into a tizzy of shouting.

Is any of that really knowing the Lord? Is thinking that the church is everything really an accurate knowledge of the Lord?

What I think is that we often do not realize how much we did manage to take the desire for more along with us when we left and now we do know more about the Lord. But how much of it was what we learned from the LRC that was not available to know and learn in so many other places.

I do not demean them for what they did teach us that was true. But it was not about the church or Lee that we got those things. They were all around (even if you can't find them in every place). The special things we learned in the LRC should be suspect.