Helpful Insights from old posts

[askseek]

The following may be "controversial" (to quote myself) but it's quite helpful to me, addressing important items I was fuzzy about. These are two successive posts that I quote here verbatim.

Items to be concerned about in LC ministry

Here are examples of what I consider negative aspects of Nee's ministry, that Lee then took to another level:
1) hyper-spirituality and asceticism
2) extreme separatism from the world (Brethren style)
3) overemphasis on authority and submission
4) pride and exclusivity (the one true church, the consummation of the Lord's move)
5) contempt for other Christian groups, including charities
6) uplifting of the "church life" over normal human life and family life
7) introspection and subjectivity (especially trying to discern the spirit from the soul)
8) a warped view of humanity (rejecting anything "soulish," "natural", or "worldly")
9) using trainings to correct people's spirituality
10) a harsh and rebuking style of shepherding (M.E. Barber as the model)

The one item which I found missing, and perhaps should be tops, was the institution of "the work" as a para-church structure which rules the churches.