Kaung and Lee Lines in America - A History

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Originally Posted by Drake

No.

To Jerusalem principal was about the work not the ground of the church.

You keep confusing those two.

Drake

If we study the church in Jerusalem in the New Testament after the conversion of Saul/Paul, we see nothing but problems concerning the church there. Jerusalem, though some of the apostles were still there, became the source of many problems. Few examples:

• Acts 15.1 Certain ones went out of Jerusalem teaching that salvation required circumcision
• Acts 21.20 The believing Jews in Jerusalem were still obsessed with the law of Moses
• Acts 21.24 Church members still performed rituals at the Temple
• Acts 21.22 Like the unsaved Jews, the church in Jerusalem still despised taking the gospel to the Gentiles
• Gal 2.4 False brothers from Jerusalem would sneak into Gentile churches causing chaos and persecution
• Gal 2.12 Those sent out from Jerusalem demanded Kosher adherence and separation between Jews and Gentiles

Paul in Gal 2.4-5 describes the motive of all those being sent out from the headquarters in Jerusalem -- not to spread the gospel, not to preach the good news of Jesus Christ -- but to bring the Gentiles into slavery, under subjection to their demands.


Both Nee and Lee in their early ministries demanded that LC's be completely free from all outside influences and subjections. Whether they be foreign, legalistic, mission boards, or denominational, no LC should ever be brought under the subjection to outside influences. Read their books on this subject.


At the end of both of their ministries, they conveniently became flip-floppers for self-serving, personal gains. They elevated their own ministry to "the" ministry, and the "ministry of the age." They surrounded themselves with minions and sycophants who would protect them from moral impropriety and grossly elevate their status in the movement.