The changed role of women in the LCM

[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

Have the apologists for LSM, or Nee or Lee for that matter, ever addressed this? Something doesn't seem right here.... did the official "history of the church and the local churches" ever try to paper over this glaring incongruity -- that women went from having key roles in the movement's formative years, to having no roles whatsoever outside of children's service? Or was this large shift something whose existence we shouldn't acknowledge? As in, "Lee never talked about it, therefore we ignore it".

Bringing this forward.

With all the apologetic LSM sites recently emerging, let's make this a faq - a frequently asked question - about why they sell books by Mary McDonough (''God's Plan...") on LSM book sales page, yet don't allow women to teach? About where a Peace Wang would fit in, today? Let's ask, how RK makes denigrating statements about "women's place" and then in the next message lauding Margaret Barber for turning Watchman Nee into Minister of the Age?

We could list several women who had prominent roles in Watchman Nee's formative years, and his Little Flock's rise. Elizabeth Fischbacher, Ruth Lee, Dora Yu, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Madame Guyon, Barber, McDonough... where would any of them fit in, today?

"By deliberately putting himself before Miss Barber's instruction and strict rebukes, Brother Nee received much help."

http://mebarber.ccws.org/

Remember, this is presented not as Watchman Nee in children's meeting, getting his first Bible lessons, but as Watchman Nee the young adult former Methodist going to the equivalent of "full time training" in "God's present [recovered] move". How to reconcile this with the LC seen today? Until someone explains what's going on, the impression is given that they make it up as they go along, and no one's supposed to notice that today's narrative doesn't match yesterday's at all - in fact it's diametrically opposed.