What is God's Economy?

[aron]

When I was young, recruited off the college campus, during the New Way era push for good building materials, I was just what they wanted: vulnerable, impressionable, and uncertain. Witness Lee was anything but uncertain. So I borrowed his certainty. He would show us a verse or two or three, and say, "This shows us that..." or "This indicates that..."

It was not until years later, after immersion in this world of reflexive non-thought, that there are other Bible verses, indicating other possible narratives, should one reflect, and consider. And when I showed these "other" verses to the LSM-affiliated brethren, a curious thing would happen.

If it was a public meeting, there would be silence. I had brought out the "wrong" verse, that couldn't be used in the Lee narrative. Or, I'd be told that I was confused. Or, in a private conversation I might be told that I was being stubborn, argumentative. But in all cases there was a refusal to consider the scripture that I had offered. If it couldn't be made to fit the Lee narrative, it couldn't exist. What kind of a Bible is that?

I would remind our readers that to assemble in Meeting Hall 3 of the Church in Taichung and read Week 8 of HWFMR is also a work, based on faith. You believe the WL narrative and it alters your behaviours. Pray-reading is an action, with a hoped-for result.

But the NT is about Jesus, in fact both Testaments look to him. He said, "These things were written of me"