Who Builds: Every Believer or Church Leaders?

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Originally Posted by Nigel Tomes

In Church history according to the “Lord’s Recovery,” Witness Lee assigned blame for division, not on the saints in general, but on the workers. He said,25 “Most of the divisions among Christians were brought in by the workers. The history of the church shows that the more workers were raised up by the Lord, the more divisions were created.” He also applied this principle within the “Lord’s Recovery.” He said,26 “All the workers are in a dangerous position of bringing in a sect …We have to be very careful. Otherwise, perhaps after 15 years there will be as many sects as the number of full-time co-workers we have here today. If we have 7 or 8 workers today, we could have 7 or 8 sects 15 years from now. From history we can see that nearly all the gifted persons were sect creators. There was hardly any exception.”

I find it ironic that the persons most applicable to this word, especially the bolded part, were Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. They were arguably "gifted persons" who were "sect creators". Why did Lee wishfully assume that he & Nee are the exceptions to the rule? This is yet another case of "Do as I say, not as I do", or conversely "I can judge everybody else, but somehow I manage to escape the same judgment". This is subjectivism run amok: when wishful thinking is somehow supposed to be tantamount to reality itself, and for no other reason than that I wish that it were so.