Comparison and Contrast - Witness Lee versus The Blended

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Originally Posted by Unto.Him

Also, some of these brothers claim that they had a "special fellowship" with Witness Lee before he died and that he told them that they were to be "his official continuation" (paraphrase). Either this fellowship took place as these brothers claim or it did not. I assume that some of you have decided that, at the very least, the full truth of what Lee told them is being stretched.

I think this really happened: WL charged certain trusted ones to continue his ministry via the feasts, publishing books, giving conferences, etc. This charge, coupled with so-called "fellowship" about certain "concerns" about TC, which they heard directly from WL, empowered ones like BP and RK, acknowledged LSM leaders, to take precautionary "strikes" against TC, which we witnessed at Whistler.

I highly doubt that WL directly authorized some to "quarantine" TC, yet the BB's do feel they have been properly "deputized" agents of the body of Christ, and RK has publicly said as much. The pattern they witnessed first hand of WL (think Fermentation) had a pronounced affect on them. They consider their actions over the past few years, including lawsuits and accompanied conspiratorial "training sessions" to replicate WL's own leadership, and were he still alive, would expect him to have acted the same way, and, even more so, would expect WL's own "nod of approval."

Not only do the BB's consider themselves to be "his official continuation," but all of "the loyal" consider them to be also. Most saints consider the "blended brothers" to be a "more noble" form of "continuation leadership" than another ambitious leader such as TC. They would recall all that "talk" about "the age of spiritual giants is over ..."

GLA leaders, partially based on comments by WN, feel that the personal ministry of WL ended with his own death, and feel that his ministry was neither WL's to give nor the BB's to take. They, especially TC, felt that WL was a spiritual father to them, and they had a spiritual relationship with him. They have no such relationship with the BB's, and consider most of them to basically be wannabe's and frauds.