James Barber - History of Witness Lee

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by JJ

Did anyone listening to James Barber's "history" notice how he talked about "the one flow", referring to Witness Lee's ministry in the 1960's and it being a continuation of Watchman Nee's ministry?

I recall such a concept being in the recovery literature from the very beginning.... "The Divine Stream".

It seems to me that thought just grew and grew until it caused us to totally loose sight of Jesus, the real source of any flow, choking out whatever flow we initially had. And, keeping "the flow" contained to just ourselves dammed off any outflow, and drowned us in the dead sea.

Has anyone done a critique of this thought?

I did a Bible Word search on the words stream and river, and didn't find support for the stream or river of God belonging to only one or two ministers of God. But, I'd like to hear from others on this.

Remember Lee boasting how "one" he was with WN, and how it's fine to "follow a man" as long as he "leads us to God?" Somehow the Blendeds got stuck on the first part, and forgot about God.

Lee often talked about the "one flow" from the throne. At one point during the "new way" takeover of the LC's, brothers came to Dallas speaking this nonsense, "First the Father, then the Son, then the Spirit, then WL ..." A brother then asked facetiously, "who then is no. 5?" But no one dared to say Philip Lee, since it was doubtful he was even saved.