The Unique Move of God

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Originally Posted by Evangelical

There are right divisions and wrong divisions. A right division would be separating from the evil system. Do you think it is wrong to widen the gap between Catholicism, for example? I think it was Watchman Nee who wrote about being absolute for or against denominations, not sitting on the fence about the issue. We can only really aim to close the gap or widen the gap. If you are in the Recovery and want to close the gap with Catholicism then I think you're sitting on the fence about this and not being absolute. You have one foot in widening the gap yet on the other hand have one foot in closing the gap. So you're on the fence.

Such an extremist point of view, like many things both W. Nee and Evangelical have written. Wasn't Nee the one that got restored to the ministry without publicly repenting, and then immediately decided that all "absolute" members must hand over everything they owned to the ministry. Nee here was even more extreme than Karl Marx who felt that having all things common was more than adequate.

Some ex-members on this forum feel the same about the LC's as Nee did about denominations -- either build them up or tear them all down! Sounds great until one thinks about some of God's children who happen to live and serve there. (It's always easier to tear down some one else's house, isn't it?)

LSM operatives happened to take that same attitude about the GLA LC's about ten years ago, deciding on their own that these LC's were all filled with leprosy, and conveniently discovered some verses in Leviticus which supposedly justified tearing them down and replastering these GLA LC's. It was really just religious zeal run amok. Thank God we are a nation of laws.

Sometimes "sitting on the fence" is just another way of saying that one happens to love those on both sides. Unfortunately love is too often missing from the LSM vocabulary and leadership.