Kaung and Lee Lines in America - A History

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by Indiana

…But to identify themselves as the church in that locality might be an unnecessary stumbling block to lay before brethren in the Body of Christ. This is why Nee and Lee called themselves Shanghai Christian Assembly, to avoid setting up a stumbling block.

If you are standing on a ground of oneness in your locality, you are on the Body ground as the church AND are one with every regenerated believer in your locality. No claimed distinction stands in the way to make your “group” different and above others in your city.

The spiritual attitude of a group of believers is huge, if they are to live in the reality of a proper ground of oneness before God and man.

Actually, I had made changes in the post above that left out the word ignoble and also this sentence - "This is why Nee and Lee called themselves Shanghai Christian Assembly.” These changes did not take, however, last night. Timed out, I think.

Let me say this Drake, I will draw from Nee and Lee heavily when I share things, but not as I once did, as if they were as God and all their words gospel. They have made important mistakes that should be recognized.

This teaching on the ground of the church needs to be reviewed soberly in the Local Churches. They have this responsibility, as Nee and Lee could check on the Brethren leaders who came before them.

We who are on “the fast lane to outer darkness”, according to RK (for challenging LSM’s faulty rendering of church history), can also check on this controversial teaching. I had no problem with it whatsoever till a new environment, at SCA, gave me another look and impression of that teaching the way it was taught and used.

By the way, Brother Lee declared that this teaching of the ground, and of the local church, "should not be our cargo". This was his word at the end of the Song of Songs training 1995, that ended the Life-Study of the Bible.

He didn’t want people preaching the “gospel of the ground of the church”, but rather to minister Christ as the way, the truth, and the life to build up believers in or outside of the church life and to attract unbelievers also.

In other words avoid unnecessary trouble and become a testimony of the local church. This is our purpose for meeting on the Body ground. And these are Brother Kaung’s sentiments as he expressed in 2012 in NY. His concern has been to be a testimony of the local church and of the oneness in the Body of Christ. There is no mention of a man, a ministry or claim to be something special.

www.lordsrecovery.us/LeeKaungLinesinAmerica.pdf