Minoru Chen is filled with Witness Lee's spirit?

[aron]

Originally Posted by Nell

Aron, I did some reading on "guanxi". I don't understand how this relates to MC's statements on his belief that he is "filled with Witness Lee's spirit." Maybe you could connect those dots while you're at it.

Nell

I knew I was gonna get myself in trouble, I just knew it...

Witness Lee led the charge to extol WN as the "Seer of the Divine Revelation". In this, WL was punching his own meal ticket. And, this is crucial, the meal ticket to the Chinese is not just them but the family as well. WL not only provided resources for himself, but his ne'er-do-well sons also. In the guanxi network, there's a web of reciprocal payments, or favors, or debts, supplying the member with obligations and benefits, and crucially, centered on immediate kin. Thus, Philip Lee got a job, for which he was completely unsuited, and which caused much distress. But the Church, the Body of Christ, the Kingdom of God, got second place to WL's guanxi network. Philip and Timothy got first place.

And the holding power of the network is that the reciprocal ties are binding, no matter how unbiblical, unspiritual. Once rejected, there's no reconciliation. DYL and TC won't make nice with the Blendeds, because they can't, that's the guanxi rule, just like WL & those ejected under his aegis. The power of the guanxi network is that even if it violates the scripture, common sense, the gospel, and the conscience, one's bound by it and to it. Outside the guanxi network is the unthinkable void.

Okay, what does that have to do with MC being filled with WL's spirit? MC was building his own guanxi nest within WL's guanxi nest. MC promoted WL to the uttermost, even with words of heresy(!), yet this was merely his positioning within the larger network, just as WL before him. Do you think MC pays for a cab ride to the airport? I doubt it. Where I was meeting, there was always an airport escort for the Blended - some single brothers would get tagged to go and pick up the visiting dignitary from Anaheim. Why? Because they extolled WL to the uttermost, so they got elevated position. Free cab rides. Among other perks. Like a poster here said, MC is a bright guy, and doesn't speak without some considered reason.

So "orthodoxy", for all its supposed weight and care, gets tossed if the guanxi network is at stake. If MC didn't get payback in this age, he'd never do it. If you don't get what I am saying, consider this: after all the messages that WL gave on the Kingdom, the Body and the Spotless Bride, after all that, he gave it all over to his reprobate son, to soil with his feet. Because the son was at the core of the guanxi network. The Kingdom and the Body and the Bride were props, resources to be exploited and extracted for the network. That's just how it works. The Kingdom and the Body and the Bride were just content for messages to be printed and sold, managed by "the office". Along with socks and ties and chairs and tennis rackets. Calendars and coffee mugs.