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Originally Posted by Just saying
Hello all,
I just recently noticed something that pretty disturbing in my view, but I could be wrong. I was looking at the most current edition of LSM published Holy Word for Morning Revival, and even though I clearly know that it’s issued based on the last feast of the local church, (aka summer training), however on the cover of it, the editors and publishers slap the name of Nee and Lee, as if it was written by them. What in the world is that? One men has been dead for 25+ years and the other for 50+, how are they still publishing books?
I’m not naïve to think that it does contain some quotes from their writings while they were alive, but you would use quotation in those cases. We all know that it was written by current members, why not be truthful about who wrote these things? Is that asking too much? Or am I off my rocker? I just didn’t know that dead men could know things like “An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery before His Appearing, vol. 1”.
July 2023 Semiannual Training
https://www.livingstream.com/en/holy...ing-vol-1.html
This also makes me think of how many books that were actually written by Nee/Lee vs the editorial staff at LSM while slapping their names on their writings. On the side note, I also noticed how much they sanitize the actual quote and statements of both men, in order to present more palatable versions of what they said or wrote, but that’s another story for another day.
Thanks |
I'm not sure that Witness Lee ever wrote a single book. Maybe early on but I don't think...
Part of the early days, the LSM was referred to as "service to the ministry". That meant volunteers from all over converged on...I remember Dallas...probably other places such as Anaheim. The volunteers spent their days transcribing taped Witness Lee's spoken messages thus reducing them to print. So all those LSM books are transcriptions of his printed messages. I don't know if that's what you may be referring to or if it's significant, but it is the truth.
After being reduced to print, another group would begin to "polish" what had been transcribed into being ready for publication. I sat in on a polishing group for an afternoon in Irving. It consisted of a group of mostly women at a table with one overbearing man who was "taking the lead".
So this large, rotating, group of "volunteers" you could call the "editorial staff". In some cases, transcripts were sent to other localities and "polished" off-site.
In a similar vein, once when Witness Lee came to Irving, TX, I was long time "out" but I wanted to hear what Lee had to say so I went. I met our friend Matt Anderson there. It just so happened that Lee's "topic" was "Man Becomes God"--first time that has been "released". I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I thought Matt was going to come right out of his chair!
I also couldn't wait to purchase this message in writing. After a month or so, I was able to purchase a copy. Reading through it, the "Man Becomes God" message had been "washed" almost beyond recognition. Some of the things I heard Lee say with my own ears, had been omitted from the written message and some were dumbed down. Why? Some of Lee's comments were blatant heresy, and even when I heard it, I was skeptical that this heresy could conceivably be published. I was right.
Here's another experience of mine. Around this time, I had a dream. No. Really. A real dream. In it I saw a group (8 or 10) of women sitting in a circle in the big meeting hall in Irving...home of the Living Stream Ministry publishing house. The women in the circle each had a pair of jeans (really, jeans) and were hand sewing on the jeans. The words came to me in my dream "You have made my Father's house, a house of merchandise."
Nell
(So it's hard to say how much Lee's "ministry" has been scrubbed. For this reason, it's also hard to have confidence that Lee's last word was actually "sacrifice.")