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Originally Posted by aron
At some point a clear pattern emerged, that there was Early Nee, the young maverick, the upstart who challenged the existing church [degraded] power structure, and Later Nee, who represented and defended organized and established [degraded] church power structure, against upstarts and mavericks.
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Thanks for this helpful 30,000 foot view of NEE! It reminds me of my own shocking discovery in around 2005 that there existed a HUGE discrepancy between the Early Witness Lee (1950s) and Later Lee; a HUGE difference from Lee's "Door knocking New Way" on through the "Baby Gods" nonsense, and up until his passing in 1997. If LSM had not begun to make $$ off of Lee's early ministry by translating/printing new books from that era, I would never have noticed this stark difference. So hats off to LSM for doing me that favor!
Here is the main title which jolted me awake - from Taipei Service Meetings Aug 1953
This page was quite telling - countering our widely embraced "The Lord Would Never Abandon US" attitude.
Having skimmed every new (WL) book which began showing up around that time frame in my locality's standing order, I became increasingly alarmed. When pressed about this obvious departure from earlier teaching I was assured by the other responsible brothers to not worry, and just dive deeper into the current up-to-date flow.
P.S.