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Originally Posted by Ohio
This is, quite frankly, just unbelievable! This takes the absolute worst of Chinese culture and inner-life extremes and reduces it to a "frameable quote" about LC marriages. Disgusting! And to think that LSM actually translated this and placed it in a book along side WN. Have all of LSM's editorial staff lost their senses?
How many times has this teaching been put into practice?
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I am sure some may disagree with what I'm about to say. Keep in mind this is not the norm.
I see what Ohio quoted as a physical picture of how some saints have been treated. When abuse does happen it is tolerated because of a concept this is an opportunity to take the cross. Maybe I am off, is learning the lesson of the cross to embrace abuse? I do not believe so.
Why would abuse be tolerated? I think in part due to the teaching of Submission and Authority at the exclusion of The Character of the Lord’s Worker.
Referring to a quote to Witness Lee,
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I have heard that some brothers notice things happening that are not right, but they dare not say anything. To avoid getting involved, they stay silent and let the suffering go on. To do this is to play politics. This is what some of you have been practicing. Dear brothers, change your mind. Repent. Let us have no more such things."
Practical Talks to the Elders No. 2 p. 23
Would have been comforting if the ministry quote was more than just words.