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Originally Posted by Ohio
I do remember that. WL talked about Taipei history. The beginning was glorious hundredfold increase in 5 years. Then TAS ruined it all, and WL came to the USA. Now he was going back to Taipei. He needed a person to blame for all the problems there.
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Honestly, it's probably a little harsh to say he needed a scapegoat (although I myself have said it.) I think this is just the way he saw it and when I see it through his eyes, as I was trained at one point to do, I can see how he came to that conclusion and it makes perfect sense in all the right ways.
EXCEPT one.
Oneness.
Rather than contend for the oneness of the Spirit, Lee just decided to cut TAS off to preserve his own concept of oneness. In Lee's mind, the damage was already done, however, and it would take a great work of God to repair the damage. Lee never could see how he himself had been divisive over the very issue of oneness - the ground of locality.
Those brothers in the Local Church today have the same blindness and they will condemn anyone who speaks differently about their blindness. They just keep insisting that we all must see it their way. The thing is, the folks around here, we actually have seen it their way and, at least some of us, can now see further than that. I'd say from what I've read about this event that TAS was probably a little off doctrinally but TAS was more interested in recognizing and promoting the oneness of the believers whereas Lee was more concerned with the oneness of the doctrine and a practical oneness based upon that.
Which side was more likely to produce the Lord's intended results in the long run? I'm not sure I can say but it's certainly not as easy as just saying to stick with "the ministry"...