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Originally Posted by aron
I keep thinking of recent poster amrkelly's remarks that he had 'sight', or 'discernment', to understand Nee's gift to the Body. Don't we all? I mean, we all agree there is the Holy Bible, that reveals to us God's Son, Jesus Christ the Lord. He is truly the savior of the world. We all see this, and hold it to be true. When the apostle Paul wrote that "there are apostles, prophets, and teachers" in the assembly of the faithful, how are we supposed to discern? Should we simply agree with ones who are adamant that their favorite writer/teacher/speaker is God's anointed, special vessel?
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The program was designed to neutralize any discernment within the saints. I often heard the phrase, "
Titus Chu (or WL) sees things, we don't." That was a neutralizer, if I ever heard one. Since he could, "
see things, we don't," then we all just checked our ability to discern at the door of the church. Think of the license we had just granted our leaders. Church elders just laid down their discernment at his feet.
Every storm in the Recovery could be distilled down to this statement,
"he sees things, we don't." Instead of Jesus Christ being the "Knower of hearts," we gave that honor to our leader, hence even the Lord Himself was neutralized, and unable to speak through the members of His body, which He desperately tried on a number of occasions. Hence, Recovery leaders became the defacto "vicar of Christ," speaking for Him in every instance. Thus Lee could supposedly "see" John Ingalls' heart -- ambitious, destructive, conspiratorial, rebellious, leprous (pile it on Blendeds, because now you can "see" too.)
The Catholic church became what it is primarily because every member had abrogated their discernment to the Bishop of Rome, the "Holy See." That course of action is dangerous for sure, as history shows us the slippery slope down which the church slid under the reign of Rome. Even the so-called Recovery Move of God followed that well worn slide of Rome, with Darby, Nee, and Lee all leading us down.
Throw discernment to the wind, we're following The Man who leads us to God. Unfortunately that man is not Jesus Christ our Lord.