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Originally Posted by Toledo
Be careful. It almost sounds as though you are approving something WL wrote. That could get you into trouble...
Portions like that are the reason that I still appreciate Witness Lee's ministry, even though, as Suannehill points out, the current masters of LSM seem to ignore Lee's clear teachings with regard to oneness and receiving the saints.
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Oh, I'm careful. I have only (implicitly) noted an inconsistency between doctrine and practice.
I intentionally did not say Lee was right about anything.
After much consideration of the issue, I believe Elders' Training Books 7 and 8 represent the start of a dramatic decline in Lee's speaking. Not coincidentally, the text of the elders' allegiance letter is printed in Book 8. My impression is that this document represents the precise point where their sectarianism gave birth to denominationalism. Nonetheless, I have even found some nuggets in stuff spoken as late as 1996. It appears that in his latter days, Lee realized they had become a full-blown denomination, lamenting that all his efforts to institute his "new way" had not borne the intended fruit, but he no longer had any idea how to address the problems. I believe that was because he was never fully clear that he himself had helped produce the problems through his own efforts.
After hearing the recent piece on The Bible Answer Man broadcast, I'm thinking that passages like this one are possibly being read again, but that such teachings are now interpreted as a basis for moving closer to mainstream Christianity and accepting an honored position among the constellation of denominations.
I hear you, Toledo, but I'm the guy who has built much of his library by bidding on eBay over the last several years, presumably titles being sold off by saints who now reject Lee entirely. Some might say I'm actively looking for trouble via saved eBay searches.
