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Originally Posted by aron
Why could Watchman Nee read all the Christian classics, balancing one against the other, and presenting a most orthodox reading of the faith, while we were supposed to just read Nee and Lee? Why can't we read Lee against others, comparing and removing parts which are unbalanced and impure?
Why did Nee have this special gift of sorting the wheat from the proverbial chaff, but nobody else did? Why can't we sort through the ministries of Lee and Nee just like any other Christian author? Why can't I go through the Christian corpus, just like Nee did, and find wisdom here and there, and put together a vision of my own? Where is the sound of "many waters" in the LC? It is gone.
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Good points. These things also became of greater concern to me over time. I guess that when I was younger, I never thought to question the whole narrative that only Nee and Lee had the ability to "put everything together". Because I had been told that reading anything else was a "waste of time", I presumed it actually would be a waste of time. It was an easy sell for leaders.
It is a double standard that should just scream out at people. Why did only Nee and Lee have the "discernment to read other authors? To me that idea contains the implication that rank and file members are just dumb dumb sheep with no real purpose.
It is quite ironic that Nee and Lee both thought they knew how to sort the wheat and the chaff, but why couldn't rank and file members can't do the same with Nee and Lee's ministries? And it's not just that, but knowing that those who have sought to significantly reduce the utilization of Nee/Lee have suffered all kinds of consequences including excommunication. A double standard of double standards.