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By deliberately putting himself before Miss Barber’s instruction and strict rebukes, Brother Nee received much help..
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Strict rebukes from a woman? A woman not under the leadership of any man? She introduced him to Jessie Penn-Lewis, the unstable "Jezebel" of the Welsh Revival?
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Originally Posted by LSM&CBB
In Witness Lee’s biography of Watchman Nee (Watchman Nee: A Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age, Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1991, 18), he mentions the help Watchman Nee got from Dora Yu and Margaret Barber: “He frequently told others that it was through a sister [Dora Yu] that he was saved and that is was also through a sister [Margaret Barber] that he was edified.” It was Sister Barber who introduced Watchman Nee to the writings of D. M. Panton, Robert Govett, G. H. Pember, Jessie Penn-Lewis, and T. Austin-Sparks.
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Peace Wang, Jessie Penn-Lewis, M.E. Barber, Ruth Lee, Dora Yu, etc. How did females, supposedly (per Lee, Kangas, Philips et al) constitutionally unable to teach, wield such disproportionate influence upon Nee's spiritual formation?
Freedom has suggested something interesting: females were essentially disposable. In a male-dominated, post-feudal Chinese society, they were convenient for the rise, then could be dispensed with. Doyle's biography put it well. "He set himself up with closest "apostolic" coworkers Female A and Female B, with himself supreme." Female A and Female B won't challenge the Alpha Male (Male A) in this cultural setting; they're a firewall against apostolic co-workers Male B and Male C, who might begin to vie with the Alpha Male for supremacy.