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Originally Posted by Gospelicious
I, therefore, apologise to all of you on the forum (including lurkers) for my rash..er... 'submission'.
.. Grace..
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All of our posts probably need similar qualifiers. We're sinners, trying by faith in Jesus Christ to make it home to our Father in heaven. None can say, "I have laid hold" except Christ himself who is in everlasting glory.
Nonetheless, we can study, and consider, and pray, and make tentative assessments. And we can present our observations for consideration. We can "observe, deduce, postulate", as one blended LC recently told the graduating class at Harvard School of Public Health.
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Originally Posted by Gospelicious
I personally believe that writing that book and enforcing its ideas upon the flock of God was Watchman Nee's greatest mistake (from where I'm standing). God's judgment soon followed after: and it was sure, and it was severe: and it was unstoppable.
Stop to think for a moment about the 'poetic justice' of it all. You espouse 'authority and submission' and the Lord turns a whole country upside down to give you a first-hand dose of your own medicine!
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Similarly, Witness Lee's greatest mistake was thinking that he'd dropped his native culture in the Pacific Ocean enroute to the USA in the early '60s. Chinese Christians like Lee may tell of the lack of due process in the PRC, but overlook their own lack of due process when they control Western churches. Many have related how Matthew 18 principles were brushed aside when Lee felt his personal ''guanxi network'' was being threatened. He had no time for such trifles as due process. We were told to ignore our concerns of right and wrong, and focus on blind obedience to the Party, er, sorry, the Church.
And I repeat that Asian culture, in any form, is by no means inferior. But it's not heavenly, but earthly. It's still the way of the gentiles which Jesus warned us of.