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Originally Posted by Trapped
LSM/DCP's answer to that question (and their whole explanation of the MOTA concept) is here: https://www.afaithfulword.org/articl...istryMinister/
Some snippets of their answer:
"Actually, if we know the Lord's way, we will realize that once the vision of the age is released, the Lord's interest turns to bringing all of His seekers into the seeing and experience of that vision."
"In these days the Lord desires that all of the saints in His recovery would rise up to enter into the revelation and vision released through Brother Nee and Brother Lee, particularly the high peak truths of the last phase of Brother Lee's ministry, the practice of the God-ordained way, and the organic shepherding for the building up of the Body of Christ. We should not waste our energy and the saints' time promoting this or that one as another "minister of the age." At the end of his ministry Brother Nee expressed his feeling that the Lord desired to turn the age from the age of spiritual giants to the age of the whole Body serving."
"The dissenters' demand that the co-workers identify a present "minister of the age" is misplaced. The real question is whether we have fully entered into the vision that the Lord has already given to us. If not, we should give ourselves"......[to do all the things Lee said] |
I'm interested to see DCP papering over this, and giving it a pseudo-spiritual covering. I was there when Witness Lee passed on. The troops were in shock. It was a grave moment. Our commander was gone. The person at the dais solemnly informed us that the age had turned. "It is no longer the age of spiritual giants - it is the age of small potatoes." That was how it came out. I don't remember the speaker but I suspect it was one of the current blendeds, or my local "leading one" channeling the masters from Anaheim.
We just sat there dully. Everyone was subdued. Essentially we were unable to process this, nobody said, "What scripture does this statement rest on? Where in the Bible does it tell of the age turning thus?" No, critical thinking was verboten.
Later, looking back, I thought about it and realized the implications of this. There is a corollary to the "great man" theory, which is when there's no more "great man" to guide history, it's then the time for the bureaucrats to work. If you look at a lot of the charismatic sects, formed around the personality of the Maximum Leader, once the leader is gone, the yes-men (and women) rally round to keep the cause alive. In this case, the Bible was ignored. Witness Lee was gone, and the age had changed.
Eventually the disconnect became so great that I just left. There was a lot of stuff going on like this. And it was pre-internet, and I knew nothing of Daystar, or Philip Lee as The Office, etc. I just knew that sitting in a circle and reading the same footnotes and waiting for instructions from Anaheim wasn't how I was going to spend my life.
But "the age has turned" - that was an example of the non-scriptural stuff that was regularly getting foisted on the rank-and-file, at the whim of leadership.
On a related note, when we went over the parables of the talents, everyone assured each other that we were all one-talented believers. But if we banded together, we could do great things! In the "great men of history" theory, of course, the so-called spiritual giants were the five-talented ones. Martin Luther, JN Darby, W Nee, W Lee. In between, we supposed, were the two-talented ones - the "Leading Brothers" and "Senior Co-workers" who scurried round the land advising us of the Great Man's wishes.
Now, looking at it from a distance of some years, I suspect that Watchman Nee and Witness Lee weren't five-talented ones with flaws; rather they were one- and two-talented ones who presumed to places they had no right. It was not given them by God but they usurped a place in the flock, raising themselves up. And the results, or fruit, is all too clear.
Not saying there aren't five-talented ones. But let God decide.