The Right Way?

[Nell]

Originally Posted by Ohio

I know certain LSMers here have on occasion labeled me a "broken record," but the horrible unrighteousness surrounding John Ingalls et. al. in order to protect Philip Lee and the pristine image of WL himself exposed to me, once for all, the fraudulent nature of the so-called Recovery.

Once such behavior is endorsed and licensed on high, the doors were opened wide for all manner of corruption. One might say that the handling of WN in Shanghai in 1948 "opened the door wide," but we did not have incontrovertible and irrefutable evidence from multiple witnesses like we did in Anaheim in 1989.

On the same subject, to a lesser degree, I also witnessed many "bad behaviors" get learned in Cleveland from TC, and then got duplicated in the surrounding LC's I was a part of. I'm NOT saying that I am in any way perfect, or that leaders must be either, but bad behaviors must be owned and not codified for future justification. We have all seen how that style of leadership only deteriorates with each successive generation.

Ohio,

Whenever we see the deeds of darkness and the doctrines of demons being practiced, we have to speak up. The more so, as you say, as the deeds of the Local Church leadership deteriorates.

1 Timothy 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;


People have been referring to the latter times since these words were written. Others have been dismissing these references with comments like "you've been saying that for hundreds of years." This is true. However, one day, the end times will be manifested. The end times will arrive, if not already here.

So again, whenever we see the deeds of darkness and the doctrines of demons being practiced, we have to speak up.

I was curious about Witness Lee's Life Study messages regarding 1 Timothy 4. (I am always put off on Local Church websites because they track your IP address to enforce their useage policies.) If you want to check out what Lee says, search for it and it's easy to find: "Life Study of Timothy Witness Lee". Drill down to Chapter 7 of 28, Section 2 of 3.

The outstanding thing to me was that Lee seemed to be totally oblivious to his own behavior and departing from the faith. Lee did not own his bad behavior, but pointed his finger at others.

He also repeats the conversation with Nee when Nee told him "some Christians lie".

Nell

PS: Speaking of doctrines of demons, remember this?
Minoru Chen is filled with Witness Lee's spirit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwSe...YdFvzDm6XfMO0Q
Blended brother Minoru Chen says he is "full of Witness Lee's spirit". This sounds like something cultish and creepy to me. Why do these people say these kind of things and not expect to be called a cult?
03-04-2020, 04:07 PM

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