Spiritual Authority by Watchman Nee

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Originally Posted by alwayslearning

Anyway obviously Nee's model didn't work if Witness Lee is any indication of it's fruit. Under him the work was not regional it was global. His practice in the Far East and elsewhere is that he ruled the work and the work ruled the churches. Period. Titus Chu in the GLA is just a miniature of that modus operanti.

I don't think this will be about getting a better model. Not to say that WN's model wasn't flawed.

It seems to me that Jesus Christ is Spiritual Authority. If you are truly under His headship then you will be one with His authority. I think it is ridiculous for a person to say that they were truly one with the head and at the same time allowed themselves to be pushed around by WL, or worse, PL.

When I was in the LRC we heard repeatedly that "the ministry is for the church, the church is not for the ministry". If that was an empty expression it was because those who ignored it were not truly under the headship of Jesus Christ.

Does that mean that you might suffer the slings and arrows of the enemy? Yes, but that is not because of a faulty teaching, but because the enemy has not been dealt with yet.

There is one thing that WL shared that has come back to me over and over again because I am realizing how true it was and how he, more than any other had the experience to speak this truth. He said that "a counterfeit is 97% right." I think many on this forum are thinking that if WL was a false teacher then his teachings need to be 50% false. They only need to be 1% false, just like he taught about a counterfeit bill.