Where Has All the Orthopraxy Gone?

[aron]

Originally Posted by rayliotta

we discussed here that the most harmful aspects of the Lord's Recovery movement have little to do w/the doctrinal points

Why don't we talk more about that stuff here?

I remember reading an essay called "Two turmoils". It had a quote from a Chinese brother to John Ingalls. He told him, "ln my conscience I know that you are right according to the truth, but according to my culture I must be loyal to Witness Lee."

At the end of the day, it's not what you say but what you do. But the problem with Lord's Recovery is that they have hundreds of published books but they don't like to talk about what they actually do. So all you have is their carefully arranged official statements. It is very hard for you to get them to be frank and honest about practices, like that brother was to John Ingalls. So instead you argue endlessly about meanings of words.

Look at all the trouble that was stirred up by Witness Lee when he said, "We need to contact the people who don't meet here anymore and find out what went wrong." So Steve Isitt contacted them and they didn't want to hear what actually was wrong. Better to focus on words and meanings of words. It is safer. So to get the Lord's Recovery to discuss orthopraxy is going to be very hard.