Church Ground Becomes the Lining Up with a Man and a Ministry

[OBW]

Originally Posted by Indiana

www.twoturmoils.com/DeputyAuthorityandtheGroundofOneness.pdf

Introduction

The local churches have long been under the influence of the teaching of deputy authority beginning in China with Watchman Nee. When I first heard the related terms, the oracle of God, the minister of the age, the acting God, the one wise master-builder, the commander-in-chief - terms being applied to Witness Lee in the 1980s – I was in full agreement. I was in one accord with the brothers campaigning for the churches to line up with Witness Lee as a universal leader, as men were swept up in full abandon to him and with strict resolve to follow him in “the Lord’s new move”. This “new move”, though, unwittingly established a new ground for meeting.

I think, though, that you captured the truth of the whole when you mention that the "turning over" had already happened in China in the late 40s to early 50s, then in Taiwan. It was after both of those that Lee came to America, allowing a less obviously flawed basis for meeting to capture us before doing it all over again in the 80s.

But what is missed is that the "less obviously flawed" basis for meeting was still flawed. The "ground" of a city, was never a proper basis for meeting. It was a fabrication that allowed Nee and Lee to divide while claiming that it was others who were dividing. The church ground was always aligned with a man and a ministry. It just wasn't as obvious. But just ask the followers of Kaung who were either ignored or whose assemblies were taken over despite meeting simply as believers in a city. It was always about whether they would take Lee's ministry.