Double Standards

Freedom · 11-10-2015, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by aron

I googled "Witness Lee annul function body members" and found nearly identical quotes from "The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ", and from "The Lord's New Way and His Ministry Today", and from "The Mystery of the Universe and the Meaning of Human Life", and from "The Basic Principles for the Practice of the God-ordained Way", and from "The World Situation and the Direction of the Lord's Move", all books from circa 1989-91. There were several more, like HWFMR and "Conclusion of the New Testament", but probably those were recycled.

What's so striking is that you get the same phraseology, repeated ad nauseum, and you wonder how many people had to sit through meeting after meeting, hearing the essentially the same word from the same minister, over and over again. Everytime pretending that it's fresh bread from heaven.

It's too ironic that this particular speaking is about how "Christianity annuls the function of the members of the Body", when you have such a blatant display of that very annulment happening right in front of you.

In the LS message that I quoted, WL went on to say that he often spoke messages not knowing what he would say. Of course, this perks everyone's curiosity as to how he could do that, and he then says that it's because he has light, so he can speak. It almost seems like his implication was is that he felt that he had the most light, because he did the most speaking.

According to the logic of WL, if everyone in the LC had "light", then they would be constantly speaking, probably just as much as he was. But WL didn't want that. His audience was his prized possession. So this presented somewhat of a quandary for WL. He accused other Christian groups of doing exactly what he was best at, but if he embraced the alternative, who knows what LC members would have had the potential to eclipse him, or become his "competition".

What I think WL did was to create an environment in which everyone would feel that they were "functioning" or that they had a voice, however, in reality, it was all just to uplift WL's ministry. In reality, everyone in an LC "prophesying" meeting is limited to a short minute or two and the meeting is by design to keep everyone on the level of a "small potato". Whether they realize it or not, their beloved "paper-pope" is the one who does all the speaking. The LC members might be speaking, but they are really just repeating the words of someone else.