Putting to Test the Recovery Version

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Terry

In my words, the Bible is meant to supplement "the ministry". Just like picking fresh fruit off the tree, LSM wants to pick from the Bible that which supplements Living Stream Ministry.

This inversion of things "ministry above the word" astounds me, because I recall Witness Lee asking the saints not to do this at the 1981 Winter Training on Corinthians. "Don't say Witness Lee says this", say "the Bible says this". I always understood that the ministry was an aid to help us get into the Word, and if the Lord Spirit and the clear Word didn't support what was in the ministry to drop that part.

At a Northern California blending conference in 2014 a dear elderly brother capped the sharing of leading ones at the end of the conference by saying "The Christian life is an open book test". When I testified that indeed it was, and the book is the Bible (even pointing to my recovery version), leading ones later testified that the open book is "the ministry". That was one of the final things that convinced me to leave.