In the Wake of the New Way

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by Ohio

So was Steve Isitt, apparently. Initially, he was convinced that his fair and objective study of the "new way" movement of the late 1980's would benefit the Recovery. Didn't Lee himself suggest that? Everyone can learn from their mistakes, right? .

(To Dan Towle, beginning paragraph)

I have written a little book for the sake of fellowship, mainly with leading ones, concerning our past sixteen-year history of the new way. I think this period of time in the Lord’s recovery warrants our careful study of both the benefits and the costs to the church in what was such a highly controversial move among us in those beginning years....


(from a letter 2014) "Note: I didn’t realize that Witness Lee in his final message had asked the brothers to do the same thing, that is, to come together and study our past to learn where we have been wrong, including himself, in receiving believers. The brothers didn’t do this, knowing how high the cost would be" I was compelled to do it, and was naive, totally, concerning what the cost might be.


“Concerning the matter of receiving people according to God’s receiving, we coworkers in every place all need to learn, the responsible ones in every place all need to learn, the brothers and sisters in every place all need to learn, too many things cause us to learn. We all made mistakes in this matter in the past, I myself included; I confess that, I had, for this matter and before the Lord, a very painful repentance…

You must bring this message back, read it once, read it twice, and come together to fellowship with one another. Then you will see that we in the past were wrong… I say again, you must come together…" (FINAL message of Brother Lee's, Chinese New Year conf., 1997)