用他们自己的话。
李常受论救恩、高福音与呼求主名。长老谈李腓力与安那翰。前成员谈金钱、控制与异议。 若想看重点摘要,请见李常受的教导未能通过的十项检验。
共 42 则引文
权柄如何塑造地方召会
关于神谕言的宣告
“你们不能否认主的谕言与我同在这个事实。我在耶稣基督的面前宣告这件事。”
“我为李常受宣告这件事!”
“你们若听我,就不是听李常受,乃是听那藉着我说话之神自己在他谕言里的话。”
李腓力、李提摩太与问责
权柄、不当行为与管教
“她再也无法忍受那些施加在一些人身上、尤其是施加在她身上的严重不当行为。”
“She could not tolerate anymore the gross misconduct that was being perpetrated upon some and especially upon her.”
“有人提出这样的指控:李腓力在长达十年之久的期间里,犯了“严重的不道德”以及其他的罪,而李常受知情;并且李常受与他的同工容忍并掩盖了这些行为。”
“It is contended that “gross immorality” and other sins were committed by Phillip Lee over a ten-year period, with Witness Lee’s knowledge, and that Lee and his co-workers tolerated and covered up this behavior.”
“有人看见腓力在水流职事站的办公室里抚摸一位姊妹。”
“Philip was observed fondling a sister in the office of Living Stream.”
“腓力当然不是完全的;没有人是完全的!”
“Philip, of course, is not perfect; nobody is perfect!”
Daystar 事业
“据知他曾让一名妓女与他同住。”
“He was known to have had a prostitute stay with him.”
“后来儿子对一些圣徒提到,有 250 万美元从他手中消失。”
“Later the son mentioned to some saints that 2.5 million U. S. dollars disappeared from his hands.”
“许多圣徒被施压,要把毕生积蓄投入这项事业。”
“Many saints were pressured to give their life savings to this business.”
“接着,X 先生请一位同工劝说那些投资的人,把投资当作奉献,不要寻求偿还。”
“Mr. X then asked one of his co-workers … to persuade the saints, who invested their money to consider the investment as a donation and not seek to be reimbursed.”
“大多数人被吓得只好大亏一笔。”
“Most were intimidated into taking a big bath.”
“他们失去了童贞。”
“They have lost their virginity.”
“就是坐在我们眼前那个“小宝贝”,正是他诱惑了我们所有人!!”
“Why, the “little precious man” sitting right in front of us, IS THE MAN who seduced us all!!”
涉及李氏家庭的财务问题
“关于 Daystar,那不是你的事。不,我不回答你。”
“About Daystar, that is not your business. No, I don’t answer you.”
“我不向任何人负责;我只向政府负责。”
“I’m not responsible to anyone. I’m only responsible to the government.”
“李腓力和李的孙子们有丰厚的瑞士银行帐户。”
“Philip Lee and the grandsons of Lee had fat Swiss bank accounts.”
1959 年的台湾:Daystar 之前的模式
“一九五九年左右,李氏在财务上由于私心而处理失当(因作生意失败),造成了第一次的财务危机,不仅将圣徒奉献的工作款都赔掉了,还欠了一大笔债,因此强迫同工将已购置为建大会所和训练中心,在南京东路四段的一大片土地(约七千坪)变卖抵债。”
“他说“工作款”是主交在他手里的,他有权随自己的意思处理,他就是把它丢在太平洋里,你们也无权过问。”
“这正是阿摩斯八章五节的情形:“出用小升斗,收用大戥子,用诡诈的天平欺哄人。””
模式并没有在 Daystar 结束
“因为露营车市场停了,所以工厂就转向……制造网球拍。”
“Because the motor home market stopped, so it turned to the factory … manufacturing tennis racquets.”
“这笔由“职事站”汇总之款,既未转交台北教会,也未退还各地教会。”
“在购地款三千余万元新台币推动众圣徒奉献时,“福音书房”提供三百万元,后来作产权登记时,就提出对产权十分之一“持分”的要求。”
“我们在林口买了二十多英亩的土地,盼望能建一座大会所,但我们的建筑执照申请没有获得核准。”
“We have bought more than twenty-four acres of land in Linkou, and we hope to be able to build a large meeting hall, but our application for the building permit was not approved.”
“你听过李常受其他的财务骗局吗?谁还记得网球拍工厂?我想它叫“Delta”。……我们每次搬家都得搬几十箱卖不掉的网球拍。”
“Have you heard about Lee’s other financial swindles? Anyone remember the tennis racket factory? I think it was called “Delta.” … We had to cart around dozens of boxes of unsellable tennis rackets every time we moved.”
神、基督、救恩与国度
基督成了赐生命的灵
“在复活里,基督作为末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵,并作为圣灵进到他的信徒里面。”
“In resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit and entered into His believers as the Holy Spirit.”
“教导有两个赐生命的灵,两个能赐生命的灵,乃是异端。”
“It is heretical to teach that there are two life-giving Spirits, two Spirits who give life.”
“在基督复活以前,这样一位灵还没有。基督的复活产生了赐生命的灵。”
“Before Christ’s resurrection, such a Spirit was not yet. Christ’s resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.”
当一位训练者把李常受放在三一神之后
“我们同意,这带领对我们的一是不可或缺的。”
“We agree that this leading is indispensable to our oneness.”
“我们传讲李常受是一个人的表演。”
“We preach that Witness Lee is a one-man show.”
“父是第一,子第二,圣灵第三,李常受第四,随后是李常受周围的人。”
“The Father is first, the Son second, the Holy Spirit third, Witness Lee fourth, followed by those around Witness Lee.”
“三一神是三,然而他现在有第四部分,一个配偶。”
“The Triune God is three, yet He now has a fourth part, a counterpart.”
“一城一会”是圣经的命令吗?
“每一次提到“某城的召会”,在圣经里都是描述、例子,并不涉及命令。”
“Each mention of the city-church in scripture is a description, an example, and does not involve commands.”
“不管他们怎样否认,每一个“没有名字”的团体最终都会被命名,而且往往比周围的团体命名得更强。”
“Regardless of how they deny it, every no-name group eventually is named, and perhaps even more strongly than those around it.”
李常受称使徒的福音为“低的福音”
“我们不该传基督教所传肤浅的福音。那福音告诉人,他们犯了罪,必须受地狱的刑罚,但神怜悯他们,赐下他的爱子为他们死,救赎他们,并为他们复活;只要他们悔改信他,就要得着永远的生命,并且要上天堂……这虽然是福音,却是低的福音。我们所传高的福音说,太初就是神的话成了肉体,经过人性生活,被钉十字架,复活,成了赐生命的灵,以完成神圣分赐的大工。”
“We should not preach the shallow gospel that Christianity preaches. That gospel tells people that they have sinned and must suffer the punishment of hell, but that God has had pity on them and has given His beloved Son to die for them to redeem them and to resurrect for them, and that as long as they repent and believe in Him, they will receive eternal life and will go to heaven... Although this is the gospel, it is a low gospel. The high gospel that we preach says that the Word who was God from the beginning became flesh, passed through human living, was crucified, resurrected, and has become the life-giving Spirit to accomplish the great work of the divine dispensing.”
李常受与诺斯底派
“属魂的人……是靠着他们的行为和单单的信心得以立定的,并没有完全的知识。他们说,我们教会的人就是这等人。”
“Animal men, again, are instructed in animal things; such men, namely, as are established by their works, and by a mere faith, while they have not perfect knowledge. We of the Church, they say, are these persons.”
“今天许多基督徒好像听音乐的牛:他们对所听见的毫无欣赏,也毫无分辨。”
“Today many Christians can be compared to cows listening to music: they have no appreciation or discernment of what they hear.”
诗篇第一篇与圣经明白的话
“这说明诗篇第一篇是好的,但它是照着错误的观念写的……因此,我们不该高看诗篇第一篇。它是用错误的观念,就是人的观念,错误地写成的。”
“This shows us that Psalm 1 is good, but it was written with a wrong concept… Thus, we should not highly appraise Psalm 1. It was written wrongly with a wrong concept, a human concept.”
“在一至六节,他是“亚伯”;在七至十一节,他是“该隐”。我们必须在生命的线上给大卫记功,在善恶知识的线上给他记过。”
“In verses 1-6, he was ‘Abel’; in verses 7-11, he was ‘Cain.’ We have to give David the credit in the line of life and the debit in the line of the knowledge of good and evil.”
“在诗篇之前的约伯记,是根据人的观念而有之人的看法的记录,论到神与人之间的关系……这卷书里没有向神献上的祷告或赞美。此外,没有一点迹象显示约伯、他的三个朋友和以利户对神有任何渴慕。”
“The book of Job, preceding the Psalms, is a record of human views based on human concepts concerning the relationship between God and man… In this book there is no prayer or praise offered to God. Furthermore, there is no hint that Job, his three friends, and Elihu had any kind of thirst for God.”
“他们被人用圣经驳倒的时候,就反过来指控这些圣经,好像它们不正确、没有权威,又说圣经意思含糊,不明白传统的人,无法从圣经中得出真理。”
“When, however, they are confuted from the Scriptures, they turn round and accuse these same Scriptures, as if they were not correct, nor of authority, and [assert] that they are ambiguous, and that the truth cannot be extracted from them by those who are ignorant of tradition.”
容易相信主义与说三次“哦,主”
“我们若帮助他们说三次“哦,主”,他们就会得救。”
“If we help them to say “O Lord” three times, they will be saved.”
15如果你的弟兄亏待了你,你不要声张,只在你俩之间指出他的错误。如果他听得进你的话,你就挽救了你的弟兄;
16如果他听不进你的话,你就要找一两个证人一同去见他,这样“对他的每一项指控都会得到两三个人的证明。”
17如果他还听不进他们的话,你就去告诉教会,如果他连教会的话也不听,那么你就要像对待非教徒或者税吏那样来对待他。
耶稣并不是叫一个不肯悔改的弟兄永远留在团契里。经过私下劝戒与见证之后,召会要当面说清楚;若仍不肯回转,就要像对待非教徒和税吏那样,把他当作在相信的群体之外的人。上面的引文记载了被包庇的罪、拒绝的改正,以及许多基督徒判断为别样福音的教训。已经把这些关切带给带领者却得不到悔改的成员,不必仍留在地方召会里,好像李常受和他的职事仍是一个忠心的召会。