Mingling

In the lsm/lc man-made system, the term "mingling" is often said to be used quite a bit inordinately.

This is in sharp contrast to the use of the word, "mingle" used by Watchman Nee both positively and negatively, when he said on page 194, The Spiritual Man, CFP, Volume 1, "If soul life is not stripped away through death but is allowed to mingle with the spirit, believers shall continue in defeat. If our walk does not exclusively express God's power it shall soon be vanquished by man's wisdom and opinion."

Nee also uses this term positively at times too, therefore he does not legalize this word like the leeists as a point of pride.

Mingle as a negative term and points to confusion as it was used in the example above by Watchman Nee, yet the leeists use this term positively inordinately, also to confuse when they speak of themselves as God-men, even though such a name, God-man is only ever given to the perfect sinless One, Jesus Christ, being both God and man. Man is not God, only man. Jesus Christ was both God and man.

Watchman Nee also uses the term positively qualifying its use when speaking of the soul that its duty is to "mingle" the spirit and soul, on page 108, Vol. 1, of The Spiritual Man (CFP) when he says "It's (the soul's) duty is to mingle these two, according each its proper place yet making them intercommunicative, that through such perfect harmony man ultimately may attain full spirituality."

So even here, we see division in the use of the term mingle, and qualified too, not used in the sense that a leeist would use it when they claim their so-called men of God may be mingled to God as God-men. This is going too far. That is always the danger keeping the fire close by in the lsm/lc corporation.

If this intuitively does not seem right applying a term God-... to men, and if your conscience is raised against calling yourself a God-man, then, please stay abiding in the Holy Spirit and keep this discernment noticing this creeping-in pride.

Troy Brooks