While the blog The Pursuit of the Deeper Truth and Proper Christian Experience has a rather long title, and a bias toward the writings of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, here at Christianity 201, we’re an equal opportunity blog with a bias toward anything that gets us thinking and studying. However, I noticed this 2011 piece has had what is, for this site, a fair number of comments, including a recent question, and I thought we’d make an exception. See Living Stream Ministry’s “Witness Lee” website for more information.Although some of the articles I have written here over the years get repeated occasionally, as a general rule, pieces written by third parties do not. They also sought to produce believers who were living and functioning members of the Body of Christ and churches that were established according to the New Testament principle of one city, one church (Acts 8:1 13:1 1 Cor. The ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee stressed the Christian’s experience of Christ as life for the building up of the Body of Christ. In these messages he expounded every book in the Bible from the perspective of the believers’ experience of Christ as life. From 1974 through 1994 Witness Lee gave a series of messages which he called the Life-study of the Bible. Witness Lee was a prolific speaker and writer. This number does not include at least one thousand churches with an estimated one million members in China. To date their ministry has produced well over three thousand local churches on all six inhabited continents. From there the work he entered into in China with Watchman Nee spread throughout the earth. Sensing the Lord’s leading, Witness Lee immigrated to the United States in 1962. Through Witness Lee’s labor, the church in Taiwan grew from 350 to 20,000 in a mere five years and local churches were raised up throughout Southeast Asia. Witness Lee faithfully fulfilled this commission for almost fifty years. Watchman Nee also instructed Witness Lee to continue the publishing work. In 1949, Witness Lee was sent to Taiwan by Watchman Nee and his other co-workers to carry their vision and practice to the world outside of China. In 1934 Watchman Nee made Witness Lee the overseer of his publishing office, the Shanghai Gospel Bookroom. Witness Lee was Watchman Nee’s closest co-worker in China. In 2009, Watchman Nee’s contribution to the church in China and his influence on Christians in the West was recognized in a statement submitted by Congressman Chris Smith for inclusion in the Congressional Record. Moody, and Hudson Taylor in collections such as Barbour Publishing’s Heroes of the Faith series, David Lindstedt’s Faith’s Great Heroes, Geoffrey Hanks’ Seventy Great Christians, and Who’s Who in Christian History, edited by J.D. He has been included along with such influential Christians as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Bunyan, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, D.L. He has been quoted and praised by Christian leaders such as Jerry Falwell, Corrie ten Boom, and Warren Wiersbe. His book The Normal Christian Life has been widely hailed as a Christian classic. His writings are appreciated by Christians around the world and have been translated into at least fifty languages. Watchman Nee’s ministry of spiritual nourishment and his unique ability to expound the Scripture along with his firm testimony in the face of persecution have been widely recognized by Christians as significant contributions to Christian faith and practice in the twentieth century.
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