![]() He was also born into a Christian family, one of Southern Baptist persuasion. ![]() Witness Lee was born in 1905 in the Shantung Province of Northern China. Nee’s most widely-recognized and appreciated books are The Normal Christian Life and The Normal Christian Church Life. This is the greatest truth in the universe. “Christ is the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. However, the note he left just before his death indicates that he never lost his faith in his victorious Lord: Such persecution culminated in his being imprisoned by the Communist government in 1952 and kept in confinement until his death in 1972. He was even mistreated by some of the churches raised up by him. Based on what the Lord showed him, Nee followed the Lord’s leading to publish Christian magazines and books.īecause Nee was faithful to obey the Scriptures, to drop traditions, and to establish local churches, he was misunderstood and persecuted by various Christian groups and the Chinese government. From his reading he gained profound insight into the situation of the New Testament church throughout the past centuries. He was also a voracious reader, studying both the expositions of his Western forbearers and the biographies of men of faith throughout church history. Nee was both a zealous gospel preacher and a diligent student of the Bible. Through Sister Barber, Nee was introduced to some of the classic Christian writings from the West, especially those of the Plymouth Brethren. She also helped him to realize the errors of denominationalism and how it divides the Body of Christ. Sister Barber helped Nee to know the divine life, the work of the cross, the life of faith, and the hope of the Lord’s coming. In his early years, Nee was greatly helped by the perfecting of an older British missionary, Margaret E. This salvation brought him into a life of spiritual pursuit and complete consecration to his Savior and Master that continued until his death in 1972. After hearing the prevailing preaching of traveling evangelist Dora Yu, Nee experienced a dynamic salvation. ![]() Nee was born into a Congregationalist Christian family in 1903, in the Fukien Province of southern China. I can’t do justice to Nee’s life and work in such a short post, so I can only recommend that you read the biography or check out this website on his life. I can say that in the span of his 30 years of public ministry, he made an indelible mark on the face of Christianity in China, and through his writings he also made a mark on Christians throughout the world, including many in the house-based churches in America. That’s also the title of the biography written about him by his co-worker, Witness Lee. To introduce Watchman Nee, I can only say that he was a seer of the divine revelation in the present age. It’s my hope that this treasury of continuous ministry of nearly 75 years will become well known, thus bringing an immeasurable supply to the entire Body of Christ. So in this post, I’ll briefly tell the story of these two brothers and their blended ministry-one which I’ve been enjoying for over four decades. Sadly, some amount of misinformation has left the greater part of the wealth of this printed ministry little known to God’s people. The ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee has brought a treasury of spiritual truth and life to the Body of Christ. Both also became prolific speakers and writers. Both were dynamically saved as teenagers and became diligent students of God’s word and zealous gospel preachers. Both were brilliant students with promising futures. ![]() They were two Christian workers from the same country-China.
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