Watchman Nee (1903-1972) - Chinese Pastor and Preacher. Born into a nominally Christian family, Nee was converted at the age of eighteen while still a student at Trinity College, an Anglican high school in Foochow. Abandoning any prospect of a university education, he gave himself to Bible study and evangelism, and many students were won to Christ. Before long he began to display two gifts …
Lyall, Leslie
On David Yang, Watchman Nee, and Wang Ming-dao: All three saw clearly the Pauline truth of the Church, local and universal. But they all reacted against the importation from the West of our denominational confusion. They longed to see a truly Chinese pattern of church life firmly based on the New Testament concept of the Body of Christ. One or other may have reacted too strongly against the missio …
Chan, Kim-Kwong, and Alan Hunter.
The other major indigenous church is properly known as the Local Assemblies, although it is usually called 'Little Flock' by outsiders. Founded in 1928, and with no support at all from missions, it had some 70,000 members by 1949 and is still influential today. Its founder was a dynamic and controversial Fujianese called Ni Tuosheng, better known in English as Watchman Nee. While still a student …
Liu, Huei
Watchman Nee was from Fukien in southern China, while Witness Lee was from Shantung in northern China. It was indeed the arrangement of fate that these two became close co-laborers. They were in the midst of the explosion of the Renaissance in China. Young intellectuals with great expectation either joined political movements or cultural reforms. However, Nee and Lee saw that only God could save …
Swanson, Allen J.
The rise of the Assembly Hall Church signaled yet another reaction against Western Christianity and foreign domination, comparative late comer on the scene, it nevertheless in a short twenty-eight years, with neither Western men nor money, established another of the large churches in mainland China. The spiritual leader behind this movement was a dynamic man by the name of Nee Tuo Sheng, better …
Rubinstein, Murray A.
Also meeting that Sunday morning was a unique indigenous Chinese church body little understood by the larger Protestant community—the Assembly Hall Church (Difang Hui). This church body was founded on the mainland in the 1920s by a dynamic Chinese evangelist Watchman Ni (Ni Shuzu), who organized it along the lines of the Exclusive Brethren, a British church that Ni had come to know through …
Hanks, Geoffrey
Watchman Nee (1903-1972) - Chinese Pastor and Preacher. Born into a nominally Christian family, Nee was converted at the age of eighteen while still a student at Trinity College, an Anglican high school in Foochow. Abandoning any prospect of a university education, he gave himself to Bible study and evangelism, and many students were won to Christ. Before long he began to display two gifts …
Lyall, Leslie
On David Yang, Watchman Nee, and Wang Ming-dao: All three saw clearly the Pauline truth of the Church, local and universal. But they all reacted against the importation from the West of our denominational confusion. They longed to see a truly Chinese pattern of church life firmly based on the New Testament concept of the Body of Christ. One or other may have reacted too strongly against the missio …
Chan, Kim-Kwong, and Alan Hunter.
The other major indigenous church is properly known as the Local Assemblies, although it is usually called 'Little Flock' by outsiders. Founded in 1928, and with no support at all from missions, it had some 70,000 members by 1949 and is still influential today. Its founder was a dynamic and controversial Fujianese called Ni Tuosheng, better known in English as Watchman Nee. While still a student …
Liu, Huei
Watchman Nee was from Fukien in southern China, while Witness Lee was from Shantung in northern China. It was indeed the arrangement of fate that these two became close co-laborers. They were in the midst of the explosion of the Renaissance in China. Young intellectuals with great expectation either joined political movements or cultural reforms. However, Nee and Lee saw that only God could save …
Swanson, Allen J.
The rise of the Assembly Hall Church signaled yet another reaction against Western Christianity and foreign domination, comparative late comer on the scene, it nevertheless in a short twenty-eight years, with neither Western men nor money, established another of the large churches in mainland China. The spiritual leader behind this movement was a dynamic man by the name of Nee Tuo Sheng, better …
Rubinstein, Murray A.
Also meeting that Sunday morning was a unique indigenous Chinese church body little understood by the larger Protestant community—the Assembly Hall Church (Difang Hui). This church body was founded on the mainland in the 1920s by a dynamic Chinese evangelist Watchman Ni (Ni Shuzu), who organized it along the lines of the Exclusive Brethren, a British church that Ni had come to know through …