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 …
Patterson, George N.
The largest of the indigenous churches was, and is, the “Little Flock,” a name given to them because of a quotation from the Gospel of John used in their hymnbooks. The name used by themselves is “Christian Assemblies”; but there is no association with the “Christian Assemblies” or “Plymouth Brethren Assemblies” of the West, although their principles of church gathering, discipline, and …
Melton, J. Gordon
Watchman Nee, born Ni Shu-tsu, was the founder of a decentralized Evangelical Christian movement that came to be known as the Local Church. Born into a Chinese Methodist family, he rejected all religion while in college, but was reconverted in 1920 under the ministry of a Methodist missionary, Dora Yu. He studied for a while at Yu’s Bible school in Shanghai, and eventually returned to Fuchow to …
Piepkorn, Arthur C.
In 1920 Chinese university student Nee To-sheng became a Christian during the visit of a native evangelist to Nee’s birthplace, Fuchow. In the course of the next eighteen years Nee developed out of his study of the Bible a faith that he communicated to his converts and disciples and that combined the traditional theology of the nineteenth-century missionary revival with a radically undenominationa …
Kauffman, Paul E.
A contemporary of John Sung was Watchman Nee who on June 1, 1972 went on to receive his victor’s crown. Watchman Nee is probably the best known Chinese Christian leader owing to his transcribed messages which are still widely circulated in the West. It was in 1926 that Watchman Nee organized an indigenous Chinese Church popularly known as "The Little Flock." Largely Brethren in concept, this vigor …
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 …
Patterson, George N.
The largest of the indigenous churches was, and is, the “Little Flock,” a name given to them because of a quotation from the Gospel of John used in their hymnbooks. The name used by themselves is “Christian Assemblies”; but there is no association with the “Christian Assemblies” or “Plymouth Brethren Assemblies” of the West, although their principles of church gathering, discipline, and …
Melton, J. Gordon
Watchman Nee, born Ni Shu-tsu, was the founder of a decentralized Evangelical Christian movement that came to be known as the Local Church. Born into a Chinese Methodist family, he rejected all religion while in college, but was reconverted in 1920 under the ministry of a Methodist missionary, Dora Yu. He studied for a while at Yu’s Bible school in Shanghai, and eventually returned to Fuchow to …
Piepkorn, Arthur C.
In 1920 Chinese university student Nee To-sheng became a Christian during the visit of a native evangelist to Nee’s birthplace, Fuchow. In the course of the next eighteen years Nee developed out of his study of the Bible a faith that he communicated to his converts and disciples and that combined the traditional theology of the nineteenth-century missionary revival with a radically undenominationa …
Kauffman, Paul E.
A contemporary of John Sung was Watchman Nee who on June 1, 1972 went on to receive his victor’s crown. Watchman Nee is probably the best known Chinese Christian leader owing to his transcribed messages which are still widely circulated in the West. It was in 1926 that Watchman Nee organized an indigenous Chinese Church popularly known as "The Little Flock." Largely Brethren in concept, this vigor …