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 …
Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary (Fuller) and leaders from the local churches and its publishing service, Living Stream Ministry (LSM), have recently completed two years of extensive dialog. During this time Fuller conducted a thorough review and examination of the major teachings and practices of the local churches, with particular emphasis on the writings of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, as published …
Hank Hanegraaff
The JOURNAL you hold in your hand features the culmination of a six·year research project respecting a movement originally founded by a Chinese Christian named Watchman Nee. While Nee died for his Messiah in a Communist prison camp, his ministry did not die with him. Under the leadership of protege Witness Lee, Nee’s ministry and message spread from China throughout the Pacific Rim nations …
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 …
Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary (Fuller) and leaders from the local churches and its publishing service, Living Stream Ministry (LSM), have recently completed two years of extensive dialog. During this time Fuller conducted a thorough review and examination of the major teachings and practices of the local churches, with particular emphasis on the writings of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, as published …
Hank Hanegraaff
The JOURNAL you hold in your hand features the culmination of a six·year research project respecting a movement originally founded by a Chinese Christian named Watchman Nee. While Nee died for his Messiah in a Communist prison camp, his ministry did not die with him. Under the leadership of protege Witness Lee, Nee’s ministry and message spread from China throughout the Pacific Rim nations …