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Witness Lee visited the United States in 1958 and moved there in 1962, settling first in Los Angeles. Today there are 250 local churches in the United States with approximately 30,000 members, [ 29 ] and local churches can be found on all six inhabited continents.
An Open Letter From the Local Churches and Living Stream Ministry Concerning the Teachings of Witness Lee ; PDF File of Christian Research Institute's We Were Wrong: A Reassessment of the "Local Church" Movement of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee; An Open Letter from the Local Churches and Living Stream Ministry; Witness Lee and the Local Churches ...
[136] [137] [138] [page needed] This teaching is based on the New Testament examples of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), the church in Antioch (Acts 13:1), the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:2), the seven churches in seven cities in Asia (Rev. 1:11), etc. Watchman Nee and his co-workers, including Witness Lee, established local churches ...
Witness Lee (Chinese: 李常受; pinyin: Lǐ Chángshòu; September 5, 1905 – June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher and hymnist belonging to the Christian group known as the local churches (or Local Church) in Taiwan and the United States.
In 1977, SCP published an 80-page booklet called The God-Men: Witness Lee and the Local Church. An expanded edition was published first in 1979 in German as Die Sonderlehre by Schwengeler-Verlag and then in 1981 in English as The God-Men: An Inquiry into Witness Lee and the Local Church by InterVarsity Press.
Shekinah Church was established by Robert Shinn in 1994, initially serving as a religious community for Korean Americans in Los Angeles. [2] Over time, the church expanded its membership and activities. [citation needed] In 2021, Shinn founded 7M Films, a talent management company representing social media influencers, particularly TikTok ...
The Economy of God, first published in 1968, is one of Witness Lee's principal works and is a compilation of messages he gave in the summer of 1964 in Los Angeles. These messages build on one of Watchman Nee's classics, The Spiritual Man, which reveals that man is composed of three parts - spirit, soul, and body.
Lee officially disbanded the Dami Mission in November 1992, and apologised whilst he was in prison awaiting sentencing. [6] On 4 December 1992, he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years in prison [ 7 ] [ 8 ] because he had collected $4.4 million from his followers to purchase bonds that did not mature until after October 28.