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Watchman Nee was born on November 4, 1903, the third of nine children of Ni Weng-hsiu, a well-respected officer in the Imperial Customs Service, and Lin He-Ping (Peace Lin), who excelled as a child at an American-staffed Methodist mission school.
Following the end of the war, brought great uncertainty for Nee's ministry. In 1949, Nee and his co-workers sent Witness Lee to Taiwan in order to continue Nee's work free from the threat of government persecution under Chinese communism. [8] [9] [10] Watchman Nee and Witness Lee met for the last time in Hong Kong in 1950.
In 1968 Campus Crusade's national field director Jon Braun, who had read Watchman Nee's The Normal Christian Church Life, [4] and all of the regional directors under him left Campus Crusade seeking the New Testament church. [5] [6] A short time later Braun joined a group led by Gene Edwards, a former Southern Baptist evangelist. Edwards had met ...
Theodore Austin-Sparks and the Witness and Testimony Publishers also published messages by other authors, many of whom were associated with Honor Oak or whom TAS knew personally. In particular, the first version of Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life" was published chapter by chapter in the A Witness and A Testimony magazine.
The Normal Christian Life has impacted millions of Christians since Nee spoke it and is a major contributor to the local churches movement today. [6] Nee was recognized in the United States House of Representatives by Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey in 2009. He recognized Nee as having been one of the most influential Chinese Christians of ...
The writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee focus on the enjoyment of the divine life and on the building up of the Body of Christ. Its purpose is to promote the teachings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, and to prepare, select, and distribute information of all kinds which may be useful for the growth of spiritual life among Christians.
Elijah C. Bridgman and his wife, the first American Protestant missionaries to China, arrived in Guangzhou in 1830. [3] The Protestant population of Guangdong exceeds half a million. [3] Watchman Nee was from Guangdong. The province has numerous house churches. [3] Guangzhou has Union Theological Seminary.
Edwards spent a year in intensive study of early Church history, then began to seek out anyone who had known Watchman Nee and his church planting ministry in China. He first sought the company of Beta Sheirich, a former co-worker of Nee's who had returned from China to a fellowship in Louisville, Kentucky.