Witness Lee on the Local Church
Description: Both Witness Lee and Watchman Nee teaches concerning the ground of the local church. Keeping the scriptural ground of local church preserves the practical oneness of the Body of Christ.
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The material in this Website concerning the ground of the local church will be drawn mainly from Scripture and supplemented by the ministry of Witness Lee . To begin, the New Testament presents two distinct aspects of the church. There is the singular church of God (1 Cor. 10:32), which is the universal church, composed of all the genuine believers in Christ throughout the ages. There are also the plural churches of God (1 Cor. 11:16), which refer to the local churches, each comprised of all the believers m
In the New Testament record, all the believers in a city met collectively as the local church in that city, the biblically prescribed unit of locality (Acts 8:1, 13:1; Rom 16:1; 1 Cor 1:2; Rev. 1:11). Though the local churches in the New Testament were many, their plurality never detracted from the intrinsic oneness of the universal church. Rather, each local church existed for the purpose of representing and expressing the universal church in its respective city. There was at that time only one local churc
God has used Witness Lee, a faithful minister of Christ in the twentieth century, to raise up more than two thousand local churches across the globe. Earnestly concerned about the state of rampant sectarianism and confusion in present-day Christianity, Witness Lee devoted much of his ministry to teaching what he had seen in the Scripturesconcerning the ground of the local church. Witness Lee faithfully presented the biblical pattern of the early believers meeting simply as the local church in the city in wh
Witness Lee on the Local Church