Basic Lessons on Life

by Witness Lee

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the Local Churches movement and the founder of Living Stream Ministry. He was born in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Wang and later became a close coworker of Watchman Nee. Witness Lee moved to Taiwan in 1949 as the Communists were advancing in mainland China. During the 1950s, his ministry extended throughout Southeast Asia and in 1962 Lee moved to the United States, relocating the base of his ministry to Southern California. He gave his last public conference in February 1997 at the age of 91. Many of Lee's spoken messages have been published in over 400 books and translated into more than fourteen different languages. Lee's major work is Life-study of the Bible, comprising over 25,000 pages of commentary on every book of the Bible from the perspective of the believers' enjoyment and experience of God's divine life in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Lee was also the chief editor of a new translation of the Bible entitled the Recovery Version.

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started reading this book with a brother whom the Lord gave us in a burden, and it took us more than a year to finish reading it. I have to testify that it's been such an enjoyable time to get into the words and be supplied so richly by the Lord and the Christ in both of us. I had never had that much prayers while reading a ministry book until I started this one with the brother. During the year, I was supplied and enjoying more each time than before. Praise the Lord that we can have a inherited portion with the saints and to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are of Christ and His love!

[Samuel Xiong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Each chapter is short (roughly 3-5 pages), but packed full of content and verse references to aid believers of all stages in knowing and experience Life (the eternal Zoe). A must read for any Christian and great for a small group reading appropriate for all stages from unbelievers to the more mature.