The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1989, Volume 1
About this audiobook
The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1989, volume 1, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from January 1 through November 21, 1989. In 1989 Brother Lee spoke fifty-two messages that were published in the Life-study of Numbers. These Life-study messages are not included in The Collected Works of Witness Lee. Brother Lee remained in Irving, Texas, during the first part of January 1989. He returned to Anaheim, California, in the second week of January and remained there until the end of the third week. At the end of the month he visited Hacienda Heights and San Diego, California, and returned to Anaheim in the beginning of February. From the second week in February through the end of the month he visited San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Pleasant Hill, Berkeley, and San Gabriel, California, before returning to Anaheim. At the end of the first week in March Brother Lee traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, and remained there until the end of the third week in March. He then visited Quezon City, Philippines, and Taichung and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, before returning to Taipei at the beginning of April. He remained in Taipei until the end of the third week in April and then visited Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Japan, before returning to Anaheim in the middle of May. At the end of the third week in May Brother Lee visited Cleveland, Ohio, and Newton and Cambridge, Massachusetts, until the end of the first week in June. At that time he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of 1989. The contents of this volume are divided into fifteen sections, as follows: 1. A message given in Irving, Texas, on January 1. This message is included in this volume under the title The Conclusion of the Book of Leviticus. 2. Two messages given in Anaheim, California, in Chinese by telephone to gospel teams gathered in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 10 and November 21. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship and Blessings before the Gospel Teams' Departure for the Spread of the Gospel. 3. Six messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 21 through October 16. These messages are included in this volume under the title Establishing Churches to Build Up the Body of Christ, Practicing the New Way, and Being Trained in Truth, Life, and Service. 4. A message given in Hacienda Heights, California, on January 22. This message is included in this volume under the title The Practice of the New Way and Living in the Spirit. 5. Five messages given in San Diego, California, on January 26 through 29. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Lord's Present Recovery concerning the Building Up of the Body of Christ. 6. A message given in San Diego, California, to elders from northwest Mexico on January 27. This message is included in this volume under the title Exercising to Take the Biblical Way for the Increase of the Church. 7. Four messages given in Chinese in Anaheim, California, on February 3 through 5. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Organic Building Up of the Body of Christ. 8. A message given in Chinese in Anaheim, California, on February 6. This message is included in this volume under the title The Practice of Begetting, Nourishing, Perfecting, and Building in the Work among the Students. 9. Five messages given in San Francisco and San Jose, California, on February 7 through 12. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Organic Work and the Organic Meetings of the Organic Body of Christ. 10. Three messages given in San Francisco and Berkeley, California, on February 8 through 20. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship concerning the New Way to Practice the Church Life. 11. Nine messages given in San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Pleasant Hill, and Berkeley, California, on February 9 through 19. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Practical and Organic Building Up of the Church and are included in this volume under the same title. 12. Nine messages given in Chinese and English in San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Pleasant Hill, and Berkeley, California, on February 9 through 17. These messages are included in this volume under the title Questions, Answers, and Fellowship concerning the Organic Practice of the New Way. 13. A message given in San Gabriel, California, on February 27. This message is included in this volume under the title One Vision of Two Needs. 14. Five messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 7 through 21. These messages were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled The Glorious Vision and the Way of the Cross and are included in this volume under the same title. 15. Six messages given in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan, on March 8 through 30. These messages were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled The Organic Practice of the New Way and are included in this volume under the same title.
About the author
Born in 1905 in northern China, Witness Lee was raised in a Christian family and educated in English-speaking schools. At the age of 19 he believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and consecrated himself to preach the gospel. Early in his service, Witness Lee met Watchman Nee and began to labor together with him. In 1949 Witness Lee was sent by Watchman Nee to Taiwan to ensure that the things delivered to them by the Lord would be preserved. In 1962 Witness Lee came to the United States and began to minister here. He ministered in weekly conferences, delivering several thousand spoken messages until 1997. He gave his last public conference in February 1997 at the age of 91. His major work, Life-Study of the Bible, comprises 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 Spirit.
