The Normal Christian Church LifeThis volume was originally published in Chinese in 1938. In it the author outlined the nature of New Testament Christianity as seen in the establishment of local churches and the corporate life of a community of believers who function together in a biblical manner. Its influence was felt immediately throughout all of China and much of the rest of Asia. There was a great demand for an edition in English, so the author made the translation himself and it was published under the title, Concerning Our Missions. But at that time its message made no extensive penetration into North America. Today, however, there is an increasing hunger for reality in Christian experience, and for renewed power and life among groups of believers who long to be a local expression of the Body of Christ. To all such Watchman Nee has a message, with his gifted insight into the Word of God and his experimental knowledge of life in the Spirit. |
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Page 5 - For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared...