First, churches affiliated with this movement take no name except a geographical marker, such as "the local church in Chicago." Second, the group has no authority structure. Two of the group's traits immediately strike many evangelicals as strange. The local churches claim more than 30,000 U.S. After Nee died in 1972 in a Communist jail, Lee became the group's most prominent teacher. The movement Nee founded during the 1920s in China subsequently spread to the West. But LSM spokesman Chris Wilde said the document has not been widely distributed. Now, the Fuller statement says, its faculty and administration "unreservedly recommend that all Christian believers likewise extend to them the right hand of fellowship." As a result of the Fuller dialogue, representatives of the local churches and LSM editors published a 39-page statement of their teachings in January 2007. The Fuller representatives cited several areas of special concern, "such as the Trinity, the mingling of divinity and humanity, deification, modalism, their interpretation and practice of the 'local' church, the divine and human natures of Christ, and their attitude toward believers outside their congregations." Three Fuller faculty members-president Richard Mouw, theology dean Howard Loewen, and systematic theology professor Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen-met five times face-to-face with influential local church figures to discuss their beliefs.
The booklet also includes a three-year-old statement from Fuller Theological Seminary. They are not a dangerous ensnarement of the Devil." "The local churches are a legitimate, theologically orthodox, spiritually faithful involvement by means of which you offspring can develop genuine Christian commitment and maturity. "If you are a parent, proud of your young adult offspring's seemingly overnight spiritual blossoming but afraid that he or she is going to crash and burn in spiritual chaos, let me reassure you," Passantino writes. (CRI published critiques in the 1970s that influenced other watchdog groups.) Passantino Coburn, who coauthored The New Cults with Walter Martin, writes passionately and personally about the "most significant reassessment from my career." Hanegraaff says the local churches fit neither the theological or sociological definition of cultic activity. Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute (CRI), and Gretchen Passantino Coburn, director of Answers in Action, each published their new support in a November booklet by the Defense and Confirmation Project, founded to rebut criticism of Nee and Lee.
The Conclusion of the New Testament (436 messages) Lesson Books, Levels 1-6 (144 lessons) These lesson books are based on and compiled from the writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee and were designed to teach the truth to junior high and high school students during their summer school of truth.Two notable critics have changed their minds on the controversial "local churches" movement that follow the teachings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. A general topical index and an index of select theological and scriptural terms is also included.
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The Collected Works of Witness Lee (139 volumes) This publication series contains 139 volumes with over 77,000 pages of ministry, given from 1932 to 1997, including hymns written by Brother Witness Lee and notes from his personal Bibles. It is a collection of the messages, publications, manuscripts, and hymns of Brother Watchman Nee. Selected titles The All-inclusive Christ, by Witness Lee (16 chapters) Central Messages: Christ is All Spiritual Matters and Things, by Watchman Nee (2 chapters) The Economy of God, by Witness Lee (24 chapters) The Glorious Church, by Watchman Nee (6 chapters) The Gospel of God (1), by Watchman Nee (14 chapters) The Gospel of God (2), by Watchman Nee (12 chapters) The Knowledge of Life, by Witness Lee (14 chapters) The Ministry of God's Word, by Watchman Nee (18 chapters) The Orthodoxy of the Church, by Watchman Nee (9 chapters) The Prayer Ministry of the Church, by Watchman Nee (5 chapters) Subscription Only: The Collected Works of Watchman Nee (62 volumes) This publication series contains 62 volumes with over 15,000 pages and covers the years from 1922 to 1952.
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Publications Included Free (also included with a subscription): Life-study of the Old and the New Testament, by Witness Lee (1,984 messages) The Life-study of the Bible is a book-by-book study of the entire Bible with the focus on life.
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