Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) (1905–June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the controversial local churches movement and the founder of the Living Stream Ministry. He was born in Chefoo, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a born again Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Dang Wang. Later he was influenced by the late Chinese Christian worker Watchman Nee.

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  • Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) (1905–June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the controversial local churches movement and the founder of the Living Stream Ministry. He was born in Chefoo, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a born again Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Dang Wang. Later he was influenced by the late Chinese Christian worker Watchman Nee. Witness Lee worked with him in Shanghai and later moved to Taiwan in the late 1940s as the Communists were advancing in China. During the 1950s, Lee worked with T. Austin-Sparks, who held conferences with him in Taiwan in 1955 and 1957. In 1948, Lee extended his ministry from Taiwan to cities in Malaysia and Indonesia. In 1950 his ministry reached Manila, Japan in 1957, the United States in 1958, and extending to other countries in the Americas and Africa, including Ghana by 1972. Witness Lee's ministry emphasized the experience of "Christ as life" and the believers as the Body of Christ. It was his conviction that God's goal can only be carried out as believers renounce all forms of sectarianism, adopt the proper standing as a church in their locality, and maintain the oneness of the Body of Christ. These "local churches" were soon established in the Western hemisphere and South-East Asia. In the last decade, a number of churches have been founded in Russia and in eastern European countries. The Local Church movement is now in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. While Lee claimed that his teachings were part of the original Christian faith, his Recovery version of the Bible and some of his major teachings have been criticized as cultlike and heretical by evangelical and mainstream Christian theologians and ministers. In 2001, Lee's organization, Living Stream Ministry, sued Harvest Book publishers for including the Local Churches in an encyclopedia of cults and new religions. They lost their suit. In January 2007, more than 70 theologians and pastors from seven countries posted an open letter detailing the ways in which Lee's teaching and Living Stream Ministry separated believers from true Christianity. They called on Local Churches to end their alienation from Christian denominations.
  • Witness Lee nasceu em Chefoo, Província de Shandong, na China, em 1905. Se tornou um cristão em 1925 e mais tarde sofreu influência do cristão chinês Watchman Nee. Witness Lee mudou-se para Xangai alguns anos depois para trabalhar com Nee. Em 1933, Lee transformou-se num cooperador de tempo integral de Watchman Nee. Na década de 40, como o Comunismo estava avançando na China, Witness Lee foi mandado por Watchman Nee para Taiwan para continuar o ministério de Nee ali. Durante os anos 50, ele trabalhou com Theodore Austin-Sparks, com quem teve conferências em Taiwan em 1955 e 1957. Em 1948, Lee estendeu o ministério de Taiwan até cidades na Malásia e na Indonésia. Em 1950, o ministério chegou em Manila, em 1957 foi a vez do Japão, em 1958 foi a vez dos Estados Unidos e um ano depois o ministério chegava ao Brasil. Mais tarde, em 1963 o ministério de Lee chegou ao Canadá, em 1965 na Coréia do Sul, em 1970 na Nova Zelândia e Austrália, na Alemanha e na Nigéria em 1971 e em Gana no ano de 1972. Segundo o testemunho defendido por Witness Lee e Watchman Nee, Deus estaria restaurando suas verdades que durante os anos foram perdidas ou deturpadas e esta restauração começou através de Martinho Lutero e os reformistas e continuou através de Madame Guyon, Conde Zinzendorf, John Nelson Darby, os Irmãos Unidos da Inglaterra, Watchman Nee e ele mesmo. Ele acreditava que uns das principais razões que Deus levantara ele e Watchman Nee foi para restaurar a unidade de todos os crentes em Cristo, e a expressão prática dessa unidade, seria através da prática das igrejas locais e qualquer igreja fundada fora da base da localidade seria uma facção, uma divisão. Lee visitou os Estados Unidos em 1958 e 1960. Ele começou a reunir-se com um número de crentes em Los Angeles, San Francisco e Nova Iorque. Em 1962, Witness Lee retornou aos Estados Unidos e fixou sua residência, ajudando mais ainda o estabelecimento da igreja local em Los Angeles. Ele estabeleceu em 1965, a Stream Publishers que depois tornou-se a Living Stream Ministry, em Anaheim, Califórnia que foi um veículo de circulação das mensagens gravadas por ele e por Watchman Nee. Ele ministrou várias conferências, principalmente nos EUA e na Ásia. Witness Lee morreu em 1997, na cidade de Anaheim, sul de Los Angeles, Califórnia.
  • 李常受(Witness Lee,1905年-1997年6月9日),华人基督教人士,在中国大陆时,曾是倪柝声重要的同工之一;移居海外以后,以倪柝声职事主要的继承者自居。认为他是按照倪柝声之心愿,注重基督、灵、生命、教会,在全球各地建立地方教会,并接续倪氏之教训并加以发扬光大者。 李常受領導的地方教会(有人以「呼喊派」称呼中国大陆境内的地方教会或其分支)被部分基督教人士指为异端或极端教派,甚至指李否认圣父、圣子、圣灵的「三位一体」。不过也有人认为李氏的神学理论仍属正统基督教信仰之列。他所主导编译之圣经恢复本,其英文版是首本由华人主导翻译之英文圣经。
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  • Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) (1905–June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the controversial local churches movement and the founder of the Living Stream Ministry. He was born in Chefoo, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a born again Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Dang Wang. Later he was influenced by the late Chinese Christian worker Watchman Nee.
  • Witness Lee nasceu em Chefoo, Província de Shandong, na China, em 1905. Se tornou um cristão em 1925 e mais tarde sofreu influência do cristão chinês Watchman Nee. Witness Lee mudou-se para Xangai alguns anos depois para trabalhar com Nee. Em 1933, Lee transformou-se num cooperador de tempo integral de Watchman Nee. Na década de 40, como o Comunismo estava avançando na China, Witness Lee foi mandado por Watchman Nee para Taiwan para continuar o ministério de Nee ali.
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