The Glorious Vision and the Way of the Cross

by Witness Lee

To serve the Lord is a tremendous matter, and in this book, Witness Lee fellowships concerning the vision we receive when we are called to serve, the way this vision leads us onto, the kind of person such a called one must be, and the power that enables us to be such a person.“Every servant of the Lord begins by being called…It is not the church that is calling you, nor is it the work of the gospel team that is calling you; it is the Lord Himself who has called you. When you are called, you receive the vision. The calling of the Lord is the appearing of the God of glory to you…The glorious vision always leads us onto a way. If we have the seeing, there must also be the walking. This walk is the way of the cross.”

58 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1989

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

[Lilo Xu · Rating 5 out of 5]

as God's people, we all have a heart to serve the Lord. to serve the Lord requires a glorious vision. it is not that the matter we see the vision is gloriouss, but it is the object that we see is glorious. from the example of Abraham and apostle Paul, they met the Lord, called by the Lord and saw the glorious vision, which changed their whole life, and stregthened them to follow and to serve the Lord. even when we recall how we got saved, it is also because we saw the glorious vision of the Lord, and we got captured by this person we saw. when the Lord appeared to us and spoke to us, it is the glorious vision which changes our being and will govern our life. and we need to serve the Lord according to this glorious vision.