Teachers' Training

by Witness Lee

44 pages, Paperback

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

[Reuben Bright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book very helpful in showing how we should speak and minister the truth. Some key portions I enjoyed:

2 Timothy 3:16 talks about the Scripture being profitable for teaching. If we have proper spiritual experience, we will realize that teaching is equal to revelation, and revelation is an opening of a veil. Thus, the Bible is profitable for rolling away the veil, and our view in teaching the truth should be that it is a matter of rolling away the veil gradually, little by little, to those who hear.

From Ephesians 6:17 — “And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God” — we see that the sword is directly the Spirit and indirectly the word of God to deal with Satan. Thus, to deal with the enemy, we need the Bible to become the Spirit. We can apply this to an experience of being offended and then coming to the word of God—not to touch the matter of emotions, but to read the Bible with the exercise of the spirit. As we read this portion of the Word with an exercised spirit, it spontaneously kills that offended emotion directly and deals with the evil forces (Eph. 6:12) indirectly.

We need to speak to the young people the word of God in an experiential way. If we are lacking in experience, we need to check with the Lord point by point, asking Him, “Do I have experience in this matter? Am I able to teach others in an experiential way? Lord, have mercy on me; I need experience in this matter.” This is the way to prepare yourself to teach every lesson.

Although only 43 pages, this little book is packed with riches—highly recommended.