The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1966, volume 2

Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1966, volume 2, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee primarily in Los Angeles, California, in August 1966. The final section of this volume consists of messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, in October and November 1966. From the middle of July to the end of September, Brother Lee remained in Los Angeles. At the beginning of October he began a six-month visit to the Far East, including Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The contents of this volume are divided into eight sections, as follows: 1. Six messages given during the summer training in Los Angeles, California, from August 3 through 6. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Exercise of Our Spirit. 2. Five messages given during the summer training in Los Angeles, California, from August 9 through 26. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Way to Enjoy Christ as the Word and the Spirit. 3. Nine messages given during the summer training in Los Angeles, California, from August 13 through 18. These messages are included in this volume under the title Practicing the Oneness according to the Heavenly Vision of the Body of Christ. 4. Seven messages given in Los Angeles, California, from August 23 through 26 and September 6. They are included in this section under the title The Way to Bear Fruit. The first six messages were previously published in The Ministry magazine in volume 3, number 9 through volume 4, number 5. 5. Six messages given in Los Angeles, California, on August 9 through 20. These messages are included in this volume under the title Additional Words in Response to the Testing and Testimonies of the Saints during the 1966 Summer Training in Los Angeles. 6. Fifteen messages given during the summer training in Los Angeles, California, from August 4 through 25. These messages were edited and previously published in a thirteen-chapter book entitled The Divine Spirit with the Human Spirit in the Epistles. 7. One message spoken at the conclusion of the summer conference and training in Los Angeles, California, on August 26. This message is included in this section under the title Enjoying the Riches of Christ to Bear Much Fruit as the Body of Christ, Standing on the Unique Ground of Oneness. 8. Seventeen messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 6 through 12 and November 1 and 11. These messages were translated from Chinese and are included in this volume under the title Being Delivered from Religious Practices by the Exercise of the Spirit.