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Testimony of Appreciation

From the time that I began to seek to know the Lord Jesus and to know His word, I have been blessed to be under the care of so many dear brothers and sisters in Christ in the local churches and to have been able to read numerous publications by Witness Lee. While all of my Christian life has been spent in the local churches, my contact and fellowship with other Christians whom I befriended both in high school and college has confirmed to me that my experiences as a believer of Christ are the same as those experienced by other genuine lovers of the Lord Jesus regardless of background.

I was raised in the church in Bellevue, Washington and also spent four years meeting with the church in Seattle while I attended college at the University of Washington. In those years I came to know and love the Lord Jesus in a personal way and also began to treasure the Bible as the word of God. My first few years of college were anything but “holy”. But as I continued to meet and fellowship with the fellow seekers of Christ among my classmates and friends, and as I began to read the writings of Witness Lee, the Lord Jesus become increasingly real and wonderful to me and the Bible became the living, operating, and nourishing word of God to me (Hebrews 4:12).

During those years, I really treasured Witness Lee's Life-Study of the Bible. Books that were once mysterious and difficult for me, such as Hebrews and First Corinthians, were now opened and became so enjoyable and clear. Books that were already enjoyable to me, such as Genesis and John, became even more rich and edifying. I remember countless nights in which I would stay up into the early morning pouring over the Life-Study messages and the footnotes of the Recovery Version of the New Testament. Often these intense times in the Bible and Witness Lee's writing would cause me to desperately pray to the Lord asking Him to grant me the privilege of serving Him my entire life. In those moments alone with the Lord and His word, nothing was more real to me than the living God and nothing was more important to me than His move on the earth. These experiences and many more have left me without a doubt that Witness Lee was blessed with divine revelation through years of hungry seeking for the truth, intimate fellowship with God, and much life experience.

Because of all of the help that I have received through Witness Lee's ministry and through the care I received in the local church I am beginning to genuinely know Christ, love Christ, and serve Christ. Truly nothing this world has to offer me is more precious and worth giving my life for than the Lord Jesus Christ. I will praise the Lord for eternity for the dear lovers of Christ in the local churches and for the ministry of Witness Lee.

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