Knowing Life and the Church

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in August 1953 in service meetings in Taipei, Taiwan. It consists of twenty-three chapters: chapters 1 through 7 emphasize the matter of knowing life, chapters 8 through 14 emphasize knowing the church, chapters 15 through 20 emphasize basic knowledge of the service, and chapters 21 through 23 are words of leading in relation to the work and service in all the churches.

Life being the goal of God’s creation and redemption    _ch.1
Life being God Himself enjoyed by man    _ch.2
The obstacles God’s life encounters in man    _ch.3
The subjective obstacles encountered by God’s life in us    _ch.4
The pathway of life    _ch.5
The way and life of the cross    _ch.6
Knowing and experiencing the discipline of the Holy Spirit    _ch.7
Knowing the church and the basis for discerning the church    _ch.8
The proper church — the mingling of God with man    _ch.9
The types of the tabernacle, the altar, and the Ark in the church    _ch.10
The building up of the Body of Christ    _ch.11
The proper way to follow the Bible and the inner life    _ch.12
The spiritual requirements of a Christian and the standard for testing these requirements    _ch.13
The reality of the church and the experience of the cross    _ch.14
God’s work of redemption — the mingling of God and man    _ch.15
All service being initiated by God    _ch.16
Preparing ourselves to meet the Lord’s need    _ch.17
Being joined to the Lord in the matter of service    _ch.18
The principle of God’s breaking    _ch.19
God’s breaking, not man’s magnanimity being the way of life    _ch.20
The result of the work being based on the worker    _ch.21
Needing to be earnest and not loose in working for the Lord    _ch.22
Concerning the church and service    _ch.23