In the Wake of the New Way (Coming Back to the Vision at the Beginning of the Lord's Recovery)

By Steve Isitt

Our Wonderful Beginning"In 1962 the church life began in the United States with brother Witness Lee fully charged and burdened by the Lord to minister the word of God in this country. He testified that he came with a "particular commission to bring the Lord's recovery to the top Christian country". Before coming to the U.S.A., brother Lee served the Lord mainly in China, Taipei, and the Philippines and helped greatly in the establishing and building up of the local churches there. The response to his ministry in the United States was immediate and many seeking ones were contacted and added to the church, a substantial number coming from around the country to Los Angeles to begin the church life. The main burden our brother had at that time was to reveal Christ as the life-giving Spirit with all His unsearchable riches to the seeking believers. This burden began to be significantly discharged in the first conference meetings held in the United States in 1962, and the book The All-Inclusive Christ was published comprising those messages. His burden for several years was very much along this line as he ministered to the saints and to the churches that were raised up under his ministry. His focus was on the experience of Christ as life for the building up of the church. Many people were attracted by the enjoyment of Christ in the meetings and in the daily life of the saints in the local churches. The testimony "we're home" was heard often in the fellowship of rejoicing brothers and sisters in the church life.Then came the new way...and the changes that occurred, bringing in turmoil and division.I have been on the phone list of five "local churches" beginning January 1971. Although I was "banned from the meetings" 30 years later, my heart is still with the churches and with those responsible for taking action against me. Being separated from the saints was not my choice. That was the choice of the leadership. My choice was to address the truth. I had written a little "book" called In the Wake of the New Way and sent a copy to DanTowle of the Living Stream Ministry. The next thing I knew I was being disciplined in my locality for this writing which dealt with the actual factors that led to division in the churches and the departure of many church members from the fellowship. "Dear Dan, January 28, 2001 I have written a little book for the sake of fellowship, mainly with leading ones, concerning our past sixteen-year history of the new way. I think this period of time in the Lord's recovery warrants our careful study of both the benefits and the costs to the church in what was such a highly controversial move among us in thosebeginning years. I wanted to come to you because I feel it is safe to do so. If I am inaccurate or unfair in some way, perhaps you are the most qualified one to catch me that I could either make an adjustment or terminate the proposed fellowship..."I had no idea I would be doing much more writing than this first one. But this and any subsequent writing I did have been considered as "attacks" not as what they are - appeals to the leadership unto restoratve fellowship in the Body."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508451133
• ISBN13: 9781508451136
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"