Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee [Paperback]

Angus Kinnear (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0875087051 | ISBN-13: 978-0875087054 | Publication Date: December 1992

The engrossing, moving biography of one of China?s better-known Christians, the dedicated evangelist and gifted Bible teacher Watchman Nee.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Christian Literature Crusade (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875087051
• ISBN-13: 978-0875087054
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 16, 2002

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Matthew R. Green (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee (Paperback)

Against the Tide came highly recommended to me, but I was unfortunately disappointed by it. There are two kinds of biographies, those that take you alongside a person and those who take you inside a person. This is of the former. This is one of those biographies where you learn all about what Watchman did and the events that were going on around him, but you don't see very much of what was really happening in his life and heart. There were hints of what made him tick, but only hints. In the end, I walked away feeling as if I knew what Nee did, but now who he was or why he did those things. This would make an excellent companion to other biographies of Nee's life or a solid foundation for research on Nee in general, but it fails to be inspiring or motivating.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Life of Watchman Nee, June 9, 2008

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David D. Flowers (The Woodlands, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee (Paperback)

Nee's biography has helped me to understand the context of his writings and lectures. It has helped me to understand a man that I greatly admire... that many have misunderstood.

Angus Kinnear has done the church a great service in penning an orderly account of the life of Watchman Nee. His life was one of great struggle and constant oppossition. And his writings and his lectures are biblically sound and evidently life-changing.

One Western missionary writes, "There is no doubt that Mr. Nee was a man raised up by the Lord to inject the truths of the gospel into the very bloodstream of the Chinese people. His words stuck like burrs. His books and tracts ran everywhere. If one was asked to draw up a short list of the most influential Chinese Christians there have ever been, it would be hard to leave him out."

If you adore Nee's writings or you are just curious to know the man behind the name... you will appreciate this telling biography of a great Christian leader in a dark cold land.

The author writes, "Watchman's inner peace derived, thus, from a sense of destiny, which in this life is perhaps God's greatest gift to a man."

Learn of this "man of destiny" and be encouraged by the testimony of a believer who had depth of insight into the Lord Jesus Christ. This biography is written by "an observer at a distance". The book delivers what it promises.

I recommend reading:
The Normal Christian Life (Hendrickson Christian Classics)
Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
The Release of the Spirit
The Spiritual Man (3 volume set)

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have ever read., April 4, 1999

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This review is from: Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee (Paperback)

Outstanding accounting of the life of Watchman Nee for students of his writings. His dedication and faith to the end were encouraging, yet brought tears to my eyes.