Sit Walk Stand
(From preface): Compiled from the spoken ministry of Mr. Watchman Nee of Foochow and first published in Bombay. Sit, Walk, Stand continues to stir the hearts of readers with its arousing message. Although through successive editions the book has been slightly expanded, all the source material dates from a single period - the spacious days of evangelistic witness in China just prior to the Japanese war, when the author and his fellow Christians enjoyed a liberty in the service of God that is rare today. A message which expresses at once their triumphant assurance in the finished work of Christ and their humble sense of the high qualities called for in his servants has a fresh relevance for us now, when Christian work everywhere is on trial. (From Introduction): If the life of a Christian is to be pleasing to God it must be preperly adjusted to Him in all things. Too often we place the emphasis in our own lives upon the application of this principle to some single detail of our behavior or of our work for him. Often we fail therefore to appreciate either the extent of the adjustment called for or, at times even, the point from which it should begin. But God measures everything, from start to finish, by the perfections of His Son. Scripture clearly affirms that it is God's good pleasure "to sum up all things in Christ... in whom also we were made a heritage" (Eph. 1: 9-11).