The Normal Christian Life

Encouraging and inspiring book. He shows things from the Scriptures about what the christian life can and should be, which I would never have seen for myself but which are clearly there when you follow his careful step by step exposition. It needs to be read slowly and carefully several times to take it all in. Nor is it just theory. His own experience of walking with God has led him to ask questions of the scriptures and given him insight.

I like his depth of understanding of the work of the cross. And also his understanding of human nature, and explaining in depth Paul’s teaching in Romans. I could identify with his explanations of human failings and it was refreshing and a relief to know I wasn’t alone in them.

This was a gift for a friend, so I don't know. It looked as if it might be hard to read.. hopefully my friend liked it.

Amazing!! Changed my life forever!! It is unfortunate that so many christians do not realise unless they know who they are in Christ they will never live a fullfilled Christian life in the "gloirous heritence" we have through Jesus. These may seems just words to someone and I understand as it frustrated me for years this in Christ, in Christ. Then one day I spent hours and hours praying in tongues for a relevation!! And WOW!! No words to explain.......I got the relevation and the heavens opened with blessing upon blessing. PRAISE GOD I am now walking in my GLORIOUS INHERITANCE in all areas of my life!!

This is the standard read for living the Christian life. Nee shows us how to stop, be still & know that he is God. That's the key - how do you do it? & the answer is? You don't. You sit & you let the Spirit do it in you. The heart & the Mind must be changed, but we cannot do that ourselves. Nee explores Ephesians to show us the 3 steps: Sit, Walk & Stand - the title of the second section of this book. The Normal Christian life develops this person-changing process further. If you are a Christian you really should read this book.

A very complicated book. Buy if you like philosophy if you want an easy read, forget this one. Easy prose though

I would thoroughly commend this book as one which every Christian needs to go through at least once. Covering basic Christian doctrine from a biblical stand-point (no 'funny stuff') this is incredibly life-changing. I am sorry to say that I haven't heard this basic doctrinal teaching for a number of years now. Get a copy as soon as possible, I assure you, you won't regret it.

The classic book on the work of the Cross in the life of a believer in Jesus Christ. Watchman Nee was God's apostle to China, who was martyred by Mao's Red Guards, and this book is probably the most enduring of his many excellent works. It can be read by believers at every stage of their faith, but most especially in the early stages.

Absolutely loved this book. The best I’ve read.

Everybody should read this book.

Dieses Buch gibt sehr tiefe Einblicke in das Christliche Leben von Mr. Nee. Ist ein muss zu haben.Wenn wir alle so leben würden wie unser Heiland und Retter Jesus Christus, die Welt wäre nicht so korrupt und die Göttliche Liebe würde sich so schnell verbreiten und wir würden mit allen Völkern dieser Erde in Frieden leben.

When I first read the printed version of Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life" I sensed that here is a book revealing the hidden secrets of what really matters, a map pointing to Bali Ha'i (the island of heart's desire). It's a treasure trove of wisdom densely packed - fairly easy to read on the surface, yet needing repeated reading and meditation to fully unlock it. During my teenage years many emotional troubles made concentrating enough to retain its message difficult, so I longed to have an audiobook I could listen to again and again to get an overall grip on the book and anchor it in my mind.In the 1970s, audiobooks (also called "talking books") were virtually unheard of unless you were blind. Thank God sighted people can have them today and there now exists the recording I longed for. There are even two editions; I own both for variety, rotating a copy between my house and my car. The readings are clear and generally rightly nuanced, and the narrators' voices can be listened to repeatedly without becoming annoying (at least to me). They are doing a narration, not preaching a sermon. A slight thing I noticed is that although Nee was Chinese, both he and his editors spoke and wrote in a British style of English. Yet the narrators sound American, like me; to hear them speak of "shillings and sixpence" with an American accent is a little amusing but certainly not distracting. The message is so wonderful that focusing on THAT will be rewarding forever!The audiobooks encouraged me to meditate again on the printed version, which includes helpful footnotes by editor Angus I. Kinnear who prepared the book for its first publication in Mumbai, India in 1957. There's also a study guide by Harry Foster published separately in England in 1976 available on Amazon. Both Kinnear and Foster heard Watchman Nee deliver the original late 1930s spoken addresses on which the book is based.Watchman Nee has been criticized in some circles because of the doctrines and practices of some of his disciples and colleagues - "guilt by association". It is no more legitimate than criticizing the apostle Paul for Hymenaeus, Alexander, Phygellus, Hermogenes, Philetus, Demas and "all who are in Asia" who had been Paul's associates and followers but decided to "distance themselves from him" (I Timothy 1:20; II Timothy 1:15; 2:17; 4:10). Some of them became proto-Gnostic heretics who claimed Paul as their hero while totally perverting what he actually said. Unlike them, Watchman Nee sometimes extrapolates beyond the Scriptures in a few of his other books but not in what we would think of as outright heresy. "The Normal Christian Life" has only one prominent mistake I've noticed: he applies Luke 17:26-37 ("one shall be taken, the other left behind") to the doctrine of the Rapture found in I Thessalonians 4:13-18; but the context of Luke's passage actually refers to the flood of Noah and the judgment on Sodom "taking away" the sinners, not the saved. Nee is not alone in this traditional misapplication. Just ignore his mistake here and don't let it rob you of the wonderful benefits of everything else he has to say.The message of "The Normal Christian Life" is not just for a few Christians who might enjoy it as their own particular interest or emphasis. Rather, it is the core of what it means to be a Christian. This is far different from what the average person thinks, or even the average Christian thinks. Had I read this book when I first believed in Jesus it would have put me on the right track and helped to save me from the will-power moralism of average Christianity. Nee's message may seem radical or strange, but that's only an indication of how far we've drifted from the Gospel of the Grace of God as it was revealed through Paul by the ascended Lord, Christ Jesus. The late Francis L. Patton, godly and able president of Princeton University (as quoted by William R. Newell in "Romans: Verse-By-Verse," 1938) said, "The only hope of Christianity is in the rehabilitating of the Pauline theology. It is back, back, back, to an incarnate Christ and the atoning blood, or it is on, on, on, to atheism and despair". I have found this to be true in my own life. May Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life" help you as it has helped me, to deeply experience faith, hope, and the love of God!

I know everyone has an opinion, and I will add one person’s opinion, Like they were under condemnation when I read it, yes because they were They were feeling convicted, Because the gentleman that wrote the book according to the word of God, and the word brings conviction, not condemnation, conviction It reveals, review and Reprove, It causes you to see yourself , And some of us are not willing to do that, so will criticize a persons book, because we can’t face the truth about ourselves, this is an excellent book inspired by Holy spirit, if you can get through the first chapter, it could be repetitive, but the word of God is Repetitive, and And that’s for a reason, human nature you don’t get it the first time it Has to be repeated in different forms inspired by the Holy Spirit, Repetition is part of life you don’t always get a different time it has to be repeated, because we are human, the book is powerful! It’s time to be true to yourself! If you want change in your life!