Burdened with the need of a firm foundation of the Christian life, brother Watchman Nee gave a series of basic lessons on practical Christian living during the training session for workers held in Kuling, Foochow, China in 1948. He expressed the hope that these essential lessons might be faithfully learned by God's people, thereby laying a good foundation for the building up of the Body of Christ. All quotations of the Scriptures, unless otherwise indicated, are from the American Standard Version of the Bible (1901).