The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1978, volume 3, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from August 22 through December 31. From the beginning of this period until the end of the third week in September, Brother Lee ministered in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Toronto, Canada; Cleveland, Ohio; and Chicago, Illinois. He then returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the first week in November, after which he visited Spokane and Moses Lake, Washington; Vancouver, Canada; Seattle, Washington; and Dallas, Texas. At the beginning of December he returned to Anaheim and, except for a one-day visit to Irvine, California, remained there until the end of the year. The contents of this volume are divided into ten sections, as follows: 1. Five messages given in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 22 through 28. The contents of these messages were taken from personal notes taken by attendees in the meetings. The messages were edited and combined into four chapters. They are included in this volume under the title The Vision in the Lord's Recovery--Christ as Life for the Church as His Body. 2. Four messages given in Washington, D.C., on August 29 through September 1. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Crucial Principles for the Proper Church Life and are included in this volume under the same title. 3. Six messages given in New York City on September 1 through 4. They were previously published in a book entitled Crucial Elements of God's Economy and are included in this volume under the same title. 4. Nine messages given in Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; and Toronto, Canada, on September 5 through 14. They were previously published in a book entitled The Healthy Word and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. Eight messages given in Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, on September 15 through 20. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Recovery of Christ as Everything in the Church and are included in this volume under the same title. 6. Eleven messages given in Anaheim, California, on September 29 through December 16. They were previously published as part of a three-volume set containing messages given by Brother Lee during the years 1978 and 1979. The messages in this volume were previously published in an eleven-chapter book entitled Truth Messages and are included here under the same title. The other two volumes of the three-volume set were previously published as Life Messages, volume 1, and Life Messages, volume 2. They are contained, respectively, in The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1978, volume 2, and The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1979, volume 1. 7. Two messages given in Dallas, Texas, on November 24 and 26, 1978. They are included in this volume under the title God's Economy to Obtain a Building in Spirit. Additional messages given in the same conference were previously published as part of Life Messages, volume 1 (see The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1978, volume 2). 8. A message given in Irvine, California, on December 8. This message is included in this volume under the title The Church Life in the New Creation. 9. Seventeen messages given to a gathering of elders in Anaheim, California, on December 14 through 20. They were previously published in a book entitled Basic Principles concerning the Eldership and are included in this volume under the same title. 10. A message given in Anaheim, California, on December 31. This message is included in this volume under the title Crucial Revelations in the Epistle to the Ephesians.
