In order for us to know how to administrate and serve in the church as the Body of Christ, we need to be clear concerning the church being the one new man produced by Christ on the cross and the Body of Christ being one yet having many members. Before we can do anything practically […]
Knowing how we Ought to Conduct Ourselves in the Church by seeing the One New Man
As believers in Christ, we need to conduct ourselves in the church in a way that brings forth the one new man as the goal of the Lord’s recovery; for this, we need to take care of God’s goal, His heart’s desire, and His central thought. This week in our morning revival we are prayerfully […]
Twelve Qualifications of a Person who Represents God Rightly in His Economy Today
As a conclusion to our week on the subject of, Being Fully Reconciled to God and Enlarged in Heart to Represent God Rightly in His Economy, today we want to see some qualifications of a person who represents God rightly on earth. God created us in His image and according to His likeness so that […]
We must be one with Christ as His Ambassadors to be the Acting God Representing Him
As those who have been regenerated and made ambassadors of God, we need to be one with Christ to be “the acting God” in expressing Him and representing Him, and we should not misrepresent God in front of His people. An ambassador is one who represents a higher authority and expresses the feeling and thoughts […]
Being Fully Reconciled to God causes us to be Enlarged in our Heart for the Church
Being fully reconciled to God causes us to be enlarged in our heart for the church, and how large our heart is depends on the degree of our reconciliation to God. We see this from the sequence in 2 Corinthians, where in ch. 5 Paul spoke of the ministry of reconciliation and his beseeching the […]
Being Fully Reconciled to God by being Brought into God to be One with the Lord
As believers in Christ, we have been initially reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, but now we need to be further reconciled to God by being brought into God to be in God and one with God practically. We were born in our sins and offenses, enemies of God and strangers to the covenant of […]
Shepherd the Saints as a Nursing Mother and an Exhorting Father for the Church Life
The apostles were a pattern of the glad tidings that they spread, and Paul shepherded the saints as a nursing mother and an exhorting father, imparting to them not only the gospel but even his own soul and life; we need to shepherd the saints in a similar manner. In the Gospels and in other […]