We need to remain in the process of being purified from all mixture by reading the Bible, the washing of the Lord’s life, and by our obedience to the truth. As believers in Christ, we can live out and work out the New Jerusalem by living and serving in the intrinsic significance of Ezra’s […]
Being Faithful to God and being Matched with Others in our Service to God in the Body
The central and crucial point of the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, the recovery books, is the proper and adequate leadership as seen with Nehemiah; in serving the Lord we need to be found faithful and we need to be willing to be matched with others to be the proper representation of the Body […]
The Recovery of Christ, the Oneness of the Body, and the Function of all the Members
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of Christ as our everything, the recovery of the oneness of the Body of Christ, and the recovery of the function of all the members of the Body for the building up of the Body. All the divine truths are in the Bible; we cannot add or take […]
We are under the Leadership of the Controlling Vision of God’s Eternal Economy
The leadership in the New Testament ministry is the leadership of the controlling vision of God’s eternal economy – and not the leadership of a controlling person; we need to see a clear, increasing, and complete vision of God’s economy so that we may be kept in the church life. In the New Testament, […]
God’s Delegated Authority is in the Teaching of the Leading ones for Oneness and Building up
The New Testament shows us God’s delegated authority in the leading ones in the ministry; this authority is for building up, and this delegated authority was in the teaching of the leading ones and not in their actions or the persons themselves. Our God is so wise; in His New Testament economy He has […]
There is One Ministry with One Leadership, and Authority is in the Ministry of the Word
According to the New Testament, the authority of the apostles is spiritual and it is in their ministry of the word, and in the New Testament, there is one ministry with one leadership. However, according to God’s concept, there is no permanent leader in the church, nor is there just one leading one – […]
In God’s Economy Leadership depends upon Spiritual Capacity and it’s Not Permanent
If we carefully read the Bible – especially the New Testament – we will realize that, in God’s eternal economy and in the Lord’s recovery, leadership depends upon spiritual capacity, and the leadership is not official, permanent, organizational, or hierarchical. This week in our crystallization study of 1&2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther we […]