The Genuine Church Life

Based on the ministry of brothers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, the holy word for morning revival on, The Genuine Church Life, also provides a limited review of the 2017 Thanksgiving Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, on 23-26 November 2017.

The Lord wants to recover not only the church but also the church life, the living of the church, the living that matches the church which is according to God’s heart’s desire.

We need to realize and know the basic principles for the practice of the church life, be headed up in Christ to be His Body, have the issue of life – the church life as a house of feasting for God’s building, be in the fellowship which is the reality of the church life, know the Scriptural way to meet and serve, and practice the church life in the consciousness of the one new man.

What a rich speaking from the Lord for us all to be perfected and brought back to His original intention, so that He may gain a genuine church life!

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The Genuine Church Life – Banners

In the real church life the service to the Lord is rendered, the testimony of the Lord is seen, and the love toward the Lord is poured out; this is the real expression of the Body of the Lord, which is a vessel to contain the Lord and to express Him.

Fellowship—the circulation of the divine life in the Body of Christ—is the reality of the church life, and this circulation of the divine life brings all the members of the Body of Christ into oneness.

In order to practice the scriptural way to meet and to serve for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need a revived living and a labor in shepherding that flow out from our love of the Lord.

The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to bring forth the one new man, and this requires that we practice the church life in the consciousness of the one new man by taking Christ as our person, being constituted with Christ, and being renewed in the spirit of the mind.

Enjoyment from the HWMR on, The Genuine Church Life

Week 1 – Basic Principles for the Practice of the Church Life

Week 2 – The Church Life – a Life of being Headed up in Christ

1. God’s Eternal Intention is to Head up All Things in Christ, the Head over All Things
2. God is Working to Liberate His Creation from Bondage by Heading up All things in Christ
3. We need to realize that the Proper Church Life is a Life of being Headed up in Christ
4. In the Church Life we Take the Lead to be Headed up in Christ by Growing in Life
5. We are Headed up in Christ through the Divine Dispensing which is Sweet and Intimate
6. The more we Grow in Life, the more we are Headed up in Christ by His Life and Light

Week 3 – The Issue of Life – the Church Life as a House of Feasting for God’s Building

1. Life Meets the Need of Every Man’s Case to Build the House of God (Gospel of John)
2. The Issue of Life is the Church Life as a House of Feasting in Christ’s Resurrection
3. Church Life is a Life of Feasting: we Serve the Lord and Testify of Resurrection Life
4. Loving the Lord to the Uttermost in the Church Life and Wasting Ourselves upon Him
5. Having a Proper Concept of Value and Treasuring Christ above All Persons and Things
6. Treasuring Christ and Serving, Testifying, and Loving the Lord in the Church Life

Week 4 – Fellowship – the Reality of the Church Life

1. Fellowship is the Circulation of the Divine Life in the Body of Christ
2. God has Called us into the Fellowship of His Son, the Participation in Christ
3. Fellowship means we are One Spirit with the Lord: we Enjoy Him and Keep the Oneness
4. The Experience of the Cross bring us into a Deeper Fellowship in the Body of Christ
5. Our Natural Man needs to be Dealt with for us to have the Fellowship of the Body
6. We Practice the Fellowship of the Body when we Come to the Lord’s Table and Eat the Bread

Week 5 – The Scriptural Way to Meet and to Serve for the Building up of the Body of Christ

1. Crucial Points of the Scriptural Way to Meet for the Building up of the Body of Christ
2. The Church is an Organism, so we all are being Perfected to Function in the Body
3. Developing our Organic Function as Members and Prophesying to Build up the Church
4. Cooperating with the Lord to Recover the New Testament Priesthood of the Gospel
5. A Daily Revived Living: Renewed every Morning and Freshly Transformed every day
6. Living an Overcoming Life and Redeeming the Time to Contact People for Shepherding Them

Week 6 – Practicing the Church Life in the Consciousness of the One New Man

1. God Intends to have the Church as the One New Man to Express Him and Represent Him
2. Being Saturated with Christ for the One New Man who will Usher in the Kingdom of God
3. Having the Consciousness of the One New Man; in the New Man Christ is All and in All
4. We need to Practice the Church Life with the Consciousness of the One New Man
5. Living in the Inward Parts of Christ and Realising our Equal Status in the New Man
6. Continually Experiencing Christ in His Inward Parts for the Church as the One New Man

To prepare for our prophesy for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to contact the Lord and get into His word. A helpful website with prophesying reference and the main points for each of the weeks is ChurchInfo – Prophesying Reference, and in particular for this week you can check out the articles for week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, and week 6.