The Vision, Practice, and Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ

We need to see the vision of the church as the Body of Christ, enter into the proper practice of the church life as a living in the Body, and function in our measure as members of the Body of Christ. The Lord wants to strengthen our vision of the church, recover our proper practice of the church life, and bring us into our normal function in the Body of Christ. May He do that in all His believers for His return!

Below is a compilation of sharing of enjoyment based on the 2014 Fall International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones (ITERO) messages and portions in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on the topic of, The Vision, Practice, and Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ. You can get this book via Living Stream Ministry online, on Itunes, or via Amazon.

The Vision, Practice, and Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ – HWMR

Week 1: God’s Purpose for the Church (1) – to Have the Divine Sonship in Full through Sanctification for the Corporate Expression of God

• God’s Purpose for the Church: having the Sonship, Dealing with Satan, and Heading up
• Christ is Leading the Many Sons of God into Glory to be God’s Expression Corporately
• The Divine Sonship is Accomplished by our being Mingled with God unto Sanctification
• Being Sanctified by the Spirit unto Sonship and Growing in the Life of Christ
• The Divine Sanctification is the Holding Line in the Carrying out of the Divine Economy

Week 2: God’s Purpose for the Church (2) – to Subdue God’s Enemy by Displaying His Multifarious Wisdom through the Church

• We have been Saved by Grace through Faith to be God’s Masterpiece, His New Creation
• Christ Became Wisdom to us from God as Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption
• Experiencing Christ Day-by-Day as Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption
• The Rainbow around God’s Throne Signifies that Christ Became Wisdom to us from God
• Christ Died for the Church to Sanctify her and Present her to Himself Glorious
• Through the Church God’s Multifarious Wisdom is made Known and the Enemy is Subdued!

Week 3: God’s Purpose for the Church (3) – to Head up All Things in Christ

• Enjoying the Dispensing of God’s Abundant Life Supply to be Headed up in Christ
• Seeing and Enjoying God’s Dispensing through the Ages until the Fullness of the Times
• Being Willing to be Headed up in Christ by Growing in Life and Living in the Light
• Growing in Life by Holding to Truth in Love for the Building up of the Body of Christ
• Growing in Christ by Acknowledging His Headship and by Allowing Him to Increase in us
• Growing up into Christ and Functioning in our Measure for the Building up of the Body

Week 4: Crucial Experiences in the Practice of the Church Life (1) – Our Soul being Subdued and Saturated with Christ as the Spirit and Christ being Released from the Imprisonment of the Soul

• The Church Life is Christ Experienced and Expressed by All the Saints Corporately
• Growing in Life by Having our Soul Subdued and Saturated with Christ as the Spirit
• Having the Divine Reality Wrought into us to Become our Reality, Life, and Living
• Being Open Vessels to the Lord’s Shining within from our Spirit, the Lamp of Jehovah
• If Christ Remains Imprisoned Within us, We Cannot have the Proper Church Life
• The Breaking of the Outer Man for the Release of the Spirit for God’s Expression

Week 5: Crucial Experiences in the Practice of the Church Life (2) – Aspects of the Church Life as a Living in the Body of Christ, the One New Man

• Experiencing the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity to Practice the Church Life
• Keeping the Oneness of the Spirit and Arriving at the Oneness of the Faith
• Arriving at the Oneness of the Faith in the Church Life as a Living in the Body
• Discerning the Intrinsic Factor and Purpose of the Winds of Teaching in the Church
• Learning Christ and being Kind and Tenderhearted to One Another for the Church Life

Week 6: Crucial Experiences in the Practice of the Church Life (3) – How to Realize the Church Life in a Practical Way in the Reality of the One New Man

• Being Diligent to Maintain and Keep the Oneness of the Spirit in All Lowliness
• Sacrificing Ourselves to be Meek in our Attitude to Keep the Oneness of the Spirit
• Being Long-Suffering in the Church Life Especially in Relation to our Speaking
• Bearing one Another in Love and Keeping the Oneness in the Uniting Bond of Peace
• Taking Christ as our Person for the New Man to Speak the Same Thing in One Accord
• Holding Christ as the Head and Teaching the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy

Week 7: The Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ (1) – the Vision of God’s Building and the Test of our Spirituality

• The Visions in the Scriptures are Related to God’s Building, which is the Church
• Building up the Body of Christ by Going Outside the Camp and Entering Within the Veil
• Today God needs a Remnant to Go Outside the Camp unto Christ for God’s Building
• God’s Building is the Test of our Spirituality; Real Spirituality is for the Body
• Being Measured, Checked, and Fashioned According to the Church, the House of God

Week 8: The Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ (2) – Through the Inner Experience of the Indwelling Christ

• The Heading up of All Things in Christ Involves the Building up of the Church
• God’s Economy and Goal are to Work Himself into Man and Build Man into Himself
• Building up the Church through the Inner Experience of the Indwelling Christ
• Allowing Christ to Make His Home in our Heart for the Building up of the Church
• Praying to Experience the Indwelling Christ for the Building up of the Church

Week 9: The Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ (3) – the Organic Building by the Growth of Life and the Mingling of God and Man and the Lord’s Need of Overcomers to Care for the Body and Build up the Body

• The Building up of the Body of Christ is the Growth in Life of All the Believers
• The Growth of the Body Depends on the Growth of God within us as Members of the Body
• The Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ is by the Mingling of God and Man
• God is Mingling Himself with us to Become our Life for His Corporate Expression
• Allowing God to Mingle Himself with us to be the Church, the Mingling of God and Man
• The Lord needs us to be the Overcomers who Build up the Body and Prepare His Bride