The Ministry of the Spirit and of Righteousness makes us Living Letters of Christ to Express Him

Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Cor. 3:6

For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem is for us to live out and work out God's complete salvation according to the unique New Testament ministry, the ministry of the age; this ministry is the ministry of the Spirit - the ministry of the … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to be vitalized personally and with companions so that they might “go fishing”

But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Tim. 2:22

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would get vitalized personally and with a few co-laboring companions to the extent that they would “go fishing” to get some “new fish” (Dan. 1:6; 2 Tim. 2:22). The elders should not try to form the groups in … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to “go fishing” to contact people consistently until they gain someone

And He said to them, Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matt. 4:19

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would realize that there are many sinners, many “fish” around them in the place where they live, and would “go fishing” — go contact them consistently week after week until they eventually gain someone (Matt. … [Continue reading]

We have the Divine Right to Participate in God’s Life, Nature, Being, Image, and Glory

For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled. Rom. 5:10

As believers in Christ, we experience God's organic salvation, and we go up level by level until we become beings in the New Jerusalem; as God-men, we have the divine right to participate in what God is so that we may be made the same as Christ. The … [Continue reading]

Seeing a Vision of the New Jerusalem and Living out and Working out the New Jerusalem

And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev. 21:2

We thank the Lord that the vision He gave us in His present recovery is the all-inclusive vision of God's eternal economy with its ultimate consummation - the vision of the New Jerusalem. In our daily living we can live out the New Jerusalem to … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to realize that preaching the gospel is to be fishers of men

And when they heard these things, they became silent and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also God has given repentance unto life. Acts 11:18

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would realize that preaching the gospel is to be fishers of men, which requires contacting people patiently, again and again until they are “caught” unto life and brought out of the world into the kingdom of … [Continue reading]

We need to Serve God according to the Completed Vision of the Age and Closely Follow it

Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26:19

In every age, there is the vision of that age and God's people need to follow God and seek Him according to that vision; in this age, we have the all-inheriting vision, the completed vision of the age through the ministry of the age, and we need to … [Continue reading]