To Shepherd according to God is to Minister the Processed God Constituted into us

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

To shepherd according to God (1 Pet. 5:2) requires that we become one with God, we are constituted with God, we live God, we represent God, and we minister God. We can shepherd according to God only by becoming the same as He is in life, nature, … [Continue reading]

We need to Represent God and Function as the Acting God to Shepherd According to God

2 Cor. 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

As believers in Christ and members of the Body of Christ we are commissioned by the Lord to shepherd His sheep, the saints in the church, according to God (1 Pet. 5:2). To shepherd according to God requires that we are one with God, we are filled … [Continue reading]

We Become God’s Expression by Eating, Digesting, and Assimilating God to Live God

The human virtues that are produced in us through our eating, digesting, and assimilating God with His attributes become the expression of God (Eph. 4:1-3). Witness Lee

The high peak of the divine revelation in the Bible is that God became man to make man God in life, nature, expression, and function, so that God would obtain a corporate expression in the universe in man. Through regeneration we receive the divine … [Continue reading]

Being Metabolically Constituted with God to Live God and Shepherd According to God

Shepherding according to God requires that we be constituted with God.

Shepherding according to God - as the Lord Jesus and Paul did in their living and ministry - is by first becoming one with God, being constituted with God, living God, expressing God, representing God, and ministering God so that we may be God in … [Continue reading]

Shepherding According to God by being One with God to Shepherd According what He is

God is love, light, holiness, and righteousness; to shepherd according to God is to shepherd according to what God is in His attributes.

This week we are exploring the deeper meaning and implication of the expression, "shepherding according to God" in 1 Pet. 5:2. The Lord Jesus as the good Shepherd took good care of His sheep when He was on earth, and now in His heavenly ministry He … [Continue reading]

Being One with Christ in His Heavenly Ministry to Shepherd God’s Flock, the Church

John 21:16 He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.

In the previous articles, we have seen what it means to shepherd according to God by taking a closer look at the pattern of the Lord Jesus and the pattern of the Apostle Paul. A pattern gives us a way practically how to do a certain thing, and the … [Continue reading]

Love is the Most Excellent Way to Be and Do anything for the Building up of the Body

I hope that there will be a genuine revival among us by our receiving this burden of shepherding. If all the churches receive this teaching to participate in Christ’s wonderful shepherding, there will be a big revival in the recovery. Witness Lee

The Lord Jesus as the Good Shepherd is today being reproduced and multiplied in us all as His sheep, His believers, by our cooperation with Him through the exercise of our spirit to be one with the Lord as the inward organic shepherd. Once it was … [Continue reading]