God’s Building is the Test of our Spirituality; Real Spirituality is for the Body

The building up of the church is the aim of God's eternal purpose and plan; today God is doing only one thing: He is working to get a building, the church, as the mingling of God with man and the building up of the regenerated and transformed … [Continue reading]

Today God needs a Remnant to Go Outside the Camp unto Christ for God’s Building

We must not go along with the religious concept and the human thought but go along with the heavenly vision of the building up of the church as the Body of Christ and go outside the camp unto Christ. Witness Lee

If we see that the only thing God is doing and caring for today is the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, we will give ourselves to cooperate with Him for His building. If the Lord is merciful to us to show us His building, we will … [Continue reading]

Building up the Body of Christ by Going Outside the Camp and Entering Within the Veil

In order to carry out the vision of the building up of the church as the Body of Christ, there is the need for a remnant to go outside the camp unto Christ. Quote from, Witness Lee

The first thing we need to have in order to build up the Body of Christ is a vision of God's building. What is in God's heart today and the only work He is doing right now is building up His church, the Body of Christ. One could say that there are … [Continue reading]

The Visions in the Scriptures are Related to God’s Building, which is the Church

In relation to the church we need to have a clear vision of what the church is, we need to see what is the practice of the church, and we need to give ourselves to the Lord for the building up of the church. The church as the Body of Christ is an … [Continue reading]

Holding Christ as the Head and Teaching the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy

Only one kind of ministry builds up and never divides — this is the unique ministry of God’s economy.

If we put together Ephesians 2:15 (Christ creating the one new man in His body on the cross), Romans 15:6 (with one accord with one mouth glorify God), and 1 Cor. 1:10 (speak the same thing, be attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion), what … [Continue reading]

Taking Christ as our Person for the New Man to Speak the Same Thing in One Accord

For the church as the one new man, we all need to take Christ as our person in the matter of speaking.

As the Body of Christ, the church has Christ as its life; as the one new man, the church has Christ as its person. In order for us to be in reality the Body of Christ, we need to take Christ as our life and live by Him to live Him out. In order to … [Continue reading]

Bearing one Another in Love and Keeping the Oneness in the Uniting Bond of Peace

We need to be diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Keeping the oneness of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3) is not something "too spiritual" for us to understand or practice; rather, we can keep the oneness of the Spirit in a very practical way with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one … [Continue reading]