When we live and walk according to the Spirit and in the mingled spirit, we are anointed with the compound Spirit for God’s building. The holy anointing oil in Exo. 30 was used to anoint the tabernacle with everything and everyone related to its service; the compound Spirit is for the anointing of the saints […]
Fully Accomplish our Personal Ministry: Minister the Christ Wrought into us for the Body
September 5, 2024 by 9 Comments
Although many verses in the New Testament show that the ministry in the New Testament is corporate, other verses indicate that the ministry is also personal; we need to fully accomplish our personal ministry by ministering the Christ constituted into our being into others for the building up of the church as the Body of […]
Our Personal Ministry is Part of the Unique Corporate Ministry of the New Testament
September 3, 2024 by 12 Comments
As believers in Christ enjoying the Lord on the genuine ground of oneness in the proper church life, we have this ministry, and our personal ministry is for the unique corporate ministry of the New Testament; we are ministers having our own portion of the ministry, and the ministry is uniquely one. Amen! May the […]
The Growth of the Body of Christ is the Building up of the Body of Christ in Love
March 17, 2024 by 4 Comments
The growth of the Body of Christ depends on the growth of God, the addition of God, the increase of God within us as the many members of the Body of Christ; the growth of the Body is the building up of the Body of Christ. Amen, how much we need the growth of […]
Hold the Head and Grow by having Christ Added to us for the Building up of the Body
March 16, 2024 by 9 Comments
As believers in Christ, we need to hold the Head, Christ, out of whom all the Body is richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, growing with the growth of God; we’re rooted in Christ to absorb His riches and grow in life, and our growth is the building […]
Building up, Conformed to Christ’s Image, and Glorified in God’s Complete Salvation
November 29, 2023 by 3 Comments
As believers in Christ, we experience building up as the joining and knitting together in the divine life in the Body, we are conformed to the image of Christ in the maturity of the divine life, and we will be glorified to enter into the full manifestation of God’s complete salvation. Hallelujah! The organic […]
The Shepherding that Builds up the Body of Christ is Mutual Shepherding in Love
November 25, 2023 by 10 Comments
![Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of John, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs. John 21:15](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Then-when-they-had-eaten-breakfast-Jesus-said-to-Simon-Peter-Simon-son-of-John-do-you-love-Me-more-than-these-jpg.webp?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
The shepherding that builds up the Body of Christ is mutual shepherding; we need to shepherd one another in mutuality, relying on those whom we shepherd and receiving their portion, both shepherding others and being shepherded by them so that through this mutual shepherding the church as the Body will build itself up in […]
![In My Father's house are many abodes; if [it were] not [so,] I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/In-My-Fathers-house-are-many-abodes-if-it-were-not-so-I-would-have-told-you.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
