We need to see the importance of life and of the growth in life in our Christian life and church life. We may know the truth, we may love the Lord and read His word, and we may love the church and serve the saints in the Lord, but how much did we gain the […]
The highest and supreme requirement for a Christian is to be built up and be buildable
The Lord has a supreme and highest requirement of us all – to be built up with one another in the Triune God. Yes, you may love the saints, you may be spiritual, you may be faithful to the God-ordained practices – things which are good and we must all do – but if you’re […]
Eurotrip with the UCLA students – a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in Europe
The following is a short testimony from brother Dean from the Eurotrip he and the other students from UCLA took in Europe at the end of year 2010. 12 of us, mostly students at UCLA, went on a blending trip to Europe during our winter break this past December. I didn’t really know what to […]
following the Lord Jesus’ pattern to live a life by denying our natural life and live by the divine life
This is our Christian life and our church life – a life in which we daily learn – through many failures and some victories – to deny our natural life and live by the divine life. Once we received the Lord as our Savior and our life, He came into us as Another Life – […]
The self opposes the Body – we need to deny the self and apply the death of Christ by the Spirit to our self!
We have previously seen that the oneness of the Body of Christ is Christ Himself as the Spirit. We need to allow the Lord Jesus to mingle Himself with us – in order that we may be lowly and meek… only the lowly and meek can keep the oneness. Actually, only “the failures” among us […]
being desperate before the Lord regarding our spiritual condition, we want to be made vital by Him – part of a vital group!
On the one hand, we are believers in the Lord pursuing Him personally, and on the other hand we are those who live a life for God’s purpose in the church life. We have seen a principle in the Bible, that is: the vital groups. We cannot just “live the church life” in a general […]