What the Lord is after today is not individual Christians who are spiritual and can express God – He desires to gain the Body of Christ, and the unique work Christ is doing is the building up of the Body for God to have a corporate expression in man. Christ Himself is the unique Head […]
The Increase of Christ in us is for the Building up of the Body of Christ in Love
We need to Grow Up into the Head, Christ, in All Things until We are All One in Him
![Eph. 4:13 Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Eph.-4-13-Until-we-all-arrive-at-the-oneness-of-the-faith-and-of-the-full-knowledge-of-the-Son-of-God2.jpg?fit=300%2C158&ssl=1)
As members of the Body of Christ, we need to hold Christ as the head, and we need to grow up into the Head, Christ, in all things; in all the things of our daily living and human existence, we need to grow up into Christ, the Head (Eph. 4:15). In thing after thing, matter […]
When we live in the Mingled Spirit we are in the Reality of the Body of Christ
![Because the Body of Christ is in the mingled spirit, to be in the reality of the Body of Christ is to be in the mingled spirit and to live in the mingled spirit. To live, act, and move in the mingled spirit is to live, act, and move in the Body and to be in the reality of the Body (Rom. 8:4; 12:4-5). To be in the mingled spirit is to be in the Body of Christ actually and practically (1 Cor. 6:17; 12:12-13, 27). Knowing Life and the Church, outline 6](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Because-the-Body-of-Christ-is-in-the-mingled-spirit-to-be-in-the-reality-of-the-Body-of-Christ-is-to-be-in-the-mingled-spirit.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
The key to living in the reality of the Body of Christ is the mingled spirit; the Body of Christ is in the mingled spirit, and to live in the reality of the Body, we need to live in the mingled spirit. Actually, everything that God requires of us is fulfilled spontaneously in our living […]
Being those who Live in the Reality of the Body of Christ in the Church Life today
![We should not live by ourselves. According to God’s design in His economy we were already put on the cross. We should not call ourselves back off the cross. To remain on the cross is to bear the cross and be under the cross. I have been crucified. There is no more I. I am finished. I am through. But there is a new man with me. That is the resurrected God-created man uplifted with God’s divinity in him. That man is actually God Himself. Now I live by that man. But if I do not practice to keep my old man on the cross, I can never live the new man. This is why in the first chapter of Philippians, Paul told us he lived such a life by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Witness Lee, The Practical Points concerning Blending, pp. 34-36](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/We-should-not-live-by-ourselves.-According-to-God%E2%80%99s-design-in-His-economy-we-were-already-put-on-the-cross.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
God today is doing one thing: He’s building up the church as the Body of Christ so that the bride of Christ may be prepared for Christ to return and end this age; if we see this, we will be those who strive to live in the reality of the Body of Christ today. It […]
Christ is the Unique Head of the Body, the Church, and of every Believer Individually
![Col. 1:18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead...](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Col.-1-18-And-He-is-the-Head-of-the-Body-the-church-He-is-the-beginning-the-Firstborn-from-the-dead1.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
We as believers in Christ are the members of the Body of Christ, and Christ is the unique Head of the Body, the church; He is the Head of the church and the Head of each individual believers, directing every one of us. Therefore, we as believers in Christ need to take Christ as our […]
Living in the Resurection Life of Christ for the Building up of the Body of Christ
![The principle of resurrection is that the natural life is killed and that the divine life rises up in its place (2 Cor. 1:9). In our natural life and in the old creation, we are not the Body; we are the Body in the new creation germinated by Christ’s resurrection (Eph. 1:19-23). Knowing Life and the Church, outline 6](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-principle-of-resurrection-is-that-the-natural-life-is-killed-and-that-the-divine-life-rises-up-in-its-place.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
The church as the Body of Christ is an organism absolutely in the resurrection life of Christ, and in the church life we experience the principle of resurrection until everything we say, do, and are in the church if is an expression of Christ in resurrection. This week is our last on the topic of, […]
When we’re Body-Conscious we Depend on the Body just as we Depend on Christ the Head
![What I do not know, another member of the Body will know; what I cannot see, another member of the Body will see; what I cannot do, another member of the Body will do. Watchman Nee](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/What-I-do-not-know-another-member-of-the-Body-will-know.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
When we have a revelation of the Body of Christ and realize we are members of the Body, we will be Body-conscious; any individualistic thought and action will be ruled out, and we will depend on the Body in everything. Our human life is an individualistic life, and as we grow up in today’s society, […]