Since the church life is Christ lived out through us in a corporate way, we all need to take Christ as our life and person for the church life, and we need to put ourselves and everything on the cross so that He may live in us. The church life is something that is on […]
The Kingdom is the Reality of the Church; the Kingdom Life issues in the Church life
February 1, 2017 by 13 Comments
The reality of the church today is the kingdom of God, and apart from the kingdom life, we cannot live the church life. We were once alienated from the life of God – we were alienated from God and His life, being outside of the kingdom of God. When we heard the gospel and believed […]
The Kingdom is the Reality of the Church: Live the Kingdom Life in the Church Life
June 3, 2014 by 1 Comment
The New Jerusalem as the holy city of God with man, the consummation of God’s work throughout the ages and the fulfilment of His purpose for eternity, should be our experience as a foretaste today in the church life. The New Jerusalem is a city – the centre of the kingdom of God, the place […]
In our Daily Living We Need to Consider the One New Man – All the Local Churches!
January 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
There is only one Body of Christ in this universe, and all the local churches are the local representations of the Body of Christ, as the Lord has ordained. In the same way, there is only one new man on the earth, and all the churches are part of the one new man. Christ created […]
A Picture of the Wonderful Church Life of the Saints, the Covenanted People of God
November 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The church life as a mysterious God-man living of the resurrected people is seen in a seed form in Genesis 8 after Noah and his family got out of the ark, and is also seen in picture in the gospel of John. In chapters 2 and 12 we see that in the church life Christ […]
As Resurrected People, We Now Live the Church Life Through Death and Resurrection
November 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
The living of Noah and his family after they came out of the ark was a seed of the church life. The first thing that Noah did was to set up an altar and to offer sacrifices to God (see Gen. 8:20). The first thing we do when we come into the church life is […]
being anointed and graced as we remain the church life on the ground of oneness
April 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
The oneness which the believers have in the Body of Christ is not a man-made oneness and is not produced by adding the believers together for a common purpose. Rather, the oneness the believers have in the Body is the processed Triune God as the Spirit applied to their being. Such a oneness is organic […]
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