The church as the Body of Christ is the building of God, the only thing He is after today. The church is the mingling of God and man and the building of God into man and of man into God for man and God to be one to the uttermost so that God is expressed […]
Holding Christ as the Head and Teaching 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 we get is that in the one […]
Taking Christ as our Person for the New Man to Speak the Same Thing in One Accord
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 […]
Learning from Paul to Live the Church Life with the Consciousness of the One New Man
As we practice the church life daily by eating, drinking, and breathing in Jesus with all the saints, we need to do so with a consciousness of the one new man. With the Apostle Paul there was such a consciousness – in his writings and in his living we could see that this faithful steward […]
Taking Christ as our Person to Speak the Same Thing with One Mouth for the New Man
The most striking and evident part of a person is his speaking – through his speaking he expresses himself and he releases what is inside of him. For the church as the one new man, we all believers in Christ need to take Christ as our person especially in the matter of speaking. Out of […]
Taking Christ as our Person in our Decisions and our Daily Living for the New Man
What does it mean that we take Christ as our person for the new man? What does it mean in our personal daily life to take Christ as our person? The Body of Christ is mainly a matter of life – taking Christ as our life for the Body – and the new man is […]
We Need to Take Christ as our Person for the One New Man who Fulfills God’s Plan
After seeing so many aspects and ways to grow in life unto maturity, now we need to see some of the implications and applications of what the full-grown man is. What is the full-grown man that God desires to obtain, and what does he look like? First of all, for God to obtain a full-grown […]