The central vision of the completing ministry of Paul is man being a vessel to contain God and be filled with God, Christ as the mystery of God, and the church as the mystery of Christ. Seeing that Christ is the mystery of God is not such a simple matter – we need the entire […]
knowing the Body in practice: the universal church and the local churches
On the one hand, we need to know the Body of Christ in life – Christ is the life of the Body of Christ, and the Body is a mingling of divinity with humanity. When we see that the Christ we have received through regeneration is the life of the Body of Christ, we will […]
the church is the house of the living God, the supporting pillar and holding base of the truth
God expresses Himself on earth the way He wants – in His church, His dwelling place. It is in the church that God can practice His New Testament economy, He can speak forth what is in His heart, and He can manifest His glory! God feels at home in no other place but in the church, and it is here that He expresses Himself and manifests Himself – all He is, all He’s doing, and all He wants to obtain are to be expressed in the church as God’s dwelling place.
we can share in Christ’s sufferings for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ
For the building up of the church we need the ministry – our experience of the riches of Christ in a subjective way, having Christ wrought into our being through all kinds of sufferings and consuming pressures…. This kind of experiences produces and constitutes the ministry for God’s new covenant, and these experiences are for the building up of the Body of Christ today! We love the ministry – we don’t “hate the gifts”, but we value more being a minister of the new covenant than desiring to be a gifted one…
God’s name is excellent in all the earth because Christ fulfills God’s purpose through the Body!
This week in the morning revival we are getting into Psalms 8, where we see The Excellency of Christ! This Psalms shows us that God’s purpose and His plan for man to express Him with His image and to represent Him with His dominion have never changed! In Gen. 1:26 we see God’s purpose in […]
having a consciousness of the Body of Christ – all the members of the Body have the life of the Body!
This week we are coming to another item on the central line of the Divine Revelation in the Bible – the Body of Christ; more specifically, we are getting into, The Consciousness of the Body of Christ. As believers in Christ, we are not individualistic people living our own life by ourselves; rather, the divine […]
Exposing man’s fallen concept on the church vs the true nature of the church, the Body of Christ
This article is exposing man’s fallen concept on the church through Satan’s evil intentions, scheme, and operation – and seeing in the Word of God what the true nature/reality of the church is: the Body of Christ! Unfortunately, due to man’s fall there has been a lot of confusion among people concerning what exactly the […]