the church as the kingdom of God is the realm of the divine life

When the Lord Jesus came out to preach the gospel, He preached the gospel of the kingdom “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near” (Matt. 3:2). The intrinsic essence of the gospel is not for us to go to heaven but for God to have a kingdom of which we are part. The Lord Jesus told us to repent to be part of the kingdom of God. By repenting and believing into the Lord, we enter the kingdom of God as a realm of life [continue reading online]

in today’s world situation we can see the wheel of God’s economy turning: the Body is being built up!

Everything that is going on in the world, whether big changes or small things, is for the building up of the Body of Christ! Just as we see in Ezekiel ch. 1, there are wheels turning – the move of God’s New Testament economy is like the turning of a big wheel (see. Ezek. 1:15-21). […]