Entering Into the Vertical and the Horizontal Aspects of the Fellowship of Life

These coming few weeks we are getting into a very solid topic in our morning watch, The Experience, Growth, and Ministry of Life for the Body. We are the disciples of the Lord Jesus, which means we are continually learning. We need to experience life, grow in life, and minister life for the Body of […]

the experience of the cross deepens both our horizontal and our vertical fellowship in the divine life

These days we are enjoying many portions in the Bible regarding the fellowship of the divine life, which is the fellowship of the Spirit, the fellowship of the apostles, and the fellowship in spirit. This fellowship has two aspects: the horizontal aspect (between us and the other believers) and the vertical aspect (between us and the Triune […]

our horizontal fellowship with other believers depends on our vertical fellowship with the Lord!

We have seen previously that once we were regenerated, we received the divine life – and this life brings us into the fellowship of life, the fellowship of the apostles, the fellowship of the Spirit, which is the unique fellowship in the Body of Christ. On the one hand, we have fellowship with the apostles […]

Our Christian life is a life of the altar and the tent, just like Abraham’s life

Abraham’s life was characterized by these two things: he built an altar, and he lived in a tent. Whenever God appeared to him, he didn’t GO and do something immediately: he simply built an altar, consecrating himself to God, putting everything he is and was and had on the altar. This is actually what God […]

we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ

1 Cor. 1:9 says God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is a faithful God – He called us into the fellowship of His Son – He called us and placed us in the vine, Christ as the embodiment of God! Here […]