In the one new man Christ is all the members and in all the members, and there is no room for any natural man in the one new man. Therefore, in our church life we need to have a consciousness of the one new man and realise that Christ is all and in all, and […]
Being Saturated with Christ for the One New Man who will Usher in the Kingdom of God
The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to bring forth the one new man, for the one new man will usher in the kingdom of God and will bring Christ, the King, back to the earth. God created man in His image and likeness, and He ordained that this man would express Him and represent […]
God Intends to have the Church as the One New Man to Express Him and Represent Him
This week is our sixth and last on the topic of, The Genuine Church Life, and we are focusing on, Practicing the Church Life in the Consciousness of the One New Man. We need to see the church as the one new man and practice the church life with this consciousness. When we realize that […]
Living an Overcoming Life and Redeeming the Time to Contact People for Shepherding Them
![We must recover this matter [of contacting and shepherding people]. Only by this will the organic building up of the Body of Christ in Ephesians 4:12-16 and the meetings of mutuality in 1 Corinthians 14:26 be realized and practiced among us. For this we need a daily revival and a daily overcoming as the base. We also need a life and work that flows out from the love of the Lord in order to maintain our victory....What maintains us in the victory is a life and work of love toward the Lord. Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1988, vol. 4, pp. 43-46](https://i0.wp.com/mail.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/We-must-recover-this-matter-of-contacting-and-shepherding-people2.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
As believers in Christ who have seen something of the scriptural way to meet and serve, we need to live an overcoming life and redeem the time to contact people for shepherding and perfecting them. The Lord is clear in His word concerning the God-ordained way to meet and serve – first we need to […]
A Daily Revived Living: Renewed every Morning and Freshly Transformed every day
In order for us to practice the scriptural way to meet and serve for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need a daily revived living and a labor in shepherding that flow out from our love for the Lord. To practice the God ordained-way to meet and serve is not merely to […]
Cooperating with the Lord to Recover the New Testament Priesthood of the Gospel
We need to be one with the Lord and cooperate with Him to recover the New Testament priesthood of the gospel, bringing every member of the Body into function in his measure in the Body of Christ. The revelation in the Bible concerning us as believers and members of the Body of Christ has been […]
Developing our Organic Function as Members and Prophesying to Build up the Church
As we are being perfected in the group meetings we should all pursue and desire prophesying, speaking and listening in mutuality, for the stirring up of the spiritual organic function of the members of the Body for the building up of the Body. The church is an organism, the mingling of God and man, produced […]