The Apostle Paul was a very good pattern of laboring and struggling to present every man full-grown in Christ (Col. 1:28-29). He didn’t just preach the gospel in a city and “moved on to another city”; rather, he agonized, struggled, and labored to present every man full-grown in Christ. Our service in the church is, […]
Carrying Out the Stewardship of God by Preaching the Gospel and Dispensing Christ
All believers in Christ have been entrusted by God with a stewardship, which is to minister the riches of Christ into others for the building up of the Body of Christ. When we preach the gospel, we carry out the stewardship of God by contacting sinners where they are and ministering God into them (see […]
God’s Economy has Become the Stewardship of God Given to All the Believers in Christ
There are many aspects to arriving at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. One of these aspects is that we need to carry out the stewardship of God to present every man full-grown in Christ (see Col. 1:24-29). Paul was entrusted by God with a ministry – […]
The Greatest Hindrance to the One New Man and How can We be Renewed in Our Mind
The greatest hindrance to the one new man which God desires to obtain on the earth is the unrenewed mind. Actually, the greatest hindrance to the practical existence of the new man is my mind – when it is unrenewed, not saturated with the element of God. Throughout our life we build up a certain […]
We Need to be Renewed in the Spirit of Our Mind for the Body and the One New Man
God’s desire and intention in creating man is to have a full-grown corporate man who is filled with His life and accomplishes His purpose to express Him with His image and represent Him with His dominion (see Gen. 1:26). The first man Adam fell, but God Himself became a man to bring in a new […]
Put Off the Community Life of the Old Man and Put On the New Man, the Church Life
The new man was created by the Lord Jesus through His death on the cross, and it is coming into existence today in the proper church life. When all the brothers and sisters in the Lord exercise their spirit and live according to the spirit of their mind (the spirit spreading into their mind), there […]
Learning Christ as the Reality is in Jesus to Live the Same Kind of Life Jesus Lived
For us as believers in Christ to arrive at a full-grown man we need to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. The one new man as the full-grown man that accomplishes God’s purpose is a corporate man that lives on earth the same kind of living that the Lord Jesus lived when He […]