Since the church is the Body of Christ, the growth of the church is the growth of Christ in all the believers in Christ as the many members of the Body of Christ. The church is not a physical building or location, neither is the church merely a group of people who gather together around […]
Baptizing People into God and Practicing the God-Ordained Way for God’s building
Everything the Lord is doing today is for God’s building, and what we as believers in Christ should seek to do today is build up the church as the Body of Christ. However, some may say that it is impossible to have the recovery of the church life today, and it is close to impossible […]
God’s Main Work is the Work of Building up the Church for His Corporate Expression
Today God does only one work: the work of building Himself into man and man into God so that God and man may be mingled together and become the building of God, the dwelling place of God, the house of God. Everything that He did and does is for His main work of building. When […]
Learning to be Renewed in the Spirit of the Mind for Christ to Increase in Us
The practical way for us to experience Christ increasing in us and we decreasing is by having a renewed mind and a submissive will; the more we’re renewed in the spirit of the mind and subdued in our will, the more Christ will grow in us and we will decrease. This is our need today. No […]
The Growth in Life is Christ Wrought into us and Formed in us by Saturating Us
The growth in life is Christ wrought into us and formed in us until Christ is fully grown into us; He does this by making His home in our heart and by saturating every part of our heart with Himself until He takes full possession. Christ is all-inclusive, vast, immense, and He fills all in […]
The Base for the Increase of the Church is Establishing Small Group Meetings in Homes
The book of Acts shows us not only a record of the way the church increased to be the increase of Christ on earth, but also the four main factors or means of the church’s increase and spread: prayer, the Spirit, the Word, and the homes. First, the disciples prayed in one accord; they left […]
Taking the way of Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word to carry out God’s Move Today
As those who are the increase and continuation of Christ on earth today, we need to clearly see from the book of Acts that the God-ordained way to carry out God’s move to fulfill His New Testament economy is entirely by three main substances – prayer, the Spirit, and the word. In the church life […]