The church life is Christ Himself enjoyed by us, experienced by us, realized by us, and expressed through us corporately. For us to have the proper church life to express Christ according to God’s eternal purpose, however, our soul must be subdued and saturated with Christ as the Spirit. Most of the time we live […]
The Church Life is Christ Experienced and Expressed by All the Saints Corporately
After seeing a clear vision of the church and God’s threefold purpose for the church, we now come to the practice of the church and the crucial experiences we need in order to practice the church life today. The church is to have the full sonship to express God; the church is the corporate new […]
Growing up into Christ and Functioning in our Measure for the Building up of the Body
God’s purpose to head up all things in Christ through the church is being accomplished today through the growth in life into Christ, the Head, of all the members of the Body of Christ. As all believers in Christ enjoy Him, eat Him, and drink Him to grow up into Him as the Head, their […]
Growing in Christ by Acknowledging His Headship and by Allowing Him to Increase in us
In order for God to head up all things in Christ at the fullness of the times (Eph. 1:10) we today as the church need to hold to Christ as the Head and grow up into Him in all things (Eph. 4:15). We need to allow the Lord to grow in us by cooperating with Him […]
Growing in Life by Holding to Truth in Love for the Building up of the Body of Christ
God’s highest and deepest purpose for the church is to head up all things in Christ through the church. As part of the church, how can we cooperate with the Lord for the heading up of all things in Christ? It is not by our outward doing or “ruling over others” that we bring all […]
Enjoying the Dispensing of God’s Abundant Life Supply to be Headed up in Christ
The highest purpose of God for the church is that all things would be headed up in Christ through the church (Eph. 1:10). God’s purpose for the church is threefold: to have the divine sonship for God’s corporate expression, to subdue God’s enemy by being the display of God’s multifarious wisdom, and to cooperate with […]
Through the Church God’s Multifarious Wisdom is made Known and the Enemy is Subdued!
God’s purpose in creating man in His image and according to His likeness is that man would express Him with His image and represent Him with His dominion. Adam, the first man, failed to express and represent God, and because of Adam’s sin and failure we are all born in sin, under Satan’s usurpation. However, Christ […]