As believers in Christ, we shall be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect (Matt. 5:48); genuine Christian perfection taught in the New Testament is according to God’s New Testament economy under God’s dispensing for the Body of Christ, that God would gain the New Jerusalem, His ultimate goal. God never intended that man […]
Gifted Persons Perfect the Saints to Function for the Building up of the Body of Christ
Christ gave gifts to the Body, and the gifted persons perfect the saints, nourishing them according to the tree of life and perfecting them in their function, so that the perfected saints may do the work of the ministry unto the building up of the Body of Christ. It is amazing to realize that […]
Function in the Body for the Growth of the Body unto the Building up of itself in Love
How we need to function in the Body for the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love! As we grow up into the Head in life, our function will come out from the Head for the building up of the Body; the building up of the Body of Christ under […]
In Acts the Disciples are Spreading Christ as the Development of the Kingdom of God
As believers in Christ we are the increase of Christ and we cooperate with Him to propagate the resurrected, ascended, and all-inclusive Christ as the development of the kingdom of God on earth. This week we focus on the matter of the development of the kingdom of God. In Matt. 5 the Lord Jesus began […]
Serving the Lord as a Slave and Shepherding the Saints by Visiting them in their Homes
The apostle Paul was a pattern to the elders in Ephesus – a pattern of what the elders should be to the church to shepherd them, serving the Lord as a slave. When we hear or read about the need to shepherd others according to God, we may think that this is something so high […]
We need to Grow Up into the Head, Christ, in All Things until We are All One in Him
As members of the Body of Christ, we need to hold Christ as the head, and we need to grow up into the Head, Christ, in all things; in all the things of our daily living and human existence, we need to grow up into Christ, the Head (Eph. 4:15). In thing after thing, matter […]
The Heading up of All Things in Christ Involves the Building up of the Church
All the genuine believers in Christ love the Lord, seek to know Him and be found in Him, and they yearn to see the church built up. However, the matter of the building up of the church has been very much missed throughout history, and the Lord was not able to obtain the built up […]