Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8), and with Him there is no change (Mal. 3:6; Num. 23:19). However, in the Gospel of John 1:14, we see that the Word – who was with God and who was God – became flesh. In His essence, God cannot change and will not […]
Only Life Can Mend: Only the Ministry of Life in Love can Mend us to Build up the Church
Only life can mend. Only the mending ministry of life in love can mend us for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ. If we look around us we will see that both us and others have many problems, holes, lacks, and issues, and there are many broken hearts and broken […]
The Mending Ministry is of Life: Christ is our Life Personally and Intimately!
John the Apostle had a mending ministry of life – the way he mended the church and the situation among the believers was by presenting Christ as life to them. What we need in order to be mended by the Lord for His building is not outward correction or self-improvement but life, the divine life. […]
John’s Ministry was a Mending Ministry (from a Son of Thunder to a Person of Life)
In a real and practical sense, the New Testament ministry is the completing ministry of Paul and the mending ministry of John. Peter, Jude, Luke, James, Mark, and others had also their portion, but the main ones are Paul with his completing ministry and John with his mending ministry. Paul unveiled to us the great […]
The New Man is Perfected Through the Growth in Divine Life of All the Believers
Our most desperate need in God’s eyes today is to grow in life. There are millions of believers on the earth today, but where is the built-up Body of Christ? There are so many genuine Christians, but where is the one new man? Who takes Christ as their life and person? Who is paying attention […]
As Believers in Christ we are God-men and Every Genuine Christian is a God-man!
Never forget: as a believer in Christ, you are a God-man! We always need to remember this and be in the light of this revelation all the time – we are not only men, but we are men with the divine life, God-men, those who have God in them continually mingling Himself with them! When […]
Taking Christ as our Person in our Decisions and our Daily Living for the New Man
What does it mean that we take Christ as our person for the new man? What does it mean in our personal daily life to take Christ as our person? The Body of Christ is mainly a matter of life – taking Christ as our life for the Body – and the new man is […]