Shepherding according to God – as the Lord Jesus and Paul did in their living and ministry – is by first becoming one with God, being constituted with God, living God, expressing God, representing God, and ministering God so that we may be God in function in shepherding others. It is one thing to feel […]
Shepherding According to God by being One with God to Shepherd According what He is
September 1, 2015 by 1 Comment
This week we are exploring the deeper meaning and implication of the expression, “shepherding according to God” in 1 Pet. 5:2. The Lord Jesus as the good Shepherd took good care of His sheep when He was on earth, and now in His heavenly ministry He still cares for us, His flock, by interceding for […]
Being One with Christ in His Heavenly Ministry to Shepherd God’s Flock, the Church
August 31, 2015 by 1 Comment
In the previous articles, we have seen what it means to shepherd according to God by taking a closer look at the pattern of the Lord Jesus and the pattern of the Apostle Paul. A pattern gives us a way practically how to do a certain thing, and the Lord Jesus lived out a God-man […]
Shepherding the Saints according to God by Following the Pattern of the Apostle Paul
August 28, 2015 by 1 Comment
The Lord Jesus as the great, chief and Good Shepherd is now the pneumatic Shepherd in our spirit as the life-giving Spirit, and He is both shepherding us and shepherding others through us. When we read the Gospels we see how the Lord was with those around Him, and when we read church history and […]
Loving the Lord and Being One with Him to Shepherd His Sheep for the Church, His Body
August 27, 2015 by 1 Comment
The Lord Jesus is the good Shepherd, and we all are His sheep; He takes good care of us both inwardly and outwardly, both spiritually and psychologically and physically. How we love our good Shepherd, and how we enjoy His tender all-inclusive care! If we read the gospels we see how He shepherded and cared […]
Rejecting Self-Cultivation and Allowing Christ to Fill us and Live a God-man Life in us
August 22, 2015 by 1 Comment
As believers in Christ, the goal of our Christian practice and of our Christian living is to live the life of a God-man, the same kind of life that the Lord Jesus lived when He was on earth. Our practice shouldn’t be just something according to the Bible but the God-man living. Being a Christian […]
Christ as the First God-man is being Reproduced in us as the many God-men in Christ
August 21, 2015 by 2 Comments
God’s intention and purpose concerning man is not what we think it is but what the Bible tells us; the entire Bible clearly tells us that God wants to be mingled with man and fill man with Himself until man becomes His expression. This is God’s original intention when He created man and this is […]
