John’s mending ministry is in life and by life. Life is a Person, the Triune God Himself in the Father as the source, the Son as the expression, and the Spirit as the realization. In his mending ministry – both in his Gospel, Epistles, and Revelation – John speaks extensively of the Divine Trinity, the […]
Christ as the One Grain Died to Produce us as the Many Grains in His Resurrection
One of the most overlooked and neglected truths in the Bible in general Christianity today is the revelation of Christ as the one grain-producing many grains in His resurrection for His Body, the loaf, to become the New Jerusalem (John 12:24). The Apostle John saw this lack and he stepped in to speak of the […]
The Divine Fellowship of the Divine Life: the Basic Element of John’s Mending Ministry
Only life can mend. And though we may know this, we don’t really know how it happens. All we know is that we need to be open to the divine fellowship of the divine life so that life would flow into us and mend us. The ministry of the Apostle John is a mending ministry […]
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. […]
The Mending Ministry is More than Fixing a Hole; it Makes us Suitable for God’s Building
There’s a certain correlation between the occupation of those called by the Lord Jesus to follow Him and their future ministry in the Lord. When the Lord Jesus called Peter and Andrew, they were casting the net into the sea to catch fish (Matt. 4:18-20); Peter’s ministry was to catch men alive, to be a […]
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 […]