In learning to cooperate with Christ in His heavenly ministry of shepherding others, we need to realize that our entrance toward the believers, our manner of life, and our being plays a great role in infusing the gospel into others and caring for them. The best way to cherish and nourish others according to God […]
The Best way to Shepherd People is to give them a Proper Pattern of Living Christ
The best way to shepherd people – as see in the New Testament – is to give them a proper pattern of living Christ and magnifying Him; Paul fed his spiritual children not only with the word of God but with his own living of Christ (see 1 Thes 2, 2 Cor. 1-2). Nowadays many […]
Paul was a Pattern of Living and Ministering Christ as the Spirit in his spirit
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as we read the New Testament we see how Paul was a pattern to us, the believers; he was a pattern of living and ministering Christ as the Spirit in his spirit for the building up of the Body of Christ. Paul enjoyed and experienced Christ, and […]
Paying more Attention to Life than to Work and Seeing how Paul was a Pattern in Shepherding
The Lord Jesus in His heavenly ministry is the Great Shepherd, the Shepherd of our souls, and in Acts 20 and 1 Thes. 2 we also see that Paul was a pattern of cooperating with Christ’s heavenly ministry to shepherd people for the building up of the Body of Christ. This week in our morning […]
Seeking the Things which are Above, where Christ is Sitting at the Right hand of God
As believers in Christ, we need to seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God; we are not only saved from death and brought into life, but God seated us with Christ in the heavenlies, and now we need to seek and enjoy the things which are […]
Christ takes care of the Local Churches by Cherishing them and Nourishing them
The golden lampstand in the tabernacle is a mysterious sign of the mysterious Triune God in His expression: the gold shows how God the Father is the nature and element, the form shows how God the Son is the expression of God the Father, and the seven lamps show how God the Spirit is the […]
Being One with Christ in His Heavenly Ministry to Shepherd God’s Flock, the Church
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 […]