At the end of the Bible we see the New Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, the city-bride who marries Christ and the place where God dwells, is expressed, and reigns (see Rev. 21-22). If the New Jerusalem is the consummation of God’s work throughout the ages and from eternity to eternity, it is impossible […]
The Fellowship Among the Local Churches is the Fellowship of the Body of Christ
There is One Lord, One God, one faith, one baptism, one Spirit, and one fellowship in the Body of Christ. The fellowship each individual believer in Christ has with Christ is the one unique fellowship in the Body of Christ, and the fellowship the believers have among themselves is the unique fellowship in the Body. […]
Having an Interwoven Fellowship with God Vertically and with the Saints Horizontally
The fellowship of life has two aspects: the vertical aspect (our fellowship with God as the Spirit) and the horizontal aspect (our fellowship with the fellow brothers and sisters in spirit). The same unique divine fellowship is both vertical and horizontal, and the issue of this fellowship is that we keep the oneness of the […]
The Fellowship of Life is the Reality of the Church Life, Bringing in Oneness
The circulation in the Body of Christ is the fellowship of the divine life, and this circulation is vital for all the believers in Christ. Just as we have a circulation of blood in our human body – without which we would be dead – so in the organic Body of Christ there’s a circulation, […]
The Fellowship of Life is Everything to us; it Tempers us and Blends us for the Body
The fellowship of life is not merely one of the many lessons we learn in our Christian life; the divine fellowship is everything in the Christian life. If we don’t have a proper vertical fellowship with the Lord and a solid horizontal fellowship of life with the fellow brothers and sisters, God is not real […]
Being Preserved in the Fellowship of Life by the Sense of Life in our Mingled Spirit
It is so wonderful that we can experience a foretaste of the New Jerusalem today in our Christian life and church life! We can enjoy and experience the daily practical living in oneness with the Lord according to the sense of life so that we may be in the fellowship of life, thus experiencing a […]
Partaking of and Walking According to the Divine Nature to Richly Enter God’s Kingdom
Through regeneration we have received the divine life and the divine nature, and now day by day we are practicing to live and walk not by our old nature with its habits but by the new divine nature with all its virtues. In Eph. 2 we see that we were once children of wrath by […]