Before you read this week's email, click HERE to read and watch last week's email. Very important...
So, I finished Craig Groeschel's book called "it" - what a great Kingdom, leadership, vision, fellowship, inspiring, affirming, challenging read! So, now I'm reading The Mystery of Christ by Watchman Nee and it's amazing how God is connecting "it", last Sunday (and if you still haven't read and watched last week's email, what are doing?!?) and Watchman's book.
Craig challenged his readers to celebrate what God is doing in other churches. Doing so reminds us that WE are collectively the Church, that WE together are the Body of Christ. Then, I read this in Watchman's book:
Being a Christian is something individualistic, whereas being a member is something corporate. Being a Christian is something one does for himself, whereas being a member is something for the Body. [Just as] there are many terms with opposite meanings, such as purity and uncleannes, holiness and commonness, victory and defeat, the Spirit and the flesh... In the same way, the Body is in opposition to the individual... Once a [person] sees the Body of Christ... he will no longer live for himself but for the Body.
At the inception of his "11" series, Dave said (and I believe he was quoting someone, just can't remember who), "There are two things no human being can do alone: get married and be a Christian."
Ponder this: If it was through the body of Jesus Christ that the fullness of God dwelt and was expressed for all humanity to see, experience and benefit, that we are called "the Body of Christ" must therefore mean we are the continuation of Christ's life and ministry here on earth (see Col 1.19, 2 Cor 5.20, 1 Cor 12).
One more: When you think of "the Body of Christ", does your mind think beyond wb?
So, I finished Craig Groeschel's book called "it" - what a great Kingdom, leadership, vision, fellowship, inspiring, affirming, challenging read! So, now I'm reading The Mystery of Christ by Watchman Nee and it's amazing how God is connecting "it", last Sunday (and if you still haven't read and watched last week's email, what are doing?!?) and Watchman's book.
Craig challenged his readers to celebrate what God is doing in other churches. Doing so reminds us that WE are collectively the Church, that WE together are the Body of Christ. Then, I read this in Watchman's book:
Being a Christian is something individualistic, whereas being a member is something corporate. Being a Christian is something one does for himself, whereas being a member is something for the Body. [Just as] there are many terms with opposite meanings, such as purity and uncleannes, holiness and commonness, victory and defeat, the Spirit and the flesh... In the same way, the Body is in opposition to the individual... Once a [person] sees the Body of Christ... he will no longer live for himself but for the Body.
At the inception of his "11" series, Dave said (and I believe he was quoting someone, just can't remember who), "There are two things no human being can do alone: get married and be a Christian."
Ponder this: If it was through the body of Jesus Christ that the fullness of God dwelt and was expressed for all humanity to see, experience and benefit, that we are called "the Body of Christ" must therefore mean we are the continuation of Christ's life and ministry here on earth (see Col 1.19, 2 Cor 5.20, 1 Cor 12).
One more: When you think of "the Body of Christ", does your mind think beyond wb?
The Body of Christ is not a doctrine; it is a realm.
It is not a teaching, but a life.
~ Watchman Nee
It is not a teaching, but a life.
~ Watchman Nee
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