God’s Eternal Purpose Being Realized through the Local Churches
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MainThe church is of paramount importance in God’s eternal plan. Without believers built up as local churches in many localities, God’s desire for a house, a dwelling place on earth, can never be satisfied. The church has two aspects—universal and local; like two sides of a coin, one cannot exist without the other. The purpose of this website is to examine the crucial and instrumental role the local church plays in God’s great plan, as presented in the writings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. If we read the whole Bible carefully, we can see that God’s plan and His purpose are fulfilled in the church. Without the church, God’s plan cannot be fulfilled, and God’s desire cannot be realized. Hence, we can say that God’s plan and His desire hinge upon the church. (Witness Lee, Elders’ Management, 23) Witness Lee comments further on the local churches as the practical procedure to accomplish God’s eternal goal: Today very few believers care for the building up of a proper local church in their locality as the house of God. This means that God is kept homeless. He does have a home in the heavens with the angels, but He needs a home with the humanity of His heart’s desire. God wants to have such a home. We in the Lord’s recovery do not like to see the saints scattered individually. The particular intention of the recovery is to have all the saints in the recovery come together in their localities to be built up together as the house of God in so many cities. Through such a house God will have His kingdom. (Witness Lee, LS of Ezra, 19-20) If there were no church, the universe would be a void; it would be useless to God. These excerpts from the writings of Witness Lee focus on God’s eternal goal to have a house on this earth. He also directs God's people to the procedure for fulfilling God’s desire—the building up of local churches in many cities. (Witness Lee, Elders’ Management, 23) 18. God’s Eternal Purpose Being Realized through the Local Churches A. To Gain a Corporate Body B. For the Display of God’s Manifold Wisdom to the Principalities and Powers C. Through Which Satan Will Be Defeated D. To Express God through the Sonship E. To Head Up All Things in Christ |
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