Training and Fellowship

And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so that you would walk in all His ways and love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul; Deuteronomy 10:12  

Training

The up-to-date speaking of the Lord these days to all the churches in His recovery is on the book of Deuteronomy. One of the key points from this book is "loving God, fearing God, obeying His Word, and serving Him, and receiving the blessings of God." The saints came together for two weekends and enjoyed the Lord's timely speaking. From this, I also benefited a lot. As a preparation I could go through the Life-study of the Deuteronomy again, read through the entire book of Deuteronomy and listened to the Radio programs on Deuteronomy. I received new light and fresh speaking from the Lord. What nourishment and what a blessing!

Fellowship with the Young People

Last Lord's day, in my fellowship with the young people, I encouraged them to love the Lord and seek the Lord's will. I gave my own testimony of how the Lord led me from my young age in many things great or small. It has indeed been such an exciting exercise to seek the Lord's will for everything and learn to obey and follow the Lord step by step. I even encouraged all the young people to pray, seek the Lord's will in their Christian life, get help from brother Watchman Nee's message on "Seeking God's Will," and share their experience of seeking God's will when we meet next time. This is the practical step I took to help the young people.

Training Excerpt: The Christian Faith

An excerpt from the training outline on the Christian faith is spectacular in its presentation. I was so supplied with these teaching and made a banner out of it.

The Christian Faith

Our Christian faith is composed of our belief concerning sixbasic items: the Bible, God, Christ, the work of Christ, salvation,
and the church—Eph. 4:13: 1.       The Bible, word by word, is divinely inspired by God, as the breath of God —2 Pet. 1:21; 2 Tim. 3:16.2.       God is uniquely one but triune—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—Matt. 3:16 17; 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 2:18; 3:14 17; Rev. 1:4 5.3. Christ was the very God in eternity (John 1:1) and became a man in time (v. 14); His deity is complete, and His humanity is perfect; hence, He is both God and man (20:28; Rom. 9:5; John 19:5; 1 Tim. 2:5), possessing both divinity  and humanity.4.  Christ  first  became  a  man  in  incarnation  (John  1:14)  and died on the cross for our redemption (1 Pet. 2:24; Rev. 5:9); then He rose from the dead for our regeneration (1 Pet. 1:3), ascended to the heavens to be the Lord of all (Acts 2:33, 36;10:36), and will come back as the Bridegroom to the church (John 3:29; Rev. 19:7) and the King of kings to all the nations (v. 16); these are the main aspects of the work of Christ.
5.  A sinner must repent to God (Acts 2:38; 26:20) and believe into Christ (John  3:16;  Acts  16:31)  for  forgiveness  of  sins (10:43),  for  redemption  (Rom.  3:24),  for  justification  (Acts 13:39), and for regeneration (John 3:6) in order that he may have eternal life (v. 36) to become a child of God (1:12) and a member of Christ (1 Cor. 12:27); this is our salvation through faith (Eph. 2:4 9).
6. The church, composed of all the genuine believers in Christ, as the Body of Christ (1:22 23; Col. 1:24), is universally one (Eph. 4:4), and a local church as the expression of the Body of Christ is locally one—one city, one church (Rev.1:11):         a. This does not mean, however, that a real believer in Christ who does not agree with one city, one church is not saved; he or she is saved, but there is something lacking, not for salvation but for the proper church life.         b. By standing on the proper ground of the church, we are choosing to love all the brothers, not only those who are meeting with us.(Excerpt from the Crystallization-study of Deuteronomy, Message 10, V,B)