Knowing Life and the Church

CONTENTS

1. Life Being the Goal of God’s Creation and Redemption
2. Life Being God Himself Enjoyed by Man
3. The Obstacles God’s Life Encounters in Man
4. The Subjective Obstacles Encountered by God’s Life in Us
5. The Pathway of Life
6. The Way and Life of the Cross
7. Knowing and Experiencing the Discipline of the Holy Spirit
8. Knowing the Church and the Basis for Discerning the Church
9. The Proper Church—the Mingling of God with Man
10. The Types of the Tabernacle, the Altar, and the Ark in the Church
11. The Building Up of the Body of Christ
12. The Proper Way to Follow the Bible and the Inner Life
13. The Spiritual Requirements of a Christian and the Standard for Testing These Requirements
14. The Reality of the Church and the Experience of the Cross
15. God’s Work of Redemption—the Mingling of God and Man
16. All Service Being Initiated by God
17. Preparing Ourselves to Meet the Lord’s Need
18. Being Joined to the Lord in the Matter of Service
19. The Principle of God’s Breaking
20. God’s Breaking, Not Man’s Magnanimity Being the Way of Life
21. The Result of the Work Being Based on the Worker
22. Needing to Be Earnest and Not Loose in Working for the Lord
23. Concerning the Church and Service

PREFACE

This book is composed of messages released by Witness Lee in August 1953 in service meetings in Taipei. The book consists of twenty-three chapters: Chapters 1 through 7 emphasize the matter of knowing life; chapters 8 through 14 emphasize knowing the church; chapters 15 through 20 emphasize basic knowledge of the service; and chapters 21 through 23 are words of leading in relation to work and service in all the churches. The messages have been translated from the original Chinese.