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1 Corinthians 1:2</div> <bR> <div> Now I beseech you, brothers, through <U>the name of our Lord Jesus Christ</U>, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion. - 1 Corinthians 1:10</div> <bR> <div> Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is <U>in Corinth</U>, <U>with all the saints</U> who are in the whole of Achaia - 2 Corinthians 1:1</div> <bR> <div> <B>We operate practically as part of </B><B><U>the Body of Christ</U></B><B> with a view to the building up of the universal Body of Christ</B></div> <div> Ephesians 4:16.</div> <bR> <div> Out from whom <U>all the Body</U>, being joined together and being <U>knit together</U> through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the <U>building up of itself in love</U>. - Ephesians 4:16</div> <bR> <div> And ... <U>holding the Head</U>, out from whom <U>all the Body</U>, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, <U>grows with the growth of God</U>. - Colossians 2:19</div> <bR> <div> <B>Presently we are aware of and fellowship with believers in Christ in Westland, in other cities and throughout the earth.  We have no organization or affiliation except through the Spirit of God.</B></div> <bR> <div> "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" >I have many people in this city</FONT>"  (Acts 18:10)</div> <bR> <div> We are not advocates nor opponents to the so-called ecumenical movement in which various denominations and religious organizations drop their banners temporarily for a common goal.  We believe the church is God's and that He will build His church in this age.  Practically speaking we hold to the vision Paul had when he said, "<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" >I have many people in this city.</FONT>"  God has called us, and we believe many others in Westland, to gather together in His name according to His Spirit and based on His divine speaking in the Bible and apart from divisions, sects or factions of any kind.</div> <bR> <div> We are not part of the so-called "Lord's Recovery" which, in our opinion, may have become another Christian organization or denomination.  A publishing house, Living Stream Ministry, was established to promote and propagate the teachings and ministries of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee.  Living Stream Ministry is a kind of center of the Lord's Recovery.  We appreciate many teachings and practices of the Lord's Recovery and recognize the believers in the "Local Churches" as brothers and sisters in Christ.  However, we feel that many in the Lord's Recovery have come to insist on certain teachings or practices which unnecessarily exclude other saints in the Body of Christ.  This tendency will only lead to more division among God's people while being covered by a "cloak of oneness."  We sense that some of the "Local Churches" have become exclusive based on teaching and practice.</div> <bR> <div> Our Practical Stand</div> <bR> <div> It is our hope before the Lord that His children would recognize and follow the inner sense of the Spirit rather than the outward compulsion or obligation put on them or learned by them in Christianity.  All believers in Christ are fellow heirs of God and of Christ.  All believers in Christ have the divine life of God in common.  All believers in Christ share His one name:  Jesus Christ.  All believers in Christ are set apart for God alone.  Therefore, we should not hold to any teaching, practice or tradition that hinders, distracts or destroys the operation of the divine life within us especially in regard to our fellow believers.</div> <bR> <div> All believers should receive one another and realize that there are many other believers besides themselves whom God has saved and is "cultivating in His farm" (1 Corinthians ).  No Christian group has "cornered the market" on God's economy and His move on the earth.  All believers will feel an inward joy when they contact other "family members" in Christ and therefore should ignore their habit and outward need to identify themselves according to their own sect, faction or division based on teaching, practice, tradition or ritual.  All believers are One in Christ and should esteem others more highly than themselves.  This is only possible as described below:</div> <bR> <div> <B>If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any tenderheartedness and compassions,  2  Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing,  3  Doing nothing by way of selfish ambition nor by way of vainglory, but in lowliness of mind considering one another more excellent than yourselves;  4  Not regarding each his own virtues, but each the virtues of others also.  5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,  6  Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, 7  But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men;  8  And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross.  9  Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,  10  That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.  </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> (Philippians 2:1-11)</B></FONT></div> </td> </tr></table></body>