The Assembly Life

Author : Watchman Nee
Publisher : Christian Fellowship Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1937713849
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembly Life written by Watchman Nee and published by Christian Fellowship Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of God is to establish Christ—and not just the personal Christ but also the corporate Christ, which is the Church: “as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ” (1 Cor. 12.12 Darby). The work of the Holy Spirit in these past two thousand years has been centered on building this body of Christ. We will fail God in seeing His purpose and fail the Holy Spirit in cooperating with His work if we are not “holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God” (Col. 2.19). The body of Christ is not only most spiritual but also most practical. It is an earthly testimony as well as a heavenly body. All its spiritual principles must be and can be practiced in a local assembly. Here in these pages, therefore, we shall find that Watchman Nee shares with us the practical aspects of the assembly life. He touches on such practical matters as authority in the church, ministry in the church, church fellowship, church meetings, and the boundary of a local assembly. It is important for the reader to remember that this volume emphasizes only the practical side of the Church, and hence concentrates on the life of the local assembly. There is another side of the Church—that of the spiritual principles inherent in the Church universal—which is not the subject of this book. To maintain the right balance and to obtain the whole concept of the Church, both the principle and the practice, both the universal and the local, must be received and kept. For it must never be forgotten that a new wine-skin is for containing the new wine; and therefore the first without the second is meaningless. May the Head of the Church find himself expressed corporately among His people.

Author : Kaje Harper
Publisher : Kaje Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Some Assembly Required written by Kaje Harper and published by Kaje Harper. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding love in the ashes was easy. Building a life together? Not so much. After spending the first part of his life chasing pretty girls, love has finally come to Ryan in the form of John, a tall, lanky, red-headed landscape architect with wide shoulders and a five-o’clock shadow. For the first time in Ryan's life, love feels easy. Hell, he even ran into a burning building for John and his son, and he’d do it again if he had to. But telling his father and brothers and classmates “I’m gay. I’ve met a man”? That’s going to take nerve of a different kind. For John, loving Ryan is as natural as breathing. Now if only the rest of his life would fall into place. Dealing with his teen son is complicated enough, but with his ex-wife causing trouble and his daughter wanting to move in, John’s house— and his relationship with Ryan— threaten to split at the seams. Is one month without a new surprise knocking him upside the heart really too much to ask? Unfortunately, the answer seems to be Yes. (This is a re-release of the 2015 Samhain novel, with only minor editing.)

Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433559625
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Assembly written by Jonathan Leeman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many churches are switching to the multisite or multiservice models to manage crowded sanctuaries due to growing attendance. This solution seems sensible in the short term, but too often churches adopt this model without taking into consideration what the Bible says about it. Illuminating the importance of physical togetherness as a way to protect the gospel, this book argues that maintaining a single assembly best embodies the unity the church possesses in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Leeman considers a series of biblical, theological, and pastoral arguments that ask us to stop and examine intuitions or assumptions about what a church is. He reorients our minds to a biblical definition of church, offering examples of churches that have thrived with a single service at a single site and compelling alternatives for those looking to solve the complications that come with a growing church.

Author : Watchman Nee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0736357858
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assembly Life & The Prayer Ministry of the Church written by Watchman Nee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that God must gain the church as a corporate expression of Christ and not just individual, overcoming Christians, Watchman Nee presents practical fellowship in The Assembly Life that is directed toward fitly framing the believers who live within a particular locality into a living, spiritual, and practical dwelling place of God. In a world that is desperately in need of Him, God often seems limited in His operation and frustrated in His purpose. Despite the ever-present needs, there is no limitation in His ability. There is, however, a limitation in His willingness to work without the full cooperation of the church through prayer. The prayer of the church lays the tracks upon which God moves to fulfill His eternal purpose. In The Prayer Ministry of the Church, Watchman Nee presents the biblical principles involved in the type of prayer that can bind on earth what has been bound in Heaven and loose on earth what has been loosed in Heaven. Through the prayer of the church every limitation and frustration to the fulfillment of God's will can be effectively overcome.

Author : Watchman Nee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935008586
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembly Life written by Watchman Nee and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kaje Harper
Publisher : Kaje Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rebuilding Year written by Kaje Harper and published by Kaje Harper. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took losing nearly everything, to discover what they can’t live without. A few excruciating minutes pinned under a burning beam cost Ryan Ward his job as a firefighter, the easy camaraderie of his coworkers, his current girlfriend, and damn near cost him his left leg. Giving up, though, wasn’t an option. He fought and won the battle back to health, over a painful year. Now, choosing a new profession, going back to school, and renting a room from the college groundskeeper should be simple. Until he realizes he’s falling in love with his housemate, and things take a turn for the complicated. John Barrett knows about loss. After moving twice to stay in touch with his kids, he could only watch as his ex-wife whisked them away to California. Offering Ryan a room seems better than rattling around his empty house alone. But as casual friendship moves to something more, and emotions heat up, the big old house feels like tight quarters. It’s nothing they can't learn to navigate, until life adds in unhappy teen kids, difficult family members, and mysterious deaths on campus. Rebuilding will be far from easy, even for two guys willing to open their minds, and hearts.

Author : Azizah al-Hibri
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322064
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in American Public Life written by Azizah al-Hibri and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking discussion of the public and political expression of America's diverse religious beliefs.

Author : Natasha Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316268461
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembly written by Natasha Brown and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary novel finds a woman with everything on the line and a life-or-death decision waiting for her—perfect for fans of Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill. Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers.And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away. "Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway meets Claudia Rankine's Citizen...as breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true.”—Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Asylum Road A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo) “A quiet, measured call to revolution…This is the kind of book that doesn’t just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible.”—Ali Smith, author of Summer "Brilliant. Brown's gaze is piercing."—Avni Doshi, author of Burnt Sugar

Author : Gordon W. Lathrop
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506478824
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assembly written by Gordon W. Lathrop and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous book, The Pastor: A Spirituality, Gordon W. Lathrop writes: "The most important symbol of Christ in the room is not the minister, not the altar, not even the bread and wine or the water of the font. It is the assembly, the Body of Christ, as the New Testament says" (page 27). This statement forms the central theme of this new book. Reflecting on the recent painful time of pandemic, when the wisest and most caring course was not to assemble at all, has illuminated the author's conviction and strengthened it. But as churches return to in-person worship and life in community, they will need to revisit formation in assembly practice. This book articulates why and how the assembly is so important in Christianity. Lathrop intends the book to assist Christian congregations and their pastors or priests to recover vital, participatory, and life-giving in-person worship after the pandemic. He further intends that participants will see and treasure the importance of assembly as the primary form of "church" and as a vital source of Christian daily life. Part 1 of the book looks in depth at the assembly, discusses why the sacraments are assembly events, and explores how the assembly forms Christians for daily living. Part 2 presents a critical catechism for the assembly, with emphasis on the sacraments, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0870837338
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Lessons on Service written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1993 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: