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Church Affairs

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
This book is composed of messages given by Watchman Nee in a training for co-workers and elders at Kuling Mountain in China in 1948. These messages were originally published in Chinese. The English edition is based on the fourth edition of the book which was printed in December 1982 by the Juridical Party of Taiwan Gospel Book Room.
The offices in the church    ch.1
Deacons
Given to those who have spiritual understanding
Elders
For the purpose of taking care of the church
Possibly being a minister of the word at the same time
The basic requirement being spirituality
Administrative experiences being useless
Able to manage his own household
An example
The exclusive responsibility of the church being the care of spiritual matters
Giving help to the elders
The meeting of the overseers
Considering things before God during the first half of the meeting
Receiving brothers during the second half of the meeting
The workers meeting together with the overseers
Producing a few reliable, responsible brothers
Showing them how to do the work
All the brothers and sisters serving being the church
The meeting of the overseers being the source of things
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus
The appointment of the responsible ones of the local church
First helping them learn to bear responsibility
Being difficult to change
Considering the spiritual future
Helping the responsible brothers in the surrounding areas
Things to pay attention to in the meeting of the overseers
Being solemn
Not talking behind others’ backs
Not telling the wives
Not mentioning how decisions were made
The importance of the meeting of the overseers
All the meetings being uplifted
Concentrating one’s entire being in this meeting
The watchtower of the church
Being respected by all the brothers
Two different aspects
The most solemn time
The question of number
The priestly service    ch.2
A few spiritual matters that all the believers should do
Preaching the gospel
Caring for the gospel
Bringing people to the gospel meetings
Sitting between them
Strengthening with prayer the word being preached
Willing to be assigned to attend to the new ones
While the net is being drawn
Not waiting for four months
After the meeting
Imparting the need, the knowledge, and the decisiveness into people
Telling them about baptism
Before the meeting starts
All becoming priests
The number of priests determining the number of God’s people
No useless members
A body of priests
Caring for new believers
The meeting for edifying new believers
Making up lessons and rendering the care
Having the new believers care for the unbelievers
Laboring on the fifty-two topics
Being a master builder
Caring for problems
A foolish thought
Caring for the believers who have moved away and for those from other places
Regarding brothers who move away
Writing a letter of recommendation not being the last responsibility
The need for some to be responsible for correspondence
Sending him excerpts
Corresponding with the receiving church
Regarding brothers from other places
Giving this responsibility to those who care for the brothers who have moved away
The time not needing to be long
The way of service
Not preferring a message on the Lord’s day
No inactive members
The service of the church being our way today
The Levitical service    ch.3
Being of the world but not in the world
All should learn
Helping in household chores
Twelve items of practical affairs
The principle of everyone serving
Causing all the one-talented ones to do business
The Body of Christ being living
God having gone ahead of us
Philadelphia must appear
Two ways — gift and authority
Not leaving anyone out
Authority dealing with the flesh
The ministers of the word in the church    ch.4
No need to maintain the Lord’s day message meeting
The reason we could not abolish it
Following what the nations do
Having nothing to replace it
The result of not abolishing it
Still needing to build up the pastoral system
The problem with not abolishing it
The outward problem — desiring to listen to messages
The inward problem — having a habit
The need to see accurately
A local church not maintaining the Lord’s day message meeting
Always abolishing the class of those who want to be served
The way of the church
Working replacing listening to messages
The entire Body being mobilized to preach the gospel
The whole church being priests
Every member functioning
Being able to find the church everywhere
In the morning serving man; in the evening serving God
Working after being saved
Being able to overthrow our tradition
The supply of the word
The supply of the word for edifying new believers
The word and the anointing being repeated
The supply for the gospel and the supply for edification
The supply of the word in 1 Corinthians 14
Everyone being responsible
Having half an hour of prayer and preparation beforehand
Those who are apt to teach needing to bear more responsibility
The supply of the apostles’ word
The Lord’s day message meeting being a waste
Needing to walk the way of recovery
Not needing highly gifted persons
The work being placed upon the church
The supply of the word being very important
New believers needing to migrate
The migrations also being a way to preach the gospel
Needing to change our habit
The need for new apostles to rise up
What to do in the place where the center of the work is
More emphasis being given at the apostles’ time to preaching the gospel than to listening to messages
The vision of the work
The need to rise up to build the temple
The church always needing to be in the freedom of the Holy Spirit
The different kinds of meetings in the church    ch.5
The gospel preaching meeting
The meeting for the edification of the new believers
Being careful to make up lessons
The teaching and the fellowship of the apostles
The meeting according to 1 Corinthians 14
The responsible brothers taking care of this meeting
The sisters giving testimonies
The prayer meeting
Be short
Be genuine
The topic needing to be focused
The bread-breaking meeting
The real worship service
Divided into two sections
The first section needing to be quick
The need for the burdens to be discharged
The Lord leading us to worship together
The sisters’ meeting
Giving opportunity for the ones who have received burdens to exercise their gifts
Teaching illiterate sisters how to read
The children’s meeting
The affairs of the service office    ch.6
The Bible recording the arrangement of the spiritual aspect of the church in detail and that of the practical affairs not in detail
The Bible having no detailed record of arrangement of practical affairs
Learning in two aspects
The need to arrange practical affairs
The persons being important, not the method
The danger of recording methods
Not going to the other extreme
Prayer being needed concerning how to carry things out
The methods that we see today
The need for a service office
The principle of the record book
Man’s memory not reliable
Not easy to find people
Things handled in the service office
For contacting one another
For keeping many records
The need for the service office
The need for a room to receive people
The need for people to work in the office
Brothers and sisters taking turns to work
For notification and inquiry
For receiving others, caring for others, and speaking the word
For recording various works and keeping a name list
The responsible brothers using the records for oversight
All the brothers serving being the way today
The service office being the instrument for carrying out the affairs
Needing to begin with consecration
Using only those people gained by God
The need to labor until everyone serves
To serve God being our glory
District meetings    ch.7
Fifty in a group or one hundred in a group
Meeting separately in districts
Caring for the saints by districts
Having balanced growth
Meeting by districts in Jerusalem
Keeping this principle
The arrangement of the local church at the center of the work    ch.8
A local church having elders, deacons, and brothers and sisters
An extra group, the apostles, being in the locality at the center of the work
The apostles also being elders
The apostles not dealing with matters directly concerned with a local church
Peter having to bear two responsibilities
Some apostles not being elders
Antioch being another beginning by the Holy Spirit
Antioch being the mortal wound for Catholicism
Paul and barnabas becoming apostles
The possibility of a third region being set up
Apostles who are not elders being able to continually go out
Needing a strong meeting
The general local church and the local church at the center of the work differing slightly in the matter of the message meeting
The apostles also being elders
The relationship between the local church, the work, and the apostles    ch.9
The elders being the highest authority in a local church
The elders being appointed by the apostles
The church listening to the elders and the elders learning to listen to the apostles
The apostles being the ones to remove the elders
The apostles bearing the responsibility for the work and the elders bearing the responsibility for the church
How the church makes decisions
Acts 15 — the pattern for a church conference
Some problems
Brothers being allowed to speak in the conference of the apostles and elders
The decision made by the apostles and the elders and endorsed by the Holy Spirit and the church
Touching the Spirit of the Bible
Peter not being affected by the Spirit of debate
Barnabas and Paul bringing in the presence of God
James bringing in the feeling in God’s presence
Not merely learning the Biblical practice, but possessing the spirit of the Bible
The coordination among the workers    ch.10
Recognizing authority
Master builders in God’s work
Those who lay the foundation and those who build upon it
The meaning of not building upon others’ foundation
Not quoting the word in a light way
This word being spoken by Paul
Some taking the lead among the apostles
Andronicus and Junia
Peter
Barnabas
God being the God of authority and the God of order
Being in the forefront is having authority
Paul
No coordination without obedience
Fellowship being needed
Co-workers being those to whom we can open up our heart
Two persons being as one man
Needing to disclose our affairs to the co-workers
Needing to bear others’ burdens
Needing to seek for fellowship
Bringing in the power by seeking the Lord with one accord
Needing to cast off individualism
The head giving the authority, and the members having the fellowship
Authority and fellowship in the Bible
Sending Tychicus and Onesimus
Sending Timothy and Epaphroditus
Tychicus also going to Ephesus
Entreating Titus and sending another brother to go with him
Urging Apollos, his not wanting to go, but his going in the future
Controlling Timothy’s movements and the fellowship of revelation
Needing to bring mark
Leaving Trophimus at Miletus
Titus being left in crete and being diligent to go to Nicopolis
Charging Timothy to keep the commandment
Paul also needing fellowship
Who our co-workers are and who the apostles are    ch.11
A great misunderstanding
Apostles truly needing to drop their jobs
Paul being a tentmaker
Paul’s occupation being an apostle, not tentmaking
The situation in those days being different
Making tents so that he could be an apostle
The question of a second job
The principle of “These Hands!”
Fishing and tentmaking being two different matters
Not changing occupations but endeavoring all the more
The scope of the definition of a co-worker being wider than that of an apostle
Requiring the occupation of every person to be secondary
The purpose being for service
Occupation being a minor issue
Serving God in whatever we do
All those who are for the Lord being co-workers
The work not being the same but the purpose being the same
Needing to serve by all means
The matter of finances    ch.12
The distribution of money in a local church
Normal expenses
Taking care of the poor
Taking care of the needs of the responsible brothers
Sending financial help to other local churches for their use
Giving to individual workers
Giving to the work in the region
The relationship among co-workers
The need for those taking the lead to care for the co-workers
Distributing according to everyone’s need
The need to look to God and our not bearing the responsibility for anyone
Questions
The practical way to distribute
Arrangements being needed
After expenditures and gifts, the remainder being sent to other localities
The need to have two to handle the money
The need for the ledger to be public
First the expenses, then the apostles
The way to distribute money entrusted to you
Sending letters to all the places concerning the building of a meeting hall
The matter of supporting the responsible brothers
Timothy being the one who should speak
The deacons needing to bear more responsibility
Answers to questions    ch.13
The matter of the elders’ children believing in the Lord
The meeting becoming too large and the original responsible brothers not being able to bear responsibility
Peter and Philip moving individually?
Confronting authority
Names having order
Believing in the presence of the Holy Spirit
Not submitting to a perfect person
Not submitting selectively
Seeking fellowship
Not merely a matter of lacking faithfulness and faith
Peter seeking fellowship under authority
Philip being met by the Holy Spirit
Not a matter of the number of people
The basic principle of having two or more persons
The appointment of the elders and the apostles being elders
Being sent more in the element of fellowship
The story of Peter and John
The story of Paul and Silas
The words of the Holy Spirit being spoken through the prophets
Only two centers being mentioned in Acts

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