How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, in an international conference for co-workers and elders on October 1 through 3, 1996.

How to be a co-worker and an elder (1) _ch.1

Outline
Not assuming a status but serving as slaves
To know Christ
His being both God and man
His possessing both divinity and humanity
In His humanity His accomplishing His judicial redemption through His death
In His divinity He is carrying out His organic salvation in His resurrection
To experience and enjoy Christ (to gain Christ) in His full ministry in His three divine and mystical stages
In the first stage, the stage of His incarnation, from His human birth to His death
To bring the infinite God into the finite man
To unite and mingle the Triune God with the tripartite man
To express in His humanity the bountiful God in His rich attributes through His aromatic virtues
To accomplish His all-inclusive judicial redemption
Learning to enter into, to speak, and to experience

How to be a co-worker and an elder (2) _ch.2

Outline
In the second stage, the stage of His inclusion, from His resurrection to the degradation of the church
To be begotten as God’s firstborn Son
From eternity past without beginning, Christ being God’s only begotten Son
In incarnation the only begotten Son of God becoming flesh to be a God-man, a man possessing both the divine nature and the human nature
Through death and resurrection Christ in the flesh as the seed of David being designated to be the firstborn Son of God
In death His humanity being crucified
In resurrection His crucified humanity being made alive by the Spirit of His divinity and being uplifted into the sonship of the only begotten Son of God
Thus, His being begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God
To become the life-giving Spirit
The last Adam (Christ in the flesh) becoming a life-giving Spirit
This life-giving Spirit being “not yet” before the resurrection of Christ — the glorification of Christ
Christ being transfigured into the life-giving Spirit in His resurrection
This life-giving Spirit being the pneumatic Christ
To regenerate the believers for His Body
To regenerate the believers, making them the many sons of God
Giving the Spirit without measure
All the believers in Christ being built up into a dwelling place of God in their spirit indwelt by Him as the Spirit
The Lord’s present move and need

How to be a co-worker and an elder (3) _ch.3

Outline
To know Christ particularly in four aspects
Ten great things accomplished by Christ in His full ministry in three stages
In the third stage, the stage of His intensification, from the degradation of the church to the consummation of the New Jerusalem
To intensify His organic salvation
To produce the overcomers
To consummate the New Jerusalem

How to fulfill the obligations of the co-workers and elders (1) _ch.4

Outline
The advancement of the divine revelation in the Lord’s recovery
The three stages of Christ in the New Testament
Beware of
Ambition
To fulfill the obligations of a co-worker or an elder, your needing to have a pure heart
Never hunting to be the first in any work for the Lord
As a co-worker, never considering that you are above the elders and never attempting to appoint elders
Pride
Pride being an attribute of our fallen nature by birth
Even with Paul, the Lord being wary of an exceeding exaltation of Himself, so His letting him have a thorn in his flesh from Satan
A new convert not being an overseer, lest being blinded with pride he fall into the judgment prepared for the devil
Always remembering that humility saves you from all kinds of destruction and invites God’s grace
Pride making you a top fool
Rivalry in the Lord’s work being not only a sign of ambition but also a sign of pride
Caring for your prestige and neglecting others’ dignity being a sign of subtle pride
Referring to your capacity, success, perfection, and virtue being a careless form of pride
Thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to think being another form of pride
The model of Christ
Arguing about who is greater being an ugly form of pride
Wanting to be great and not to be a servant and wanting to be the first and not to be a slave being also a sign of pride
Lording it over the members of your church under your shepherding being a strong sign of your pride
The apostle Paul’s model
To restore a brother, overtaken in some offense, with meekness (a gentle expression of humility) protecting us from being tempted also
Self-boasting, self-exaltation, self-glorification, and lusting after vainglory being all ugly and base expressions of pride
Self-justification
Self-justification indicating condemning of others and exalting of yourself
The Lord coming not to condemn men but to save men by forgiving (forgetting) their sins
The church being neither a police station arresting people nor a law court judging people, but a home raising up believers, a hospital healing and recovering believers, and a school teaching and edifying believers

How to fulfill the obligations of the co-workers and elders (2) _ch.5

Outline
Not being conformed to the death of Christ
Not walking strictly according to the mingled Spirit
Not setting the mind on the mingled Spirit
Not magnifying Christ by living Him
Not living with Christ
Not letting Christ make His home in our heart
Not working out our own salvation

How to fulfill the obligations of the co-workers and elders (3) _ch.6

Outline
Working with God to carry out His divine building in three aspects for the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy
Establishing and shepherding the churches
Building and constituting the Body of Christ
Adorning and consummating the New Jerusalem

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