Church Affairs by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781575938042
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Published: 1996-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

The Church and the Work: Church Affairs

Let Us Maintain This Principle

I trust we will be able to maintain this principle before God: on the one hand, we confess that the Bible does make some

arrangements; on the other hand, we concede that it does not give us the detailed rules and regulations concerning these arrangements.

The Bible mentions, for example, letters of commendation, yet it never tells us how such letters should be written. You will remember that Paul said he did not need such a letter: “Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of

commendation to you or from you?” (2 Cor. 3.1) This implies that there were letters of commendation. But Paul did not describe at all how these letters were written. So that as we write our own letters of commendation today, we must learn to write them well. There is no form which we can fill in. We must instead learn to write them continuously.

As God touches upon various church affairs in His word, He

always gives us a principle. He merely shows us there is something He does, for He never takes into consideration that the Holy Spirit will ever leave the Church. From God’s viewpoint the Holy Spirit is Christ’s representative in the Church. The Holy Spirit dwells in the Church. And consequently, if we truly submit ourselves to the Head of the Church, we will be taught by the Holy Spirit how to act according to the particular principle given.

I hope you will be able to understand this matter of the district meeting. Though we do not have any Scriptural evidence of rule telling us what to do, we nonetheless recognize that the district meeting is a must—physically speaking. In the book of Acts, we notice it was definitely created: “from house to house” (Acts 2.46

AV, literal Greek). And the house where Rhoda was present was one of these very houses. These passages disclose the principle of having district meetings.

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I therefore hope you will keep this principle ever in mind: that regarding spiritual things, the Bible gives us great details so that nothing significant is left untold; but that regarding physical things (Levitical service) it only gives us hints but no rules and regulations.

It shows us something, but without revealing how. Yet as we do it, we realize that the Holy Spirit has not left us. The Holy Spirit is in the Church; He is the Head of the Church. We can wait and pray and receive light as to how to meet in districts.

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