THE UNIQUE WORK IN GOD’S ECONOMY
Message Seventeen
Some Illustrations (1) the Work in Taiwan
I. Entering into the truth and the blending of the churches:
A. Faithfully following and entering into the speaking of the ministry; actively participating in the seven annual feasts:
1. All the leading co-workers shall attend the seven annual feasts.
2. Immediately after every conference, various kinds of blending meetings, conferences, and trainings are held to supply and transmit the speaking and burden received overseas to the saints.
3. The saints are constituted with the truth to speak the same thing with one mouth; thus, the churches in Taiwan arrive at one accord unprecedentedly.
B. Entering into the truth through PSRP:
1. In the video trainings and various conferences and trainings in each locality, the saints are helped to receive complete revelation and truth in bulk through entering into the outlines of the messages by pray-reading, studying, reciting, and prophesying.
2. In the Lord’s Day meeting, more than half of the saints attending the meetings prophesy to speak forth the burden of the messages, learning to speak the new language.
C. The blending of the churches in Taiwan in the Body of Christ:
1. Meetings for elders and co-workers in the whole of Taiwan.
2. Perfecting trainings for the co-workers.
3. Blending conferences for the serving brothers and sisters respectively.
4. The blending for the serving ones of young working saints, college students, middle school students, and children.
5. Perfecting trainings for new believers, basic perfecting, and the blending for medical saints.
6. Conferences of pray-reading, studying, reciting, and prophesying the messages of the Memorial Day Conference and the Thanksgiving Day Conference.
7. The Chinese New Year blending conference in Taiwan.
8. Through blending, the church life in each locality is the same, pressing on in one accord in the same stream.
II. The perfecting of various aspects in the church life:
A. Gaining ten thousand young people for the Lord in Taiwan every year, including middle school students, college students, and young working people.
B. Children’s service:
1. Educating on the Lord’s Day—the perfecting in the truth.
2. Nurturing in homes—the exercise of the God-man living.
3. Cultivating in small groups—the practice of children’s groups for the gospel preaching.
C. Young people’s service:
1. Spiritual raising up—understanding the Bible and knowing God’s economy.
2. Cultivating the will—preparing themselves to become vessels useful to the Lord.
3. Building up the character—growing in life and living a proper Christian life.
D. College students’ service:
1. Being equipped with the truth—being constituted with the ministry through PSRP.
2. Learning in service—exercising to practice the God-ordained way on campuses.
3. Building up the will—joining the full-time training after they graduate.
4. Strengthening language skill—answering the call to participate in the overseas propagation.
E. Young working saints’ service:
1. Having a steady individual and corporate life of pursuing and a normal God-man living.
2. Learning to serve in coordination in the church and being perfected to bear responsibilities.
3. The community gospel—the most practical way of the gospel preaching for young working saints.
III. The Full-time training:
A. The full-time training of the gospel work in Taiwan:
1. Since 1986, the saints from Taiwan and overseas, who have passed through the training, have been over 4,000.
2. Trainees receive the divine and heavenly training in eight aspects: ministry, truth, life, service, the Body of Christ, will, character, and language.
3. Since 2010, trainees of the second year shall propagate in villages and towns in Taiwan and overseas for several weeks.
B. The full-time training for the middle aged ones of the gospel work in Taiwan:
1. Since 2004, the middle-age training began in Zhongxing meeting hall in Zhongxing New Village, Nantou County.
2. The trainees do not only stay in villages and towns in Taiwan, but they also “fly” to the whole earth as the eagles of God; at present there are trainees propagating in Macao, Thailand, Japan, and France.
IV. The burden for the Lord’s move to Asia:
A. Besides sending co-workers to different places for propagation, the churches in Taiwan have material offering and pray for the Lord’s move as well.
B. In recent years, saints in the churches in Taiwan have been to some propagating countries in Asia to have short-term propagation of the gospel in coordination, and have received a specific burden in fellowship to care for the need of these countries.