My Sweet Experience of Growing up in the Church Life
One verse that I have really been appreciating is Matthew 20:16 – “Thus shall the last be first and the first last.” I grew up in the church in Chicago to a biracial couple: my mother is Chinese and came from the church in Manila, Philippines, and my dad was saved on the campus in […]
The heart of our spiritual fathers toward us and how they have served us
In the summer of 2015, I had a particular experience that left a lasting impression on me. That summer, there was a National College Training in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. The speaking brother had just given a message on consecration, and hundreds of college students had lined up to consecrate themselves to the Lord. At the very […]
Henna Cornell: I am grateful for my experiences in the wonderful church life
I would like to join a number of my brothers and sisters to testify of my positive experience in the church life. Given this opportunity to consider my experience, my heart is full of thanksgiving for the care and shepherding I’ve received. I’d like to testify particularly of some sisters who have been positive patterns […]
My church life experience: how I was shepherded by the brothers and sisters
I was born and raised in the church life by parents who really love the Lord and enjoy having brothers and sisters in their home. I have lived in 9 localities (cities with local churches) in 4 countries. I attended children’s meetings, young people’s meetings, and university student meetings. For those 22 years I was […]
My Coming into the Church Life, studying at the FTTA, and Serving with the Students
I grew up in a denomination that was not clear on the truth. They believed that you could lose your salvation. They also believed that you had to meet with them, be baptized by them, and follow all their requirements in order to be saved at the end of your life. But by God’s mercy […]
Jeremy Mason: We Do Not Lose Heart
In 2 Corinthians 4, both in verse one and again in verse sixteen, Paul states emphatically: We do not lose heart. In my prayer concerning the current situation many of us in the ‘working saints’ category are facing, I was led to 2 Corinthians, a book on the new covenant ministry and its ministers, and […]
My Experience of being Cared for by the Believers in the Local Churches
This verse is really my testimony of growing up in the church in Anaheim, California, quite literally surrounded by the elders and co-workers along with their wives. When I was very young, I remember brother Witness Lee coming to my house and stooping down, opening up his arms to embrace me and my three other […]
Testimony of A.E. – how Sweet and Shepherding the Fellowship in the Church Life is
I grew up in a local church with parents who were very active in the church life. As a kid, I thought that bad things never happened to people in the church life, but then my parents got divorced when I was 13. As one might imagine, this was extremely hard for me and at […]
Testimony of Jean L. Thank the Lord for so many Fathers and Shepherds in the Church
When I was a young person growing up in the church in my locality, my father told me more than once that the elders, the leading brothers, are more so slaves than leaders. Nearly twenty years have passed since I first heard this statement, and I’ve since lived and met with churches in four countries […]