Sometime we may have a meeting in which we use neither the hymnal nor the Bible. Instead, we may simply show forth Christ through the exercise of our spirit. I can be deprived of my hymnal and of my Bible, but I cannot be deprived of the all-inclusive Christ in my spirit. However, if some Christians did not have a hymnal or Bible, they would have nothing. They know how to sing from the hymnal and how to use the Bible, but they do not know how to exercise the spirit to experience Christ as the life-giving Spirit... We have seen that although the Christians in the early church did not have the Bible or a hymnal, they did have the living Christ. They called on His name and spoke a great deal of Him and regarding Him. .. Therefore, whenever they gathered together, they could EXHIBIT what they had experienced and enjoyed of Christ in their DAILY LIVING. By this we see that a PROPER CHRISTIAN meeting should be an expression of the Christian life. We should not make the meetings something different from or apart from our DAILY WALK. If we do this our meeting will become a PERFORMANCE, the meeting hall will become a theater, and the saints will become PERFORMERS... In order to have proper meetings, we must first have a PROPER DAILY LIFE. (Life-Study of First Corinthians - Bro. Witness Lee)
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