The Church in Spokane
TestimoniesFinding the Meaning of my Human LifeAfter receiving the Lord at age 19, I struggled to find the meaning of my salvation and even the purpose of my human life. Why did God create me and what did He save me for? Although I was a Christian, I didn’t have the inner peace and joy I knew I should. By the Lord’s mercy, after about three years, I came to realize I didn’t have a living experience of Christ and hungered for more than just trying to be a “good” Christian. It was not long after this, while attending a University that I met a dear Christian in my dental hygiene class. She introduced me to the publications of Living Stream Ministry. I thank and praise the Lord each day for this ministry, for through it I have found in the Bible the purpose of my life and most importantly, the reason for my salvation. Through the ministry of both Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, I have been brought into a much richer, deeper experience of Christ. Everything in this ministry has pointed me to Christ and how to take this lovely One as my life and everything. Also, through this ministry I have been brought to love the Lord more than I ever thought possible and am learning to overcome all the many distractions that prevent me from gaining this Wonderful Christ. I have NEVER been pointed to any other person or thing, but solely to Christ. To me it is clear that to know this One was the only goal of both Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. By the Lord’s mercy, I found that when I was saved I became a member of the church. I didn’t have to try to figure out which denomination was right. As a genuine believer I was a living member of the one Body of Christ! It has been nearly three years since I began meeting with the church in Spokane and I do not regret a single day. God’s heart’s desire is to have a living expression on the earth today and for me to divide myself from this Body would be to cut myself off from my Lord’s Body and thus His expression. I praise the Lord for so many dear brothers who were willing to stand for the Lord’s testimony on this earth and who were willing to spend and be spent so that the Lord’s Body could be recovered back to God’s original intention—the meeting of the church in each locality for the universal building up of the Body of Christ, so that Christ would have a living expression on this earth. Without such faithful ones, I would still be an aimless Christian longing to know what this life in me is for. By God’s mercy, I will spend the rest of my days in the church, meeting in whichever locality I may be in, feasting on the unsearchable riches of Christ so that Ephesians 3:17-19 may continue to be my reality: “That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God…to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen!” E.S. |