Announcements
Week of June 21, 2026
Lord's Day - 6/21
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by the saints with last names of K - P
Tuesday - 6/23
Prayer meetings by area in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 6/28
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Love feast
Hall cleaning by all the saints and serving groups' meetings
Holy word for morning revival
June 22 - 28
HWMR: The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew, Week 1, $5.50 each;
"The Up-to-date, Instant, and Living Vision of the Heavenly Christ as the Living Star"
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
June 22 - 28
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 75 - "God’s Economy - Christ with
the Church" and Message 76 - "God’s Economy - To Work Christ into Us"
To help you develop a habit of reading the Life-studies for your spiritual nourishment
and growth in Christ, download and use the 500 Life-Studies app on your phone
by clicking this link. Also, here is a very encouraging excerpt entitled "Becoming
What We Read" as an incentive to read the Bible and the ministry that opens up
the Word of God to us.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream Ministry,
use this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians online
at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
Reading through the Recovery Version Bible each year: three chapters in the Old
Testament and one chapter in the New Testament six days per week. Click here for
the 2026 schedule. Or to create your own Bible reading schedule, go to this link.
June 22 - 28
Read chapter three in Everyone Speaking the Word of God, $7.00 each
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
June 21
You are invited to a special GTCA webinar regarding the Lord’s move in the United
States at 6:00 pm EST. This one-hour webinar will highlight the current burden
as well as updates on the target cities for migration in 2026. Please visit GTCA.US
and click on the blue and white JOIN WEBINAR button.
June 27
Outing and picnic for children, young people, and their parents at Lettuce Lake
Park, Shelter #9, 10 am - 2 pm.
Click this link to sign up to attend and indicate what food and games you'll bring.
June 29 - July 4
June Semiannual Training, Anaheim, CA covering the subject of The Believers (1).
July 3 - 12
June Semiannual Video Training at the meeting hall, submit your part-time
schedule before the start of the training. Click this link for the complete schedule
for all twelve messages.
July 12
Blending with the church in Sarasota at the Twin Lakes Park in the "Green Room"
conference room.
The International Memorial Day Blending Conference archived messages will be accessible to view at lsmwebcast.com via the "Memorial Day Conf." button on the webcast menu for free until June 24, 2026.
You can watch the most recently recorded TSUF webinar from June 14 and all the previous ones on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. You can also read encouraging reports from the saints who have been spreading God’s word on the Testimonies page. We encourage you to share your own testimonies with others here. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1)
Living Stream Ministry offers two series of free eBooklets: Nuggets and Gems from the Bible and Essential Classic Booklets. All these eBooklets are free to download and share, with the hope that many will join them in spreading these riches.
A suggested eBooklet for you to read and share with someone else this week is God's Salvation and God's Reward. "In this booklet compiled from Life-study of John, Witness Lee presents the main subject of John 1:19-51 with its five main points: the Lamb of God, the dove, the stones, the building of God’s house, and the Son of Man. 'The Lamb is for redemption; the dove is for life-imparting, transforming, and building; the stone is for material; the house is the building; and the very substance of God’s building is man” (p. 1).'”
Also, at the Rhema Literature Distributors website you can download the three volumes of the Basic Elements of the Christian Life, which include eleven short publications that everyone should read and then share with others.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
Three items that damage the church
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1) Judaism as a cause of degradation
- Firstly, Satan used Judaism, a religion founded and formed according to God’s oracle, to corrupt the church. Judaism crept in with its forms and ordinances, especially the ordinances concerning circumcision, the Sabbath, and eating.
2) Knowledge as a source of corruption
- Secondly, Satan used philosophy, especially a mixture of various philosophies called Gnosticism, to damage the church. The subtlety of the enemy is to turn the church from the mingled spirit to the natural mind, that is, to turn the saints from the tree of life to the tree of knowledge.
3) Organization as a cause of damage
- The third item that has damaged the church throughout its history is organization. In order for organization to be maintained, there is the need for regulations, forms, and rituals. This is the reason these things have been prevailing in the so-called church.
In the church life in the Lord’s recovery we are not for organization with its emphasis on position or rank. It is not wrong to speak of elders and deacons. However, in the book of Revelation there is no mention of these terms. This book speaks, on the contrary, of the seven Spirits, the sevenfold intensified Spirit that deals with the fallen, degraded church. We are not for doctrines, rituals, or rank—we are for the sevenfold Spirit. Everything apart from this all-inclusive Spirit is dung (Phil. 3:8).
Before the Lord, I know what my burden is today. I am not interested in teaching the saints. My burden is that we all be “wrecked” for Christ and the church, and that we be unloaded of the old things of Christianity. In the Lord’s recovery we must go all the way back to the beginning, where there was the eating of the tree of life. In the beginning there was just the Word to feed us; there was no religion, no tree of knowledge, and no organization. How we need to be unloaded of these three devilish factors of corruption and damage in the church! By the Lord’s mercy, many of us have been unloaded, and others are being unloaded meeting after meeting. As I contact the saints, I realize that many have been fully released from religion, knowledge, and organization. Because we have been unloaded and released, we can be living and aggressive for Christ and the church wherever we may go. Having been unloaded, we are one, and we have brotherly love not as a doctrine, but as a reality.
May we all be deeply impressed that the church life has nothing to do with religion, knowledge, or organization. In the church there is no room for regulations, forms, or rituals. We do not care even for the knowledge of the Bible in mere letters. To us, every word of the Bible must be spirit and life (John 6:63). Then the church will be living and preserved in the oneness. The life-giving Spirit is our oneness. Everything we need for the church life is in the all-inclusive Spirit. As we come to the Holy Word, we need to exercise our spirit to pray. Then the Word will become the Spirit in our experience, and we shall have the genuine and proper church life. As long as we have the church life, we have everything: salvation, redemption, sanctification, the overcoming life, the rapture, and the kingdom. In the church life everything in time and eternity is ours. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 610-617)
Seven Aspects of the Church
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- The Body - Eph. 1:22-23
- The new man - Eph. 2:15 (created); 4:13 (grow up until arriving at a full-grown man); 4:24 (put on the new man)
- The bride - Eph. 5
- The family - Eph. 2:19
- The kingdom - Eph. 2:19
- The dwelling place - Eph. 2:22
- The warrior - Eph. 6:10-20
(Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 621-623)