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| <td valign="top"><p align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000099" size="4"><b>Concerning | |
| the Recovery...</b></font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">We in the local churches are for God's recovery. A | |
| basic definition of what we mean by recovery is necessary for an accurate understanding of | |
| our testimony.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">The word "recover" means to obtain again | |
| something that has been lost, or to return something to a normal condition. | |
| "Recovery" means the restoration or return to a normal condition after a damage | |
| or a loss has been incurred. To say that God is recovering certain matters means that in | |
| the course of church history they have been lost, misused, or corrupted and that God is | |
| restoring them to their original state or condition.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">Because the church has become degraded through the | |
| many centuries of its history, it needs to be restored according to God's original | |
| intention. Concerning the church, our vision is governed not by the present situation nor | |
| by traditional practice, but by God's original intention and by His unchanging standard as | |
| revealed in His Word. We regard the New Testament revelation of the church not merely as a | |
| historical antecedent, but as the norm for church practice in the present day.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">God's recovery did not begin in the twentieth | |
| century. Although it is difficult to fix an exact date for its beginning, it is convenient | |
| to set it at the time of the Reformation. The recovery has gone through several stages | |
| since the Reformation, passing through the partial recovery of the church life in Bohemia | |
| under the leadership of Zinzendorf, moving on to the unveiling of the many precious Bible | |
| truths through the Plymouth Brethren, and then going on to the genuine experience of the | |
| inner life. Now it has reached its present stage with the establishment of genuine local | |
| churches as the expression of the Body of Christ.</font></p> | |
| <p><font face="Arial" color="#000099">In His recovery today the Lord is doing two things. | |
| He is recovering the experience of the riches of Christ – that is, the enjoyment of | |
| Christ as our life and our everything – and He is recovering the practice of the | |
| church life. These two matters go hand in hand, for the practical church life is the issue | |
| of the enjoyment of the riches of Christ. We in the Lord's recovery today testify that | |
| Christ is unsearchably rich, that He is the all-inclusive One for our enjoyment. | |
| Furthermore, we testify that the Lord has burdened us for the practice of the church life | |
| according to the revelation of the pure Word of God.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000099"><em>Quoted from </em>The | |
| Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches<em> <br> | |
| © 1978 Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.</em></font></td> | |
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| <td align="center" width="400"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"><img src="graphics/bulletL.gif" alt="left arrow (887 bytes)"> <font face="Arial" color="#006600"><big><a href="mailto:letters@churchinokc.org">Write us!</a> We welcome all inquiries that spring | |
| from a sincere desire to know the truth.</big><br> | |
| <i>Website comments? Email the <a href="mailto:webmaster@churchinokc.org">Webmaster</a>.</i></font></td> | |
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| <p align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#990000" size="2"><i>This page and all | |
| contents are Copyright © 1998-2000 The Church in Oklahoma City (unless otherwise | |
| indicated). All Rights Reserved.</i></font></p> | |
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| <p align="center"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><i>Scripture quoted from </i>The | |
| New Testament<i>, Recovery Version © 1985, 1991 Living Stream Ministry and Witness Lee. | |
| Used by permission.</i></font></p> | |
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| <p align="center"><font color="#800040" face="Arial" size="1"><i>Online design by <a href="mailto:webmaster@churchinokc.org">E. C. Gruhler III,</a> --Copyright © 1998-2000--All | |
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