During February of 1984 over three hundred and fifty brothers from six continents gathered in Anaheim, California with Brother Witness Lee for a two week international elders’ training. The messages that were released at that time are the contents of this four volume set. Book one presents the essential aspects of the ministry of the New Testament; book two sets forth the vision of the Lord’s recovery; book three covers the way to carry out the vision; and book four emphasizes other crucial matters concerning the practice of the Lord’s recovery.

Those of us that were in these meetings were deeply convicted of our need to be further enlightened by the Lord concerning God’s economy and concerning the intrinsic essence of the New Testament ministry which is for the carrying out of this divine economy. As the Lord’s recovery is continually spreading throughout the world, these messages are more than crucial and urgently needed. We believe that they will render a great help in preserving all the saints in the central lane of God’s economy, without any deviation, for the fulfillment of His eternal plan. Our hope and expectation is that these messages will become a governing and controlling vision for all in the Lord’s recovery. May we prayerfully consider all the points presented in these books and accept them without any preferences.

CONTENTS

Book 01: The Ministry of the New Testament

1. The Oneness of God’s Ministry and the Peril to It
2. Lessons concerning the Oneness of the Ministry
3. The Ministry in the Gospels
4. The Triune God for Our Experience
5. The Continuation of the New Testament Ministry with Peter and Paul in Acts
6. The Continuation and Further Development in Paul’s Part of the New Testament Ministry
7. Peter’s and John’s Parts in the New Testament Ministry

Book 02: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery

1. The Vision Concerning God, Concerning the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and Concerning God’s Economy
2. The Vision Concerning Redemption and Concerning God’s Full Salvation
3. The Vision Concerning the Believers and Concerning the Church
4. The Vision Concerning the Kingdom
5. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
   The Ultimate Consummation (1)
6. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
   The Ultimate Consummation (2)
7. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
   The Ultimate Consummation (3)
8. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
   The Ultimate Consummation (4)
9. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
   The Ultimate Consummation (5)
10. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
    The Ultimate Consummation (6)
11. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
    The Ultimate Consummation (7)
12. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
    The Ultimate Consummation (8)
13. The Vision Concerning the New Jerusalem—
    The Ultimate Consummation (9)

Book 03: The Way to Carry Out the Vision

1. The Need to Acquire the Crucial Points of the Truth and a Bird’s-eye View of the Scriptures
2. A Bird’s-eye View of Mark and Romans
3. Not Becoming Contented
4. Not Teaching Differently from God’s Economy
5. The Need to Be Constituted and the Governing Principle of the Divine Dispensing in God’s Dispensations
6. The Governing Principles of Christ and the Church and of Christ, the Spirit, Life, and the Church
7. The Divine Trinity (1)
8. The Divine Trinity (2)
9. Bringing the Saints into the Truth (1)
10. Bringing the Saints into the Truth (2)
11. Bringing the Saints into the Truth (3)
12. Bringing the Saints into the Truth (4)
13. Bringing the Saints into the Truth (5)

Book 04: Other Crucial Matters Concerning the Practice of the Lord's Recovery

1. Concerning the Use of Reference Books and Other Writings (1)
2. Concerning the Use of Reference Books and Other Writings (2)
   Acquiring a Proper Foundation
3. The Region of Work (1)
   The Church Being Local and the Work Being Regional
4. The Region of Work (2)
   The Local Church and the Body, the Universal Church
5. Principles for the Leading Ones and the Workers
6. The Receiving of the Saints (1)
   Receiving All the Believers
7. The Receiving of the Saints (2)
   Second Thessalonians 3:14-15
8. The Position and Function of the Elders
9. Practical Points for the Elders
10. The Chinese-speaking Work
11. Our Attitude Toward Fellow-Believers

Book 05: Fellowship Concerning the Lord’s Up-To-Date Move

1. The Need to See the Vision of the Lord’s Recovery
2. The One Thing, the Unique Thing, in the Lord’s Recovery
3. Coming to the Full Knowledge of the Truth
4. The Word of God and the Home Meetings
5. Mutuality and Speaking for the Church Meetings
6. How the Believers Should Meet
7. Becoming Skillful in Using the Word Through the Governing Principles of Interpreting the Bible
8. The Age of the Old Creation, the Age of the New Creation, and the Age of Restoration
9. The Home Meetings, Migration, and Full-time Workers

Book 06: The Crucial Points of Truth in Paul’s Epistles

1. The Crucial Points of the Truth
2. The Crucial Points of the Truth in Romans
3. The Crucial Points of the Truth in 1 Corinthians
4. The Crucial Points of the Truth in 2 Corinthians
5. The Crucial Points of the Truth in Galatians
6. The Crucial Points of the Truth in Ephesians
7. The Crucial Points of the Truth in Philippians and Colossians
8. The Crucial Points of the Truth in 1 and 2 Thessalonians
9. The Crucial Points of the Truth in 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
10. The Crucial Points of the Truth in Hebrews

Book 07: One Accord for the Lord’s Move

1. One Accord
2. The Three Substances of the Power in the Recovery
3. One In: Teaching, Practice, Thinking, Speaking, Essence, Appearance, Expression
4. The Need of All the Churches to be Identical
5. The Leading of the Apostles
6. No Uncertain Sounding of the Trumpet in the Lord’s Ministry
7. A Wise Master Builder and the Building of God
8. One Accord in the Lord’s Move

Book 08: The Life-Pulse of the Lord’s Present Move

1. Basic Principles of Meeting
2. Home Gathering (1)
3. Home Gathering (2)
4. Home Gathering (3)
5. The Truth Lessons (1)
6. The Truth Lessons (2)
7. Full-time
8. As the Lord’s, Living to Him
9. Fellowship unto the Gospel
10. Spreading the Gospel
11. Basic Principles in the Eldership and the Training of the Full-timers

Book 09: The Eldership and the God-Ordained Way (1)

1. The Way to Carry Out the Lord's New Move
2. Endeavoring to Carry Out the God-ordained Way
3. Carrying Out the God-ordained Way by a Revived Life
4. God's Administration
5. Fellowship Concerning Our Going On
6. The Organic Way to Care for the Church as the Organic Body of Christ
7. Practicing the New Way to Build Up the Organic Body of Christ
8. The Practice of Perfecting the Saints for the Organic Building Up of the Body of Christ
9. Seeing the Vision of the Lord's Present Recovery and Practicing It
10. The Practice of the Lord's Present Recovery (1)
11. The Practice of the Lord's Present Recovery (2)

Book 10: The Eldership and the God-Ordained Way (2)

1. The Present Turmoil in the Lord's Recovery
2. The Direction of the Lord's Move Today
3. The Genuine Oneness of the Body
4. The Proper One Accord in the Church
5. The Tests of the Oneness of the Body and of the One Accord in the Church
6. The Way to Face the Present Divisive Situation in the Lord's Recovery
7. The Fellowship of the Churches, the Nature, Ground, and Condition of a Local Church, the Factors of a Denomination, and the Discerning of the One Body
8. How to Have a Definite Beginning of the God-ordained Way in a Local Church
9. Practicing the Priesthood of the Gospel according to the God-ordained Way
10. The Need in the Eldership in the God-ordained Way and the Need for More Fellowship among the Churches in the Lord's Recovery

Book 11: The Eldership and the God-Ordained Way (3)

1. What Is the Church to God and Christ? and
   How Should the Elders Be to the Churches?
2. The Elders' Interest (Concern) in Others' Spiritual Welfare
3. The Purpose of the Elders' Contact with People (1)
4. The Purpose of the Elders' Contact with People (2)
5. The Purpose of the Elders' Contact with People (3)
6. The Elders' Evaluation of People
7. The Spiritual Responsibility of the Elders (1)
8. The Spiritual Responsibility of the Elders (2)
9. Feeding the New Believers
10. Practicing the God-ordained Way and Being Rescued from the Papal and Clergy-laity Systems
11. Perfecting the Saints to Prophesy in the Church
    Meetings for the Building Up of the Body of Christ
12. Knowing the Body
13. Keeping the Oneness of the Body and
    Maintaining a Good Order in the Body