Saints meeting in Minga Guazú, Paraguay on Lord’s day March 5, 2017. – via Santiago Ibarra Arias
First Timothy 3:15-16 reveals that the church is not only the house of the living God and the pillar and base of the truth but also the mystery of godliness, that is, the manifestation of God in the flesh. Although we are human beings in the flesh, God dwells in us. Therefore, when we are meeting together, we are the manifestation of God. First Corinthians 14:24-25 says that if the church is meeting properly, an unbeliever who comes into the meeting will say, “Indeed God is among you.” This indicates that God is manifested in the flesh in the church. Christ manifested God in the flesh as a man on the earth individually, but today God is manifested in the church corporately. This is a great mystery, the mystery of godliness. (Crucial Principles for the Christian Life and the Church Life, Chapter 8)
