TURNING FROM MEETINGS TO PEOPLE, BIG TO SMALL, AND COMING AND GOING
Verses:
Matt. 18:20: “For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.”
Acts 2:46: “And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house…”
Excerpts:
Before the Lord comes back, how the church will be? Brother Lee had seen it. He had seen further than all of us. He saw that the church will gradually, slowly be recovered back to its original way. What is the original way of the church? It is the way in the first century, where there were no big meetings, but only small meetings. As the day of the Lord approaches, the church will increasingly return to its original way.
The recovery of the church needs the change of systems. In order for the change of systems to be successful, first we need to change our concept. We must first change our concept, and second, change our systems, and third, change our ways.
A few years ago, I spoke of “turning from meetings to people, from big to small, and from coming to going.” This is to change the concepts and to change the system. Actually, I am not the one who first spoke this; it was Brother Lee. When Brother Lee began speaking of the new way, the God-ordained way, he spoke of changing the concepts and changing the systems. And then he endeavored to discourage big meetings and promoted group meetings and district meetings. He said, “The heaven and earth can pass away, but we must go to the small group meetings!” This is to turn from big meetings to small meetings. But after speaking much of it, he realized it was still not good enough, so he turned from groups to homes, turning to even smaller gatherings. This was what he spoke in Taiwan. After he returned to the US, he began to speak of the vital groups. Actually, vital groups are small groups, which are even smaller units than the home meetings and group meetings that he spoke of in Taiwan.
This means that after big meetings are divided into groups and districts, the saints go from the group meetings, to the home meetings, and then to the vital groups. Actually, the gatherings are getting smaller and smaller. This is to turn from big to small. Furthermore, in that period of time, he constantly spoke of door knocking, visiting people, contacting people, caring for people, nourishing people, seeking the dormant and backslidden ones one by one, and also visiting and contacting gospel friends one by one. From this we see how much he regarded people! This is to turn from meetings to people, and from coming to going. (Open Letter by Bro. Andrew Yu, February 11, 2020)
The church in Zamboanga 