Welcome to the Christian Faith Podcast! This program exists, along with our website, https://www.TheChristianFaith.org, to help address the need for a healthy word of ministry among God’s children today.
In the past several centuries the Lord has used saints such as Martin Luther, Madame Guyon, J.N. Darby, G.H. Pember, Robert Govett, Andrew Murry, Mary McDonough, T.A. Sparks, Watchman Nee, and Witness Lee to open up so much Biblical truth to His children. Through them, and others as well, matters such as justification, the Old Testament types, the Body of Christ and the local churches, the reward and discipline of the believers in the coming age, and God’s full salvation through the operation of the divine life within the believers, have become more clear now than ever before.
And yet, it seems that so few Christians today have more than a basic grasp of the truths contained in Scripture; As the Lord tells us, through the prophet Hosea:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
— Hosea 4:6
Our hope and prayer for The Christian Faith Radio Hour, as for our website, is that the Lord may use it to bring His children into a more thorough grasp of His truth, and ultimately, into a greater knowledge and experience of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for His glory and His kingdom.
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Welcome to the Christian Faith Podcast! This program exists, along with our website, https://www.TheChristianFaith.org, to help address the need for a healthy word of ministry among God’s children today.
In the past several centuries the Lord has used saints such as Martin Luther, Madame Guyon, J.N. Darby, G.H. Pember, Robert Govett, Andrew Murry, Mary McDonough, T.A. Sparks, Watchman Nee, and Witness Lee to open up so much Biblical truth to His children. Through them, and others as well, matters such as justification, the Old Testament types, the Body of Christ and the local churches, the reward and discipline of the believers in the coming age, and God’s full salvation through the operation of the divine life within the believers, have become more clear now than ever before.
And yet, it seems that so few Christians today have more than a basic grasp of the truths contained in Scripture; As the Lord tells us, through the prophet Hosea:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
— Hosea 4:6
Our hope and prayer for The Christian Faith Radio Hour, as for our website, is that the Lord may use it to bring His children into a more thorough grasp of His truth, and ultimately, into a greater knowledge and experience of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for His glory and His kingdom.
The vision the apostle John sees in the book of Revelation begins when he hears a voice speaking to him:What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches….— Revelation 1:11He then turns around to see the voice that had spoken to him, and says,…When I turned around, I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands, one like a son of man….— Revelation 1:12-13We all need to hear such a speaking, and to have such a turn, today, so that we too may see Christ as the one standing in the midst of the “golden lampstands,” which are the churches of God (v. 20).That is, to really see Christ, and to really participate in His work, we must find Him as the one who is today caring for the churches of God as His testimony on the earth.So, in this episode we consider the churches of God as the golden lampstands, with Christ walking in their midst.===========To download the pamphlet we use asthe basis for this study, go to this page:“What Is God’s Purpose for the Church?”To view the pamphlet online,go to the “Look Inside” page.
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Bible Verses for this EpisodeSee Episode #141: “The Way of the Church (4): The Churches of God as the Golden Lampstands”
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Pamphlet: “What Is God’s Purpose for the Church?”Look Inside: “What Is God’s Purpose for the Church?”Previous Episodes in this Series:Podcast Series: “What Is the Church?” Video: “How I Found the New Testament Fellowship.”
The Website for the Church of the Chicagoans: ChicagoMeeting.orgBooksE.H. Broadbent, The Pilgrim ChurchWitness Lee, The Genuine Ground of OnenessWitness Lee, The Life and Way for the Practice of the Church LifeWatchman Nee, The Normal Christian Church LifeDavid Canfield, Writings on the Turmoil Among the Churches
===========Recorded…In Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, 10 July 2025
The Christian Faith Podcast
Welcome to the Christian Faith Podcast! This program exists, along with our website, https://www.TheChristianFaith.org, to help address the need for a healthy word of ministry among God’s children today.
In the past several centuries the Lord has used saints such as Martin Luther, Madame Guyon, J.N. Darby, G.H. Pember, Robert Govett, Andrew Murry, Mary McDonough, T.A. Sparks, Watchman Nee, and Witness Lee to open up so much Biblical truth to His children. Through them, and others as well, matters such as justification, the Old Testament types, the Body of Christ and the local churches, the reward and discipline of the believers in the coming age, and God’s full salvation through the operation of the divine life within the believers, have become more clear now than ever before.
And yet, it seems that so few Christians today have more than a basic grasp of the truths contained in Scripture; As the Lord tells us, through the prophet Hosea:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
— Hosea 4:6
Our hope and prayer for The Christian Faith Radio Hour, as for our website, is that the Lord may use it to bring His children into a more thorough grasp of His truth, and ultimately, into a greater knowledge and experience of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for His glory and His kingdom.
