“We all have been led by Christianity to believe that we are not qualified to do anything for the Lord. We have been told that only the Pope or the pastor is qualified to do something for the Lord. However, we must change our concept. We must believe that we can speak for the Lord. Otherwise, we have no way to go on.

In 1934 Brother Nee began to see the light in 1 Corinthians 14. He told us that he saw the light, but there was no way to practice it. That was true because we were too much under the covering of Christianity. Christianity had convinced the saints and subdued them to the uttermost, causing them to believe that they could do nothing. When we were raised up by the Lord in China, we spoke concerning the light that Brother Nee had received from 1 Corinthians 14, but people argued with us, saying that we were not qualified like the apostle Paul. At that time Brother Nee waged a lonely battle in China.

We should not believe that we are incapable of speaking for the Lord. We all have the divine life. Within every life there is a capacity. Even the life of a mosquito has its capacity. We have the divine life with the divine capacity. We need to believe in the capacity of that life. We also need to call on the name of the Lord Jesus and fellowship with Him. We need to breathe Him in. Then we will realize the capacity of the divine life. We also need to exercise this capacity without being afraid of making mistakes. One way to learn is to make mistakes. We should always be willing to make mistakes, and we should never believe the negative things. Only Jesus Christ never made a mistake. Paul, Moses, and David all made mistakes. We should abandon fully the influence and the background of Christianity.

We all like to be the best at whatever we do. If we cannot be the best in a certain thing, we will not do it. This kind of attitude is wrong. We should try to do something and not be concerned if we are the worst one. After a period of time we may improve and become one of the best ones.”

(Fellowship Concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups, ch. 18)