Unless otherwise noted:

• All excerpts are copyright Living Stream Ministry (LSM).
• All verses and footnotes are quoted from the Recovery Version of the Bible published by LSM.
• Emphases in quotations are added.

Some ministry quotes explaining the title of this blog:

“Good and evil belong to the tree of knowledge, which is the tree of death. Right and wrong also belong to this tree. Thus, we should not be concerned about right and wrong but about life and death. In God’s economy it is not sufficient merely to be good. We may be good and yet still be dead. God’s economy requires that we be in life. It is possible to be dead right and livingly wrong. A kindergarten is filled with noisy boys and girls, but these children are very living. Although kindergarten children may be noisy and sometimes naughty, I prefer their situation over the quiet and orderliness of a cemetery. All those buried in a cemetery are lawful and well regulated, but they are dead. Do you prefer to be livingly wrong or dead right? I prefer to be living.”
(Life-Study of Romans, Chapter 38)

“In the local churches, we all must hate death. I would rather see the people in the churches wrong than to see them dead. Many times I have asked the brothers and sisters why they do not function in the meetings. Often their reply was, ‘I’m afraid of making a mistake.’ To this, I responded, ‘The more mistakes you make, the better. Living children make many mistakes. But the dead children in the cemeteries make no mistakes at all.’  If you simply sit in the meeting without doing anything, you will never be wrong. Although you may be right, you will be dead right. I would rather be livingly wrong than dead right. I may make mistakes, but everyone will know how living I am. Which do you prefer—to be dead right or livingly wrong?”
(Life-Study of Revelation, Chapter 14)

“It is better to make a mistake in functioning in the meetings than to be dead and not make any mistakes at all. To be wrong is not as serious as to be dead. If you do not function, you may be right, but you are right in a dead way. I would rather see you livingly wrong than dead right. I do not encourage you to make mistakes. But sometimes it is better to be more concerned about being living than about your being right. We need to recognize the symptoms of deadness to know whether we are dead or alive.”
(Life-Study of Romans, Chapter 36)