The Church in Arlington

Oh, What Joy!

I am a middle-aged wife, mother, and preschool teacher who has been meeting in the local churches since my late twenties. Raised in a large Catholic family, I tried a variety of religious denominations, experimented with Eastern ideologies, and humanitarian philosophy, and then tasted the hollowness of worldly entertainments before eventually (Oh, What Joy!) I found the Christ Who’s all in all, with Christians whose sincere desire was to find and experience the Truth of the Word of God—not counting the cost. I had found the local churches as in the book of Acts. Hallelujah!

Here I truly experience the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14). Day by day I learn more and more to know this wonderful Triune God Who came down out of heaven in Christ to be food to me (John 6:51). Now I am being built together with other believers into His body that He may have a way to be expressed on this Earth. He is the Head, we are His Body. His very life is in me, refreshing me, renewing me, inwardly strengthening, enlightening, spreading into and occupying my inward parts, and transforming me into His own image.

How I praise Him for introducing me to the wonderful riches of the New Testament through Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. God has used them to speak to His churches in this age.

M.E.P.