What is a real Church

        Every time we mentioned about the witnesses and position of a church, we must refer to the history and how church organize their things, for if we want to know the church, we cannot just know the light of God and the word of God; we must still know the history and the practices of the churches today. If we know all these, then can we have a brighter view on the church.
        When we want to look at the fall and the recover of church, we must refer to the origins of a church. When we know the origins of the church, can we know what is the fall and what have recovered, what have changed, what have not recovered and what have not changed.
        Talking about today's normal Christians. When we mention about savior or searching for holiness, they are very happy to talk about, for this is meant a lot to them. But when we mention about the problems of the church, most people won't talk about it. To be saved is important, to be spiritual is important, but talking about the church, seems not important to them; some people even think that this is too troublesome and complicated. But if we know the word of God, we will know what is God purpose. God purpose is only for the Church, to have a Church. God save men is only for the church, God made men is also for the Church. Everything God does is just for the church. God build the church place by place is to have one single church, He need the church to express Him. We cannot live with our emotions, we must live with God's emotions. We think that once men are saved and holy is all right, but what God needs is to have a church is the most important.
To be saved and holy is just a procedure, what is important to God is the Church. If we to stress on the procedure and lost the needs of God, then we are just in the middle of a road. If we don't stress on the church, we still are not a good Christian.

The Origins of the church,
1.The believers have no class, cooperate in oneness, and offering together.

All believers are brothers, no class status.
The first believers were brothers and they have no statuses. Jesus also had said to them that, the outsiders has a king, but we have to be in the church, and told them that they cannot have status. Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. (MAT 20:25-27 & 23:8-11).
When John wrote 7 letters to the church, he still end by saying "I'm John, who also am your brother." (REV 1:9). Thus, we must know that the original church has no status.

All believers are in the body of Christ, cooperate and do things in oneness.
We all must cooperate equally (ROM 12:4-5, 1COR 12:12-27, EPH 4:16). All saved people is in the body, not one is no use at all in the body of Christ.
We have different grades but this does not mean we have statuses. We cannot have statuses, this is important.

All believers can offer together, no status's, no divisions of rich and poor.
All believers can offer to God (1PET 2:5-9). God has bought us with His blood and he need us to be His priest (REV 1:5-6, 5:9-10). That's why the church before was so strong for they all worked together on oneness.

2.They all live apart from the World, they are in the World but not abide to the World (JHN 17:14-17, 18:36)

3.Totally no idolatry (ACT 15:29)

4. Totally listen to God and let Him speaks

At the beginning, no people have his own opinions and personal rules. They all refer to the bible according to the spirit. If we don't let God speak, then we are still not in the church.

5. One place can only have one expression -- One church, one flow, and one position.

        The original church can exist in one single place, which means one location can only have one church and one expression. Like the church of Jerusalem (ACT 8:1), Church of Antoic (ACT 13:1), Church of Ephesians (REV 2:1), Church of Corinthians (1COR 1:2), one place only has one church and one group of believers.
        And the church has no names, for example, Methodist, St. John etc. The church name must express from the location.
        And we cannot have divisions, we can have different ideas, but we cannot divide. We cannot unite, for this also means we have already divided. Some says they are true and divide, and they preach saying others are wrong; well, this also means they have divided, and they have judged others.

6. All the churches, although we have one interflow, but the administration must be independent; cannot have authorities and unities.

The beginning of the church has no authorities. If authorities exists, then there exist statuses. We can see how church should express themselves, God express it as the seven lamp, all are independent lamp (REV 1:11 & 1:20). They are not unite, they are facing to God, this is very important.
There can only exist a individual church on one place, no others. We cannot form a church of United State or the church of a bigger city and include the smaller church.

7. Let Christ be the head, and let the spirit to control (HEB 1:18, EPH 4:15), (ACT 13:2, 15:28).

Dennis Yap Tsong Hsih