I.　We need a vision of God's economy—Eph. 1:17-23:

A.　God's economy as God's plan, His administration, is to create, to constitute, and to produce a Body for His Son:

1.　This is the major purpose of God's economy.

2.　First, we need to see the economy of God, and then we need to see the Body of Christ.

3.　Strictly speaking, what God is seeking after is a Body for Christ.

B.　The Body is the Body of Christ, constituted by the Triune God with all the believers on the earth, with all the local churches—Eph. 4:4-6.

C.　The recovery is based on the truth that Christ has only one Body—1 Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 4:4; Rom. 12:4-5.

II.　We need to see the Body and know the Body—1 Cor. 10:17; 12:27; Eph. 2:15; 3:6:

A.　To know the Body is the proper recovery of the Lord.

B.　The recovery is for the Body, not for any individual or merely for any individual local church—1 Cor. 12:14; Eph. 2:21-22.

C.　All the problems are due to one thing: not seeing the Body, not knowing the Body and not caring for the Body—1 Cor. 12:27.

D.　The biggest problem, the unique problem, is not knowing the Body and not caring for the Body—1 Cor. 12:25.

E.　We talk about the Body, but we may have never seen it.

F.　How we behave ourselves depends upon the degree of our seeing the Body.

G.　If we see the Body, we will not be able to make any trouble in the recovery:

1.　Turmoil after turmoil has transpired because of our not knowing the Body.

2.　The only remedy that can cure us of this kind of illness is seeing the Body, knowing the Body, and honoring the Body.

H.　We must know the Body and trust in the Body.

III.　We need to care for the Body and honor—1 Cor. 12:23-27:

A.　If we take care of the Body and are concerned for the Boyd, there will be no problems.

B.　We all need to come back to the truth, and to practice the truth is to take care of the Body.

C.　If we come back to the truth and take care of the proper order in the Body, the Body will immediately become strong.

D.　We need to be clear and strong to keep the truth—the truth of the Body—to maintain the feeling of the Body, with all the local churches.

E.　We must be Body-consciousness to the uttermost—1 Cor. 12:26; Eph. 5:30.

F.　Whatever we do involves the Body:

1.　Whenever we do something, we must have a proper consideration for the Body.

2.　We need to consider how the Body would feel about what we are doing.

3.　If we intend to do a certain thing, we have to consider how the Body, the recovery, will react.

4.　We should not do anything without taking care of the Body.

G.　We are here for the Body—1 Cor. 12:12:

1.　Without the backing of the Body, without the backing of the recovery, we have no way to practice the local churches.

2.　If we practice the local church life and neglect the view of the Body, our local church becomes a local sect.

H.　The Body has its proper order—1 Cor. 12:14-22:

1.　No one can change the position of any member of the Body.

2.　If we consider ourselves more than what we actually are, this is not according to the Body—Rom. 12:3.

3.　We need to maintain a good order in the Body by being subject to one another:

a.　Then we will keep the one accord.

b.　We should respect one another, help one another, perfect one another in life, and complete one another in work.

I.　We have to honor the Body—Acts 15:28a.

J.　The overcomers see the Body, know the Body, and care for the Body.

IV.　To take care of the Body is to take care of the oneness—Eph. 4:3, 13; John 17:11, 21-23:

A.　If the oneness is gone, the Body is finished.

B.　The source, or the root, of the last turmoil was the carelessness in our regard for the oneness of the Body.

C.　The Body can exist and survive only in oneness.

D.　Any division annuls the Body—Rom. 16:17; Titus 3:10.

E.　The Lord's recovery is the recovery of the oneness of the Body of Christ.

F.　"If we are for the recovery, we need to realize what the recovery is. The Lord desires to recover the missed Body of Christ and to recover the neglected oneness of the Body of Christ. This is the Lord's recovery" (The Problems Causing the Turmoils in the Church Life, p. 31)