I.　The Body is one—Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 4:4a; 2:16a:

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

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

2.　The Lord is burdened to recover the oneness of the Body of Christ.

3.　The practice of this oneness has been lost, but we are a relatively small number of saints who wish to satisfy the Lord's heart to recover this oneness.

B.　The genuine oneness of the Body is the processed and consummated Triune God, who mingles Himself with the believers—Eph. 4:4-6:

1.　The processed and consummated Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen and redeemed people in their humanity, and this mingling is the genuine oneness of the Body of Christ.

2.　Because the Body is such a mingling, the Body itself is the oneness.

C.　The oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness of the Divine Trinity; hence, the oneness of the Body of Christ is the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity—John 17:21, 23.

D.　The oneness of the Body of Christ is divine, and it is divinely organic, full of life.

E.　We are the church to be the Body of Christ not by being organized but by being enlivened, regenerated, and made alive with the Triune God as the oneness within us.

F.　The organic oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness of the Spirit—Eph. 4:3:

1.　The Spirit is the essence of the organic Body of Christ.

2.　The Spirit is the reality of the oneness of the Body of Christ; this oneness is actually the Spirit Himself.

G.　All the local churches are and should be one Body universally, doctrinally, and practically.

H.　Blending is the most helpful thing in keeping the oneness of the universal Body of Christ—1 Cor. 12:24b.

I.　The keeping of the oneness is the primary virtue of our Christian walk—Eph. 4:1-3.

II.　The church as the Body of Christ is absolutely a matter of life—John 17:2; 1 John 5:11-12; Col. 3:4:

A.　The Body is formed by Christ as life in each of us, mingled with us—Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:10, 6, 11.

B.　The life in each of us is not a member life but a Body life—Rom. 12:4; Eph. 5:30.

C.　The divine life within us requires us to have fellowship with all the other members and be joined with them—Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3.

D.　The divine life brings us into fellowship and into the experience of being joined together.

E.　The oneness of the Body of Christ is the expression of the Triune God in and by His divine life.

F.　The oneness in the Body is an organic oneness in the divine life, and we must care for this life.

G.　The Body of Christ is an organism built up by the growth of the divine life—Eph. 4:16; Col. 2:19.

III.　Since the Body of Christ is Christ, if we would be in the Body, we must be made Christ—1 Cor. 12:12; Col. 3:10-11:

A.　We are one Body in Christ, having an organic union with Him—Rom. 12:5.

B.　In the Body Christ is all and in all—Col. 3:10-11.

C.　The church as the Body of Christ comes out of Christ and is one with Christ—Gen. 2:22-23; Eph. 5:23-32.

D.　There is only one thing in a believer that forms a part of the Body of Christ—Christ.

E.　The Body is the corporate Christ—1 Cor. 12:12:

1.　Christ and the church are one mysterious, corporate Christ—the Body-Christ.

2.　The corporate Christ, the Body-Christ, includes not only Christ Himself but also the members of the Body, who are the members of Christ, parts of Christ, having Christ wrought into their being.

F.　God is constituting us with Christ so that we can become the Body of Christ in reality and practicality.