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The Full-time Training Curriculum

The majority of the time in the Full-time Training is devoted to receiving, studying, and ministering the truth that is contained in the Bible and expounded through the ministries of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. These brothers taught according to the pure word of the Bible, building upon centuries of recovered truths to fully unveil God's eternal purpose and economy. The Training is privileged to speak these things, teach these things, and minister these things until the Body of Christ is built up and the bride is prepared for our Lord's satisfaction and desire.

Two-year Classes

• The Body of Christ

  The church as the Body of Christ is not an organization but a living organism constituted of all the regenerated believers as the members of Christ. The first year of this two-year class develops a scriptural basis concerning the Body of Christ and emphasizes the practical administration, meetings, and course of the church from the first century onward. The second year of the course emphasizes the intrinsic and subjective reality of living as a normal, functioning member of the Body of Christ.

• The Experience of Christ as Life

  This two-year course examines the basic principles of knowing and experiencing Christ as life. Topics include knowing the parts of man, dealing with the parts of our inward being for the growth in life, and enjoying Christ as the Spirit in our human spirit. Trainees not only study crucial Bible verses, but also learn to apply these principles in every aspect of a proper, daily Christian life.

• The Full Ministry of Christ

  The full ministry of Christ in His three divine and mystical stages is the entire content of God's economy in the New Testament. In this class, trainees study the three stages of the person and work of Christ in His incarnation, inclusion, and intensification. With a deeper appreciation of Christ's person and work, trainees learn to apply these truths to their daily life and service.

• God's Economy

  God's economy is His plan to dispense Himself into His chosen, redeemed, and regenerated believers. Trainees consider the basic principles, issue, and goal of God's economy, and the way to live the Christian life with a view to its fulfillment. God's divine dispensing is to make the believers the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead, with the ultimate goal of God gaining a corporate expression to consummate the New Jerusalem.

• The God-ordained Way

  The four steps of the God-ordained way are the preaching of the gospel, the nourishing of the new believers, the perfecting of the saints, and the prophesying of the believers to build up the Body of Christ. Trainees examine the biblical foundation of these steps and begin to practice the God-ordained way that builds up the church as the Body of Christ.

• Ministry Meeting (open to the public)

  This series of weekly messages releases the Lord's up-to-date speaking to His recovery through ministry on selected topics from the Word. Subjects in past terms have included “The Heart of the Bible—Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians” and “Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God.”

• The Spirit

  This class is designed to unveil crucial points concerning the Spirit, who was processed through Christ's incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection. This process was ultimately consummated in the all-inclusive Spirit for the believers' experience and growth in life today. As trainees examine the numerous aspects and functions of the Spirit in the Scriptures, they gain the invaluable experience of touching the living God as the Spirit in their human spirit.

• Video Class

  This class gives trainees an opportunity to view video footage of Brother Witness Lee. Course material rotates by term. Past courses have included messages from Life-study of Ephesians, The Genuine Ground of Oneness, and The God-man Living.

First-year Classes

• Lessons on Children, Young People, and College Students

  In this class, trainees gain a vision of the importance of the younger generation in the Lord's move on the earth today. The work with children, young people, and college students is presented as one inclusive work, requiring vision, training, and a spirit of love to care for the spiritual growth of young believers.

• The Triune God and His Word

  The Triune God is the content of His Word. By His Word believers are able to enter into His move in His economy. This class highlights the intrinsic significance of the Word through an overview of the central line of the divine revelation in the entire Bible. Such a bird's-eye view affords a framework to objectively understand the Triune God in a comprehensive way for an enriched experience of living in and with the Divine Trinity for the accomplishment of His eternal economy.

Second-year Classes

• A Life of Service

  Genuine service to the Lord is not a matter of method or activity but of person and character. In light of this principle, this class orients trainees toward a proper view of service through the lens of God's economy. Trainees also explore basic spiritual and life principles necessary for ministry, as highlighted in the lives and work of the ministers of the age.

• The New Jerusalem

  This course explores the New Jerusalem as the total composition of the entire revelation of the Bible and the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose. In this course, trainees see that the New Jerusalem is not a physical city but a reality that we are enjoying and becoming today.

Electives

• Character

  "Our character is our very person. A person's usefulness, the things which can be entrusted to him, the responsibilities he can bear, and the things he is able to accomplish altogether depend on his character" (Character, p. 17). This elective focuses on the crucial practices revealed in the Word that cultivate and maintain the divine life we received at our regeneration.

• New Testament Greek

  This biweekly course provides trainees with a basic foundation in New Testament Greek. By completion of this two-year course, trainees are equipped with a sufficient knowledge of Greek grammar and vocabulary to continue their independent reading and study of the New Testament in its original language.