Realizing that God must gain the church as a corporate expression of Christ and not just individual, overcoming Christians, Watchman Nee presents practical fellowship in The Assembly Life that is directed toward fitly framing the believers who live within a particular locality into a living, spiritual, and practical dwelling place of God. In a world that is desperately in need of Him, God often seems limited in His operation and frustrated in His purpose. Despite the ever-present needs, there is no limitation in His ability. There is, however, a limitation in His willingness to work without the full cooperation of the church through prayer. The prayer of the church lays the tracks upon which God moves to fulfill His eternal purpose. In The Prayer Ministry of the Church, Watchman Nee presents the biblical principles involved in the type of prayer that can bind on earth what has been bound in Heaven and loose on earth what has been loosed in Heaven. Through the prayer of the church every limitation and frustration to the fulfillment of God's will can be effectively overcome.
