What Shall this Man Do? Discovering your Place in Ministry

by Watchman Nee

The most difficult and painful thing for the cross to do is to cut across our zeal for the will of God and our love for His work.

And the miraculous fish? Does it not assure us that, when we are on a right basis with regard to the will of God, the expenses will be found by God Himself?

We are to believe first of all in Him, not specifically in what He has done.

The first condition of salvation is not knowledge, but meeting Christ.

For the thief recognized who Jesus was—that though suffering unjustly He was going to reign and would have a Kingdom—and he believed in the Lord, and that was enough.

For what is it to be reckoned righteous? It is to touch God.

The great weakness of the present preaching of the gospel is that we try to make people understand the plan of salvation, or we try to drive people to the Lord through the fear of sin and its consequences. Wherein have we failed? I am sure it is in this, that our hearers do not see Him, for we do not adequately present the Person. They only see “sin” or “salvation,” whereas their need is to see the Lord Jesus Himself, and to meet Him and “touch” Him.

Touching the Lord

That is why our first object must be to lead people to meet Him.

Perhaps we need to see more clearly the difference between redemption and salvation.

For Paul, doctrine is everywhere backed by experience.