Building— The Enlargement Of God
BUILDING— THE ENLARGEMENT OF GOD
What is building? Many of you are familiar with the term building. Numerous times young people have told me, "O brother, in our sin gle brothers' house we have very little building." Occasionally, I ask them what they mean by this, and they say, "We are all so independent. We lack the building among us." Thus, I ask you, what does building mean? Perhaps no one reading this booklet can give an adequate definition. Accord ing to your understanding, what does the word building mean? Some may find it easy to give a doctrinal answer, perhaps quoting a phrase from Ephesians or another biblical book, but it is dif ficult to answer in a practical way.
Building is actually the enlargement of God. Building is the enlargement of God to express God in a corporate way. We have seen that life is God Himself wrought into our being. If the Tri une God has truly been wrought into us, the issue will be an enlargement and an expansion of God. As I have mentioned earlier in this booklet, God did not create a couple; He created only a man. The wife came out of the husband, becoming the enlargement of her husband. That was building.