New Zealand Training Centre

The main structure of the Full-time Training is based on the four pillars of truth, life, service and gospel.  We all need to be trained in these four areas for a singular goal, which is to build up the church.

Truth

The truths in the holy Word of the Lord were completed approximately two thousand years ago, but over a period of a little more than one thousand years, they seemed to slowly vanish. Only in the last few centuries have the truths again been released little by little through the zealous and careful study of many lovers of the Lord. This is what we refer to as the Lord’s recovery. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of all the truths in the Bible that were lost. Thus, the recovery of the truth is one of the great pillars in the Lord’s recovery. The Lord’s recovery depends upon the recovery of the knowledge of the truth.

Taken from Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, Chapter 4

Life

Both the truth and the life are the Lord Himself, but they are two different aspects of what He is. The difference is that the truth is an outward definition and explanation, and life is the inward and intrinsic content. The Lord is in us as our life, but the experience of life needs an explanation. This explanation is the truth. If we receive the Lord according to this explanation, we have life. Hence, in order to experience and enjoy the Lord as life, we must know the truth. The experience of the Lord as life is contained in the Lord as the truth. If we are not clear about the truth and do not understand or know the truth, we will have no way to enjoy the Lord as our life. For this reason we must spend an adequate amount of time to learn the truth.

Taken from Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, Chapter 6

Service

Our service to God can be divided into service that is according to revelation or service that is natural. Service according to revelation involves meeting God, being shined upon by God, receiving revelation from God, and being burdened in spirit by God. This kind of service is not initiated by us but by God; it is not out of ourselves but out of God. We must meet God and contact God in order to have service that comes from God as the source.
Natural service is different. Natural service is according to our own ideas, views, traditions, or regulations. It also comes from copying or imitating others, and it is often initiated to simply meet the need of a certain situation. Such service comes out of ourselves or out of others but not out of God. This kind of service does not require us to meet God or contact God; it is service that we can do apart from God.

Taken from Serving according to Revelation, Chapter 1

Gospel

The book of Romans, written by the apostle Paul, consists of sixteen chapters, and each chapter contains the gospel. In 1:14-15 Paul says that he is a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish, and that, for his part, he is ready to announce the gospel to the Gentiles. In the gospel Paul preached, which is the whole book of Romans, there is no mention of perdition, heaven, or prosperity and peace. Instead, Paul first speaks of justification, then of sanctification, then of the Body of Christ, and last, of the local churches in every place. This means that even the local churches are a part of the gospel.

Taken from Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, Chapter 10