What is Brethren Life?

The preaching of the doctrine of Christ communicates a manner of life which every believer ought to express (2 Tim. 3:10). This conversation can only be expressed by believers whose eyes are being enlightened by the revelation of Christ (Eph. 1:17-19). 

According to the wisdom penned down in the epistles, this life produced by the obedience to the doctrine of Christ is called ‘Charity’ or ‘the Love of the Brethren’ (1 Pet. 1:22). 

From 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, we see that it is possible to do many good things but without Charity, it is counted null. It then shows that Charity is firstly an understanding or a law that produces the conversation of brethren. Without the giving of this law called Charity, it is impossible to live the life of Christ (Jam. 3:13).

One important thing to note is that the brethren life cannot be expressed without hearing the doctrine of Christ. Understanding the doctrine of Christ initiates one into the leading of Spirit. It is the yielding to the demands of the leading of the Spirit that works this life.

Anyone who hasn’t been led by the Spirit according to the doctrine of Christ would at best be religious, and will be unable to live Christ.

Conversations which are found among brethren as shown in the epistles of Christ are meekness, lowliness, submission one to another (1 Pet. 5:5), preferring one another (Rom. 12:10), esteeming the other better than yourself (Phil. 2:3), looking on the things of others rather than on your own things (Phil. 2-4), provoking one another to good works (Heb. 10:24) etc. We see other attributes in 1 Cor. 13.