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I graduated from a veterinary college in Korea and I worked as a veterinarian for about a year before I immigrated to the United States. Because I met with the local church in my locality in Korea, I adjusted smoothly to the local church in my new city in America. Through Watchman Nee's and Witness Lee's ministry and through my personal experience, I came to know that the church is the universal one new man (Ephesians 2:15). Although I realized that in the church, there are neither Jews nor Greeks and only Christ is all and in all, in the United States I came to know it actually and practically (Colossians 3:11). When I began to attend an English-speaking meeting, in January of 1997, I did not feel any discrimination at all. When I saw English speaking believers listening carefully to my sharing, even though I didn't speak English very well, and I had a different skin color and a different culture than they did, I felt that the Lord was being expressed in these believers.
Although I was a practicing vet in Korea, in order to become a veterinarian here in America, I had to do a clinical training for a year at a veterinary college in the United States. For my one-year clinical training, I applied to Tufts University. I soon received a phone call from Tufts asking me for an interview. Actually I was happy with the phone call, but I soon became very worried because I didn't know anybody there. But one English-speaking believer told me about another brother in the Lord who lived near that university. So I called him right away to ask if I could stay at his place. Without hesitation he said, “Brother, you can stay with me. We love you in the Lord, brother.” When I heard that, I was unspeakably impressed. I had never met him and I had never talked to him, but he and I were one in the Spirit. We were practically and actually one, and we were in the one new man. When I told my wife about that, she was impressed also. We gave the glory to the Lord together, saying, “Hallelujah for the brothers in the local church.” The Church is really the one new man in the universe. Hallelujah!
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