You should expect a warm welcome and to meet some joyful Christians. We love to sing with our heart to the Lord and to speak to one another in psalms and hymns

• Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord.

Our gatherings are characterized by mutuality: we encourage praise, prayer, and speaking from one another

• 1 Corinthians 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

Our meetings are frequently punctuated by “Hallelujah!”, “Amen!”, “Oh Lord Jesus!” and other joyful noises to the Lord.

• Psalms 100:1 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Always rejoice...
• Philippians 2:11 And every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

If your worship style is more meditative, you will also feel comfortable meeting with us. We are not for any particular outward form, practice, or liturgy. Our only goal is to worship the Lord in spirit and truthfulness

• John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.

Absolutely. Families, children, teenagers, and college students are a vital part of our community. We take our stewardship of these age groups seriously and offer a variety of specific gatherings throughout the week to care for each one.

We are not part of any denomination. We follow the New Testament pattern which shows Christ’s believers who congregate only on the basis of the locality in which they live.

• Acts 8:1, And Saul approved of his killing. And there occurred in that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
• Acts 13:1 Now there were in Antioch, in the local church, prophets and teachers: Barnabas and Simeon, who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
• Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea.

• 1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the called saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is theirs and ours.

Because we live in Orlando, we meet simply as the church in Orlando. As the church in Orlando, we receive all of the believers in Orlando, as Christ has also received us

• Romans 15:7 Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received you to the glory of God.

We have a rich fellowship with thousands of other local churches throughout the world to express the one Body of Christ. Members in the church frequently travel to visit other churches both locally and internationally. There are frequent regional, national, and international conferences and trainings throughout the year where we see more of the “breadth, length, height, and depth” of the Body of Christ

• Ephesians 3:18 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are.

God’s intention is that all of His believers would serve Him as priests

• 1 Peter 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

All Christians have the innate capacity to contact God, worship God, be filled with God, pray to God, speak for God, and represent God.

• Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
• 1 Corinthians 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
• 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired for a possession, so that you may tell out the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers.

Of course, the ascended Christ has given gifts to the Body which we treasure, including apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers.

• Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers.

There are many who serve as shepherds and teachers among us, including the elders of the church, along with others who have the spiritual gift of shepherding and teaching.

• 1 Peter 5:1-3 Therefore the elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory to be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according to God; not by seeking gain through base means but eagerly; nor as lording it over your allotments but by becoming patterns of the flock.

• Acts 20:28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.

We have no formal membership process. We believe that once you become a spiritual member of the Body of Christ by repenting and believing into Jesus Christ, you are a member of the church.

• Romans 12:5 So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Witness Lee and Watchman Nee are two of the most influential Christian ministers of the 20th century and the church in Orlando has been a beneficiary of their ministry since our inception in 1984. They both stress the same general theme of the Christian’s experience of Christ as life for the building up of the Body of Christ in many practical ways.

Watchman Nee’s (1903-1972) writings have been appreciated by Christians around the world and translated into many languages. His book The Normal Christian Life has been widely hailed as a Christian classic. He has been included along with such influential Christians as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Bunyan, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, D.L. Moody, and Hudson Taylor in collections such as Barbour Publishing’s Heroes of the Faith series. In 2009, Watchman Nee’s contribution to the church in China and his influence on Christians in the West was recognized in a Congressional statement on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.

Witness Lee (1905-1997) was a prolific speaker and writer whose ministry produced and served over three thousand local churches worldwide. His monumental work, the Life-study of the Bible, comprises over 25,000 pages of commentary on every book of the Bible from the perspective of the believers’ enjoyment and experience of God’s divine life. These messages continue to be broadcast in multiple languages worldwide across the radio and Internet.

Living Stream Ministry publishes the collected works of these two servants of the Lord Jesus Christ and makes the complete texts of many of their publications freely available here.