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An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit
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An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit is a book written by Christian preacher and leader of the Local Church sect, Witness Lee. According to the book, Second Corinthians may be considered as an autobiography of the Apostle Paul. Second Corinthians can be also considered as a portrait of a person who lived in the Spirit. The book covers various aspects of the Spirit filled life. The author points out that with God the believers can be constituted as the ministers of the new covenant ministry for the building up of the church.
This book primarily focuses on the enjoyment of Christ in the spirit in a Christian's daily life. Since the book is based on the Second Corinthians, it revolves much around the Apostle Paul's life and his way of living. The book mentions: to enjoy and experience Christ in a rich way one must be persons in the Spirit as symbolized by ten aspects in 2 Corinthians — "Captives" (2 Cor. 2:14-16; Acts 9:1-9), "letters" (2 Cor. 3:3-6; 17; Col. 1:27) , "mirrors" (2 Cor. 3:16, 18), "vessels" (2 Cor. 4:7), "ambassadors" (2 Cor. 5:4, 5, 9, 10, 13-17, 20), "co-workers" (2 Cor. 6:1, 4-10), "a temple" (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1), "a virgin" (2 Cor. 11:2, 3), "lovers of the church" (2 Cor. 1:1; 11:28, 29; Eph. 5:25; 1 Tim. 1:16), and "tasters of Christ" (2 Cor. 12:11-19, 7-10). The book speaks of the truth revealed in the 2 Corinthians that all these aspects presented and demonstrated by Apostle Paul could be thoroughly wrought by God into the believers in the spirit.
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