Books:
- In Satan’s Strategy Against the Church
- Chapter 2 of The Ground of the Church and the Meetings of the Church presents three categories of Satan’s frustrations to the church—substitutes for Christ, the clergy/laity system, and division—and calls for the recovery of Christ as life and everything to the church, the universal priesthood with the functioning of all the members, and the proper oneness of the believers.
Radio broadcasts:
- In “The Need of a Return from Captivity” (Ezra, program 1), Witness Lee speaks of the history of Israel in captivity as a type showing the need of His New Testament believers as God’s elect to be recovered from the degraded state of the church to a proper relationship to Him, to His dwelling place, and to His kingdom.
- “The Outward and Inward Recovery by Life” (Ezekiel, program 15) describes how, as seen in Ezekiel 36, God recovers His people from their degradation by cleansing them, by giving them a new heart and a new spirit, and by putting His Spirit within them.
Affirmation & Critique (A&C):
In “What Are We?,” 
For more information see the resource pages for the three aspects of the Lord’s recovery described in the open letter: