1998春季长老
总题：主恢复中神圣启示的构成与推广
第五篇　照主恢复中的神圣启示实行活力排
Message Five Practicing the Vital Groups according to the Divine Revelation in the Lord's Recovery
读经：徒二46~47，太十八19~20，约十五16
Scripture Reading: Acts 2:46-47; Matt. 18:19-20; John 15:16
壹　引言：
I.　Introductory word:
一　主的恢复不仅是真理的恢复，也是召会生活实行上的恢复。
A.　The Lord's recovery is not only the recovery of the truth but also the recovery in the practice of the church life.
二　活力排的实行乃是恢复到使徒行传中早期基督徒在家里的聚会;这种符合神新约经纶的作法，成了众召会中持续且普遍的实行（参罗十六5，林前十六19，西四15，门2）。─引用经文
B.　The practice of the vital groups is the recovery of the practice of the early Christians in Acts who met in their homes. This practice, which was fitting to God's New Testament economy, became a continual and general practice in the churches—cf. Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. 16:19; Col. 4:15; Philem. 2.
贰　活力排的形成：
II.　The formation of the vital groups:
一　活力排不能靠组织形成，只能借着─个拼上一切，并绝对为着主恢复扩增的圣徒而产生：
A.　The vital groups cannot be formed by organization. A vital group could come into being only by a saint who is desperate and absolute for the increase of the Lord's recovery:
1　这样的活力人乃是得胜者，胜过撒狄的死沉，胜过老底嘉的不冷不热，也胜过衰老不结果子（启三1~2，14~16，约十五2，5）。─引用经文
1.　Such a vital person is an overcomer, overcoming the deadness of Sardis, overcoming the lukewarmness of Laodicea, and overcoming oldness and unfruitfulness—Rev. 3:1-2, 14:16; John 15:2, 5.
2　这样的活力人乃是在基督里的信徒、基督的门徒、基督的见证人、基督的肢体、基督的弟兄、神的申言者（约三14~16，太五1，徒一8，罗十二5，八29，林前十四1，31）。─引用经文
2.　Such a vital person is a believer in Christ, a disciple of Christ, a witness of Christ, a member of Christ, a brother of Christ, and a prophet of God—John 3:15-16; Matt. 5:1; Acts 1:8; Rom. 12:5; 8:29; 1 Cor. 14:1, 31.
二　这样一个拼上的圣徒，自然而然会凭着主的引领，生机寻得活力同伴，而形成活力排：
B.　Such as desperate saint would spontaneously contact others by the Lord's leading and gain some companion or companions for him to have a vital group:
1　没有同伴，就无法开始活力排，我们必须与同伴借着拼上去的祷告而有交通。
1.　Without companions, we would not be able to start a vital group. We need to have fellowship with our companions through desperate prayer.
2　使徒行传中早期基督徒的聚集，是挨家挨户的进行（徒二46~47，五42）。就经历说，活力同伴中如果有一个活力家庭，将使活力排的实行更扎实、更持续。─引用经文
2.　The gatherings of the early Christians in Acts were carried out from house to house (Acts 2:46-47; 5:42). According to experience, if there is a vital family among the vital companions, the practice of the vital group will be more solid and persistent.
叁　活力排活力的要素：
III.　The factors of vitality for the vital groups:
一　灵：活力同伴需要借着够多且彻底的祷告、亲密且透彻的交通、与彼此悔改认罪，为着主有团体拿细耳人的奉献（徒一14~15，弗六18，林前五7上，民六1~4），以释放圣灵并有分于能力之灵的浇灌（徒二17~18，33，路二四49）。─引用经文
A.　Spirit—the vital companions need to have adequate and thorough prayer, intimate and thorough fellowship, repentance and confession to one another, and a corporate Nazarite consecration for the Lord (Acts 1:14-15; Eph. 6:18; 1 Cor. 5:7a; Num. 6:1-4), to release the Holy Spirit and to partake of the outpouring of the Spirit of power—Acts 2:17-18, 33; Luke 24:49.
二　话：活力同伴需要天天实行祷读、研读、背诵、申言（弗六17，徒十七11，西三16，林前十四1），以坚守那按照使徒教训可信靠的话（多一9），使他们的灵被点活，过神人生活并被真理所构成。─引用经文
B.　Word—the vital companions need to practice pray-reading, studying, reciting, and prophesying every day (Eph. 6:17; Acts 17:11; Col. 3:16; 1 Cor. 14:1), holding to the faithful word, which is according to the teaching of the apostles (Titus 1:9), so that their spirit is enlivened for them to have a God-man living and to be constituted with the truth.
三　爱：活力同伴需要照着神对堕落人类的爱，并跟随经过过程之三一神寻找并得着堕落之人的步骤（路十五3~32），实行生养教建，其中应有人性的顾惜与神性的喂养，因为爱有效能（林前十三8）。─引用经文
C.　Love—the vital companions need to practice begetting, nourishing, teaching, and building according to the ove of God for the fallen people, and by following the steps of the processed Triune God in seeking and gaining the fallen people, with human cherishing and divine nourishing, because love prevails—1 Cor. 13:8.
肆　活力排的行动：
IV.　The actions of the vital groups:
一　作神福音勤奋的祭司（罗十五16）：─引用经文
A.　Being laboring priests of the gospel of God—Rom. 15:16:
1　重新查看所有你认识的人，将他们列成名单。
1.　Reviewing all of your acquaintances, and making a list of them.
2　为名单上的名字祷告，寻求主的引导去看顾这些人。
2.　Praying over the name list, and seeking the Lord's leading to take care of the ones on the list.
3　周周约定时间去接触人。
3.　Visiting people by appointment every week.
4　经常邀请人来家里吃饭。
4.　Inviting people to your homes for meals regularly.
5　与同伴交通并研究所接触之对象的各种情形，找出最好的路去照顾每─个对象。
5.　Fellowshipping and studying with your companions every case of your candidates to find the best way to take care of each candidate.
二　学习在耶稣的人性里顾惜人：
B.　Learning to contact people in the humanity of Jesus:
1　这是活力排接触人首要的事。
1.　The first way of the members of the vital group to contact people is by cherishing them.
2　顾惜人就是使人快乐，安慰人，叫人觉得你令他们愉快，在每件事上并在每─方面都叫人容易接触你，像耶稣所作的─样（弗五29）。─引用经文
2.　To cherish people is to make them happy, to comfort them, to make them feel that you are pleasant to them, easy to be contacted in everything and in very way, as Jesus did—Eph. 5:29.
三　学习在基督的神性里喂养人：
C.　Learning to nourish people in the divinity of Christ:
1　喂养人乃是接续对人的顾惜。
1.　Nourishing people is to continue youor cherishing of people.
2　喂养人就是以那在基督三个时期中丰满的职事里之包罗万有的基督供应人（弗五29，约二一15~17）。─引用经文
2.　To nourish people is to feed them with the all-inclusive Christ in His full ministry in His three stages—Eph. 5:29; John 21:15-17.
3　不仅用口来传讲，更可借着推广职事书报来喂养人。
3.　We can nourish people not only by our verbal preaching, but also by the promotion of the ministry publications.
伍　活力排的繁增：
V.　The multiplication of the vital groups:
一　活力排的目的是为着召会的扩增、成全与建造（徒二46~47，弗四12。）。─引用经文
A.　The prupose of the vital groups is for the increase, perfecting, and building of the church—Acts 2:46-47; Eph. 4:12.
二　当活力排的成员达到十个人，就可以分为两排;要教导每─个排作你们对他们所作同样的事。
B.　When the number of members in your vital group increases to ten, you can divide into two groups. Instruct each of the two groups to do the same thing as you have done with them.
三　如此，活力排就能过正常的召会生活，胜过召会的堕落，构成基督的身体而终极完成新耶路撒冷。
C.　In this way, the vital groups will have a normal church life, overcome the degradation of the church, and constitute the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem.
陆　活力排与身体的相调：
VI.　Vital groups and the blending of the Body of Christ:
一　生、养、教乃是主今日恢复中召会工作经常的手续，而神经纶的目标乃是要产生基督的身体;为此需要有身体的相调。
A.　Begetting, nourshing, and teaching are the regular procedures of the church work in the Lord's recovery today, whereas the goal of God's economy is to produce the organic Body of Christ, for which there is the need of blending.
二　相调乃是那在生命上被成全，而作地方召会之代表（如同耶路撒冷内的锡安），并活基督身体之实际的神人的生机建造。
B.　Blending is the organic building of the God-men who are perfected in life and are the representatives of the local churches (as Zion with Jerusalem) living in the reality of the Body of Christ.