1998秋季长老
总题：为着生机建造基督的身体所需要的工作、生活异象（一）
第十篇　一个职事
Message Ten One Ministry
读经：徒一17，25，林后四1，提前一12
Scripture Reading: Acts 1:17, 25; 2 Cor. 4:1; 1 Tim. 1:2
壹　新约的职事在宇宙中是独一无二的─徒一17，25，林后四1，提前一12：
I.　The ministry of the New Testament is uniquely one universally—Acts 1:17; 2 Cor. 4:1; 1 Tim. 1:12:
一　新约的职事是独一无二的，也是团体的─徒一17;林后四1。
A.　The New Testament ministry is uniquely one and corporate—Acts 1:17; 2 Cor. 4:1.
二　虽然使徒有十二位，但他们的职事是独一无二的，就是‘这职事’，乃是按基督身体原则的一个团体的职事─徒一25。
B.　Though the apostles were twelve in number, their ministry was uniquely one—this ministry, a corporate ministry in the principle of the Body of Christ—Acts 1:25.
三　众使徒都完成同一个职事，作那成为肉体、复活、升天之基督，万有之主的见证。
C.　All the apostles carried out the same ministry to bear the testimony of the incarnated, resurrected, and ascended Christ, who is Lord of all.
四　众使徒的工作乃是要完成这惟一的职事，就是将基督供应给人，为着建造基督的身体。
D.　All the apostles' works are to carry out this unique ministry, the ministering of Christ to people for the building up of His Body.
五　许多有恩赐的人（弗四11）只有一个职事，也就是供应基督，为着建造基督的身体;这是新约经纶中惟一的职事─提前一12。
E.　The many gifted persons (Eph. 4:11) have only one ministry, that is, to minister Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ; this is the unique ministry in the New Testament economy—1 Tim. 1:12.
六　靠主的怜悯和恩典，祂已将我们摆进这个建造基督身体的团体职事里─弗四12。
F.　By the Lord's mercy and grace, He has put us into the corporate ministry that builds up the Body of Christ—Eph. 4:12.
贰　新约的职事是独一无二的，但有许多的执事有分于这一个职事─徒二十24，二一19，提后四5，西四17。
II.　The ministry of the New Testament is uniquely one, but there are many ministers who have a part, a portion, in this one ministry—Acts 20:24; 21:19; 2 Tim. 4:5; Col. 4:17:
一　虽然执事有许多，但所有这些执事只有一个团体的职事，就是新约的职事─林后四1。
A.　The ministers are many, but all the ministers have only one corporate ministry, which is the New Testament ministry—2 Cor. 4:1.
二　当我们思考那些说到个人职事的经节时，我们必须看见，所有的信徒都是一个身体的肢体：
B.　In considering the verses that speak of personal ministry, we need to realize that all the believers are members of the one Body:
1　就整体说，身体有一个团体的职事，没有许多的职事。
1.　As a whole, the Body has one corporate ministry, not many ministries.
2　身体的每一部分，有其各自的职事。
2.　Each part of the Body has its own ministry.
3　身体各肢体的许多职事，不是分开的职事，乃是一个团体职事的一部分。
3.　The many ministries of the members of the Body are not separate ministries but part of one corporate ministry.
三　我们都有分于那独一的新约职事，就是一个职事，而有不同的功用和不同的方面;当我们有了一切的功用和方面时，我们就有了身体的职事。
C.　We all have a part in the unique ministry of the New Testament, which is one ministry with different functions and different aspects; when we have all the functions and aspects, we have the ministry of the Body.
叁　分裂是来自带着不同教训的不同职事：
III.　Divisions come out of different ministries with different teachings:
一　不同的教训乃是召会败落、堕落并变质的主要根源─提前一3~4，6~7，六3~5，20~21。
A.　The different teachings are the major source of the church's decline, degradation, and deterioration—1 Tim. 1:3-4, 6-7; 6:3-5, 20-21:
1　教导不同的事，会拆毁神的建造，并废掉神的经纶。
1.　To teach differently tears down God's building and annuls God's economy.
2　即使一点不同的教训，都会破坏主的恢复。
2.　Even a small amount of teaching in a different way destroys the recovery.
二　一切分裂的基本因素，根源，乃是不同的职事。
B.　The basic factor of all the divisions, their very root, is different ministries.
三　不同的职事产生问题、产生分裂、产生混乱。
C.　Different ministries cause problems, divisions, and confusion.
四　基督徒若都愿意为主的缘故，除去他们不同的职事，他们就会都成为一。
D.　If all Christians were willing for the Lord to take away their different ministries, they would all be one.
五　只有一种的职事是建造，而不是分裂，就是神经纶惟一的职事，也就是新约惟一的职事。
E.　Only one kind of ministry builds up and never divides—the unique ministry of God's economy, the unique ministry of the New Testament.
肆　“关于职事这件事，我们需要主的光照。我们必须来到主面前，向祂敞开我们自己。我们若这样作，就会有光照亮关于职事这个教训，并且这教训会向我们成为真理和实际。”─真理信息第四章。
IV.　"Regarding this matter of the ministry, we need the Lord's shining. We need to go to the Lord and open ourselves to Him. If we do this, light will shine upon this teaching concerning the ministry, and the teaching will become the truth, the reality to us"—Truth Messages, p. 41.