2005春季长老
总题：召会、职事与工作
第三篇　实行召会生活，为着建造基督的身体
Message Three Practicing the Church Life for the Building Up of the Body of Christ
读经：林前一2，十二12~13，27，弗一22~23，二21~22，四16
Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 1:2; 12:12-13, 27; Eph. 1:22-23; 2:21-22; 4:16
壹　我们看见基督身体的异象之后，就必须照着这异象实行召会生活─徒九4~6，十三1，弗一17~23，二21~22。
I.　After we see the vision of the Body of Christ, we need to practice the church life according to this vision—Acts 9:4-6; 13:1; Eph. 1:17-23; 2:21-22.
贰　任何人若要实际的活在基督的身体里，就必须在地方召会里─四16，二21~22，林前十二27，一2：
II.　Anyone who wants to live in the Body in a practical way must be in the local churches—4:16; 2:21-22; 1 Cor. 12:27; 1:2:
一　基督的身体显于众地方召会;每一个地方召会都是基督身体在那地方的显出。
A.　The Body of Christ is manifested in the local churches; every local church is the manifestation of the Body of Christ in that locality.
二　有分于地方召会的交通，就是有分于基督身体的交通─9节，十16~17，十一23~26，29。
B.　Participating in the fellowship of the local church is participating in the fellowship of the Body of Christ—v. 9; 10:16-17; 11:23-26, 29.
叁　地方召会是手续，并不是目标;地方召会的目标，乃是建造基督的身体─太十六18，十八17：
III.　The local church is a procedure and not the goal; the goal of a local church is the building up of the Body of Christ—Matt. 16:18; 18:17:
一　地方召会是神完成基督身体之建造的手续─弗二21~22，四16。
A.　The local churches are the procedure for God to accomplish the building up of the Body of Christ—Eph. 2:21-22; 4:16.
二　众地方召会是将我们带进基督身体的手续。
B.　The local churches are the procedure to bring us into the Body of Christ.
三　我们需要在众地方召会里，使我们能被引进基督身体的实际。
C.　We need to be in the local churches so that we can be ushered into the reality of the Body of Christ.
四　我们应当注意基督的身体，过于注意地方召会。
D.　We should pay more attention to the Body of Christ than to the local churches.
五　在主的恢复里，我们建造地方召会是为着建造基督的身体，这身体要终极完成于新耶路撒冷─12节。
E.　In the Lord's recovery we are building the local churches for the building up of the Body of Christ, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem—v. 12.
肆　在召会生活中实行神所命定的路，拯救信徒脱离宗教组织、教皇制度、和圣品阶级与平信徒的制度，以建造基督的身体─启二6，15，罗十二4~6：
IV.　The practice of the God-ordained way in the church life delivers the believers from hierarchy, the papal system, and the clergy-laity system for the building up of the Body of Christ—Rev. 2:6, 15; Rom. 12:4-6:
一　神在祂经纶里的心意，乃是要为基督建造生机的身体─弗三9，四16。
A.　God's intention in His economy is to have an organic Body built up for Christ— Eph. 3:9; 4:16.
二　圣经所启示的神命定之路，乃是召会生活正确的实行，与教皇制度和圣品阶级与平信徒的制度是相反的─太二十25~28：
B.　The God-ordained way as revealed in the Bible is the proper practice of the church life against the papal and clergy-laity systems—Matt. 20:25-28:
1　教皇制度和圣品阶级与平信徒制度的目标，是要废掉基督的身体，而以宗教来顶替。
1.　The goal of the papal and clergy-laity systems is to annul the Body of Christ and to replace it with religion.
2　照着主心意的恢复，是要使祂的信徒脱离教皇制度和圣品阶级与平信徒的制度，并以神命定之路顶替这些制度，以建造基督的身体。
2.　The recovery according to the Lord's mind is to bring His believers out of the papal system and the clergy-laity system and to replace these systems with the God-ordained way for the building up of the Body of Christ.
三　生、养、及成全乃是为着神的建造─十六18。
C.　The begetting, nourishing, and perfecting are for God's building—16:18.
伍　我们是基督身体的肢体，需要有身体的感觉，并对身体有感觉─林前十二25~26，罗十二15，腓一8：
V.　As members of the Body, we need to have the consciousness of the Body and have a feeling for the Body—1 Cor. 12:25-26; Rom. 12:15; Phil. 1:8:
一　无论我们作什么，都与身体有关;因此，在我们所作的一切事上，我们应当顾到身体，就是在我们心思、想法、话语和行动上，以身体为规律─林前十二12~27。
A.　Whatever we do involves the Body; thus, in all that we do, we should care for the Body, taking the Body as the rule in our mind, thoughts, words, and actions—1 Cor. 12:12-27.
二　每当我们在召会生活中要作一件事时，我们需要考虑身体对我们所要作的会有怎样的感觉─林后八21。
B.　Whenever we are about to do something in the church life, we need to consider how the Body might feel about what we intend to do—2 Cor. 8:21.
陆　所有地方召会的相调应当在实行上尽可能的多，并且没有州界和国界之分─林前十二23~27：
VI.　The blending of all the local churches should be as much as practicality allows, without boundaries of states or nations—1 Cor. 12:23-27:
一　基督身体的众召会没有一个可以向其它的召会独立─西四15~16，启二1上，7上。
A.　None of the churches of the Body of Christ can be autonomous in relation to the other churches—Col. 4:15-16; Rev. 2:1a, 7a.
二　在召会生活中，我们不该因任何一种界限分裂;反之，全地众地方召会应当是一─约十七11，21~23。
B.　In the church life we should not be divided by any kind of boundary; rather, all the local churches throughout the earth should be one—John 17:11, 21-23.
三　我们若要有主的祝福，就必须在主恢复的每一部分里是一─诗一三三3。
C.　If we would have the Lord's blessing, we must be one in all parts of the recovery—Psa. 133:3.
四　在属灵的元素上，众召会应当彼此相调，使基督身体的实际得显明─林前十二12~13。
D.　In the spiritual element all the churches should be blended with one another for the manifestation of the reality of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 12:12-13.
五　在这时代，神正在作工要得着基督的身体，而不是仅仅一个地方的召会，也不是一个国家的召会;祂要得着全宇宙的召会─弗一22~23：
E.　In this age God is working to obtain the Body of Christ, not merely the church in a locality or the church in a country; He wants to obtain the church in the entire universe—Eph. 1:22-23:
1　我们需要作宇宙的基督徒，有宇宙身体的宇宙观─17~23节。
1.　We need to be universal Christians with a universal view for the universal Body—vv. 17-23.
2　凡不能与别人相调的，至终都会被时代淘汰。
2.　Whoever cannot be blended with others will eventually be disqualified by the age.
3　我们需要看见光，眼界被扩大，领悟我们是在神永远的经纶里，并且让神在地上得着基督的身体─四16。
3.　We need to see the light, be broadened in our view, realize that we are in God's eternal economy, and allow God to have the Body of Christ on earth—4:16.
柒　真正地方召会的一个试验，就是应当与所有其它的地方召会有交通─徒二42，约壹一3：
VII.　One of the tests of a genuine local church is that it should have fellowship with all the other local churches—Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3:
一　在正确的地方召会里，召会的行政是地方的，但召会的交通是宇宙的─林后十三14。
A.　In a proper local church, the administration of the church is local, but the fellowship of the church is universal—2 Cor. 13:14.
二　众召会中间的交通就是基督身体的交通。
B.　The fellowship among the churches is the fellowship of the Body of Christ.
三　每一个召会都应当向其它的召会敞开;一个召会若从其它的召会隔离，就成了地方宗派─西四15~16。
C.　Every church should be open to the other churches; if a church isolates itself from the other churches, it becomes a local sect—Col. 4:15-16.
四　地方召会该与全地所有的地方召会交通，以保守基督身体宇宙的交通─林前十16：
D.　The local churches should fellowship with all the local churches on the whole earth to keep the universal fellowship of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 10:16:
1　任何不保守基督身体这宇宙交通的地方召会，就是分裂的，并且成了宗派。
1.　Any local church that does not keep this universal fellowship of the Body of Christ is divisive and becomes a sect.
2　真正的召会是留在基督身体里的召会;宗派乃是使自己与基督身体分裂的一班信徒。
2.　A genuine church remains in the Body; a sect is a group of believers who divide themselves from the Body.
捌　我们是基督身体上的肢体，必须受到别的肢体的限制，不越过我们的度量─林后十13：
VIII.　As members of the Body, we must allow ourselves to be limited by the other members and not go beyond our measure—2 Cor. 10:13:
一　身体要长大并发展，基本的要求是我们知道自己的度量，并且不越过这度量─罗十二3，6上，弗四7，16。
A.　A basic requirement for the growth and development of the Body is that we recognize our measure and not go beyond it—Rom. 12:3, 6a; Eph. 4:7, 16.
二　当我们越过自己的度量，我们就越过元首的权柄，干涉了身体的等次。
B.　When we go beyond our measure, we go beyond the authority of the Head and interfere with the order of the Body.
三　我们都该照着神给我们的度量行动、行事，留在神的尺度，神的度量限制之内─林后十13。
C.　We all should move and act according to how much God has measured to us, staying within the limits of God's ruling, God's measuring—2 Cor. 10:13.
玖　我们在本地所作的，或在宇宙一面为其它国家所作的，都应当在作时有充分的领会，我们是在建造基督的身体;因此，我们该一直持守身体的观点─弗四16。
IX.　Whatever we do in our locality or universally for the other countries should be done in a full realization that we are building up the Body of Christ; thus, we should always keep a view of the Body—Eph. 4:16.