17基督设立了这个模子之后，就经过死与复活，并在复活里成了赐生命的灵。祂是这样一位灵，进到我们里面作我们的生命。当我们相信祂并受浸时，神就把我们摆在作模子的基督里面，如同面团被摆在模子里一样。借着被摆在模子里，我们就学了这模子。这意思是说，借着被摆在基督里，我们就学了基督。一面，神把我们摆在基督里；另一面，基督进到我们里面作我们的生命。现今，我们能照着神把我们摆入的模子，凭祂而活。……当我们在福音书中读到主耶稣所形成的模子时，那个模子就自然而然地影响我们的生活。当我们爱主，接触祂，向祂祷告，我们就自然而然地照着福音书中所描绘的模子活祂。这样，我们就被形成、被模成这个模子的形像。这就是学基督的意思。
17After Christ established this mold, He passed through death and resurrection, and in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit. As such a Spirit, He comes into us to be our life. When we believed in Him and were baptized, God put us into Him as the mold, just as dough is placed into a mold. By being put into the mold, we learned the mold. This means that by being put into Christ, we learn Christ. On the one hand, God put us into Christ; on the other hand, Christ has come into us to be our life. Now we may live by Him according to the mold in which we have been placed by God. When we read in the Gospels of the mold formed by the Lord Jesus, that mold spontaneously influences our living. As we love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him, we automatically live Him according to the mold described in the Gospels. In this way we are shaped, conformed, to the image of this mold. This is what it means to learn Christ.