13变化乃是一种新陈代谢。变化所包含的新陈代谢,可比作我们肉身在吃、消化并吸收食物之后所发生的事。……我们基督徒乃是神人,我们里面都有主灵,而主灵正在我们里面进行一种新陈代谢改变的过程,将我们变化成为基督的形像。新陈代谢地变化为复活得荣之基督的形像,就是有分于神的形像(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四册,二七三页)。
13The metabolism involved in transformation is comparable to that which takes place in our physical body after we eat, digest, and assimilate food… We Christians, who are God-men, all have the Lord Spirit within us, and the Lord Spirit is in the process of carrying out a metabolic change in our being, transforming us into the image of Christ. To be metabolically transformed into the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ is to participate in God’s image. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” p. 216)