13在林前三章十二节保罗说,建造的材料有两类:一类是木、草、禾秸,乃是属人的、属世的;另一类是金、银、宝石,乃是宝贵的珍宝、经过变化的材料。我们若用木、草、禾秸,就是用来自我们天然背景的成就,或是天然的生活方式建造,就会损伤召会(17)。我们应当用金、银、宝石—分别表征神、基督、那灵—来建造召会。以这些材料建造召会,就是以经过过程并终极完成的三一神建造召会。当我们以经过过程并终极完成的三一神建造召会时,实际上不是我们在建造,乃是神借着我们在建造,使用我们作凭借,将祂自己分赐并输供到人里面(撒母耳记生命读经,二四六至二四七、一九七至一九八页)。
13In 1 Corinthians 3:12 Paul says that there are two categories of building material—wood, grass, and stubble, which are human and worldly, and gold, silver, and precious stones, which are precious treasures and transformed materials. If we build the church with wood, grass, and stubble—with the attainments that come from our natural background or with the natural way of living—we will mar the church (v. 17). We should build the church with gold, silver, and precious stones, signifying respectively God, Christ, and the Spirit. To build the church with these materials is to build the church with the processed and consummated Triune God. When we build the church with the processed and consummated Triune God, it is not actually we who are building. Rather, God is building through us, using us as a means to dispense and transmit Himself into people. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 200-201, 162)