15简单地说,基督身体的实际乃是一种团体的生活,不是个人的生活。这团体的生活是许多圣徒的集大成,这些圣徒被他们里面那经过过程并终极完成的神所救赎、重生、圣别并变化。借着这内住之终极完成的神,这些蒙救赎的圣徒就被作成实际的神人。……一个人在重生时就成为神人,但还不是成熟的神人。……我们都得了重生,但我们有许多人仍然像……小婴孩。我们需要得着滋养、成全,好叫我们能在生命中长大,变得成熟。召会工作的手续是生、养,然后教导并成全,好叫圣徒能够成熟,在地方召会中被建造,为着建造基督的身体(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,一五七至一五八页)。
15In brief, the reality of the Body of Christ is a kind of corporate living, not a living by any individual. This corporate living is the aggregate of many saints who have been redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, and transformed by the processed and consummated God within them. By this indwelling consummated God, these redeemed saints have been made actual God-men. In regeneration a person is made a God-man, but he is not a matured Godman…We have been regenerated, but many of us are still like…little babes. We need to be nourished and perfected so that we can grow in life and become mature. The procedure in the church work is to beget, to nourish, and then to teach and perfect so that the saints may be mature to be built in the local churches for the building up of the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 19941997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 127-128)