11我们与基督的关系，可由野橄榄树的枝子接在栽种的橄榄树上来说明。基督是栽种的橄榄树，我们是野橄榄树的枝子。首先，我们从野橄榄树上被砍下，然后被接在栽种之橄榄树的切口处。此后，野橄榄树的枝子就接在栽种的橄榄树上；这便是接枝。借着接枝的过程，栽种的橄榄树生命的汁浆就流进野橄榄树的枝子里面，将其充盈、浸透并充满。最终，枝子就会结果子。照样，我们也是接在基督这栽种的橄榄树上的枝子。如果我们被栽种的橄榄树里生命的汁浆所充盈、浸透并充满，我们就能说，“在我，活着就是栽种的橄榄树。”枝子达到这一阶段，就是在栽种的橄榄树上成熟了。这说明了在基督里成熟的意义。在基督里成熟，就是被基督浸透，被基督充满。这乃是我们全人的每一部分，都被基督占有。
11Our relationship with Christ can be illustrated by the grafting of a branch from a wild olive tree into a cultivated olive tree. Christ is the cultivated olive tree, and we are branches from the wild olive tree. First, we are cut off from the wild olive tree and then placed into the cultivated olive tree, in the spot where an incision has been made. After this, the branch from the wild olive tree is bound to the cultivated olive tree. This is grafting. Through the process of grafting, the life-juice in the cultivated olive tree flows into the branch from the wild olive tree, permeates it, saturates it, and fills it. Eventually, the branch will bear fruit. Likewise, we are branches grafted into Christ as the cultivated olive tree. If we are permeated, saturated, and filled with the lifejuice from the cultivated olive tree, we will be able to say, “To me, to live is the cultivated olive tree.” When a branch reaches this stage, it will be full-grown in the cultivated olive tree. This illustrates what it means to be full-grown in Christ. To be full-grown in Christ is to be saturated and filled with Christ. It is to have every part of our being occupied with Christ.