20我们看见新皮袋乃是召会生活。召会实际上就是基督的扩大。个人的基督是我们里面的酒。这个人的基督扩大成为团体的基督时,那就是召会。这团体的基督就是皮袋、容器,要盛装个人基督作我们的酒。……在〔林前十二章十二节〕,我们不仅读到肢体组合在一起就是一个身体,也读到这身体就是基督。……从实际方面说,基督如何是身体呢?祂是身体,因为这身体是由许多充满基督的肢体所组成的。基督在你里面,基督在我里面,基督也在我们每一个人里面。我们里面都有基督。在林前一章保罗说,基督不是分开的〔13〕。在你里面的基督与在我里面的基督是一,在我们里面的基督与在所有其他基督徒里面的基督也是一。因此,基督乃是由许多被祂充满的肢体所组成的身体。这就是新皮袋—盛装基督这新酒的召会生活。
20We see then that the new wineskin is the church life. The church is actually the enlargement of Christ. The individual Christ is our wine within us. When this individual Christ is enlarged into a corporate Christ, that is the church. This corporate Christ is the wineskin, the container, to contain the individual Christ as our wine. We read in 1 Corinthians 12:12 not only that the members composed together are the one Body but that this Body is Christ…How, speaking in a practical way, is Christ the Body? He is the Body because the Body is composed of so many members who are filled with Christ. Christ is in you, Christ is in me, and Christ is in every one of us. We all have Christ within. In 1 Corinthians 1 Paul says that Christ is not divided. The Christ in you is one with the Christ in me, and the Christ in us is one with the Christ in all other Christians. Therefore, Christ is the Body composed of so many members who are filled with Him. This is the new wineskin, which is the church life to contain Christ as the new wine.