15我们不仅需要蒙救赎,也需要被变化。如果我们只是蒙救赎,我们就仍旧是人。为了成为像神一样,我们需要变化。变化的头一步是重生、再造我们。虽然我们是按着神的形像,照着神的样式造的,但在我们重生以前,我们里面还是没有任何属于神的真实东西。我们需要重生,好开始变化为石头,作神属灵的建造,就是祂的家。神的家,伯特利,先是召会,然后是基督的身体,最终是新耶路撒冷(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四册,四二四至四二五页)。
15We need to be not only redeemed but also transformed. If we were merely redeemed, we would still remain men. In order to become like God, we need transformation. The first step of transformation is to regenerate, to remake, us. Even though we were made in the image of God and according to the likeness of God, we still do not have anything real of God in us until we are regenerated. We need to be regenerated to begin our transformation into stones for God’s spiritual building, His house. The house of God, Bethel, first is the church, then the Body of Christ, and consummately the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Crystallization-study of the Gospel of John,” p. 337)