12使徒行传开始于同心合意,也强调同心合意。然而,早期的门徒执行主在这地上的行动,若是有不同的作法、凭借、媒介或实质,他们就无法维持或保守这种同心合意。我们把整卷使徒行传从头到尾读过,就能看见,为着执行神在这地上的行动以成就祂新约的经纶,他们所采取的作法完全是凭着三个主要实质—祷告、那灵与话。不但在使徒行传里,就是在全本新约,也都是用祷告、那灵与话来执行神的经纶。今天基督教里不同的团体使用许多别的作法。……要维持独一的同心合意,我们都必须学习用同样的方法作同样的事。构成主行动独一作法的实质乃是祷告与那灵,这两者的结果产生话(李常受文集一九八六年第一册,一○五页)。
12The book of Acts begins with the one accord and stresses the one accord. The early disciples could not have maintained or kept this one accord, however, if they had had different ways, means, agents, or substances for them to carry out the Lord’s move on this earth. [In Acts] we can see that the way they took to carry out God’s move on this earth to fulfill His New Testament economy was entirely by three main substances—prayer, the Spirit, and the Word. Not only in Acts but also throughout the entire New Testament, prayer, the Spirit, and the Word were used for the carrying out of God’s economy. The different groups in Christianity today use many other ways…In order to maintain the unique one accord we all have to learn to do the same thing by the same way. The substances that constitute the unique way for the Lord’s move are prayer and the Spirit, which result in the Word. (CWWL, 1986, vol. 1, “Elders’ Training, Book 7: One Accord for the Lord’s Move,” p. 85)