12许多时候,我们需要身体的肢体向我们说明主呼召的意义。这给我们看见,元首自己在身体的众肢体里生活、工作和行动。这样,信徒、召会的工作或行动,实际上就是基督自己的行动。基督的肢体不是凭自己,乃是凭另一位,就是凭那是灵的基督生活行动。他们接受基督这灵作他们的生命、力量、能力和一切,并凭祂而活(李常受文集一九六四年第二册,二二七、二二九至二三一、二三三至二三四页)。
12Many times we need the members of the Body to interpret the significance of the Lord’s calling. This shows us that the Head Himself lives, works, and moves in the members of the Body. In this way the work or acts of the believers, the church, are actually the acts of Christ Himself. The members of Christ live and act not by themselves but by another One, by Christ as the Spirit. They take Christ as the Spirit to be their life, strength, power, and everything, and they live by Him. (CWWL, 1964, vol. 2, “A General Sketch of the New Testament in the Light of Christ and the Church, Part 1—the Gospels and Acts,” pp. 178-180, 182)