10在原则上,今天许多基督徒的光景也是如此。神圣的启示已经赐下、写下并解开了。然而许多信徒却不领悟神的经纶,或照着神的经纶而有的神圣分赐。他们可能认为,作基督徒就是相信神的儿子耶稣基督是我们的救主,为我们的罪流了宝血,借着祂的死拯救我们;相信圣灵现今与我们同在,帮助我们有良好的行事为人,帮助我们行善,使神得荣耀;并且相信我们死后会上天堂。那些对基督徒的生活持守这种观念的人,很可能没有看见,作基督徒也包括圣别、变化、模成、神圣经纶的神圣分赐,以及新耶路撒冷作为经过过程、终极完成之三一神的扩大。
10In principle, the situation is the same with many Christians today. The divine revelation has been given, it has been written, and it has been interpreted. Nevertheless, many believers have no understanding of the economy of God or of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy. They may think that being a Christian is simply a matter of believing that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our Savior, who shed His blood for our sins and who has saved us through His death; that the Holy Spirit is now with us to help us to behave ourselves well and to do good that God may be glorified; and that we will go to heaven when we die. Those who hold this concept of the Christian life may not realize that being a Christian also involves sanctification, transformation, conformation, the divine dispensing of the divine economy, and the New Jerusalem as the enlargement of the processed and consummated Triune God.