13我竭尽所能要进入你们的祷告,但是办不到。我要坦率地说,你们的祷告不是团体的祷告。你们都是各祷各的。……我们必须学习,当我们来到祷告聚会中,乃是团体的身体来祷告。在属灵的范围里祷告,必须是团体的。甚至在属世的范围里,一队有十一个球员踢足球,或者有五个球员打篮球,也不是各打各的,乃是团体的进行。这半个多小时,我在等候、观察并寻找时机,要进入你们的祷告,但我看不见你们的路线和目标。每个祷告的人都有自己的心思、自己的目标。这完全是由于我们传统的背景。我盼望我们都能领悟,今天早晨我们的祷告聚会没有路线,没有目标。我们不过是来在一起发表自己的感觉(李文集一九八四年第二册,二五○至二五一页)。
13I did my best to enter into your prayers, but I could not make it. I would like to say frankly that your prayers were not prayers in a corporate way. All of you prayed individualistically…We must learn to come to a prayer meeting to pray as a body, a corporate body. To pray in the spiritual realm must be something corporate. Even in the worldly realm, to play football with eleven members on your team or basketball with five members on your team is not done individualistically but in a corporate way. I was waiting, watching, and seeking a time for over half an hour that I could enter into your prayer, but I could not see what your line or what your goal was. Everyone who prayed had his own mind, his own goal. This is altogether due to our traditional background. I hope that we all can realize that this morning we had a prayer meeting without a line, without a goal. We just came together to express our own feeling. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” p. 193)