5神圣交通的垂直与平面两面,关系非常密切。我们从经历中可以看见这点。有时,我们可能假借交通圣徒的近况为名,而谈论他们,但我们的谈话实际上是闲聊。之后我们通常不能祷告,因为我们祷告的灵被我们的闲话销灭了。但我们借着操练灵而彼此有真正的交通时,就会渴望祷告并接触主。这表明垂直与平面这两面交通之间的关系何等密切。……如果两位弟兄操练他们的灵,有真正、正确、平面的交通,他们至终会被引进非常诚恳、真挚的代求里。当他们一同祷告时,神圣交通的两方面就交织在一起了。……这种交织的交通乃是真实的交通(李文集一九九○年第一册,四四九页)。
5The horizontal and vertical aspects of the divine fellowship are very closely related. We can see this from our experience. Sometimes we may talk about other saints under the pretense of having fellowship about their situation, but our conversation is actually gossip. Afterward, we often cannot pray because our praying spirit is quenched by our gossip. But when we fellowship in a genuine way by exercising our spirit, we are eager to pray and contact the Lord. This shows how close the relationship is between the vertical and horizontal aspects of fellowship…If two brothers exercise their spirit to have genuine, proper, horizontal fellowship, they will eventually be ushered into a very honest and sincere intercession. When they pray together, the two aspects of the divine fellowship are interwoven…This interwoven fellowship is the real fellowship. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,” pp. 362-363)