3首先，信徒被称为门徒。“门徒”一辞在福音书和使徒行传里常常使用，但在书信里完全没有用到。〔在〕马太五章一节……基督在山上坐下，祂的门徒（不是那些群众）到祂跟前来，作祂的听众。……聚集在祂周围的群众是外圈，但祂的门徒是内圈。这些门徒是犹太信徒。然而，当他们在山上听国度宪法的颁布时，不是犹太人的代表，乃是新约信徒的代表。马太二十八章十九节，主耶稣告诉祂的门徒要去，使万民，就是外邦人，作主的门徒。这就是说，万民要悔改成为门徒。所以，犹太和外邦信徒都是门徒（新约总论第五册，八○页）。
3First, the believers are designated as disciples. The term disciples is often used in the Gospels and in Acts, but it is not used at all in the Epistles…[In Matthew 5:1], when Christ sat down on the mountain, His disciples, not the crowds, came to Him to be His audience…The crowds that gathered around Him were the outer circle, but His disciples were the inner circle. These disciples were Jewish believers. However, when they were on the mountain listening to the decree of the kingdom’s constitution, they were representatives not of the Jewish people but of the New Testament believers. In Matthew 28:19 the Lord Jesus told His disciples to go and disciple the nations, that is, the Gentiles. This means that the nations would be converted into disciples. Therefore, both the Jewish and Gentile believers are disciples. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1131)