弗四11～12 祂所赐的，有些是使徒，有些是申言者，有些是传福音者，有些是牧人和教师，为要成全圣徒，目的是为着职事的工作，为着建造基督的身体。

　　罗十五16 使我为外邦人作基督耶稣的仆役，作神福音勤奋的祭司，叫所献上的外邦人，在圣灵里得以圣别，可蒙悦纳。

　　Eph. 4:11-12And He himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers, For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,

　　Rom. 15:16 That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

　　新约的事奉是神在圣经里所命定的，指明新约的全体信徒都是事奉神的祭司（启一5～6）。祭司就是事奉神的人；古今中外所有事奉神的人定规都是一个祭司…。在旧约，祭司是专管祭物的。但新约罗马十五章十六节所说福音勤奋的祭司，乃是专管福音的。…〔而且，〕新约的福音祭司该是一个勤奋的福音祭司，…在神的福音上勤劳。保罗作神福音的祭司就是这样，我们也该是这样（神命定之路最新的陈明与基督来临的兆头，二九至三○页）。

　　The New Testament service ordained by God in the Scriptures indicates that all New Testament believers are priests to serve God (Rev. 1:5-6). The priests are those who serve God. Everyone who serves God, anywhere and at any time, must be a priest.... In the Old Testament the priests specialized in taking care of the sacrifices. By this we can see that the priests of the gospel, mentioned in Romans 15:16, are those who specialize in taking care of the gospel…. [And also] the New Testament priests of the gospel should be laboring priests of the gospel, … who diligently labor in the gospel of God. Paul was such a priest of the gospel of God, and we too should be such (The Up-to-Date Presentation of the God-Ordained Way and the Signs Concerning the Coming of Christ).

　　基督身体的建造，不是倚靠少数人，…乃是所有经过成全的圣徒，个个都能作建造基督身体的工作。生、养、教、建，这是新路里的四大步骤。当召会里的圣徒个个又生、又养、又教、又建的时候，神永远的目的就要达到了。

　　The building up of the Body of Christ does not depend on a few people. Rather, every one of the perfected saints should participate in the work of the building up of the Body of Christ. Begetting, nourishing, teaching, and building are the four major steps in the new way. When every one of the saints in the church can beget, nourish, teach, and build, God's eternal purpose is fulfilled.

　　基督徒事奉主的头一件事，就是传福音。…属灵的生孩子就是传福音。保罗说，“你们在基督里，纵有上万的导师，父亲却不多，因为是我在基督耶稣里借着福音生了你们。”（林前四15。）保罗传福音，带领许多哥林多人得救；那些哥林多信徒，就是保罗所生的属灵儿女。

　　The first matter in the Christian service is the preaching of the gospel. The spiritual childbearing is the preaching of the gospel. Paul said, “For though you have ten thousand guides in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel” (1 Cor. 4:15). Paul preached the gospel and led many to salvation. These Corinthian believers then became the spiritual children begotten by Paul.

　　结了果子之后，接着要喂养。每个作母亲的人都知道，孩子生下来以后，第一件要作的事，就是喂孩子吃奶。…一个孩子初生下来，不是要叫他到我们这里来吃奶，而是我们要到他那里去，喂他奶吃。即使我们不能天天去喂，最迟也不可晚过三天，最好你能天天去喂他。我们到新受浸的弟兄姊妹家，喂养人属灵的粮食，这就是我们所说的家聚会。

　　After the fruit bearing comes the nourishing. Every mother knows that the first thing a newborn child does is drink milk. Hence, the first thing a mother has to learn is how to nurse her child. After a child is born, we do not ask him to come to us to be fed. Rather, we have to go to him and feed him with milk. If we cannot go to the homes of the new ones daily, we should go at least once every three days. The best way is to go every day. When we go to the homes of the new brothers and sisters and feed them with spiritual food, this is what we call the home meetings.

　　你喂养他一个多月以后，他稳健了，就立刻带他到小排聚会里接触弟兄姊妹们，一同过群的生活，这就进入召会了。在小排里不仅有教，还得有养，而且小排必须是生机的，人人教，个个学，好建造基督的身体。〔我们在小排聚会里，要用全般的智慧劝戒各人，教导各人，好将各人在基督里成熟地献上，这个献上就是祭司的工作。〕

　　After feeding him for more than one month, he is stabilized. You shall bring him to the small group meetings immediately to contact brothers and sisters and to have a corporate living, i.e. to enter the church life. There should not only be teaching but also feeding in the small group. Furthermore, the small group should be organic and everyone teaches and learns to build up the body of Christ. In our small group meetings, we admonish every man and teach every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ. This offering is the work of a priest.

　　〔新约职事所作的工作不是别的，乃是建造基督的身体。〕林前十四章专门讲召会的建造，怎么建造？就是申言。保罗说，“你们都能一个一个地申言，为要使众人有学习，使众人得勉励。”（31。）〔每逢你们聚在一起的时候，各人或有诗歌，或有教训，或有启示，或有方言，或有翻出来的话，凡事都当为建造（26）。所以人人都应该操练申言，好建造基督的身体。〕（新约福音的祭司，一九、一五至一六、八页。）

　　The work of New Testament Ministry is not for something else and is only for the building up the body of Christ. Chapter fourteen of 1 Corinthians speaks mainly about the building of Church and the way of building up of Church, i.e., prophesying. Paul said “For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged” (1 Cor 14:26). “Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for the building up.” Therefore every man should practice prophesying for the building up of body of Christ.