罗十二4~5　正如我们一个身体上有好些肢体，但肢体不都有一样的功用；我们这许多人，在基督里是一个身体，并且各个互相作肢体，也是如此。

　　神经纶的最高峰〔乃是〕基督身体的实际。我们都知道“基督的身体”一辞。我们甚至也可能看见了基督身体的启示。然而我们必须承认，到目前为止，已过七十二年多以来，经过这段漫长的时间，在我们里面，在我们中间，我们很少看见基督身体的实际。……这个实际与任何组织，或任何带有组织性质的事毫无关系。并且基督的身体也不是一个系统制度，因为没有一种系统制度是生机的。基督身体的实际完完全全是生机的（关于相调的实行，二八至二九页）。

　　Rom. 12:4-5 For just as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

　　The highest peak in God's economy [is] the reality of the Body of Christ. We know the term the Body of Christ. We may even have seen the revelation of the Body of Christ. Yet we have to admit that thus far, over the past seventy-two years, through such a long time, we can see very little of the reality of the Body of Christ within us and among us....This reality has nothing to do with any kind of organization or with anything that remains in the nature of organization. Also, the reality of the Body of Christ is not a system in any way, because no system is organic. The reality of the Body of Christ is absolutely and altogether organic. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," p. 124)

　　神的众子，就团体而言，乃是召会；就生机而言，乃是基督的身体。基督的身体就是召会，是神的家、神的国，又是基督的新妇，配偶；这些都是以基督的身体为其生机的因素。若没有基督的身体，召会就没有生命，只是一个属人的会。若没有基督的身体，就没有基督的生命，也不能有神的家，因为神的家乃是父神生了儿女所成功的；这样也就不能有神的国，因为神的国乃是神生命的范围。若没有基督的生命，也就没有基督的新妇，因为新妇是基督的配偶，必须是与基督相配，才能成对（圣经中管制并支配我们的异象，一八至一九页）。

　　我们需要看见保罗在以弗所一章陈明基督身体的方式。保罗说神使基督复活，叫祂坐在诸天界里，将万有服在祂的脚下，并使祂向着召会作万有的头。接着他就说，“召会是祂的身体。”（23上）召会乃是基督的身体。这指明基督的身体是召会的内在意义。若有召会而没有基督的身体，就没有意义。在希腊文，召会是艾克利西亚，ekklesia，蒙召者的聚集。但这聚集的内在意义乃是身体。

　　在今天主的恢复里，全球有一千二百多处的召会，但我们都是一个身体。我们若看自己是个别的召会或个别的信徒，我们就完了。我们该看自己是一个身体。我们肉身的各部分若持守自己的辖区，以为自己是自主的，我们的身体就完了。但感谢主，我们肉体的各肢体都是彼此顺服的，以致我们的身体能顺畅的行动、工作。……我们没有用任何组织来保守什么，但主的恢复仍在这里。主的恢复仍然存在，并且一直受到基督身体的原则所保守。

　　如果没有身体，召会就没有意义。召会没有身体是没有意义的。但阿利路亚，这里有身体！没有身体，召会就没有意义，但有了身体，召会就有内在的意义。

　　召会和身体有什么不同？我们需要看见，神的召会乃是架构，而基督的身体乃是生机体。我们可以用苹果树来说明。树是架构，苹果是这棵树的生机素质。……树乃是为着苹果。……召会是架构，就像苹果树；基督的身体是召会的生机素质，就像苹果是苹果树的生机素质。二者乃是一。召会是架构，为着存在；基督的身体是生机的内容，为着人的满足（经过过程的神圣三一之分赐与超越基督之输供的结果，一○六至一○八页）。

　　Corporately, the many sons of God [produced in resurrection] are the church; organically, they are the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is the church, the house of God, the kingdom of God, and the bride, the counterpart, of Christ. In each aspect the church takes the Body of Christ as its organic factor. Without the Body of Christ, the church is lifeless and is a mere human organization. Without the Body of Christ and, therefore, without the life of Christ, there cannot be the house of God, which is constituted with the children born of God the Father, and there cannot be the kingdom of God, which is the realm of God's life. Without the life of Christ, there also cannot be the bride of Christ who, as His counterpart, must match Him to be a couple with Him. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, "The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible," p. 286)

　　We need to see the way Paul presents the Body of Christ in Ephesians 1. Paul says that God raised up Christ, seated Him in the heavens, subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church. Right away in the following phrase he says, "Which is His Body" (v. 23a). The church is the Body. This indicates that the Body is the church's intrinsic significance. The church without the Body means nothing. In Greek the word for church is ekklesia, the called-out ones coming together. But the significance of this gathering is the Body.

　　In the recovery today there are over twelve hundred churches around the globe, yet we all are one Body. If we consider ourselves as individual churches or as individual believers, we are through. We should consider ourselves as one Body. If the parts of our physical body would keep their own jurisdiction and be autonomous, our body would be finished. But thank the Lord that all the members of our physical body are submissive to one another so that our body can act and operate smoothly. We do not have any organization to keep anything, but the recovery is still here. The recovery is still existing and has been kept by the principle of the Body.

　　If there were no Body, the church would have no meaning. The church makes no sense without the Body. But Hallelujah, there is the Body! Without the Body the church makes no sense, but with the Body there is the intrinsic significance of the church.

　　What is the difference between the church and the Body? We need to see that the church of God is the frame and the Body of Christ is the organism. We can use an apple tree as an illustration. The tree is the frame, and the apples are the very organic essence of this tree.... The tree is for the apples....The church is the frame, like the apple tree, and the Body of Christ is the very organic essence of the church, just like the apples are the very organic essence of the apple tree. These two are one. The church is the frame for existing. The Body of Christ is the very organic contents for people's satisfaction. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Issue of the Dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the Transmitting of the Transcending Christ," pp. 548-549)

　　Further Reading: Fellowship concerning the Work of the Lord's Recovery, sec. 3