弗四4　一个身体和一位灵，正如你们蒙召，也是在一个盼望中蒙召的。

　　林前十17　因着只有一个饼，我们虽多，还是一个身体，因我们都分受这一个饼。

　　独一的召会显于众地方召会，乃是为着有形的原因。我们信徒散居在这地上，所以无法同在一个地方。我们必须在许多地方，所以在某种意义上，我们必须因地方而分开。但我们不能忘记，众召会乃是基督的身体。以弗所四章说只有一个身体（4）；保罗说我们虽多，还是一个饼，一个身体（林前十17）。

　　我们也许以为，众地方召会是神经纶的目标。然而，众地方召会不是目标，乃是神达到祂经纶之目标所采取的手续。……我们若只在众地方召会里，却不往前，我们就远离了神的目标（关于相调的实行，一九至二○、四至五页）。

　　Eph. 4:4 One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

　　1 Cor. 10:17 Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.

　　The one church is expressed in the local churches because of physical reasons. We believers are scattered on this earth, so we cannot be in one location. We have to be in many locations, so in a sense, we have to be separated by localities. But we cannot forget that the churches are the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4 says that there is one Body (v. 4). Paul says that though we are many, we are still one bread and one Body (1 Cor. 10:17).

　　We may think that the local churches are the goal of God's economy. However, they are not the goal but the procedure God takes to reach the goal of His economy.... If we are just in the local churches and do not go on, we are far off from God's goal. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," pp. 116, 103)

　　照以弗所一章二十二至二十三节，神经纶的目标是召会，就是基督的身体。有些人也许说，召会既是基督的身体，那么我们在召会里，也就该在身体里。他们在道理上是对的，但在实行上却不然。我们也许常常说到基督的身体，但若问我们基督的身体是什么，我们也许只能回答：基督的身体就是召会。我们在召会里，那是事实；……我们有基督的身体这辞，也有基督身体的道理，但基督身体的实行和实际在哪里？

　　相调的目的是要将我们众人引进基督身体的实际。……我宝贵众地方召会，是因着一个目的：众地方召会是将我带进基督身体的手续。众召会是身体，但众召会也许没有基督身体的实际。因此，我们需要在众地方召会里，使我们能被引进或带进基督身体的实际。

　　主恢复的最高峰，能真正、实际、真实完成神经纶的，不是叫神以有形的作法产生许多地方召会，乃是让神产生生机的身体作祂的生机体。我们都有物质的身体，但事实上我们的身体不是我们这人的实际。我的身体是我，但不是我这人的实际。照样，全球所建立的众召会是有形的骨架，但在众召会中间也许没有基督身体的实际。我们若对自己诚实，就必须承认这是我们今天的光景。

　　相调的思想在圣经里很强。在旧约里，有为着完成神经纶之相调的预表。……使徒保罗很强地提到这相调的预表。在林前十章十七节保罗说，“因着只有一个饼，我们虽多，还是一个身体，因我们都分受这一个饼。”保罗看召会是一个饼，这种想法不是他自己发明的，乃是取自旧约。利未记二章四节的素祭，是由细面调油所作的饼组成的。面的每一部分都是用油混合或调和的。那就是相调。保罗告诉我们，召会乃是由细面所作成的饼。细面来自麦粒，而麦粒来自那一粒麦子，就是基督〔约十二24〕。……我们是许多子粒，被磨成细面，好作成召会这饼。在这里我们能看见圣经中相调的思想。

　　我们看见圣言里有相调的真理，但少有人说到相调，因为这事不仅非常高深，也非常奥秘。相调不是一件物质的事（关于相调的实行，五至六、一四至一五、一九页）。

　　参读：关于相调的实行，第一至三篇；召会生活中引起风波的难处，第三至四篇。

　　According to Ephesians 1:22-23, the goal of God's economy is the church, which is Christ's Body. Some may say that since the church is the Body of Christ and since we are in the church, we should also be in the Body. They are right doctrinally but not practically. We may speak much about the Body of Christ, but if we are asked what the Body of Christ is, we may be able to answer only that the Body of Christ is the church. We are in the church; that is a fact.... We have the term the Body of Christ and we have the doctrine of the Body of Christ, but where is the practicality and reality of the Body of Christ?

　　The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ....I treasure the local churches because of a purpose. The local churches are the procedure to bring me into the Body of Christ. The churches are the Body, but the churches may not have the reality of the Body of Christ. Thus, we need to be in the local churches so that we can be ushered, or brought, into the reality of the Body of Christ.

　　The highest peak of the Lord's recovery that can really, practically, and actually carry out God's economy is for God to produce not many local churches in a physical way but an organic Body to be His organism. We all have a physical body, but our body actually is not the reality of our being. My body is me, but it is not the reality of my being. Likewise, the churches set up around the globe are a physical frame, but among the churches there may be no reality of the Body of Christ. If we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that this is our situation today.

　　The thought of blending is very strong in the Bible. In the Old Testament there is a type of the blending for the fulfillment of God's economy.... This type of the blending is strongly referred to by the apostle Paul. In 1 Corinthians 10:17 Paul says, "Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread." Paul's thought of the church being one bread was not his own invention; rather, it was taken from the Old Testament. The meal offering in Leviticus 2:4 consisted of cakes made of fine flour mingled with oil. Every part of the flour was mixed, or mingled, with the oil. That is blending. Paul tells us that the church is a bread, a cake, made of fine flour. This fine flour comes from wheat grains, and the wheat grains come from the one grain of wheat, which is Christ [John 12:24].... We are the many grains so that we may be ground into fine flour for making the cake, the bread, of the church. Here we can see the thought of blending in the Bible.

　　The truth of blending is in the holy Word, ... [but] hardly anyone speaks about blending because this is not only very high and deep but also very mysterious. It is not a physical matter. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," pp. 103-104, 111-112, 116)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," chs. 1-3; CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Problems Causing the Turmoils in the Church Life," chs. 3-4