弗三16~17　愿祂照着祂荣耀的丰富，借着祂的灵，用大能使你们得以加强到里面的人里，使基督借着信，安家在你们心里，叫你们在爱里生根立基。

　　要让基督安家在我们心里，我们需要不仅以祂为我们的生命，也以祂为我们的人位。召会不仅是以基督为生命的身体，也是以基督为人位的新人；因此，在以弗所三章十七节，保罗强调基督安家在我们心里的重要性。保罗祷告，叫信徒们借着让基督安家在他们心里，而以基督为他们的人位。基督在我们的灵里时，祂是我们的生命；但当祂扩展到我们心里，祂就成为我们的人位。我们不仅需要以基督为我们灵里的生命，也需要以祂为我们心里的人位（新约总论第十一册，一七三至一七四页）。

　　Eph. 3:16-17 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

　　In order for Christ to make His home in our heart, we need to take Him not only as our life but also as our person. Because the church is not only the Body with Christ as life but also the new man with Christ as the person, Paul in Ephesians 3:17 emphasizes the importance of Christ's making His home in our heart. Paul prayed that the believers would take Christ as their person by allowing Him to make His home in their heart. When Christ is in our spirit, He is our life, but when Christ spreads into our heart, He becomes our person. We need to take Christ not only as life in our spirit but also as the person in our heart. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3390)

　　真正的召会生活，乃是基督亲自安家在我们心里，占有我们里面每一角落的结果。召会的内容，乃是我们以其为人位的基督，就是作到我们里面的基督。要使基督在马太十六章十八节论到召会建造的话得着应验，召会必须进入一种光景，有许多圣徒都让基督安家在他们心里，据有、占有并浸透他们整个里面的人。基督越占有我们里面的人，我们就越能在身体里与别人建造在一起（弗二21~22，四16）。身体生活的实际乃是这样对内住基督的内在经历。基督的身体，乃是我们享受基督追测不尽之丰富的完成，也是我们经历无限的基督安家于我们整个里面之人的完成。新耶路撒冷乃是基督安家在我们心里的终极结果（新约总论第十一册，一七四至一七五页）。

　　大卫想要为神建造香柏木的殿，但神却要在基督里把祂自己建造到大卫里面。神所要建造到大卫里面的，要成为神的殿，也要成为大卫的家。这一个相互的住处也启示在约翰十四章二十三节：“人若爱我，……我父也必爱他，并且我们要到他那里去，同他安排住处。”这住处不仅是为着三一神，也是为着我们。凡神在我们里面所建造的，要成为神的居所和我们的居所。

　　我们必须领悟，神要得着一个居所，不是借着我们所行所作，乃是借着祂的建造。基督建造召会（太十六18），乃是借着进到我们灵里，并将祂自己从我们的灵扩展到我们的心思、情感和意志里，以占有我们的魂。这召会要成为祂的居所和我们的居所。这是我们所需要的，我们的负担也就是要强调这一件事（撒母耳记生命读经，二○五至二○六页）。

　　召会如何被建造，关键的因素在于对内住的基督有内里的经历。有恩赐的人不是把恩赐供应给众圣徒；他们乃是供应他们所经历，基督那追测不尽的丰富，使众圣徒在基督里得成全，并且长到祂里面。如果我们仔细读以弗所三至四章，在主面前祷读这些话，我信祂会给我们异象，看见这是建造召会唯一的路。

　　召会不是借着知识和恩赐建造起来的。我们知识越多，分裂就越多；我们恩赐越多，难处就越多。只有借着里面经历基督作生命，我们才能有召会生活的实际。里面的人必须得加强，使基督安家在我们心里，这样我们就得以在一切事上长到祂里面。然后，我们就能被充满，成为神一切的丰满，借着祂同被建造，成为神在灵里的居所（召会的异象与建造，六八至六九页）。

　　参读：主观经历内住的基督，第四篇；新约总论，第三百三十八篇。

　　The genuine church life is the issue of Christ personally making His home in our heart to occupy every corner of our inner being. The content of the church is the Christ whom we take as our person, the Christ who is wrought into our being. In order for Christ's word in Matthew 16:18 concerning the building up of the church to be fulfilled, the church must enter into a state where many saints allow Christ to make His home in their heart, possessing, occupying, and saturating their entire inner being. The more Christ occupies our inner being, the more we will be able to be built up with others in the Body (Eph. 2:21-22; 4:16). The reality of the Body life is such an inner experience of the indwelling Christ. The Body of Christ is the consummation of our enjoyment of the unsearchable riches of Christ and the consummation of the experience of the unlimited Christ making His home in our entire inward being. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate issue of Christ making His home in our heart. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3391)

　　David wanted to build God a house of cedar, but God wanted to build Himself in Christ into David. What God would build into David would be both God's house and David's house. This mutual abode is also unveiled in John 14:23: "If anyone loves Me, ...My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." This abode will be not only for the Triune God but also for us. What God builds up in us is both God's habitation and our habitation.

　　We need to realize that God will have a habitation not by our doing or working but by His building. Christ builds the church (Matt. 16:18) by coming into our spirit and spreading Himself from our spirit into our mind, emotion, and will to occupy our entire soul. This church will become His habitation and our habitation. This is what we need, and our burden is to emphasize this one thing. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, p. 169)

　　The key factor of how the church will be built up is the inner experience of the indwelling Christ. The gifted persons do not minister gifts to the saints; they only minister the unsearchable riches of Christ, which they have experienced, that the saints might be perfected in Christ and grow up into Him. If we read Ephesians 3 and 4 carefully and pray-read them before the Lord, I believe He will give us the vision to see that this is the only way for the church to be built up.

　　I must repeat again that the church is not built up by knowledge and gifts. The more knowledge we have, the more divisions we will have; and the more gifts we have, the more trouble we will have. It is only by the inner experience of Christ as life that we can have the reality of the church life. The inner man must be strengthened so that Christ will make His home in our hearts and we will grow up into Him in all things. Then we will be filled unto all the fullness of God, by whom we will be built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit. (The Way to Build Up the Church, p. 20)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 1, "The Subjective Experience of the Indwelling Christ," ch. 4; The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 338