西二19　…持定元首；本于祂，全身借着节和筋，得了丰富的供应，并结合一起，就以神的增长而长大。

　　弗五23　因为丈夫是妻子的头，如同基督是召会的头；祂自己乃是身体的救主。

　　长到元首基督里面，意思是说，我们都得承认基督作头的主权，承认祂是主，祂是元首，祂在我们身上有主权，我们在大小事上都该让祂作主。这个功课并不好学。我们在上餐馆吃饭、买东西等事上，大都很少让祂作主。我们在生活上既缺少操练，难怪来到聚会中，要为主申言的时候，就感到为难了。因为申言的关键是在于让耶稣作主。你在平常的生活中，要让耶稣作主，你对祂才会有经历。然后，你到聚会中才有可说的。基督不光是我们个人的头，祂也是召会的头，祂还是万有的头。我们应当在基督徒生活和召会生活中，并在一切事上承认祂作头的主权，而长到祂里面。（成全圣徒与基督身体的建造，三四页。）

　　Col. 2:19 …Holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

　　Eph. 5:23 For a husband is head of the wife as also Christ is Head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the Body.

　　The meaning of growing into the Head, Christ, is acknowledging the authority of the headship of Christ. We have to acknowledge Him as Lord and Head. He has the authority over us. In all things big or small we have to allow Him to be the Lord. This lesson is not easy. In our eating out in restaurants and in our shopping, seldom do we allow Him to be the Lord. Since we lack the practice in our daily life, it is not a surprise that when we come to the meeting, we find it difficult to prophesy for the Lord. The key to prophesying is to allow Jesus to be the Lord. In your daily life you have to allow Jesus to be your Lord. Only then will you have the experience, and only then will you have something to say in the meetings. Christ is not only the Head of us individually; He is also the Head of the church and the Head of all things. We should acknowledge the authority of His headship in our Christian life, in the church life, and in everything. By this we will grow into Him. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, “The Perfecting of the Saints and the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” p. 104)

　　我们长到元首基督里面，就让祂在我们内在的各部分里扩增长大。今天我们共同的难处，就是在我们里面，我们保留了大部分的地位，只给主耶稣一点点地位。所以，祂在我们里面无法扩增长大。祂不能长，我们也就无法长了。全地的基督徒很多，但肯让主在里面长大的，并不多见。我们必须让主在我们里面有地位，使祂能扩增长大，一部分、一部分占有我们全人。这样，你在主里面长大，我也在主里面长大，加起来就是基督的身体长大。换句话说，基督在你我里面长大，结果，基督的身体就长大了。所以基督的身体长大，就是基督在祂的肢体里长大。

　　你若让基督在你里面长大，你的恩赐也会显大。结果，基督不光是你的生命、生活，还是你的恩赐。…我们是基督的肢体，我们都必须让基督在里面长大，好得着成全。…所以，以弗所四章的‘成全’和‘长大’，乃是指同一件事。

　　我们要成全人，就必须自己先有经历，学了功课，认识神的经纶。然后，我们才能帮助人看见神的经纶，不是要我们修身养性，乃是要否认己，并且认识那为我们钉死复活的主如今乃是那灵，住在我们里面，作我们的生命。我们应当与祂同生活，同行动，一切让祂作主。这些话一面给人看见，十字架已经了结我们的旧人；一面给人看见基督是生命的灵，是我们的生命。十字架使我们这个人衰减，复活的灵把基督供应到我们里面，作我们的装备，这就是成全。在召会的聚会里，一切的申言都应当以这个为基础，为重点。并且这种话需要常常在聚会里讲，讲得越多，成全得越多。要讲到一个地步，个个弟兄姊妹的生活，都受这些话的影响，好得着真实的成全。（成全圣徒与基督身体的建造，三五至三六页。）

　　参读：成全圣徒与基督身体的建造，第三篇。

　　When we grow into the Head, Christ, we are allowing Christ to increase and grow in all the inward parts of the members. Today our common problem is that we reserve a big part within us for ourselves and give the Lord only a little place. Therefore, it is impossible for Him to increase and grow within us. When He cannot grow, we cannot grow. There are many Christians on earth today, but there are few who would allow the Lord to grow within them. We must allow the Lord to have the proper place in us. We must allow Him to increase, grow, and occupy our whole being, part by part. In this way when you grow in the Lord and I grow in the Lord, the sum total will be the growth of the Body of Christ. In other words, when Christ grows in you and me, the Body of Christ will grow. Hence, the growth of the Body of Christ is the growth of Christ in His members.

　　If you allow Christ to grow in you, your gift will be manifested. As a result, Christ will not only be your life and living, but will be your gift as well….We are the members of Christ. As such, we must allow Christ to grow in us so that we can be perfected…. Hence, perfecting and growth in Ephesians 4 refer to the same thing.

　　In order to perfect others, we must first have the experience ourselves. We must first learn the lessons and know God’s economy. Then we can help others to see God’s economy. It is not a matter of improving and cultivating ourselves. It is a matter of denying our self and knowing the crucified and resurrected Lord as the Spirit who abides in us to be our life. We should live with Him, move with Him, and allow Him to be the Lord in everything. This shows us that, on the one hand, the cross has terminated our old man. On the other hand, it shows us that Christ is the Spirit of life who is now our life. The cross decreases us, and the resurrecting Spirit supplies Christ into us that we would be equipped. This is the perfecting. In the church meetings, all the prophesying should be based on this and should have this as the focus. This kind of word should be spoken frequently in the meetings. The more we speak this kind of word, the more perfecting there will be. We have to speak until all the brothers and sisters are affected in their daily lives by this kind of word. In this way they will receive the genuine perfecting. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, “The Perfecting of the Saints and the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” pp. 104-105)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, “The Perfecting of the Saints and the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” ch. 3