提前一4　也不可注意虚构无稽之事，和无穷的家谱；这等事只引起辩论，对于神在信仰里的经纶并无助益。

　　弗三9　　并将那历世历代隐藏在创造万有之神里的奥秘有何等的经纶，向众人照明。

　　整本新约的中心就是神的神圣经纶。神的经纶就是神的计划，神的神圣安排，要把祂自己分赐到祂所拣选的人里面。我们出去叩门访问人，就是为着这个经纶，并且应该联于神圣的经纶，…联于永远，联于诸天界。（神命定实行新约经纶的路，二页。）

　　1 Tim. 1:4 Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God’s economy, which is in faith.

　　Eph. 3:9 And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God…

　　The center of the entire New Testament is God’s divine economy. God’s economy is God’s plan, His divine arrangement, to dispense Himself into His chosen people. Our going out to visit people by knocking on their doors is for this economy and should be linked with the divine economy,… linked to eternity, [and] linked to the heavenlies. (CWWL, 1987, vol. 2, “The God-ordained Way to Practice the New Testament Economy,” pp. 311-312)

　　按照以弗所四章十六节，基督身体中的众圣徒分为两类：‘每一丰富供应的节’和‘每一部分’。节乃是有恩赐的人—使徒、申言者、传福音者、牧人和教师。身体借着每一供应的节得以紧密联络在一起，并借着每一部分依其度量而有的功用，得以结合在一起，就渐渐长大。…基督的身体乃是借着有恩赐之人的功用，并借着依其度量而尽功用的众肢体，叫自己渐渐长大，而得着生机的建造。

　　要实化这生机的建造，有恩赐的人必须尽力成全每一位圣徒。那些照顾圣徒的同工和长老，需要到圣徒家里去，…私下并直接的，口对口的，经年不断的教导他们。

　　首先，我们自己必须进到主的话里，学习如何成全我们自己。当我们自己被成全，我们也能昼夜挨家挨户的访问圣徒，保养顾惜他们，一个一个的流泪教导他们。这样作至终会使所有的圣徒得成全，他们就都能说话，每一部分就会依其度量而尽功用。这样，所有的圣徒都会尽功用，在我们中间就没有圣品阶级与平信徒。所有同我们在一起聚会的圣徒，都得着成全、装备、供应，以说出基督。结果就完成主的心意，就是生机的建造基督的身体。（长老训练第九册，一二五至一二六页。）

　　召会是基督的身体，也是新人。一个人的身体如果只有一小部分尽功用，其余的部分都瘫痪了，这是不正常的。一个正常的人，乃是使用他身上所有的肢体。…在何处有这样一个团体人，由基督身体活泼、积极尽功用的肢体所构成，以完成神的定旨？

　　长老应当花时间和力量，教导排聚会里的每一个人。长老需要在排聚会之外到每位圣徒的家去。…保罗是用白昼，也用夜晚。〔徒二十20，31。〕我们大多数是用聚会的时间接触圣徒。我们以为只要参加每一个聚会，就尽了我们的责任。但那不是完全的尽责。我们的尽责也是在聚会之外的。

　　除了个别接触人之外，完成神命定之路别无他途。…〔我们要使人〕得救，得喂养，受属灵教育，得装备，并得成全。在一两年内，新人就应当能和我们作同样事奉主的事。…盼望我们郑重的考虑这点交通，而在我们的观念和实行上有完全的改变。（长老训练第十一册，九八至九九、一○三至一○四页。）

　　参读：为着建造基督的身体那合乎圣经的聚会与事奉之路，第一、三至七、九、二十、二十二、二十六至二十七章。

　　According to Ephesians 4:16, the saints in the Body of Christ are categorized into two groups: “every joint of the rich supply” and “each one part.” The joints are the gifted persons—the apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers. The Body grows by being joined closely together through the joints and by being knit together through the operation in the measure of each one part….The Body of Christ is built up organically by causing itself to grow through the functions of the gifted persons and through the members who operate in their measure.

　　For this organic building to be realized, the gifted persons must do their best to perfect every saint. The co-workers and the elders who are taking care of the saints need to go to their homes …to teach them personally and directly, mouth to mouth, year round.

　　First of all, we ourselves have to dive into the Word to learn how to perfect ourselves. As we are being perfected ourselves, we can go to visit the saints house to house, day and night, in order to nourish them, cherish them, and teach them one by one, sometimes with tears. This will consummate in the perfecting of all the saints. They will all be enabled to speak. Each one part will operate in its own measure. Then all the saints will function, and there will be no clergy or laity among us. All the saints meeting with us will be perfected, equipped, and furnished to speak forth Christ. This will issue in the accomplishment of the Lord’s heart’s desire, the organic building up of the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1986, vol. 3, “Elders’ Training, Book 9: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (1),” pp. 119-120)

　　The church is the Body of Christ and the new man. It is not normal for only a small number of the members of a person’s body to function while all the rest are paralyzed. A normal man uses all his physical members ….Where is such a corporate man, comprising the living, active, functioning members of the Body of Christ, to fulfill the purpose of God?

　　The elders should spend time and energy to teach each one of the attendants of the group meetings. They need to go to each of the saints’ homes outside the group meeting…. Paul used both the day and the night [Acts 20:20, 31]. We mostly use our meeting time to contact the saints. We think that as long as we have attended every meeting, we have fulfilled our duty. But that is not the complete fulfilling of our duty. The fulfilling of our duty is also outside the meetings.

　　There is no way to carry out the God-ordained way except by the individual contact with people,… for their salvation, their feeding, their spiritual education, their equipping, and their perfecting. Within a period of one or two years, they should be able to do the same thing that we are doing in our service to the Lord….I hope that we would consider this fellowship seriously and have a full change in our concept and practice. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “Elders’ Training, Book 11: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (3),” pp. 215, 218)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1987, vol. 3, “The Scriptural Way to Meet and to Serve for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” chs. 1, 3-7, 9, 20, 22, 26-27