来十二22 但你们乃是来到锡安山，来到活神的城，属天的耶路撒冷，来到……整体的聚集。

　　诗四八1 耶和华为大，在我们神的城中，在祂的圣山上，该大受赞美。

　　耶路撒冷建在群山上。锡安山是耶路撒冷建在其上的群山之一。锡安是中心，耶路撒冷是周围。召会生活是今日的耶路撒冷；在召会生活里必须有一班得胜者，这些得胜者乃是今日的锡安。按照启示录十四章，得胜者是与主一同站在锡安山上（1~5）。按预表说，得胜者事实上就是今日的锡安。……没有锡安（得胜者），耶路撒冷（召会生活）就无法保守并维持（活力排的训练与实行，三五至三六页）。

　　Heb. 14:1 But you have come forward to Mount Zion and 14:1 to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem;...to the universal gathering.

　　Psa. 48:1 Great is Jehovah, and much to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.

　　Jerusalem was built on a mountain range. Mount Zion was one of the mountains on which Jerusalem was built. Zion is the center, and Jerusalem is the circumference. The church life is today’s Jerusalem; within the church life there must be a group of overcomers, and these overcomers are today’s Zion. According to Revelation 14, the overcomers are standing on Mount Zion with the Lord (vv. 1-5). Actually, in typology, the overcomers are today’s Zion….Without Zion (the overcomers), Jerusalem (the church life) cannot be kept and maintained. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups,” p. 274)

　　基督身体的实际乃是一种团体的生活，不是个人的生活。这团体的生活是许多圣徒的集大成，这些圣徒被他们里面那经过过程并终极完成的神所救赎、重生、圣别并变化。借着这内住之终极完成的神，这些蒙救赎的圣徒就被作成实际的神人。

　　三十三年半之久，这位神人耶稣，乃是一个真正的人，但祂不凭人的生命而活，乃凭神的生命而活。要活这样的生命，祂必须被钉十字架。新约提到的钉十字架，乃是在各各他山上木头的十字架。但你们必须看见，基督被钉在物质的十字架上之前，祂已经是天天被钉死，有三十三年半之久。耶稣不是一个人，一个真正的人么？是的，但祂不凭那个真正的人活着，而是把那个真正的人一直摆在十字架上。然后，在复活的意义上，祂活出神的生命。神的生命，带着其一切的属性，从这神人耶稣里面活出来，彰显为这神人的美德。

　　这生命起初只是在个人的耶稣基督里。然而，这生命现今已经在许多人身上被重复、复制出来，这些人蒙了救赎、重生，如今在他们里面有神的生命。他们都得着滋养、圣别、变化、成全，不仅成为成熟的基督徒，更是成为神人。基督身体的实际乃是被成全之神人所过的团体生活，他们是真正的人，但他们不凭自己的生命，乃凭经过过程之神的生命而活；经过过程之神的属性借着他们的美德彰显出来。

　　基督的死是一个模子，保罗将他自己放在那个死的模子里，在那里被模成基督的死〔腓三10〕。在保罗这个人身上，众人可以看见十字架的记号和形像（加六14、17……）。他的旧生命借着基督复活的大能，模成基督之死的形像；复活的大能加强他过神人的生活。主盼望我们许多人也成为这样的人。

　　我相信在我们中间，该有些人就是这样；也许不是一直是这样，但至少有些时候是这样。……许多次当我要对我的妻子说话时，里面就说，“这不是从你的灵出来的，而是从你的旧人出来的。”我立刻就停住。有时我想去找她，却马上又回来了。这是因为我的去是凭着我天然的人。当我这样作时，里面有个东西把我调转回来。那个东西就是赐生命的灵，那是灵的基督。经过过程的三一神转了我，那是在复活里。亲爱的圣徒，这样一个团体的生活，就是基督身体的实际。这是借着基督复活的大能而模成基督之死的一个团体生活（关于相调的实行，三三、三五至三七页）。

　　参读：关于相调的实行，第四章；活力排的训练与实行，第一篇。

　　The reality of the Body of Christ is a kind of corporate living, not a living by any individual. This corporate living is the aggregate of many saints who have been redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, and transformed by the processed and consummated God within them. By this indwelling consummated God, these redeemed saints have been made actual God-men.

　　For thirty-three and a half years, this God-man, Jesus, was a genuine man, but He lived not by man’s life but by God’s life. To live such a life He had to be crucified. The crucifixion mentioned in the New Testament transpired on the wooden cross on Mount Calvary. But you have to realize that before Christ was there in the physical crucifixion, He was being crucified every day for thirty-three and a half years. Was not Jesus a human being, a genuine man? Yes. But He did not live by that genuine man. Instead, He kept that genuine man on the cross. Then, in the sense of resurrection, He lived God’s life. God’s life with all its attributes was lived within this God-man Jesus and expressed as this God-man’s virtues.

　　Such a life was there originally just in an individual man, Jesus Christ. But this life has now been repeated, reproduced, in many men who have been redeemed and regenerated and who now possess the divine life within them. All of them have been nourished, sanctified, transformed, and perfected not just to be matured Christians but to be God-men. The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes have been expressed through their virtues.

　　The death of Christ is a mold, and Paul put himself into that death-mold to be conformed there [cf. Phil 3:10]. On this man, Paul, all men could see the mark and the image of the cross (Gal. 6:14, 17...). His old life was conformed to the image of the death of Christ by the power of Christ’s resurrection. The power of resurrection strengthened him to live the life of a God-man. The Lord expects that many of us would be such ones.

　　I do believe that among us there should be some like this, maybe not constantly but at least instantly like this…. Many times when I was trying to talk to my wife, something within said, “This is not from your spirit. This is from your old man.” Right away I stopped. Sometimes I would go to her, and then right away I returned. This is because my going was by my natural man. While I was doing that, something within turned me. That was the very life-giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ. The processed Triune God turned me, and that was in resurrection. Such a corporate living is the reality of the Body of Christ, dear saints. This is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ through the power of the resurrection of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 127-130)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” ch. 4; CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups,” ch. 1