约壹一2 “这生命已经显现出来，我们也看见过，现在又作见证，将原与父同在，且显现与我们那永远的生命传与你们。”

　　五1 “凡信耶稣是基督的，都是从神生的；凡爱那生他的，也爱从祂生的。”

　　当我们说到一样东西的素质，我们是指这个东西最内在的部分。关于召会，最重要而积极的因素是召会内在的素质。…当人说到召会时，他们的意思是物质的建筑。…有人…太过于注意召会外在的方面，如召会的组织等等。…已过十九个世纪基督教的历史，…基督徒一直在彼此相争，…因为〔他们〕已经从召会内在的素质转到外在的东西。

　　召会有四件内在的事。这些事第一乃是召会的素质。〔接着是〕召会的生长、…召会的建造、…召会的交通。

　　神圣的生命，神的生命，永远的生命，非受造的生命，不能毁坏的生命，乃是召会的素质，而这神圣的生命产生了召会（约壹一2，五1）。当然，我们看不见这神圣的生命，正如我们看不见这会所里的钢，因为钢外面包着石头和木块；但钢乃是这栋建筑结构的素质（生机建造的召会作基督的身体成为经过过程并分赐之三一神的生机体，四至六页）。

　　1 John 1:2 …The life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and report to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us.

　　5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God, and everyone who loves Him who has begotten loves him also who has been begotten of Him.

　　When we speak of the essence of anything, we are referring to its most intrinsic part. Regarding the church, the most important positive factor is its intrinsic essence….When some speak of the church, they mean a physical building…. Others… pay too much attention to the outward aspects of the church, such as its organization….Throughout the past nineteen centuries …Christians have been fighting one another…because [they] have turned from the intrinsic essence of the church to something outward.

　　There are four intrinsic matters of the church. The first of these is the essence of the church, [followed by] the growth of the church,…the building up of the church,… [and] its fellowship.

　　The divine life—God’s life, the eternal life, the uncreated life, the indestructible life—is the very essence of the church, and this divine life generates the church (1 John 1:2; 5:1). Of course, we cannot see this divine life, just as we are not able to see the structural steel in this meeting hall. This is because the steel is covered by stones and wood, yet the steel is the very essence of this building’s structure. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “The Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ to Be the Organism of the Processed and Dispensing Triune God,” pp. 267-269)

　　召会的素质是神圣的生命，而这神圣的生命就是基督这位经过过程之三一神的具体化身（约十四6，西二9）。…神经过了〔成为肉体到升天〕这一切的过程，得以成为施行分赐者。

　　这就是为什么我们说召会是经过过程并分赐之三一神的生机体。…我们不可忘记，倘若神没有经过过程，神就没有立场将祂自己分赐到我们里面。

　　因为祂是分赐的神，所以祂能重生我们，而这重生我们的生命乃是神圣的生命。…神圣的生命就是分赐的神，祂是召会的素质。…我们基督徒彼此相爱，因为我们有相同的素质。不论我们是美国人、欧洲人、中国人、日本人、韩国人、白人、黑人、黄种人、棕色人种或是红种人，只要我们是真基督徒，我们里面就有爱的素质。当我们从这内在的素质转开，去摸别的事物，我们就开始彼此相争。…要解决基督徒之间的难处，我们必须来到召会内在的事上：第一，内在的素质；第二，内在的生长；第三，内在的建造；第四，内在的交通。

　　召会内在的素质，乃是经过过程之三一神所分赐，并且如今正在分赐到我们里面的神圣生命。神圣的生命借着那灵在我们灵里的重生，产生了我们。神圣的灵生了人的灵（约三3、5~6）。何等奇妙！这二灵竟然调和为一！（林前六17）…那灵与我们的灵调和成为一灵。那灵与人成为一，而这重生的人与神成为一。这难道不奇妙么？在我们里面有一部分竟然与神调和。神是这么高超，却与我们成为一。…我盼望所有初信者对重生能有这种拔高的认识。我们一得救，就与神调和（生机建造的召会作基督的身体成为经过过程并分赐之三一神的生机体，七至九页）。

　　参读：生机建造的召会作基督的身体成为经过过程并分赐之三一神的生机体，第一章。

　　The essence of the church is the divine life, and the divine life is Christ as the very embodiment of the processed Triune God (John 14:6; Col. 2:9)….God passed through all these processes [from incarnation to ascension] to become someone who can carry out the dispensing. This is why we say that the church is the organism of the processed and dispensing Triune God….We should not forget that without God being processed, there is no ground for Him to dispense Himself into us.

　　Because He is the dispensing God, He is able to regenerate us, and this regenerating life is the divine life….The divine life is the dispensing God, who is the very essence of the church….We Christians love one another because we have the same essence. It does not matter whether we are American, European, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, white, black, yellow, brown, or red. As long as we are real Christians, we have a loving essence within us. When we turn away from this intrinsic essence to touch other things, we begin to fight one another…. In order to solve the problems between Christians, we must come to the intrinsic matters of the church: first, the intrinsic essence; second, the intrinsic growth; third, the intrinsic building up; and fourth, the intrinsic fellowship.

　　The intrinsic essence of the church is the divine life that the processed Triune God has dispensed and is now dispensing into us. The divine life generates us by the regeneration of the Spirit in our spirit. The divine Spirit begets the human spirit (John 3:3, 5-6). How wonderful it is that these two spirits are mingled as one (1 Cor. 6:17)!…The Spirit is mingled with our spirit as one spirit. The Spirit becomes one with man, and this regenerated man becomes one with God. Is this not wonderful? Within us is a part that is mingled with God. God is so high, yet He has become one with us…. I hope that all the new believers could have this kind of uplifted understanding regarding regeneration. As soon as we were saved, we became mingled with God. (CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “The Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ to Be the Organism of the Processed and Dispensing Triune God,” pp. 269-271)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1989, vol. 4, “The Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ to Be the Organism of the Processed and Dispensing Triune God,” ch. 1