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。”

　　一28 “我们宣扬祂，是用全般的智慧警戒各人，教导各人，好将各人在基督里成熟地献上。”

　　召会的素质是神圣的生命，就是经过过程并分赐的三一神。我们都因着这神圣的生命得了重生。召会如今是在这生命里、凭这生命、以这生命并借这生命而生长。

　　基督在扩增，而神的增加乃是在基督生机身体的肢体里生命的长大。…长大是生命的事，而生命是神自己。召会是基督的身体，召会不能没有基督，祂是神具体的化身（西二9），作生命的源头。借着持定元首基督，召会就以神的增长而长大，以是生命之神的扩增而长大（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，一九至二○、三三页）。

　　Col. 2:19 And not 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.

　　1:28 Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ.

　　The essence of the church is the divine life, which is the processed and dispensing Triune God. We all have been regenerated with this divine life. The church is now growing in this life, by this life, with this life, and through this life.

　　Christ is increasing, and God is increasing in the growth of life within the members of the organic Body of Christ…To grow is a matter of life, which is God Himself. As the Body of Christ, the church should not be deprived of Christ, who is the embodiment of God (Col. 2:9) as the source of life. By holding Christ, the Head, the church grows with the growth of God, with the increase of God as life. (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. 278, 287)

　　真正生命的长大乃是以神的增长而长大，就是以神的扩增—神的加多—而长大。神自己不能也不需要增长，祂是永远、完全、完整的；然而，神必须在我们里面增长。我们都需要神在我们里面更多扩增、加多。我们需要以神的增长而长大；那就是说，我们需要神在我们里面扩增、增长。

　　神在各方面都是丰富的。神的荣耀是丰富的，祂一切神圣的属性也是丰富的。祂的爱、恩慈、怜悯、光、生命、能力、力量都是丰富的。神的丰富是无穷无尽的。如今这位丰富的神正在把祂自己加到我们里面。神的丰富乃是我们借以长大的元素和实质。神乃是真实的、丰富的、实在的，我们需要吸取祂。

　　今天我们的神乃是经过过程、包罗万有的灵，而我们有灵可以吸取祂。因此，我们必须操练我们的灵，留在神的面光中来吸取祂。这是需要花时间的。虽然我们都经历过吸取神的丰富，但我们的经历还不够充分。因这缘故，我们必须花更多的时间来吸取祂。不要浪费时间在心思、情感、意志里，乃要更多花时间在灵里爱慕主，赞美祂，向祂献上感谢，并且自由地对祂说话。我们这样与祂交通，就吸取祂的丰富，祂也会更多把祂自己加到我们里面。神越加到我们里面，就越使我们生长。这就是神叫人生长的路（新约总论第十二册，一四○至一四一页）。

　　神的成分加增有多少，召会的建造也就有多少。…若是我们在弟兄们中间，自己的成分太多，就需要蒙光照，受审判，叫我们自己的成分被杀死，神的成分能加多。我们在召会中所有的事奉，都得注意这个原则。无论我们是和别人一同祷告，或是配搭出去看望，会后与人谈话等，人的成分都必须逐渐减少，好叫神的成分逐渐加多。

　　在一个祷告聚会里，若是神的成分不多，这个聚会就有毛病。在看望的事上，若是你前年是这样的作法，再过一年还是原样，这就是没有长进。…我们若要在召会中有建造的事奉，必须学习拒绝个人的成分，而让神的成分加增，好叫我们的生命有长进。唯有如此，我们才能显出功用，与别人联络在一起，并结合在一起，叫召会得着建造（建造召会的事奉，八四至八五页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第三百五十六篇；建造召会的事奉，第六篇。

　　The genuine growth in life is to grow with the growth of God, that is, to grow with the increase of God, the addition of God. In Himself, God cannot and does not need to grow. He is eternal, perfect, and complete. However, there is the need for God to grow in us. We all need more of the increase, the addition, of God within us. We need to grow with the growth of God; that is, we need God to increase, to grow, in us.

　　God is rich in every way. He is rich in glory and in all the divine attributes. He is rich in love, kindness, mercy, light, life, power, and strength. God’s riches are endless. Now this rich God is adding Himself into us. God’s riches are the element and substance by which we grow. God is real, rich, and substantial, and we need to absorb Him.

　　Our God today is the processed, all-inclusive Spirit, and we have a spirit with which to absorb Him. Thus, we must exercise our spirit to stay in His presence to absorb Him. This takes time. Although we all have experienced absorbing the riches of God, our experience is not yet adequate. For this reason, we must spend more time to absorb Him. We should not spend so much time in our mind, emotion, and will, but spend more time in our spirit to adore the Lord, to praise Him, to offer thanks to Him, and to speak to Him freely. As we fellowship with Him in this way, we will absorb His riches, and He will add more of Himself into us. The more God is added into us, the more growth He gives to us. This is the way God causes the growth. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3595)

　　The increase in the element of God determines how much the church is built up. If we have too much of the element of our self, we need to be shined upon and judged so that the element of our self may be killed and so that the element of God may increase. We must take care of this principle in all our service in the church. In our prayer with others, visitation of others, or fellowship with others after the meeting, our natural element must gradually decrease so that the divine element of God may gradually increase.

　　If there is not the element of God in a prayer meeting, there is a problem with that meeting. If our ways of visitation are the same year after year, it indicates that we are not growing…. In order to have service that builds up the church, we must learn to reject our natural element and let the element of God increase so that the divine life in us may grow. Only then can we manifest the function that joins us together and knits us together with others for the building up of the church. (CWWL, 1957, vol. 3, “Service for the Building Up of the Church,” pp. 468-469)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 356; CWWL, 1957, vol. 3, “Service for the Building Up of the Church,” ch. 6