弗一23 “召会是祂的身体，是那在万有中充满万有者的丰满。”

　　三8 “这恩典赐给了我这比众圣徒中最小者还小的，叫我将基督那追测不尽的丰富，当作福音传给外邦人。”

　　身体不仅仅是一班蒙召之人的组合，身体乃是基督的丰满；身体不光是基督的彰显，还是基督的丰满。而这个丰满怎样有的呢？乃是基督的丰富，被你接受到里头，被你享受，被你消化，甚至变作了你。如同你吃了鱼，吃了鸡，吃了馒头，吃下去之后，过了五、六个小时，都消化在你里头，变作了你。这个时候，你就是丰满（李文集一九七七年第三册，三六九至三七○页）。

　　Eph. 1:22-23 …The church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.

　　3:8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

　　The Body is not merely a composition of a group of the called-out ones; the Body is the fullness of Christ. The Body is not only the expression of Christ but also the fullness of Christ. How does this fullness come into being? It is by your receiving the riches of Christ into you to be enjoyed and assimilated by you and even to become you. We may compare this to eating fish, chicken, and bread. After about five or six hours, they are digested into you to become you. It is at this time that you are the fullness. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” p. 284)

　　我吃了一大堆台湾的丰富，这些丰富都消化在我里头，变成了我。所以你们现在看见我站在这里，精神十足，满有劲头。这就是丰满。召会就是基督的丰满。

　　这样一位宇宙的基督，充满万有的基督，在天又在地的基督，祂需要一个身体来作祂的丰满。当祂在地上作拿撒勒人耶稣的时候，祂在加利利就不能在犹太，祂在撒玛利亚就不能在耶路撒冷，因为祂是一个小耶稣。祂受祂肉身的限制。…祂从死里复活，升到诸天之上，祂就充满万有。〔如今〕祂能在天同时又在地，祂能在天上一个地方，同时又能在地上千万个地方。祂是这样一位充满万有者，因此需要一个伟大的身体来作祂的丰满。所以今天我们可以说，因着祂在地上有这样一个伟大的身体，祂在天上，也在台北，也在香港，也在马尼拉，也在新加坡，也在伦敦，也在德国，也在美国，也在非洲，也在北美洲，也在南美洲，因为祂的身体到处都在。那么这一个身体是什么呢？就是…祂在宇宙中的丰满。

　　身体乃是基督的丰满。从道理来说，召会就应该是身体。但从实际来说，身体的成分有多少，还是个问题。弟兄姊妹，我们不要定罪别人，我们也要看自己的光景。我们都要在主的光中承认说，连我们自己，一直到今天，可能只有百分之三十凭灵活着，还有百分之七十是我们自己。…主今天不仅需要各地有召会，主今天需要身体。你和我一旦不凭基督活着，你和我一旦不在灵里活着，你我就不是身体。在名义上我们仍是召会，但是在实际上我们不是身体。为什么？因为身体乃是基督的丰满。

　　不要忘记了以弗所一章二十三节的两个“是”字：“召会“是”祂的身体，“是”那在万有中充满万有者的丰满。”这就是说，召会是身体，身体是丰满。这两层的“是”，在我看是梯次的，不是平行的。不是说，一面召会是身体，一面召会是丰满。乃是说，召会是身体，身体是丰满。按道理说丰满就等于身体，身体就等于召会。但是按实际来说，人可以在召会中，而不活在身体里。〔在各地召会〕聚会的弟兄姊妹都是在召会里，但谁是活在身体里？…严格来说，今天那能完成神永远旨意的，不是名义上的召会，乃是身体。身体就是基督的丰满。我再说，用这一个眼光来看，用这一个尺度来量，你就看见，今天在地上，身体的成分不多（李文集一九七七年第三册，三七○、三七二至三七三、三七六至三七七页）。

　　参读：一个身体，一位灵，一个新人，第三至四、六篇。

　　I have eaten a great amount of the riches of Taiwan, and these riches have been assimilated into me and have become me. Now, therefore, I can stand here full of life and energy. This is the fullness. The church is the fullness of Christ.

　　[The] universal Christ, the Christ who fills all things, the Christ who is both in the heavens and on the earth, needs a Body to be His fullness. When He was on earth as Jesus the Nazarene, He could not be in Judea at the same time that He was in Galilee, nor could He be in Jerusalem when He was in Samaria. This was because He was a small Jesus,… limited by His flesh….Today He has risen from the dead and ascended to the heavens, so He fills all things. He can be in the heavens and on the earth simultaneously; He can be in one place in the heavens, and at the same time He can be in millions of places on the earth. He is such a One who fills all things, so He needs a great Body as His fullness. Thus, today we can say that because He has such a great Body on earth, He is in heaven and He is also in Taipei, in Hong Kong, in Manila, in Singapore, in London, in Germany, in the United States, in Africa, in North America, and in South America. His Body is everywhere. What is this Body? It is…His universal fullness.

　　The Body is the fullness of Christ. In doctrine the church is the Body, but as to reality there is still a question of how much element of the Body is there. Brothers and sisters, we should not condemn others; we must see our own condition. At this time we all must confess in the light of the Lord that even we ourselves up to this day may live only thirty percent by the Spirit, leaving seventy percent that we live by ourselves.…The Lord does not merely need a church in each locality; He needs a Body. As soon as we do not live by Christ, as soon as we are not living by the Spirit, we are not the Body. In name we are still the church, but in reality we are not the Body. Why? Because the Body is the fullness of Christ.

　　Do not forget the word is in Ephesians 1:23: “[The church] is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.” This means that the church is the Body, and the Body is the fullness. These two levels of “is” are in succession rather than in parallel. It is not that on the one hand the church is the Body, while on the other hand the church is the fullness. Rather, it is that the church is the Body, and the Body is the fullness. According to doctrine, the fullness equals the Body, and the Body equals the church. But according to reality, a man can be in the church and still not live in the Body. All the brothers and sisters who meet in Hong Kong are in the church, but who is living in the Body?… Strictly speaking, that which can fulfill God’s eternal purpose is not the church in name but the Body. The Body is the fullness of Christ. I repeat that if you look from this angle and measure with this yardstick, you will see that today on earth in the churches there is not much of the element of the Body. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” pp. 284, 286, 288-289)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” chs. 3-4, 6