弗四11~12 “祂所赐的，有些是使徒，有些是申言者，有些是传福音者，有些是牧人和教师，为要成全圣徒，目的是为着职事的工作，为着建造基督的身体。”

　　为了使召会内在地得建造，升天的元首首先必须赐下恩赐。其次，元首所赐的恩赐，如使徒、申言者、传福音者、牧人和教师，成全圣徒。然后，得了成全的圣徒直接地建造基督的身体。有人用主在马太十六章十八节的应许—祂要建造召会—说，不是我们建造召会，乃是基督建造召会。他们说我们不够资格建造召会。这种观念和教训完全错了。

　　以弗所四章启示，元首基督建造召会，乃是凭着使圣徒成为恩赐，并凭着将这些恩赐赐给召会，好建造基督的身体。这给我们看见，元首不直接建造召会。不仅如此，得了恩赐的人，就是元首用来成全别人的人，也不直接地建造召会。他们成全圣徒，而圣徒作直接建造的工作。我们在主恢复中的许多人，多年一直在浇灌、成全之下，已经能在我们所在的地方直接地建造召会。得了成全的圣徒，乃是直接建造召会的人（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，五○至五一页）。

　　Eph. 4:11-12 And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

　　In order for the church to be built up intrinsically, the ascended Head must first give the gifts. Second, the Head-given gifts, the apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers, perfect the saints. Then the perfected saints build up the Body directly. Some have taken the Lord’s promise in Matthew 16:18—”I will build My church”—to say that it is not we who build the church but Christ. They say that we are not qualified to build up the church. This concept and teaching is absolutely wrong.

　　Ephesians 4 reveals that the Head, Christ, builds up the church by making the saints gifts, and by giving these gifts to the church for the building up of the Body of Christ. This shows that the Head does not build up the church directly. Furthermore, the gifted persons, who are used by the Head to perfect others, do not build up the church directly either. They perfect the saints, and the saints do the direct building work. Many of us in the Lord’s recovery who have been under the watering, the perfecting, for a number of years have been enabled to build up the church in our locality directly. The perfected saints are the direct builders of the church. (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,” p. 300)

　　四类恩赐是升天的元首为着特别的目的赐给祂身体的。…〔以弗所四章十二节里之〕“成全”的希腊字，意思是“装备，用功用供应”。人要有能力并够资格在任何工作的领域从事某项任务，就需要得到某些东西的装备或配备。…使徒、申言者、传福音者、以及牧人和教师赐下来，用圣徒所需要的装备他们，借此成全他们作职事的工作。圣徒借着恩赐的成全，结果产生职事的工作。

　　“为着”在十二节里重复使用，而“职事的工作”和“建造基督的身体”是同位语，表示这两句是指同样的事。成全圣徒是以建造基督的身体为目的。简单地说，有恩赐的人赐给身体，为着成全众肢体，使他们能建造身体。…虽然成全和职事的工作（就是身体的建造）清楚启示在以弗所书里，但我们在今天的基督徒当中看不见这些事。遗憾的是，我们的召会生活在这些事上也有缺欠。

　　基督给身体的恩赐，有些是使徒；另有些是申言者、传福音者、或牧人和教师。使徒是奉差遣的人。传福音者传扬福音拯救罪人，将他们带进三一神里，并使他们成为基督身体的众肢体。牧人和教师继续传福音者所开始的工作，照顾初信者，使他们长大。我们已发现，作这事最好的路，就是在新人家中周周聚会，以保养并顾惜他们。…牧养和教导在养育初信者时要并行。在召会的聚会中，申言者借着为神说话，甚至说出神而尽功用。我们在林前十四章能清楚看见这点。甚至旧约的申言者书，象以赛亚书，主要的内容也不是预言，乃是为神所说的话。在聚会中说话的弟兄姊妹，是讲说基督。甚至用简短的话，我们也能向人说基督。这就是申言（李文集一九八八年第二册，二二至二四页）。

　　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，第三章。

　　The four categories of gifts were given by the ascended Head to His Body for a particular purpose.…The Greek word translated “perfecting” [in Ephesians 4:12] means “equipping, supplying the functions.” In order to be capable and sufficient to perform a certain task in any field of labor, people need to be equipped, or furnished, with certain things.…The apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers were given to perfect the saints by equipping them with what they need to do the work of the ministry. The perfecting of the saints by the gifts results in the work of the ministry.

　　The preposition unto is repeated in verse 12, and the work of the ministry and the building up of the Body of Christ are in apposition, indicating that these two phrases denote the same thing. The perfecting is carried out with a view to the building up of the Body of Christ. In brief, the gifted persons were given to the Body for the perfecting of all the members so that they could build up the Body…. Although the perfecting and the work of the ministry, which is the building up of the Body, are clearly revealed in Ephesians, we cannot see these things among Christians today. Regrettably, our church life has been lacking in these things as well.

　　Some of Christ’s gifts to the Body are apostles; others are prophets, evangelists, or shepherds and teachers. An apostle is a sent one. Evangelists preach the gospel to save sinners, bring them into the Triune God, and make them members of the Body of Christ. Shepherds and teachers continue the work begun by the evangelists by caring for new believers so that they will grow. We have found that the best way to do this is by having weekly meetings in the homes of the new ones to cherish and nourish them….Shepherding and teaching go together in raising up new believers. In the meetings of the church the prophets function by speaking for God and even speaking God forth. We can see this clearly in 1 Corinthians 14. Even the Old Testament books of prophecy like Isaiah are composed mainly not of predictions but of speaking for God. The brothers and sisters who speak in the meetings speak Christ. Even in a short word we can speak Christ to others. This is to prophesy. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 2, pp. 18-19)

　　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. 3