林前十二27 你们就是基督的身体，并且各自作肢体。

　　弗四16 本于祂，全身借着每一丰富供应的节，并借着每一部分依其度量而有的功用，得以联络在一起，并结合在一起，便叫身体渐渐长大，以致在爱里把自己建造起来。

　　神的众子，就团体而言，乃是召会；就生机而言，乃是基督的身体。基督的身体就是召会，是神的家、神的国，又是基督的新妇，配偶；这些都是以基督的身体为其生机的因素。若没有基督的身体，召会就没有生命，只是一个属人的组织。若没有基督的身体，就没有基督的生命，也不能有神的家，因为神的家乃是父神生了儿女所成功的；这样也就不能有神的国，因为神的国乃是神生命的范围。若没有基督的生命，也就没有基督的新妇，因为新妇是基督的配偶，必须是与基督相配，才能成对（圣经中管制并支配我们的异象，一八至一九页）。

　　1 Cor. 12:27 Now you are the Body of Christ, and members individually.

　　Eph. 4:16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

　　Corporately, the many sons of God [produced in resurrection] are the church; organically, they are the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is the church, the house of God, the kingdom of God, and the bride, the counterpart, of Christ. In each aspect the church takes the Body of Christ as its organic factor. Without the Body of Christ, the church is lifeless and is a mere human organization. Without the Body of Christ and, therefore, without the life of Christ, there cannot be the house of God, which is constituted with the children born of God the Father, and there cannot be the kingdom of God, which is the realm of God’s life. Without the life of Christ, there also cannot be the bride of Christ who, as His counterpart, must match Him to be a couple with Him. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible,” p. 286)

　　我们需要看见保罗在以弗所一章陈明基督身体的方式。保罗说神使基督复活，叫祂坐在诸天界里，将万有服在祂的脚下，并使祂向着召会作万有的头。接着他就说，“召会是祂的身体。”（23上）……这指明基督的身体是召会的内在意义。如果没有基督的身体，召会就没有意义。在希腊文，召会是艾克利西亚，ekklesia，蒙召者的聚集。但这聚集的内在意义乃是身体。

　　在今天主的恢复里，……我们若看自己是个别的召会或个别的信徒，我们就完了。我们该看自己是一个身体。我们肉身的各部分若持守自己的辖区，以为自己是自主的，我们的身体就完了。

　　但感谢主，我们肉体的各肢体都是彼此顺服的，以致我们的身体能顺畅地行动、工作。

　　倪柝声弟兄（和我）……在主恢复里的行事为人和行动，总是一个身体。这就是为什么主的恢复在已过七十多年来能在这地上存在。我们没有用任何组织来保守什么，但主的恢复仍在这里。主的恢复仍然存在，并且一直受到基督身体的原则所保守。

　　基督的身体是召会的内在意义。……召会没有身体是没有意义的。但阿利路亚，这里有身体！没有身体，召会就没有意义，但有了身体，召会就有内在的意义。

　　召会和身体有什么不同？……我们可以用苹果树来说明。……召会是架构，就像苹果树；基督的身体是召会的生机素质，就像苹果是苹果树的生机素质。二者乃是一。召会是架构，为着存在；基督的身体是生机的内容，为着人的满足（经过过程的神圣三一之分赐与超越基督之输供的结果，一○六至一○八页）。

　　以弗所三章说到，我们得加强到里面的人里，基督安家在我们心里，以及我们被充满（不是覆罩或披戴），成为神一切的丰满，就是神的所是、素质和元素。……借着对内住基督这内里的经历，我们与众圣徒一同领略基督无限的量度，我们也借此被建造起来（李文集一九六五年第一册，一二九页）。

　　参读：活力排，第八篇；关于主的恢复之工作的交通，四八至八○页。

　　We need to see the way Paul presents the Body of Christ in Ephesians 1. Paul says that God raised up Christ, seated Him in the heavens, subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church. Right away in the following phrase he says, “Which is His Body” (v. 23a)…. This indicates that the Body is the church’s intrinsic significance. The church without the Body means nothing. In Greek the word for church is ekklesia, the called-out ones coming together. But the significance of this gathering is the Body.

　　In the recovery today, … if we consider ourselves as individual churches or as individual believers, we are through. We should consider ourselves as one Body. If the parts of our physical body would keep their own jurisdiction and be autonomous, our body would be finished. But thank the Lord that all the members of our physical body are submissive to one another so that our body can act and operate smoothly.

　　Brother Watchman Nee [and I]…always behaved, acted, and took action in the recovery as one Body. This is why the Lord’s recovery could exist on this earth over these past approximately seventy years. We do not have any organization to keep anything, but the recovery is still here. The recovery is still existing and has been kept by the principle of the Body.

　　The Body is the intrinsic significance of the church…. The church makes no sense without the Body. But Hallelujah, there is the Body! Without the Body the church makes no sense, but with the Body there is the intrinsic significance of the church.

　　What is the difference between the church and the Body?… We can use an apple tree as an illustration…. The church is the frame, like the apple tree, and the Body of Christ is the very organic essence of the church, just like the apples are the very organic essence of the apple tree. These two are one. The church is the frame for existing. The Body of Christ is the very organic contents for people’s satisfaction. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Issue of the Dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the Transmitting of the Transcending Christ,” pp. 548-549)

　　Ephesians 3 says that we are strengthened into the inner man, that Christ makes His home in our heart, and that we are filled (not covered or clothed) unto all the fullness of God, that is, the very being, essence, and element of God…. It is through this inner experience of the indwelling Christ that we apprehend with all the saints the unlimited measure of Christ, and it is by this that we are built up. (CWWL, 1965, vol. 1, “The Vision, Practice, and Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ,” p. 94)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” ch. 8; Fellowship concerning the Work of the Lord’s Recovery, Section 3