太十六18　　我还告诉你，你是彼得，我要把我的召会建造在这磐石上…。

　　林后三18　　但我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。

　　神在基督里，〔是〕借着新陈代谢变化的过程，将祂自己建造到我们里面。…基督就是那灵，所以祂能住在我们里面，我们也能在灵里与祂交通。我们该仰望祂、观看祂、并返照祂，将我们这人的三层—我们的灵、我们的心、我们的口—向祂敞开。这样，我们就自然而然像镜子一样返照祂，而逐渐变化成为祂荣耀的形像，从荣耀到荣耀。结果我们将与祂有同样的形像；这完全是从主，就是从那灵变化成的。（林后三18。）…当我们仰望祂，祂就将自己印到我们里面，我们就成为祂的返照。（撒母耳记生命读经，二○八至二○九页。）

　　Matt. 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church…

　　2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

　　God’s building Himself in Christ into our being [is] through the metabolic process of transformation. Because Christ is the Spirit, He can dwell in us, and we can fellowship with Him in our spirit. We should look to Him, behold Him, and reflect Him, opening to Him the three layers of our being—our spirit, our heart, and our mouth. Then we will spontaneously reflect Him as a mirror and gradually be transformed into His glorious image from glory to glory. As a result, we will have the same image that He has. This is altogether from the Lord, the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18). When we look unto Him, He impresses Himself into our being. Then we become His reflection. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 171-172)

　　变化是一种新陈代谢的过程，借着将一些新的元素加到我们里面，并排除旧元素，而改变我们。这可由一个人有健康的脸色，乃是借着每天合式的吃、消化并吸收食物来说明。这健康的外表不是因着化妆，乃是因着滋养所产生的结果。…同样，我们每天都需要接受属灵的滋养。这滋养会供应新的元素，并带走旧的东西。逐渐地，我们就长大、改变并成熟…。神的经纶就是将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们经历属灵的消化和吸收这样一种新陈代谢的过程，而在生命上产生逐渐、内在的改变。

　　神将祂自己建造到我们里面，完全是件生机的事。我们要让这建造进行，就需要接受、消化并吸收生机的元素。我们属灵的食物和饮料，就是那生机的、是灵的基督，（约六51，57，七37~39，）祂就是赐生命的灵。

　　当我们借着吃基督、喝基督、并呼吸基督而享受“现在的”基督，我们里面就有新陈代谢的过程进行，就是属灵的消化和新陈代谢的作用。借着这新陈代谢的过程，基督就构成到我们里面；这构成就是建造。因此，基督现今正将祂自己建造到我们里面，作我们内里的构成。这样建造的结果，就使我们成为一班特别的人—基督身体的肢体。每当我们聚在一起，我们就是神的召会。…在马太十六章十八节主耶稣说，祂要建造祂的召会。…基督…建造祂的召会，乃是借着用属灵的饮料供应我们，用属灵的食物喂养我们；这饮料和食物唯独是祂自己这灵。…在各种不同的聚会中，我们竭力将基督供应到圣徒里面，作他们属灵的食物和饮料。我们越这样接受基督，就越经历内里、属灵的新陈代谢。这种新陈代谢就是变化，而变化就是建造。

　　作为基督身体的召会，借着属灵新陈代谢的过程而有的生机建造，实际上就是撒下七章十二至十四节上半，耶和华用预表对大卫所说的预言。…唯有借着这过程，人性（人的后裔）才能成为神圣的（神的儿子）。当神告诉大卫，他的后裔要作神的儿子，神是用预表对大卫预言这事。这指明人的后裔要成为神圣的子。这就是今天我们正在经历的。因此，我们这些在基督里的信徒，乃是一班特别、奇特的子民。在神眼中，我们是神的珍宝。（撒母耳记生命读经，二一○至二一三页。）

　　参读：生命树，第十三章；为着建造基督的身体那合乎圣经的聚会与事奉之路，第十五章。

　　Transformation is a metabolic process that changes us by adding some new element into our being and discharging the old element. This is illustrated by one’s having a healthy complexion through the proper, daily eating, digesting, and assimilating of food. This healthy appearance is the result not of cosmetics but of nourishment…. In like manner, we need to receive spiritual nourishment day by day. This nourishment will supply a new element and then cause the old things to be carried away. Gradually, we will grow, change, and mature…. God’s economy is just to work Himself into us that we may experience such a metabolic process of spiritual digestion and assimilation that produces a gradual, intrinsic change in life.

　　God’s building Himself into our being is altogether an organic matter. In order for such a building to take place, we need to receive, digest, and assimilate an organic element. Our spiritual food and drink is the organic, pneumatic Christ (John 6:51, 57; 7:37-39), the Christ who is the life-giving Spirit.

　　When we enjoy the “now” Christ by eating, drinking, and breathing Him, a metabolic process, a spiritual digestion and metabolism, takes place within us. Through this metabolic process Christ is constituted into our being. This constitution is the building. Christ, therefore, is building Himself into us as our inner constitution. The issue of such a building is that we become a very particular class of people—the members of the Body of Christ. Whenever we gather together we are the church of God. In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus said, “I will build My church.”…Christ builds the church…by supplying us with spiritual drink and by feeding us with spiritual food, which are uniquely Himself as the Spirit. In different kinds of meetings, we endeavor to minister Christ into the saints as their spiritual food and drink. The more we receive Christ in this way, the more we will experience the inner, spiritual metabolism. This metabolism is transformation, and transformation is the building.

　　This organic building up of the church as the Body of Christ through the process of spiritual metabolism is actually what Jehovah prophesied to David in the way of typology in 2 Samuel 7:12-14a…. It is only through this process that something human—the human seed—can become divine—the sons of God. In typology God prophesied to David regarding this when He told David that his seed would be God’s son. This indicates that a human seed would become a divine son. This is what we are experiencing today. Therefore, we, the believers in Christ, are a very particular and peculiar people, …a precious treasure in the eyes of God. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 172-174)

　　Further Reading: The Tree of Life, ch. 13; CWWL, 1987, vol. 3, “The Scriptural Way to Meet and to Serve for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” ch. 15