弗四3~4 以和平的联索，竭力保守那灵的一：一个身体和一位灵，正如你们蒙召，也是在一个盼望中蒙召的。

　　约十七21 使他们都成为一；正如你父在我里面，我在你里面，使他们也在我们里面，叫世人可以信你差了我来。

　　召会的立场是由三个重要的元素构成的：第一个元素……是基督宇宙身体独一的一，称为“那灵的一”（弗四3）。这就是在约翰十七章主所祷告的一，是经过过程之三一神与所有在基督里之信徒调和的一。这个一是在父的名里（6、11），父的名指父的人位，其中有父的生命。这个一甚至是借着神圣言这真理的圣别，而在三一神里（14~21）。这一最终是在神圣的荣耀里，为着彰显三一神（22~24）。所有在基督里的信徒凭着生命的灵，借着基督这神圣的生命重生时，这样的一就分赐到他们灵里（李文集一九九○年第二册，五一○至五一一页）。

　　Eph. 4:3-4 Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace: one Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

　　John 17:21 That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me.

　　The church ground is constituted of three crucial elements: The first element... is the unique oneness of the universal Body of Christ, which is called “the oneness of the Spirit” (Eph. 4:3). This is the oneness that the Lord prayed for in John 17. It is a oneness of the mingling of the processed Triune God with all the believers in Christ. This oneness is in the name of the Father (vv. 6, 11), denoting the Father’s person, in which is the Father’s life. This oneness is even in the Triune God through sanctification by His holy word as the truth (vv. 14-21). This oneness is ultimately in the divine glory for the expression of the Triune God (vv. 22-24). Such a oneness was imparted into the spirit of all the believers in Christ, in their regeneration by the Spirit of life with Christ as the divine life. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “A Brief Presentation of the Lord’s Recovery,” p. 408)

　　召会立场的第二个元素，是地方召会在其中建立并存在的地方独一立场。新约向我们陈明一幅清楚的图画：所有的地方召会，作宇宙召会—基督宇宙身体—的彰显，分别位于各个城市。因此，我们看见在耶路撒冷的召会（徒八1）、在安提阿的召会（十三1）、在坚革哩的召会（罗十六1）、在哥林多的召会（林前一2）以及分别在亚西亚七个城市里的七个召会（启一4、11）。每个城市作为召会在其中存在的界限，乃是那个召会的地方立场。这

　　 样独一的地方立场保守召会，不至因着许多不同的事物作不同的立场而分裂，像分门别类的宗派……一样。

　　召会立场的第三个元素是合一之灵的实际，在地方召会的地方独一立场上彰显基督宇宙身体独一的一。……那灵的实际……是神圣三一活的实际（约壹五6，约十六13）。凭着这灵，基督身体的一成为又真又活的。也借着这灵，地方的立场得以应用在生命里，而非在律法上。并且凭着这灵，召会真正的立场得以与三一神联结（弗四3~6）。

　　以上所说明召会的立场，在实行上保守召会地方和宇宙两面真正的一（3），不至有任何分裂。

　　神的召会作为基督活的身体，要存在并尽功用，就需要地方召会。没有地方召会，基督的身体就无法存在并且实际地尽功用。事实上，地方召会就是基督的身体，基督的身体就是众地方召会。

　　地方召会是基督一个身体在许多地方的许多彰显。地方召会是基督身体的存在，好尽基督身体的功用，乃是基督身体的许多彰显。基督的身体可以存在诸天之上，但要彰显这身体，就必须成为地方召会。

　　地方召会的建造不仅是为着她自己在地方上的建造（林前十四3），也是为着基督整个身体在宇宙一面的建造（弗四12）。事实上，地方召会的建造就是基督身体的建造，因为地方召会是基督的身体作其彰显。若没有地方召会的建造，基督的身体还能用什么别的方式实际地建造起来？（李文集一九九○年第二册，五一一至五一三、五一七页）

　　参读：主今日恢复之主要项目的重点，二一至二二页。

　　The second element of the church ground is the unique ground of the locality in which a local church is established and exists. The New Testament presents us a clear picture that all the local churches, as the expression of the universal church—the universal Body of Christ—are located in their respective cities. Hence, we see the church in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), the church in Antioch (13:1), the church in Cenchrea (Rom. 16:1), the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:2), and the seven churches in Asia in seven respective cities (Rev. 1:4, 11). Every city, as the boundary in which a church exists, is the local ground of that church. Such a unique ground of locality preserves the church from being divided by many different matters as different grounds in the way that divisive denominations... are divided.

　　The third element of the church ground is the reality of the Spirit of oneness, expressing the unique oneness of the universal Body of Christ on the unique ground of locality of a local church... The reality of the Spirit... is the living reality of the Divine Trinity (1 John 5:6; John 16:13). It is by this Spirit that the oneness of the Body of Christ becomes real and living. It is also through this Spirit that the ground of locality is applied in life and not in legality. And it is by this Spirit that the genuine ground of the church is linked with the Triune God (Eph. 4:3-6).

　　The above-defined ground of the church keeps, in practicality, the genuine oneness of the church both locally and universally (v. 3), without any division.

　　The church of God, as the living Body of Christ, needs the local churches for its existence and function. Without the local churches the Body of Christ has no way to exist and to carry out its function in practicality. Actually, the local churches are the Body of Christ, and the Body of Christ is all the local churches.

　　The local churches are the many expressions in many localities of the one Body of Christ. The local churches, being the existence of the Body of Christ for its function, are the many expressions of the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ may exist in the heavens, but to express itself, it must become the local churches.

　　The building up of a local church is not only for its own building up locally (1 Cor. 14:3) but for the building up of the entire Body of Christ universally (Eph. 4:12). Actually, the building up of the local churches is the building up of the Body of Christ because the local churches are the Body of Christ as its expression. Without the building up of the local churches, by what other way could the Body of Christ be practically built up? (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “A Brief Presentation of the Lord’s Recovery,” pp. 408-410, 412)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Crucial Points of the Major Items of the Lord’s Recovery Today,” pp. 65-67