弗一23 召会是祂的身体，是那在万有中充满万有者的丰满。

　　启一11 你所看见的，当写在书上，寄给那七个召会：给以弗所、给士每拿、给别迦摩、给推雅推喇、给撒狄、给非拉铁非、给老底嘉。

　　我们也许以为，众地方召会是神经纶的目标。然而，众地方召会不是目标，乃是神达到祂经纶之目标所采取的手续。

　　照以弗所一章二十二至二十三节，神经纶的目标是召会，就是基督的身体。……我们在召会里，那是事实；但基督身体的实际在哪里？

　　我宝贵众地方召会，和你们一样。但我宝贵众地方召会，是因着一个目的：众地方召会是将我带进基督身体的手续。……我们需要在众地方召会里，使我们能被引进或带进基督身体的实际（李文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册，一二八至一三○页）。

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

　　Rev. 1:11 ...What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

　　We may think that the local churches are the goal of God’s economy. However, they are not the goal but the procedure God takes to reach the goal of His economy.

　　According to Ephesians 1:22-23, the goal of God’s economy is the church, which is Christ’s Body... We are in the church; that is a fact. But where is the reality of the Body of Christ?

　　I treasure the local churches, as you do. But I treasure the local churches because of a purpose. The local churches are the procedure to bring me into the Body of Christ... We need to be in the local churches so that we can be ushered, or brought, into the reality of the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 103-104)

　　圣经中神的居所总有这两面的讲究，一是地上的，是暂时的、流荡的，由会幕所预表。会幕随着地点不同而转移，……然而会幕本身不因地点的不同而改变。……会幕预表神在地上，或在地方上的召会。……神子民聚在一起，即有召会；分散各处，即无召会，这是召会作会幕的一面。

　　圣殿与会幕不同，圣殿……是为着国度的。它是以色列子民一切生活的中心。圣殿是合一的、永久的、有力量的。……政治

　　 可以分，但是圣殿不能分，圣殿只能有一个。……一面召会是在各地出现，但另一面召会属灵的实际，乃是一个身体，是合一的、永久的。

　　职事所作的，就是恢复召会应有的见证，这才是真正的恢复。……我们今天所作的工，……不是普通的工。今天的路乃是召会的路，在这路中我们不能乱，不能任意而作。……林前十二章所描述的身体，乃是一个地方召会应有的见证，也就是身体的见证。在这身体中，眼不能对手说，我不需要你，头也不能对脚说，我不需要你（21），一切都必须是在配搭中。……今天的地方召会必须是显出这身体实际的一个见证，地方召会必须成为一个在地方上，彰显出来之实实在在的身体。

　　今天召会在地上乃是合一的，召会中的人乃是那些从世界中被分别出来的。在召会正常的情形下，每一位弟兄姊妹都是以事奉神为正业的人，每一个人都是奉献的人，他们凡物公用。在这样正常的生活中，恩赐就产生出来了，如以弗所四章所提的使徒、申言者、传福音者、牧人和教师。这些有恩赐的人虽然分在各处，却仍在同一个召会中，这就如同电流只有一个，却分散在各处。……虽然各地召会有地方范围的不同，召会本身仍是一个。召会在地上乃是作合一的见证。……各地召会所拥有的生命是合一的生命，所以各地召会彼此间也应该是一的。虽然在哥林多、在以弗所、在其他各地，有显出的召会，但她们都是一个召会。这是正常的情形（倪柝声文集第三辑第十一册，三五至三六、三二至三三、三八页）。

　　参读：倪柝声文集第三辑第十一册，第四至六、二十篇；神建造的异象，第十一章。

　　In the Bible there are two aspects related to God’s habitation. On the one hand, it is transitory and wandering, as typified by the tabernacle. The tabernacle moved as the people traveled... However, the tabernacle itself did not change with a change in location... The tabernacle typifies the church on earth, or the church in localities... Whenever God’s people come together, there is the church. When they are separated, there is no church. This is the aspect of the church typified by the tabernacle.

　　The temple is different from the tabernacle... It was built for the kingdom. It was the center of the life of the people of Israel. As such, the temple... is unique, eternal, and solid... Even when the nation was divided politically, the temple could not be divided. There was only one temple. Although the church appears in different localities, the spiritual reality of the church is still one Body. It is unique and eternal.

　　The work of the ministry is to recover the proper testimony of the church. This is the real recovery. Our works today are not ordinary works. The way today is the way of the church. In this way we must not act presumptuously or carelessly... The Body described in 1 Corinthians 12 is a testimony that a local church should have; it is the testimony of the Body. In this Body “the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you” (v. 21). Every part must be in coordination... The local church today must be a testimony that expresses the reality of this Body. It must be a practical and actual Body expressed in a locality.

　　The church on earth today is one. Those who are in the church are men who are separated from the world. Under normal circumstances every brother and sister should be serving God... Everyone should be a consecrated one, and everyone should have everything in common. Under such a proper living, the gifts such as the apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers, as listed in Ephesians 4, are produced. Although these gifted ones are scattered in different places, they are in the one church. This is like one electrical current that is being transmitted to many places... Although the churches in the various localities are different as far as their localities are concerned, there is nevertheless only one church. The church exists for the testimony of oneness... The life that all the churches possess is a life of oneness. For this reason all the churches should be one among themselves. Although there were churches manifested in Corinth, Ephesus, and other places, they were all one church. This is the normal situation. (CWWN, vol. 57, “The Resumption of Watchman Nee’s Ministry,” pp. 34-35, 31, 36-37)

　　Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 57, “The Resumption of Watchman Nee’s Ministry,” chs. 4-6, 20; CWWL, 1964, vol. 4, “The Vision of God’s Building,” ch. 11