7在彼得和保罗的时代，基督徒是羞辱的名称，但今天这名称该有正面的意义，指明他们是属基督的人，与基督是一；他们不仅属于祂，更因与祂生机的联结，有祂的生命和性情，并且在日常生活中凭祂而活，甚至活祂。我们若因是这样的人而受苦，就不该觉得羞耻，倒要凭圣别佳美的品行放胆承认，以显大基督，在这名里荣耀（彰显）神。当我们相信基督，我们与祂之间就发生了生机的联结。借着相信基督，我们信入祂，借此与祂成为一灵（林前六17）。这就是我们所说生机的联结一辞的意义。……我们与基督生机的联结，也包含我们浸入基督（加三27）。神在祂经纶里的心意，是要将我们放在基督里面，并要基督进入我们里面，活在我们里面。所以，浸入基督，就是进入与三一神之具体化身的生机联结里。这能变化我们全人。……如今我们基督徒，就是属基督并与祂是一的人，需要在日常生活中凭祂而活，甚至活祂。……我们若凭基督而活，仍然是在作一件事。活基督乃是说，基督是我们的生命（西三4）。我们活，祂就活。祂活，我们就活。 7Whereas in the time of Peter and Paul Christian was a term of reproach, today it should bear a positive significance, that is, a man of Christ, one who is one with Christ, not only belonging to Him but having His life and nature in an organic union with Him, and who is living by Him, even living Him, in his daily life. If we suffer for being such a person, we should not feel ashamed, but be bold to magnify Christ in our confession by our holy and excellent manner of life to glorify, express, God in this name. When we believed in Christ, an organic union took place between us and Him. By believing in Christ, we believed into Him and thereby became one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17). This is what we mean by the expression organic union. Our organic union with Christ also involves our being baptized into Christ (Gal. 3:27). God’s intention in His economy is to put us into Him and to come into us and live in us. Therefore, to be baptized into Christ is to enter into an organic union with the embodiment of the Triune God, which is able to transform our whole being. Now as Christians, those who are of Christ and are one with Him, we need to live by Him, and even live Him, in our daily life…If we are living by Christ, we are still doing the living. To live Christ means that Christ is our life (Col. 3:4). When we live, He lives. When He lives, we live.