14同工们彼此相爱，在和谐中一同作工，他们可能以为彼此的爱，以及他们的配搭是属灵的事。……但这可能只是属人的关系，没有任何神圣的内容。……然而有一天，神的手临到，这配搭被带到尽头。……他们为此忧伤，祷告并渴望恢复从前的和谐。然而他们越祷告，就越没有和谐。直到有一天，他们确实向自己的旧经历死了，他们就发现彼此之间有了一种新的关系，这种关系……乃是属人且神圣的一。旧造虽然是借活神大能的手造成的，但神自己并没有住留在旧造里。旧造是神所创造的；旧造展示神的大能，却无法展示神的同在。旧造如何能变化成为新的？乃是借着神的进入。然而如何能有神的进入？主要的难处就在这里：旧性情必须破碎，神才有路进来。弟兄姊妹，你生命中的每一件事，都必须经过死的最终试验，使复活的神有路。你若仅仅认识活神，你的认识就太客观。神是神，你是你。你需要认识复活的神；唯有借着死，神才能为自己打通一条路，进到你的生命里。
14It is possible for fellow workers, who love one another and work together harmoniously, to imagine that their mutual love and their cooperation are a spiritual thing…Yet it may simply be a human relationship without any divine content. But one day the hand of God falls upon it, and the cooperation comes to an end…They are distressed about it and pray and yearn for a restoration of their former harmony, but the more they pray, the more it evades them. Then one day, when they have really died to their old experience, they find themselves in a new relation—…a oneness that is both human and divine. Though the old creation has come into being by the mighty hand of the living God, He Himself does not reside within it. It is created by Him, and it displays His might, but it does not display His presence. How can the old creation be transformed into the new? It is by the incoming of God. But how can His incoming be secured? This is the point at which a major difficulty arises. The old nature must be shattered to make way for Him. Brothers and sisters, everything in your life must pass the supreme test of death in order to make a way for the God of resurrection. If you only know the living God, your knowledge will be too objective. God will be God; you will be you. You need to know the God of resurrection, and it is only through death that He can cleave a way for Himself into your life.