12要叫召会得建造,就不能不提起……破碎的问题。……你破碎了一点,我也破碎了一点,你我才能建造在一起。你看种树的人,他们要把两棵树接在一起,也得把两边的树枝都割破一点,然后再将它们接在一起,缠裹起来,经过了一段时间,它们才能长在一起。……再如人要建造一所房屋,所有的木料也多多少少总要经过锯、砍、刨、削,才能互相钉接起来。照样,在召会的建造里,我们天然的每一点也都得经过破碎,才能和别人联在一起。无论是我们的干才,我们的眼光,还是我们的热心,凡是天然的都是不合用的,都得经过破碎,然后才能被建造(李常受文集一九五八年第二册,三七七页)。
12In order for the church to be built up, we have to touch the matter of being broken…You and I can be built together only after you and I both have been broken a little. Consider a person who grows trees. When he grafts two trees together, first he has to cut both branches a little. Then he joins them together, binds them up, and after a while the two trees grow together… Another example is the building of a house. For the most part, all the wood that is to be used has to be cut, sawed, planed, and trimmed before it can be nailed and connected together. Likewise, in the building of the church, every natural thing in us must be broken before we can be joined with others. Everything natural in us, whether it is our ability, our discernment, or our zeal, is unsuitable to be used for the building. We can be built only after we have been broken in our natural being. (CWWL, 1958, vol. 2, “The Building Work of God,” pp. 301-302)