2. How to Meet 如何聚会

1) Q. When we meet, what are some of the ways that we should come together?
A. To get into the name of the Lord, to exercise our spirit, and to offer the Christ whom we have experienced are the basic ways of how we should come together.
问:当我们聚会时,我们来在一起起的路有哪些呢?
答:进入主的名里,操练我们的灵,供应我们所经历的基督是我们如何来在一起基本的路。


2) Q. I have been told that when we meet, we gather in the Lord’s name. What verse in the Bible shows this?
A. In Matthew 18:20 the Lord said, “For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.” According to the Greek text, it is not to be gathered in the Lord’s name but into His name.
问:我得知我们聚会时,是在主的名里聚集。圣经哪处经节说明这点?
答:在马太福音十八章二十节主说:“因为无论在那里,有两三个人被聚集到我的名里,那里就有我在他们中间。”根据希腊原文,我们不是‘奉’(in)主的名聚集,而是‘进入’(into)祂的名里聚集,被聚集到祂的名里。


3) Q. I don’t like to meet when I’m not in a good mood or had a bad day at work. Is this ok?
A. Whenever we come to the meeting, we have to come out of our self, out of the world, out of our house, out of our family, out of our job, out of our business, out of our school, and out of everything other than Christ.
问:当我心情不好或工作不顺利时,就不想去聚会。这对吗?
答:每当我们来聚会,我们必须从我们的己、世界、我们的房子、家庭、工作、事业、学校、并从每一件在基督之外的事物中出来。


4) Q. In the meetings, what is the most important thing that we should do?
A. When we meet, we should always exercise our spirit. This is indicated in 1 Corinthians 14:32, which says, “The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.”
问:在聚会里,我们该作的最重要的事情是什么呢?
答:我们聚会时,应当一直操练我们的灵。林前十四章三十二节指明这点,那里说,“申言者的灵,是服从申言者的。”


5) Q. Since the exercise of the spirit is important, does that mean we shouldn’t use our emotion or mind?
A. In the meetings we do not need to exercise our emotion or mind that much. What is really needed is for us to exercise our spirit.
问:既然操练灵是重要的,那就意味着我们不应该运用我们的情感或心思了吗?
答:在聚会中,我们不需要太过操练我们的情感或心思。我们真正的需要,乃是操练我们的灵。


6) Q. I usually don’t have something of Christ to minister in the meetings. Do you have any advice for me?
A. Day by day we should have some experience of Christ. Then something will be accumulated in our being and we will have something of Christ to minister and impart to others.
问:在聚会中,我常常没有一些出于基督的东西可以供应,你有什么建议吗?
答:一天过一天,我们对基督应该有些经历。然后在我们里面,就会有一些东西积存起来,并且我们会有一点出于基督的东西供应、分赐给人。


7) Q. In the meetings, I want to minister Christ whenever I open my mouth. How is this possible?
A. If you come into the person of Christ, exercise your spirit, and have some experience of Christ, whenever you open up your mouth, whether you call a hymn, pray or praise, it will be the ministering of Christ.
问:在聚会里,我想一开口就能供应基督,这可能吗?
答:你若进到基督的人位里,操练你的灵,并且对基督有一些经历,每当你开口,不论是选诗、祷告或赞美,都是供应基督。


8) Q. When we come together, can everyone prophesy or just a few selected people?
A. First Corinthians 14 says that when we come together, we all can prophesy one by one and that prophesying builds up the church.
问:当我们聚集时,每个人都能申言还是仅仅一些选定的人可以申言呢?
答:林前十四章说,每逢我们聚在一起的时候,我们众人都能一个一个的申言,而这样的申言乃是建造召会。


9) Q. I don’t consider myself a prophet or someone who can prophesy. Who exactly is a prophet?
A. A prophet is a spokesman. The basic meaning of the word prophesy is to speak for someone. To prophesy, in the New Testament sense, is to speak for Christ.
问:我不认为我自己是一个申言者或是能申言的人。申言者具体是怎样的人呢?
答:申言者就是代言人。‘申言’一词的基本意思是为某人说话。新约的申言就是为基督说话。


10) Q. Meetings are important for a Christian. Why can’t I meet any place I like?
A. The children of Israel had to come together to one unique place, and that one unique place kept them all in oneness. Their gathering according to God’s way was in oneness and was also a preservation of oneness.
问:聚会对于一个基督徒是重要的,为什么我不能在我喜欢的任何地方聚会呢?
答:以色列人必须聚集在一个独一的地方,而这独一的地方保守他们众人在一里。他们照着神的路来聚集,就是在一里,并且保守这个一。