三、过身体生活：藉教会配搭传福音，实际过身体的生活
我们不仅需要为着经历基督在一个灵里站立得住，也需要同魂与福音的信仰一齐努力。为着福音的工作同魂，比在一个灵里经历基督难。这需要我们在灵里重生以后，进一步在我们的魂，特别在我们的心思，就是我们魂的主要、领先部分里，得着变化。
在一章二十七节，保罗嘱咐腓立比人要在一个灵里站立得住，同魂努力。圣经里只有这个地方，把灵、魂两个字这样连在一起使用。说到站住，我们必须在一个灵里站立得住；论到一齐努力，我们必须同魂。我们必须操练我们的灵，也操练我们的魂。我们操练灵，为要站立得住；操练魂，好与福音的信仰一齐努力。努力这里是指藉着争战来奋斗、作工。
我们要看见，我们乃是在一个灵里站住，同魂努力，这是很重要的。我们必须区别“在……里”和“以”这两个介系词。我们在一个灵里站住；我们同魂（直译，以一个魂）努力。我们站住是在神面前，但我们努力却是在人面前。在神面前我们必须站住作见证，而在人面前我们必须同魂一齐努力。
事实上，照二十七节文法的结构来看，在一个灵里站立得住，以及同魂一齐努力不是两件分开的事。保罗不是先嘱咐腓立比人在一个灵里站立得住，然后又嘱咐他们要同魂一齐努力。他乃是嘱咐他们“在一个灵站立得住，同魂……一齐努力”。保罗的写法指明，我们要站立得住，就必须努力。事实上，努力就是站住的一部分。我们在一个灵里站立得住，是藉着同魂一齐努力。
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Four Commissions to Be Filled Through Gospel Preaching (3)
3. Living the Body Life: Preaching the Gospel Through Church Coordination to Practically Live Out the Body Life – Col. 1:13
We not only need to stand firm in one spirit to experience Christ, but we also need to strive together with one soul for the faith of the gospel. Striving together for the gospel is more difficult than standing firm in one spirit. This requires us, after being regenerated in our spirit, to go further and experience transformation in our soul, especially in our mind, which is the leading and primary part of our soul.
In Philippians 1:27, Paul exhorts the Philippians to stand firm in one spirit and to strive together with one soul. The Bible only uses the words “spirit” and “soul” together in this passage. When it comes to standing firm, we must stand firm in one spirit; when it comes to striving together, we must be of one soul. We need to exercise both our spirit and our soul. We exercise our spirit to stand firm, and we exercise our soul to strive together for the faith of the gospel. The word “strive” here implies contending, laboring and working through spiritual warfare.
We must realize that standing firm in one spirit and striving together with one soul is crucial. It is also important to distinguish between the prepositions “in” and “with.” We stand in one spirit, and we strive with (literally, “with one soul”) for the gospel. We stand firm before God, but we strive together before men. Before God, we must stand firm as a testimony, and before men, we must strive together with one soul.
In fact, according to the grammatical structure of verse 27, standing firm in one spirit and striving together with one soul are not two separate matters. Paul is not exhorting the Philippians to first stand firm in one spirit and then to strive together with one soul. Instead, he exhorts them to “stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one soul”. Paul’s wording indicates that to stand firm, we must strive. In reality, striving is part of standing firm. We stand firm in one spirit by striving together with one soul.