使徒们在传福音的时候，也在建造方舟，在其中享受完满的救恩。方舟就是团体的基督。使徒一面传讲个人的基督，一面建造团体的基督。藉着这团体的基督，千万人不仅蒙拯救脱离神的审判，也蒙拯救脱离那弯曲悖谬的世代。
今天我们向神若是忠信的，就必须作同样的事。一面我们传福音，另一面我们建造方舟。我们所传的就是我们所建造的。我们所传的不是理论或道理，我们传讲我们正在建造的。藉着我们的生活和工作，我们把向别人所传的建造起来。至终，我们要进入我们所正在建造的。建造的方舟要拯救我们脱离这被定罪的世代。我们是在传讲基督，也是在建造基督。这就是说，我们凭基督活着并与基督同活。我们是活出基督。我们持守基督并活出基督。这就是我们建造的工作。
教会就是团体的基督（林前十二12），这基督可以说就是今天的方舟。千万的人因着进到教会生活里蒙了拯救。许多人能作见证，他们如何因着来到教会蒙了拯救。你可能已经得救多年，但直至你来到教会，你才脱离了这弯曲悖谬的世界。那团体的方舟分别了你们。我们一来到教会里，就不需别人告诉我们从世界出来；我们就是这样过教会生活，常常来聚会；至终，那些属这世代的东西都不见了。藉着过教会生活，一切属这弯曲世代的东西都不见了。甚么能救我们脱离这悖谬的世代？过教会生活能救我们。我们在建造方舟，那方舟能救我们，也能救别人脱离神所定罪的世代。
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The Ark as a Type of Christ (3) – Phil. 2:16
When the apostles were preaching the gospel, they were also building the ark, in which they enjoyed the full salvation. The ark is the corporate Christ. The apostles on one hand preached the individual Christ, and on the other hand built the corporate Christ. Through this corporate Christ, millions of people were not only saved from God’s judgment, but also saved out of that crooked and perverted generation.
Today if we are faithful to God, we have to do the same thing. On one hand we preach the gospel, and on the other hand we build the ark. What we preach is what we build. What we preach is not theory or doctrine; we preach what we are building. Through our living and working, we build up what we preach to others. Eventually, we will enter into what we are building. The ark being built will save us out of this condemned generation. We are preaching Christ and we are also building Christ. This means that we live by Christ and live together with Christ. We are living out Christ. We hold on to Christ and live out Christ. This is our work of building.
The church is the corporate Christ (1 Cor. 12:12), and this Christ can be said to be today’s ark. Millions of people have been saved by entering into the church life. Many people can testify how they were saved by coming to the church. You may have been saved for many years, but not until you came to the church were you delivered from this crooked and perverted world. That corporate ark separated you. Once we come into the church, we do not need others to tell us to come out of the world; we just live the church life like this, constantly coming to the meetings; eventually, those things belonging to this age all disappear. Through living the church life, all things belonging to this crooked age disappear. What can save us out of this perverted generation? Living the church life can save us. We are building the ark, and that ark can save us and can also save others out of the generation condemned by God.