我們若想要過某種生活，就必須有某種生命。
例如要有羊群合一生活就須有羊的生命，同樣的，神造人，
給人一種渴慕活在團體裡的生命，但這生命受到破壞和毒害。
---------------- Short Stories for Shepherding Materials English Version
Lesson 3 Church life is real corporate life
Short story for shepherding material
John 13:35 - By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
When the elbows cannot be bent but helping and loving each other.
In a dream, everyone was in the same situation:
There was a very long table full of people sitting around and have much food on it.
Everyone could not bend their elbows. But there are 2 different results.
Everyone on the 1st floor was unable to eat or drink and looked sad.
Because everyone is selfish.
They only care for their own interests and doesn't care about others.
So everyone couldn't eat or drink and the atmosphere was full of sadness.
While on the 2nd floor everyone was eating and drinking,
even though they still couldn't bend their elbows.
Because they are not selfish, they are feeding each other lovingly.
Everyone was fed by the person on the opposite side
by stretching out their hands to feed the one who sits on the opposite side.
Everyone was richly fed by helping each other.
From this story, we learn that if we want to have a certain living and we need a certain life.
God created man with a life that desires to be in a community,
but that life was damaged and poisoned.
Thus, on one hand, because we have the God-created nature,
we have the desire to live with others;
but on the other hand, because our human life was damaged and spoiled by Satan,
in our fallen nature we don't have the proper life for communal living.
But now we have Christ.
Christ is wonderful.
Christ is the common factor and element for us
to be one in the communal life with love for one another.
We don't know the names of all the saints,
but we still love them very much simply
because we are God's family members in the Lord.
There is a common element among all the saints,
and that element is Christ.
Christ is the element that causes us to love one another.
Also, Christ within us is the life with the ability for us to love one another.
----------------牧養材料中文文字稿
某人做了一個奇妙夢，兩層樓的人都是一樣的情形都是-
有一很長桌子全坐滿許多人，桌上滿了豐盛的食物，
而且每人的手都只能伸直，手肘都不能彎曲。但卻兩種不同的結果。
在第一層樓的每人都無法吃喝,愁容滿面。
因為每人都自私,只顧個人的利益，
不管別人，所以每個人都無法吃喝,滿了死沈的氣氛。
在第二層樓的每人卻滿了歡樂豐富的吃喝，
他們每人的手肘也是不能彎曲，
但大家都不自私，彼此相愛，互相餵養,每人都靠著對面的人幫助，
互相夾菜給對面的人吃，因此大家都因著彼此互相餵養供應，
而使每人歡樂且豐富地吃喝。
這故事告訴我們，我們若想要過某種生活，就必須有某種生命。
例如要有羊群合一生活就須有羊的生命，同樣的，神造人，
給人一種渴慕活在團體裡的生命，但這生命受到破壞和毒害。
因此，一面我們因著有神造的天性，渴慕與別人一同生活；
另一方面，因著我們人的生命受到撒但的破壞、殘害，
在我們墮落的天性裡，沒有正當的生命來過團體生活。
但現在我們有了基督，基督是奇妙的。
祂是那共同的因素,元素，使我們能在團體生活中是一，而彼此相愛。
我們雖不認識所有基督徒的名字，
但我們仍然非常愛他們，只因我們都是"在主裡的家人"。
在所有的基督徒中間有一個共同的元素，這個元素就是基督。
"基督乃是使我們能彼此相愛的元素"。
此外，"基督在我們裡面乃是生命"，
這基督的生命有能力使我們彼此相愛。
