我們需要注意人數
從這裡，我們要學一個功課，就是要注意真理，注意生命，注意召會生活，注意福音；同時，更要注意人數。我們不能不注意人數，因為沒有人數，就沒有量。一個召會若沒有量，如何能有質呢？所以，在這二十七年之內，我們沒有產生出多少長老，也沒有產生出多少同工；這是按百分比說的。若是我們沒有忽略當時的作法，就是分會所、分家、分排，而是一直繼續的作到現在，相信更多的長老已經產生，更多的全時間者也已經產生。同時，人數上也必定是大量增加的。再者，那個生命的光景，也一定不比今天差。在生命方面，雖然我們沒有把握說會比今天好，但我們深信定規不會比今天差。在真理方面，我們也要肯定的說，絕不會比今天差；當然，我們也不敢說會比今天好。這都在於我們怎麼作。在召會生活方面也一樣，不敢說比今天好，但至少不比今天差。然而，可以確定的是，我們丟了人數。若是今天我們有三十幾萬弟兄姊妹在臺灣，這是何等大的一件事，又是何等大的一筆資產，能使我們作許多的事。
(來源: 主恢復的前景與生機事奉的建立 第一篇 根據歷史研討今後工作方向（一）, 1984/10/26講於臺北)
Needing To Pay Attention To Numbers
We must learn the lesson of paying attention to the truth, to life, to the church life, and to the gospel. We must also pay attention to the number of saints in the meetings. If a church has no quantity, how can it have quality? For this reason we have not produced many elders or co-workers over the past twenty-seven years. If, instead of neglecting our early practice, we had continued to the present, I believe that we would have produced many elders and full-time serving ones, and our numbers would have increased greatly. Moreover, although we cannot say with assurance that our condition in life would be better than it is today, we believe that it would not be worse. We can also say that concerning the truth, our condition would not be worse than it is today; of course, we do not dare say that it would be better. The same applies to the church life; we dare not say that our condition would be better than it is today, but at least it would not be worse. However, we can say with certainty that we have decreased in numbers. It would be a great thing to have more than three hundred thousand brothers and sisters in Taiwan. This would be a huge asset that would enable us to do many things.
(Crucial Words of Leading in the Lord’s Recovery, Book 3: The Future of the Lord’s Recovery and the Building Up of the Organic Service, Chapter One, Basing The Direction Of The Work On A Consideration Of Our History, 1984/10/26 at Taipei)
