基督徒珠玑2

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2008/03 04

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Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority. Jesus made authority in the fellowship dependent upon brotherly service (Mark 10:43). Genuine spiritual authority is to be found only where the ministry of hearing, helping, bearing, and proclaiming is carried out. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christian community. The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures," "priestly men,""authoritative personalities" springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive... Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of Him who alone has authority... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren... Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers to the authority of the Word.
团体中根除个人主义的七个原则：7）权柄的职事。耶稣吩咐要团体中的权柄﹐建立在兄弟服务之上。(可10:43) 只有当聆听﹑帮助人﹑彼此担待﹑宣讲的职事被实践时﹐我们才能找到真正的权柄职事。凡是强调某个人的素质﹑品格﹑和才能的个人崇拜----即使是在属灵的层面上----都是属乎世界的﹐在基督徒的团体里它毫不合理﹔实际上﹐它是会荼毒基督徒团体的。我们今天常听到有呼声﹐人们想要有“代表教会的人物”﹑“祭司性的人物”﹑“权威的人物”﹔这乃是发自于敬佩人的病态需求﹑和对实体权威的病态需求﹔因为服侍人的真正权柄﹐是如此的叫人看不上眼的……有真正权柄的人﹐意识到只有在服侍主的过程中﹐才会带着权柄的……教会不需要卓越的人物﹐而是需要忠心为耶稣服务的人﹑和弟兄们……只有一位不寻求自己权能﹑只是服务耶稣的人﹐才配得上教牧的权柄﹔在神话语的权威底下﹐他也不过是弟兄中的一位而已。
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer潘霍华
"... a result of the Fall and of sin. Man is first of all separated from God, then from himself, and finally from his fellow men and from nature. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ will give an absolute and perfect restoration of all these things when Jesus comes. But in the present life there is to be a substantial healing, including the results of the separation between a man and himself. This is the first step toward freedom in the present life from the results of the bonds of sin."
……罪与堕落的后果。人首先是与神隔离，然后是与自己隔离，最后与别人、与大自然隔离。当耶稣再来时，主耶稣基督的血，将会绝对并完全的恢复这一切。但在今世，仍然有相当的康复，包括修复人与自己的隔离。这是在今世里从罪的捆绑迈向自由的第一步。
--Francis A Schaeffer 思卓法　
"God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said of us."
神的话语是永远不会过时的，但回顾旧约，和回顾从基督降生以来的岁月，叫我们不禁的流泪。因着神子民缺乏坚毅、缺乏忠心，神的话语被多次扭曲，去顺从环境、潮流、和当时的文化；而不是站在神无误话语的立场，来审断世界风尚的形态、和当时周遭的文化。奉主耶稣基督的名，但愿我们的后代不会给我们同样的评价。
--Francis A Schaeffer思卓法
"Worship is not going to some ecclesiastical building week by week, perhaps once or twice, to attend what is called Divine worship. That is not worship.... Worship is this, that life is for the Lord. Every moment, every hour, every day, every week and every year-it is all for the Lord. That is worship.
敬拜，并不是每周去一个教会建筑物，甚至每周两次，参加所谓的神圣敬拜。那并不是敬拜……敬拜，是为主而活。每一刻、每一小时、每一天、每一周、每一年，全是为着主。这是敬拜。
The lives of such are the prayer of worship. They are not always putting it into language and phrases, and they are not always on their knees, and they are not always in meetings; but from behind them, so to speak, there is that which is reaching out to the Lord-they long for the Lord...."
此等人的生活就是敬拜的祈祷。不是总挂在嘴边、不是总跪下来、不是总在聚会。但从他们背后，总有寻求主的意向----他们渴慕主……
--T. Austin-Sparks 史伯克

"Christians who have arrived at the stage of knowledge of the cross where they ceased to walk 'after the flesh' think that they are now 'spiritual' believers, entirely renewed and led by the Spirit of God. But then comes the most important lesson, says Dr. Andrew Murray-the lesson concerning the danger of the 'inordinate activity of the soul, with its power of mind and will'-the 'greatest danger' which 'the Church, or individual, has to dread.'"
一些基督徒，因着对十字架的认识，不再顺从肉体了，而他们会以为自己已经是属灵的了、已经是完全更新、和被神的灵带领的了。但是此时，还有更重要的功课。慕安德烈博士称之为“魂的擅自行动，带着它思想和意志的大能----它是教会和个人的一大隐忧。”
--Jessie Penn-Lewis宾路易夫人
"To know 'what the Spirit saith', to know life in the Spirit, to be guided by the Spirit, to be checked up by the Spirit, for the Spirit within them to say 'No' or 'yes'-they know very little about it; very few know anything about that. They are either guided by tradition, how it has always been done; or they are guided by some set and fixed system of truth or doctrine, by what is 'the done thing'; or they are guided by the present crystallized, organized form of Christianity, which is so rigid and established that nothing else can be allowed to have any place"
认识圣灵的声音、活在圣灵里、受圣灵带领、受圣灵监督、让圣灵在里面批示----这些他们知道很少，极少人懂得。他们要不就是跟从传统----以前的规矩是如何；要不就是跟从一定的真理系统、教义系统----既定的事情是如何；要不就是跟从当代形成的基督教模式----它是刻板和绷紧的，不能有所偏差的。
--Austin-Sparks史伯克
"If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95% of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95% of what they did would stop and everybody would know the difference."
假若圣灵今天离开教会，我们95％的活动仍然会继续，并且没有人会察觉什么不一样。假若圣灵离开新约时代的教会，他们95％的活动便会停止，并且每一位都会察觉到不一样。
--A.W. Tozer淘恕
"These three, according to the present trends, are the essential elements of the church. Suppose here is a church today; (1) perhaps they have no pastor or clergy, (2) perhaps no Sunday service, (3) perhaps no meeting hall or cathedral or chapel; is this still a church? Let's say it does not have one of these three elements, it would not be deemed a proper church. So when somewhere a church is needed, the believers' first attention rest on these three elements; with these present, the church can be started, otherwise it would not be started. Nevertheless, is this biblical? Did the earliest Christians expect these three elements when starting a church? "
这三个，按着今天的风尚来看，乃是教会的三大要素。试试想看，今天这里有一个教会，或是没有「牧师」，或是没有「礼拜」，或是没有「礼拜堂」，那还能算一个教会么？不要三个都没有，就是没有了一个，教会就不像其为教会了！所以，当一个地方要有教会的时候，信徒所最先注意的，就是这三个到底有没有，如果有，才能成为教会；如果没有，就教会不能成立了。但是，这是不是合乎圣经的呢？在初期的时候，人是不是要有这三个然后才能成立教会呢？
--Watchman Nee
"As a fresh start, the church should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy."
作为一个重新的开始,教会应当把一切资产分给穷人和有需要的人.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer潘霍华
"They pride themselves on their biblical knowledge and excel in tracing the biblical allusions in crossword puzzle clues. Like Apollos they are 'mighty in the scriptures'. They have read it many times from cover to cover and committed large portions of it to memory. Fine! But an accumulation of Bible knowledge is one thing; a growing personal knowledge of Jesus Christ, whom to know is eternal life, is quite another."
他们以圣经知识为荣，精通于错综复杂的引用经文。就像阿波罗，他们“最能讲解圣经。”他们从头到尾读过很多遍，并背诵了不少。很好！但是圣经知识的积累是一件事；对耶稣基督的亲身认识，又是另一回事。（认识他就是永生）。
--John R. W. Stott 约翰.思多
"Our greatest need today is an enlarged vision of Jesus Christ. We need to see Him as the One in whom alone the fullness of God dwells and in whom alone we can come to fullness of life."
我们今天最大的需要，是对耶稣基督的眼界广大。我们需要看到：神本性的一切丰盛只居于他里头；并意识到：只有在他里头我们才能达到生命的丰盛。
--John R. W. Stott 约翰.思多
"..., for much Christian thinking today is still ignorant of its own infiltration by the present prevalent surrounding thought-forms."
……对于当代周遭的思想模式，它对我们的渗透，今天大部分的基督徒思维对此是甚为无知的。
--Francis A Schaeffer　思卓法
"The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually or corporately, tending to do the Lord's work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them."
我们当代的主要难处，并不是自由派神学、或现代派神学、也不是罗马天主教神学、或新罗马天主教神学、也不是…主义、也不是周遭的理性主义的隐忧、或周遭单一化的趋势。这一些都有危险性，但并不是主要的。真正的难处是：主耶稣基督的教会----无论在个人或集体的层面上，凭着肉体的能力来效力主的事工，而不是凭着圣灵的能力。主要的难处总是出现在神的百姓中间，而不是出现在周遭的环境里。
--Francis A Schaeffer　思卓法