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Jan 2, 2019 - Default    No Comments

最沉重的打击—退出联会 (转摘)

“主耶稣,我感谢祢,
有祢,在黑暗的时候,不是最黑暗,
在贫穷的时候,还不是最贫穷,
在生病的时候,还不是最重病,
有祢,在黑夜的穹苍有星星,
在无助之时有良友,
在痛苦之时有安慰。”
— 司布真

1870年代,英国的浸信会,受到新派神学的侵蚀,信仰逐渐冷淡。组织虽然日益扩大,但掺入许多流行的理论与偏差的看法,不再以耶稣基督为永远的根基,偏离圣经。

1875年,司布真到普利茅斯参加“浸信会联会”(Baptist Union),他写道:“聚会时都在讨论芝麻小事,与救恩无关的看法。”

1878年,他去参加时才发现:“坚持圣经真理的传道人,都不在获邀名单之内,原来标榜神学看法宽广的人,在权力与组织上,排除异己,巩固一样看法的人。”

他向大会提出:“神学必须在主耶稣的宝血之下,否则再高明的论点,也不能事奉主。系统神学,必须以耶稣的十字架为骨干,否则都会散开。神学论点,必须以因信称义为核心,否则再多的看法,也不会被上帝称义。”

此言一出,激怒大会,主办人斥责司布真分裂浸信会的合一,是近代神学的绊脚石。为同在一个团体,必须合一。

司布真对控诉的回应:“合一很重要,但不能妥协真理。变相的合一,是要对方依附你。”

有人要他在联会里不要再提个人意见,才能巩固组织的影响力。

司布真回应:“合一是在耶稣基督的真理上,若非在真理上合一,合一没有意义。我坚持的合一,是上帝儿女在耶稣基督里的合一,不是与近代流行思潮合一。一个忠心事奉主的人,不能一脚在圣经,一脚在新派神学。我不能在罪上有份。”

Charles Spurgeon

Dec 31, 2018 - Default    No Comments

真教会的6个记号

归正福音教会

– 持守使徒所遗传下来的信仰
– 顺从基督施行圣礼
– 用上帝公义的能力惩戒犯罪的人
– 彼此相爱
– 勇敢作见证
– 多结果子

“那些很多基督徒的教会,你把他抓几个来问教义的问题,都不懂;而那些教义很好的教会他们都不传福音。” — 唐崇荣

 

Dec 30, 2018 - Default    No Comments

Reformed Experiential Preaching

Reformed Experiential Preaching 
by Joel Beeke

 

9 Points:

  1. Tests genuine experience by the standard of biblical truth idealistically, realistically, optimistically.
  2. Draws lines distinguishing between believers and unbelievers.
  3. Makes frequent and wise application of truth to life.
  4. Balances biblical, doctrinal, experiential and practical elements.
  5. Cultivate a life of communion with our God and Savior.
  6. Builds experience upon the foundation of Holy Scripture, God’s Word.
  7. Goes beyond contemporary superficiality into the deep wisdom of old paths.
  8. Offers food to satisfy the new spiritual sense of the believers’ souls.
  9. Touches the heart with a bitterness of sin and the sweetness of grace.
 
Reformed Experiential Preaching applies the truth of God to the hearts of people to show how things ought to go, and do go, and ultimately will go in the Christian experience, with respect to God, and his neighbors (i.e. family, church, world around him).
 
Reformed experiential preacher receives God’s Word into his heart and then preaches it to the minds, the hearts and the lives of his hearers.
 
Note 1: Head-knowledge of God is not useless but necessary. We need to know the truth.
 
Note 2: We don’t change people by our experiences as preachers. Holy Spirit alone changes people.
 
Every revival throughout church history begins in the hearts of preachers, who were set aflame with the truth of God’s Word and preached it with passion and conviction; then the Holy Spirit who prepared that minister’s heart, use that minister, then other ministers, and then other ministers got impacted, and use those ministers to bring from heart to heart to the people, and brought waves of revival.
 
The act of preaching is a living bond (connection) between preacher and hearers. The bond that you cannot leave your church is that there are hungry people who want to be fed and grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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