Cong Fang

——Paul Washer

“When I became a Christian, I was well aware of my inability, that I would never become this theologian who understood all these things. So, I thought… I will do one thing. Even though I cannot give a lecture on Eschatology, and I can’t give a lecture on certain things, and I’m not very good at Apologetics… I will do one thing: I will study the cross. I will devote my life to one thing: knowing what it means that Jesus Christ died for me.

“And that knowledge is enough to take the weakest man and make him strong, the most pliant man and make him defiant, to make him run when he can’t walk, to make him lift when he is weary, to go on and on and on… There is enough motivation in that cross to propel you one thousand eternities of service.”

“当我成为基督徒的时候，我很清楚自己的能力有限，我可能永远无法成为那些能明白各样奥秘的神学家。所以，我想…我就做好一件事。即使我无法讲授《末世论》或其他课、也不擅长《护教学》，我就做一件事：我要研究十字架！我要用一生来做这件事：明白耶稣基督为我而死的意义！这知识足以让最软弱的人变得坚强、让最温顺的人懂得反抗、让无法行走的人奔跑、让疲倦的人重新得力…… 十字架有足够的动力驱使你，哪怕是要服事千万年！”

——Paul Washer

“The Christian life doesn’t not begin with what you do but with what you don’t do.”
“基督徒的生活不是从你做什么开始，而是从你不做什么开始。”

“To receive and follow the Gospel call is to reject all that can be seen with the eye and held in the hand and exchange it for what cannot be seen.”
“接受并跟随福音的呼召，就是拒绝一切肉眼所见的和抓住不放的，来换取那眼不能见的。”

——John MacArthur

“Being filled by the Spirit, being controlled by the Spirit, dominated by the Spirit, is the same as letting the word of Christ dominate you, the word and the Spirit being the same. The word reflects the will of the Spirit, so if you want to walk by the Spirit, then you walk according to Scripture, according to what the Word of God teaches. You ask yourself why there’s so little interest in sanctification today? It’s directly parallel to little interest in the Scripture.

“Why there are so many people who fall in ugly and gross sin at all levels of the life of the church? It is because they do not know what they need to know to follow the mind of the Holy Spirit; they’re untaught. It is no favor done to people to preach nothing but simplistic evangelistic sermons, culturally based to try to attract non-believers week after week, year after year, and leave everybody sitting in there who’s come to Christ starving for spiritual truth and not knowing enough to win the battle that’s going on inside.”

“被圣灵充满、被圣灵掌管、被圣灵支配，都等于让基督的道来主导你，道与灵是合一；这道表明了圣灵的心意。因此，如果你想顺着圣灵而行，那你就按照圣经、按照神话语所教导的而行。你问自己为什么今天人们对成圣如此不感兴趣？这与对圣经缺乏兴趣直接相关。

“为什么有这么多人在教会生活的各个层面都陷入丑陋和严重的罪中？这是因为他们不知道他们需要知道什么来随从圣灵的心意——他们没有受过教导。只传讲简单化的福音布道对人们没有任何好处，以文化为中心去吸引非信徒，周复一周、年复一年，却让那些来到基督面前、渴望属灵真理，却不知如何赢得内心争战的人坐在那里。”

参：加拉太书 5:16-25; 罗马书 8:5-11