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提摩太后书 4:1-4，保罗将父上帝与主耶稣带入他对属灵儿子的嘱咐中，如同圣父、圣子亲自对提摩太的命令，讲明将来提摩太也要在上帝的审判之前一同交账。雅 3:1我的弟兄们，不要多人作师傅，因为晓得我们要受更重的判断。

传道人，代表上帝传道，传上帝的道，是警醒的战士随时预备可以讲道，不只教导，更是恳切。路德认为道是喊出来的。教会讲台不是一个空中楼阁，而是能够听见上帝热诚的道的地方。

研究加尔文的学者发现，加尔文每天至少要讲两次道，逐卷、逐章、逐节。加尔文拿着原文圣经就上台讲道，圣经就是讲章，所传讲的不是支配破碎的圣经，乃是整全、统一的圣经。马丁路德与其他改教家也是如此。改教运动是人类历史最大归回圣经、传讲圣经的运动。今天不是需要人在讲台胡说八道，我们更多需要如同改教家传讲圣经的传道人。

钟马田博士敬佩马丁路德就是真正的传道人。当黑死病来到威登堡，马丁路德没有逃走，继续传讲6千多篇道，甚至也写讲章让别人也讲道。

律师不按着法律行事是羞耻的，传道人不按著圣经传道更是如此。上帝子民聚集必须要传讲上帝的话，否则不要聚集。（马丁路德）改教家们有灵火，在教会传讲上帝的话，如同使徒行传见证，是充满上帝话语证道的教会。

希伯来书 1:7， “论到使者，又说：上帝以风为使者，以火焰为仆役…”

马丁路德：传道人必须是兵丁也是牧者，手拿着刀面对仇敌，手拿仗牧养群羊。

司布真：真正的传道人，上帝在适时赐给教会，这些人是被上帝的火炭所触摸的。

教会看轻讲台，上帝就看轻教会，因为上帝在历史中以讲台–上帝话语的传讲 来复兴祂的教会。

求奋兴改教家的火与能力，加倍在各位身上焚烧。

Steven J. Lawson
宗教改革500周年研讨会
Wittenberg 1517 – Jakarta 2017
11月15日 20:00

www.refo500.stemi.id

Steven Lawson 史蒂芬·劳森:

When we say “Reformed”, we simply mean “biblical”, that we’ve come back to the Bible, and allow the Bible to frame our doctrines. Reformed in essence is: God formed the truth. And then the truth became deformed by false teachers, traditions and ecclesiastical hierarchy, which became the authority (instead of the Word of God). “Reformed” is to simply bring it back to where God formed it. So, man by his failure to properly teaching the Bible deformed it, and the reformers simply put it back to the form as God has originally given it.

当我们说 “改革宗” 或 “归正” 时，其实我们指的只是 “合乎圣经”，就是回到圣经之中，让圣经来构建我们的教义。“归正” 说到底就是：上帝在开始的时候赐下了真理，然后真理被假教师、坏传统或教会制度所扭曲，形成了新的权威（而不是上帝的话语）；“归正” 其实就是把它带回到上帝当初启示它的样子。 简单来说，因为人未能正确地教导圣经而使圣经被扭曲，宗教改革家们只是将其恢复为上帝原本的意思。

唐崇荣 Stephen Tong: 

Reformed is a global invitation for the whole Church to return to the whole Bible with a whole heart.
归正是对全球呼吁教会全心全意回归圣经。

真正的谦卑不是外形的、而是在心志上归回真理的那种愿意去自我修改。谦卑是真诚地悔改、改变和纠正自己 (Humility is the sincerity to repent, change and correct yourself)。

Steven Lawson:

Well, when we say expository preaching Fred… and just to be very succinct we’re really talking about biblical preaching…the word expository if you take the Oxford English dictionary and look it up it really means a commentary or setting forth of principal themes from a text. And then the word preaching really goes beyond the exposition and really takes the truth of the biblical passage that has been read and explained and properly interpreted and then shows the relevance of that passage to modern-day life and drives it home to the heart with fervor and passion as well as pastoral comfort and encouragement.

So those two words—expository is the adjective and preaching is the noun—expository describes a kind of preaching that is unusually text driven. It starts with the text of Scripture, stays with the text of Scripture, supports it with other texts of Scripture, gives the proper interpretation of this text of Scripture, gives the authorial intent, shows how it fits in the overall message of the Scripture and then shows the relevance of this passage. What it requires of us, how it speaks to the Lord Jesus Christ and then the preaching part, there has to be an element of preaching that I think goes beyond teaching.

A young man once came to Martin Lloyd-Jones and said “what’s the difference between teaching and preaching?” And Lloyd Jones said with that dry humor, “Young man if you have to ask me the difference between teaching and preaching it’s obvious you have never heard preaching because if you’d ever heard preaching you would know the difference between teaching and preaching.” He went on to say:

A lecture which is teaching oriented can be given any time, today, next week, next month, next semester, but with preaching there’s a sense of urgency about the message. It must be delivered now and it must be received now. And it both builds up and it tears down, both comforts and afflicts, it challenges, it consoles, it confronts, it points the way with urgency.

So just to give you a short answer—obviously you and I both could go a couple of days on the answer but it’s not expository teaching; the word teaching is implied in the word expository. It’s expository preaching.

The Puritans used to say there needs to be a fire in the pulpit and the fire gives off light and heat. There’s the light of the exposition and there’s the heat of the preaching. That’s really what expository preaching is there’s both light and heat.

The light of instruction and interpretation and even application, but with the heat of preaching that motivates and inspires and challenges and summons and confronts and corrects and encourages and consoles—all of those elements are part of preaching.