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— from Puritan Evangelism by Joel Beeke
A great Puritan evangelist, John Rogers, warned his congregation against neglecting Scripture by telling them what God might say: “I have trusted you so long with my Bible…it lies in [some] houses all covered with dust and cobwebs, you care not to listen to it. Do you use my Bible so? Well you shall have my Bible no long.”
Roger then picked up his Bible and started walking away from the pulpit. Then he stopped, fell on his knees, and took on the voice of the people, who pleaded, “Lord, whatever Thou dost to us, take not Thy Bible from us; kill our children, burn our houses, destroy our goods; only spare us Thy Bible, take not away Thy Bible.”
“Say you so?” the minister replied, impersonating God. “Well, I will try you a while longer; and here is my Bible for you. I will see how you use it, whether you will search it more, love it more, observe it more, and live more according to it.”
Thomas Goodwin was so moved by Rogers’ dramatic presentation that when he left church he wept upon his horse’s neck for fifteen minutes before he felt strong enough to mount it.
摘自：教會期刊2013年3月刊
有一位清教徒佈道家 John Roger 有一次在講道上…開始勸誡眾人，並扮演上帝的角色說道：“我已經把我的聖經賜給你們這麼長時間了，你們卻忽視它，它被放在家家戶戶裡面，全蓋滿了灰塵和蛛網。你們不願意去讀它。你們不就是這樣使用我的聖經的嗎？好吧，那我就不再把聖經給你們了。”
他說完抓起講台上的聖經，就要拿走。然而他突然又換了個角色，幾乎跪了下來，以民眾的名義向上帝激動地呼喊：“主啊，不管你對我們怎樣行，不要拿走你的聖經，殺我們的孩子吧，燒掉我們的房子吧，毀掉我們的財產吧；只要留下你的聖經！”
整個教堂里安靜得如同墳墓一般。羅傑斯又一次扮演起上帝的角色：“你說的是真的嗎？好吧，我就再試你一段時間。（他把聖經重新放回講台上）我把聖經交給你，我要看你怎麼用它，看你是不是更愛它，是不是更重視它，更按它而活。”