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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：教会期刊2013年3月刊
有一位清教徒布道家 John Roger 有一次在讲道上…开始劝诫众人，并扮演上帝的角色说道：“我已经把我的圣经赐给你们这么长时间了，你们却忽视它，它被放在家家户户里面，全盖满了灰尘和蛛网。你们不愿意去读它。你们不就是这样使用我的圣经的吗？好吧，那我就不再把圣经给你们了。”
他说完抓起讲台上的圣经，就要拿走。然而他突然又换了个角色，几乎跪了下来，以民众的名义向上帝激动地呼喊：“主啊，不管你对我们怎样行，不要拿走你的圣经，杀我们的孩子吧，烧掉我们的房子吧，毁掉我们的财产吧；只要留下你的圣经！”
整个教堂里安静得如同坟墓一般。罗杰斯又一次扮演起上帝的角色：“你说的是真的吗？好吧，我就再试你一段时间。（他把圣经重新放回讲台上）我把圣经交给你，我要看你怎么用它，看你是不是更爱它，是不是更重视它，更按它而活。”