Cong Fang

轉摘: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/lessons-ravi-zacharias/
by Sam Allberry for Ravi Zacharias 拉維‧撒迦利亞 (1946-2020)

1. The person matters more than the question (人比問題重要).
   • “Answer the questioner, not the question.”
2. Tone is as important as content (語氣和內容同樣重要).
   • “Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet. 3:15b).
   • “A true word said ungraciously will not commend the gospel. We can un-preach with our manner what we think we’re preaching with our words.”
   • “There were many times at a university forum when a student would ask something in a snarky way. But Ravi would always aim to respond with gentleness and respect. It could often be disarming. They may have just treated him with disdain, but his response was both dignified and dignifying. He didn’t belittle others, or humiliate them.”
3. The cross is the heart of the message (十字架是核心).
   • “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
   • “Ravi didn’t preach an argument; he used argumentation to preach a person.”
     
   • “Evangelism undergirded by apologetics.”

天主教觀點：信心 + 行為 = 稱義
基督教觀點：信心 = 稱義 + 行為

Faith = Justification + Works

如果等式的右邊沒有行為，那就告訴我們等式的左邊也沒有信心。遺憾的是，如果等式的左邊沒有信心，等式的右邊也沒有稱義。馬丁路德曾經說過，我們得救是唯獨藉著信心 (justified by faith alone)，但不是藉著一種單獨存在的信心 (not by a faith that is alone)。

這個世界上有四種人：

1. 已經得救也知道自己得救的人
   • 確信的程度每天都在晃動。
   • 真正的確據能在懷疑風暴中倖存下來。
2. 已經得救但不知道自己得救的人
   • 不是每個人清楚知道自己什麼時候得救。
   • 聖經沒有地方說我們必須知道自己得救的準確時間。
   • 重生里立時的，沒有人是半重生的。
   • 按照他人的經歷是否與我們自己的經歷一致來評估別人並分門別類是非常危險的。
   • 聖靈可以在一個人經歷或感覺到改變之前就早已在裡面重生了他。
   • 在經歷上我們總是有可能自欺。
   • 作為基督徒，我們所能做的最危險的事情之一就是基於我們的經歷確立我們的神學。
3. 沒有得救也知道自己沒有得救的人
   • 人不需要聽到聖經講道也能知道自己的失喪光景。
4. 沒有得救但不知道自己沒有得救的人
   • 最麻煩的是第四種：那些沒有得救卻以為自己得救的人。
   • 相對第一種人 (真正的確據)，第四種人擁有虛假的確據。
   • 三種主要的錯謬：
     • 普救論：所有人都會通過死亡而得救。
     • 律法主義：想要倚靠自己的義得救的人。
     • 宗教形式主義

原著：史普羅 R. C. Sproul – Can I Be Sure I’m Saved?
翻譯：喬蘭山以妲

Many are willing to die for God, how many are willing to die to self.

People are not serious to Christianity not because they are unbelievers, but because the Christians are not serious.

If there is one thing that is both legalistic and biblical, I think it is the reading of the Bible.