新約導論 - What We Have Covered

解釋新約聖經與[教會]的關係

“舊約” 和 “新約” 的關鍵/核心區別是什麼？

基督誕生前後, 有什麼文化,政治和宗教的因素影響到基督教

的傳教使命?

闡釋約翰福音 和 馬太/馬可/路加福音的差異點

闡釋路加福音 和 馬太/馬可/約翰福音 "復活記載" 的差異點

什麼是約翰福音的七個神蹟和相關的七個論述?

我們不再有歷史上的耶穌, 我們如何建立我們的信心？

[使徒行傳] 值得提及的主題是什麼?

使徒彼得生命的一些階段是什麼?  解釋它們的含義

為什麼約翰福音不用比喻?

[基督論]是什麼? 早期基督教議會的爭論點在那裡?

耶穌, 彼得, 保羅, 希伯來書和啟示錄的福音中心思想是什麼?

有什麼異同?

解釋這門課程 [新約導論] 的座右銘

  *** Comments during the final exam:

1.      I never expected that a pastor-teacher had more Biblical questions than me - 學分班學生

2.      Put aside the methodology of the course, I admired the passion of the teacher - 牧師班學生

3.      If there is a second chance, I'd need a bigger head to absorb a course like this - 大二學生A

4.      Now I read the Bible with new perspectives - 大二學生B

Additional comment:

Thank God/gave us a happy year full of wisdom and thoughtful curriculum/with the expectations of the future;

We will meet again/we'll miss you.
Will think of the things you taught in the class/we love you.
You are like our grandfather/you always taught us words of wisdom.
Let us see the wisdom of God again.
If you have the opportunity to come back,
you can continue to teach us.   - 大二學生 L Y T

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Angels, Unrecognized

They could easily be passed by the church standards as the non-believers.  And they actually are non-Christians.  They don’t talk like one of us, and they don’t act like one of the so called Christians.

Here they are, seven of them, my high school (台南一中) classmates.  We have met as a group less than eight times in the last 53 years.  And when we met, we still called each other the nicknames we used to call when we were in high school.  We shared different jokes now and then with certain respect unknown to the outsiders. 

We also shared the memories of our few friends who were gone prematurely years ago.  When we were together, we laughed till our tears dropped.   We are, after all, grandpas now.  But we still act like the growing young adults facing the world with those never ending wonders.  When we were together, looking at each others, silently wondering what the heck happened in the last 50+ years…

And most of all, we stand together with good causes.  Like the charity drive for the scholarship of the needy students of the Dept of Theology at CJCU (長榮大學) since last summer.   It was not the first charity they have faced. And just the three of them came up with more than 20% of the grand total of NT$500,000.  

They would certainly go as angels unrecognized most of the time.  And they did.  They don’t look a bit like angels.  Like most men over 70’s, they just look old.  They don’t even have enough sideburns, let alone the wings, to show off. 

Simply put, unlike angels, they don’t fly.

Still, their hearts and their deeds are flying high like angels.

Angels are, more often than one may think, passing by unrecognized. 

Love, hearts and deeds of the angels are always felt and recognized, universally.

Like here and now, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013…