Sunday, September 25, 2011

The Gospel according to our Missions ...

 "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply"
"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him"
"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed"
"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" 
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him."   - James Hudson Taylor (戴德生)
"No other missionary in the nineteen centuries since the Apostle Paul has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematised plan of evangelising a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor." 
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"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." 
"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist."  
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." —Oswald Jeffrey Smith (1889 - 1986)
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"Someone asked, will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved." —Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
"In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times each week at different places."

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"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." — Mike Stachura

"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" — Roderick Davis

"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" — Nina Gunter

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer." — Samuel Zwemer

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet."
"The Church must send or the church will end." — Mendell Taylor

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Early Christian Missions - a matter of life and everlasting Life!

  • What is the contact point of my Christian mission? 
  • What is the Good News in my mission?

*   Some factors for being a better preacher:


     3 多 - 閱讀, 思考, 視野     

     1 精 - 語言


"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

Friday, September 23, 2011

The Bible and I

  • Process in Learning and Believing
Faith is not just a course to be completed, but a life time journey.
信仰不是一個可修完的課程, 乃是一個人生命之旅程.

We are here not only to learn what to think, but how to think.
我們不僅要學習思考什麼, 更是要學習如何思考.

  • Asking the questions; avoiding the quick answers...

Here are some questions:

創世紀 Genesis 4:9 
耶和華對該隱說, 你兄弟亞伯在那裡? 他說, 我不知道. 我豈是看守我兄弟的嗎?

詩篇 Psalms 139:7 
我往那裡去躲避你的靈, 我往那裡逃躲避你的面?

傳道書 Ecclesiastes 1:3
人一切的勞碌, 就是他在日光之下的勞碌, 有甚麼益處呢?

馬太 Matthew 16:26
人若賺得全世界, 賠上自己的生命, 有甚麼益處呢? 人還能拿甚麼換生命呢?

馬太 Matthew 22:17
請告訴我們, 你的意見如何, 納稅給該撒, 可以不可以?

路加 Luke 10:25; 29
夫子, 我該作甚麼纔可以承受永生?
誰是我的鄰舍呢?

約翰 John 3:4
尼哥底母說, 人已經老了, 如何能重生呢? 豈能再進母腹生出來麼?

約翰 John 18:38
彼拉多說, 真理是甚麼呢?

羅馬書 Romans 8:31
神若幫助我們, 誰能敵擋我們呢?