四十七：宣教事工的需要与精神[9月11日罗马书]

罗马书｜四十七：宣教事工的需要与精神

9月11日

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朱志山牧师

经文: 罗15:14-21

课题: 圣灵的能力, 神为与人为, 以马内利/神的同在, 生命目的/荣神益人建国, 传福音与宣教,

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今天，我们要谈到保罗的宣教事工。宣教不是教会的一种“企业扩张”，或是“而外的事工”，宣教乃是走到神境界的生命传递事工。神在以色列也安置了两个海。一是毫无流动性的死海，海中的盐分骄傲所有生物不得生存。二是加利利海（或说是大湖）。那水是有流动性的。这海供应以色列民三分之一的饮用水，也是各种新鲜的鱼类与生物生存之处。据说因为风势的缘故，加利利海也是一个常突然会起暴风的区域。其实，这两只海带出了传福音与宣教的必要性。今天，很多教会不是没有宣教观念，或是带着错误宣教的观念来做宣教。通常，我们会听到有些教会领袖说，“我们的教会目前的人都照顾不了，怎么还谈得上宣教？”另外，我们就会看见当教会的能力增长之后，就会将宣教当做一种壮大教会的事工，所以提倡宣教。其实，这两者都是带有人意。其实，宣教的观念本不是以教会的能力或事工的范围为考量，乃是以福音为核心的观念。宣教是来自一个被福音呼召的心，一直被神差派要接触自己的范围（或舒服境界）以外的未得之民（或还不认识福音之人）。之后，在宣教中叫我们更加得知主爱人与拯救人的心意。确实，我们人都很容易被自己的文化与生活局限。那就比如，当我们在这个新加坡都市文化里认识了福音，我们很容易会将福音当地化与主观化。我们会很容易将福音看为一种只用来解决自己的问题，或是以某种方式传扬。我们对我们文化以外的人的想法不清楚，也不认识那阻挡他们领受救恩的文化。因此，我们就将福音的能力限制了，落入经历自己要经历的福音，传扬自己要传扬的福音，设立自己要设立的事工制度，接触自己想接触的人。所以，一个不宣教的教会就会如此死板起来，甚至在很多的想法与做法就会固定化。之后，教会就会看见信徒的眼界不打开，心胸越来越狭窄，灵命也不成长。确实，当信徒不继续领受圣灵的恩惠与得见新的经历，很快就会被自己的世界和自己所生活在的社会同化了。渐渐的，教会只会看见信徒走不出自己谋生的问题，养育儿女的难处，或是被社会追赶的现实，以至教会就会成为一群不冷不热，常常说三道四，彼此比较与伤害的群体了。教会牧者的信息也因此不更新，总是在处理重复的问题，却看不见带着使命为时代祷告的人起来。试问这不就是“死海”吗？主对西门说：“把船开到水深之处，下网打鱼”《路5:4》。我们的呼召本是要被差派到“水深之处”（走出舒服境界的地带，去到主的失散子民所在之处）。让我们从主领受这样的恩惠，开始为着福音接触我们的背景、条件、文化以外的人。特别，当我们在《14:1-15:13》谈到“在基督里彼此接纳”的课题后，下面要看见的就是宣教的重要。

Today we are going to discuss about Paul’s ministry. Going on mission is not about an “expansion of the church’s enterprise”, rather, it is a life ministry of walking to God’s realm. God has placed 2 seas in Israel.  There is the Dead Sea that never flows, and the content of salt in it is so high that no other things can survive. Next is the sea of Galilee (or the Great lake). The water flows, and provides 1/3 of the drinking water to the Israelites, and many fresh fish and animals live in it. Depending on the wind, sea of Galilee is also a region where storms may happen suddenly. Actually, these 2 seas bring out the necessity for evangelism and missions. Today, not only many churches lack the idea of missions, they also do mission based on wrong ideas. Often, we hear church leaders saying, “We cannot even take care of our people in church right now, how to go on mission?” Besides, as a church’s strength increase, they will gradually treat mission as a very great ministry, thus promoting missions. Actually, there are human intentions in these two. We cannot think mission through a church’s strength or ministry; the concept of mission is centered on the gospel. Mission comes from a heart that is called by the gospel, constantly being sent by God to mingle with unsaved people (or people who have yet to know gospel) outside of our boundaries (or comfort zones). In mission, we also increasingly understand Lord’s heart of loving and saving men. Actually, we human are easily restricted by our own culture and living. For example, knowing gospel in a city like Singapore, we may easily make localize the gospel, making it subjective. We may see gospel as a way to solve our own problems, or we may spread it through certain ways.  We are unfamiliar with the mindsets of people outside our culture, and we also do not know the culture that hinders them from receiving salvation. Therefore, we restrict the power of gospel, reducing ourselves to experiencing the gospel the way we want to experience, preaching the gospel the way we want it, establishing the systems of ministry the way we want it, and keeping in touch with people whom we prefer. Thus, a non-missional church will become more fixated, and a lot of their mindsets and methods will become fixated. After, the church will see that the horizon of their believers remain unexpanded, their heart capacities are narrow, and spiritual lives do not grow. Actually, when believers stop receiving the grace of Holy Spirit, or when they fail to have new experience, they will gradually be assimilated into their respective worlds and societies in which they live. Slowly, the church will only see the issues of livelihood, the difficulties in parenting, or the reality of being chased by the society, so much so that the church is becoming a congregation that is lukewarm, always gossiping, always comparing with one another and hurting one another. The shepherd’s message does not renew too, for it is always dealing with the recurrent issues. No one embraces the mission nor intercedes for the era. Is this not “dead sea”? The Lord told Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” <Lk 5:4>. Our inherent calling is to be sent to the “deep water” (out of comfort zone, go into the dwellings of the lost sheep). Let us receive such grace from the Lord, and for gospel’s sake, start to mingle with people who are of different backgrounds, conditions, and culture from us. In particular, after talking about “accepting one another in Christ” through <14:1-15:13>, what we need to see is the importance of mission.

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