保羅旅行話劇02-01 主題:回到從前宣教的各城
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第一幕 分道揚鑣
旁 白:自從保羅與巴拿巴第一次旅行回來後,他們就住在敘利亞的安提阿,和許多人一同教訓人,傳主的道,有一段時間。
保 羅:我們可以回到從前宣傳主道的各城,看望弟兄們景況如何。
巴 拿 巴:好阿!怎麼這麼巧,我了也有這樣的感動,想再回去從前宣傳主道的各城,看望以前的那些弟兄們。
保 羅:那麼我們就一起去吧!
巴 拿 巴:但是我想要帶馬可跟我們一同去。
保 羅:這怎麼可以!旅行傳道不是在「玩家家酒」,是很危險的,你也知道上次我們在「路司得」被人用石頭打死,若不是上帝救我們,我們早就死了,這麼危險,不要帶他去。
巴 拿 巴:沒有關係!上帝會保護我們!
保 羅:還有!找別的人去可以,馬可絕對不可以跟我們去,上次他跟我們去旅行傳道,在「別加」那個地方,他就「臨陣逃跑」,這件事對我傷害很大,我不希望再次受到傷害。
巴 拿 巴:那時候馬可離開,也不能把責任全部都推給他,你也有責任,你講話如果不那麼「衝」,好好的跟他講,他就不會半路離開我們。而且你回來安提阿也一段時間,你看馬可已經改變了很多,也成熟了很多。
保 羅:無論如何!我認為不可帶他去。
旁 白:保羅因為馬可從前在旁非利亞的別加離開他們,不和他們同去作工,就認為不可帶他去,於是二人起了爭論,甚至彼此分開。
巴拿巴就帶著馬可,順著他們第一次旅行的方向,坐船往西南方自己的家鄉居比路去;而保羅揀選了另一位同工西拉,蒙弟兄們為他們禱告把他交於主的恩中,他們就從另一方向,往敘利亞安提阿,一路向北走。
第二幕 新人上路
旁 白:保羅帶著西拉,走遍敘利亞、基利家,堅固當時的眾教會。他們經過特庇又到路司得。
提 摩 太:保羅牧師,你還記得我嗎?我在特庇信主,參加了你辦的「門徒訓練」。
保 羅:記得!當然記得!你的外祖母是羅以,母親是友尼基,他們都很愛主,以前我在旅行傳道的時候,你的外祖母與你的母親熱心接待我們。
提 摩 太:就是因為我的外祖母與母親的鼓勵,我現在已經成為一位門徒。
路司得門徒:提摩太真是一位熱心的門徒,帶領很多年青人來教會信主。
特庇的門徒:還不只這樣,他父親雖然是希臘人,但是熱心參與教會的事奉,不只當小組長,也幫忙教會培訓了不少的門徒。
保 羅:上帝感謝您!我真是高興,看到以前流淚撒種,現在可以歡呼收割。
提 摩 太:保羅牧師,你們要去旅行傳道,我可以跟著你們去嗎?
保 羅:你確定要跟我們去嗎?一路上是充滿很多患難與危險,難道你不怕嗎?
提 摩 太:我知道,但是我相信上帝會保守看顧我們,不管有多少患難與危險,我要跟著你們去「傳福音」。
保 羅:感謝上帝!我們非常高興也歡迎你,加入我們傳福音的行列。
旁 白:於是保羅就要帶提摩太同去,只因那些地方的猶太人都知道他父親是希利尼人,就給他行了割禮。
他們經過各城,把耶路撒冷使徒和長老所定的條規交給門徒遵守。就是不要勉強信主的外邦人要「受割禮」,但有四個要求。只要吩咐他們1.禁戒偶像的污穢和2.姦淫,3.勒死的牲畜和4.血。
於是眾教會信心越發堅固,人數天天加增。
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"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."(Gal. 6:14)
THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world, and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him, and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions. They were hardly willing to follow Him so far, or to draw so night to Him. They had upon them an awe and fear, as Jacob at Bethel, or Eliphaz in the night visions, or as the apostles when they thought that they had seen a spirit, and knew not that it was Jesus. They could almost pray Him to depart from them, or to hide His awfulness. They found it easier to obey than to suffer, to do than to give up, to bear the cross than to hang upon it. But they cannot to back, for they have come too near the unseen cross, and its virtues have pierced too deeply within them. He is fulfilling to them His promise, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32).
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it. He has fastened on them His look of love, as He did on Mary and Peter, and they can but choose to follow.
Little by little, from time to time, by fitting gleams, the mystery of His cross shines out upon them. They behold Him lifted up, they gaze on the glory which rays from the wounds of His holy passion; and as they gaze they advance, and are changed into His likeness, and His name shines out throught them, for He dwells in them. They live alone with Him above, in unspeakable fellowship; willing to lack what others own (and what they might have had), and to be unlike all, so that they are only like Him.
Such, are they in all ages, "who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Had they chosen for themselves, or their friends chosen for them, they would have chosen otherwise. They would have been brighter here, but less glorious in His Kingdom. They would have had Lot's portion, not Abraham's. If they had halted anywhere-if God had taken off His hand and let them stray back-what would they not have lost? What forfeits in the resurrection?
But He stayed them up, even against themselves. Many a time their foot had well night slipped; but He in mercy held them up. Now, even in this life, they know that all He did was done well. It was good to suffer here, that they might reign hereafter; to bear the cross below, for they shall wear the crown above; and that not their will but His was done on them and in them.
-Anonymous.
基督曾說過:「我心柔和謙卑,你們當學我的樣式,這樣你們心裏就必得享安息。」這兒有雙重的真理,有忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的美德,這與傚法基督或信靠祂有相同的意義;同時因著你有這些美德,可以完全脫離亞當墮落的本性而有信靠主高尚的行為。
連帶而有的福份,是因著脫離罪惡和對基督初步信仰、期望,受基督忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的靈引導並管理;當你具有這些德性,你的生命就有目的,是真理和生命的基督才會在你裏面,你不再掌權,而是基督在你裏面活著。除非你願在忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好裏治死老我,否則神聖愛的靈,因無立足之地而不能在你裏面產生;而當你又為不忍耐、驕傲所困擾之際,馬上完全捨己,求神施恩幫助。當你遇到難處就促使與神親近,最能使你忍耐接受神的幫助,我們對神有多少信心和期望就可得多少的啟示。
「這些雖然很簡短,但是真正確的教義,使我們因賜下的救恩而真正完全順服神的啟示下,也真正宣告承認三而一的真神。」現在願你有個思想:完全將我的心靈獻上,單單尋求救恩,直接藉著溫柔、謙卑、忍耐和與神和好的力量,使我的生命有屬天的德性。
「並且要作這更大的事,因為我往父那裡去。」約翰福音十四章12節
祈禱不是叫我們適於那偉大的工作;祈禱本身就是偉大的工作。我們以為祈禱,是叫我們得到較高的能力,去應付神的工作。但按照耶穌基督的眼光看,祈禱是我本已救贖的奇蹟,藉著神的能力,同時也是別人救贖的奇蹟。結果子之方法,是祈禱,但須記取的,這種祈禱是建立在救贖的痛苦,不是建立於我的痛苦。一個小孩能獲得祈禱的答覆,一個聰明人反而得不著。
你無論在那裡祈禱總是一種戰爭。不管神製造環境的方法怎樣,本分就是祈禱。切不可如此作想──「我所在的地方,不見得有用;」因為你不在的地方,你必沒有有用。無論神安排你在那裡,祈禱,常常向祂祈禱。「你們若奉我的名求甚麼,我必成就。」(約十四13)我們不肯祈禱,我們得不著奮興,就不肯祈禱,那就是靈性自私的極度形態。我們要依照神的指導而勞動,但祂指導我們的是祈禱,「所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收祂的莊稼。
通常的工人對於工作,是沒有興奮的,但是成功通常是工作勞作出來的;同樣基督的概念,沒有那些勞苦的聖徒是不會發現的。你慇勤祈禱,從神的立場看,是無時不發生效果的。當帕子揭開,一種說不出的驚奇必然發現,你可以看出你是慣於接受耶穌基督的命令的,已經為祂收穫了不少的靈魂。
「……亞伯拉罕信神……」羅馬書四章3節
亞伯拉罕的信心是向著神本身的,他認識帶領他的神,所以他對神有絕對的信心。
亞伯拉罕一生的秘訣在於他與神的友誼。他所認識的神是一位偉大、良善、信實的朋友。無怪乎他能聽神的話,從他自身所愛的本家本族出來,走向一條未知的道路。
除了信靠神的話語,我們是否已學會把自己全然交給神呢?神有無限的愛及力量,祂是與我們立約的主並永遠的好朋友。
經上告訴我們,亞伯拉罕因著信心而榮耀了神。最能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓世人看見神是誰,以及祂的大能力。神並不希望藉著我們所能做的事,讓世人知道祂能做什麼;神也不用那些有乖謬性格的器皿。相反的,祂一直在找尋那些謙卑的人,並用這些人在世世代代中榮耀祂。