【魏泰德牧师】全员参与——给我们的特别呼召

在本期视频中,魏泰德牧师谈到了“全员参与”,这是复临安息日会的一项全球性的活动,鼓励每一位成员积极参与事工和传福音。

在路加福音10章,有位律法师问耶稣,他该做什么才能承受永生。答案是:“你要尽心、尽性、尽力、尽意爱主你的神;又要爱邻舍如同自己。”

律法师问谁是邻舍?耶稣给他讲了好撒玛利亚人的故事。有一个人从耶路撒冷下耶利哥去,落在强盗手中。

有位祭司看见了他,从他旁边过去了。另一位宗教领袖看见了他,也从他旁边过去了。这个撒玛利亚人来了,他怜悯这个可怜人,把他带到旅馆并且看顾他。

当耶稣问这三个人中谁是好邻居时,律法师说“那个怜悯他的人”,他指的是撒玛利亚人。

撒玛利亚人代表耶稣,祂给我们穿上祂的义袍。我们要跟随他的脚步,在全面的卫生工作中做医药布道工作,在身体上、心理上、社会上、灵性上帮助人们。

因此,魏泰德牧师引用了怀爱伦在《历代愿望》504页的一段话:“今日的世界和耶稣的时代一样,同样需要这个教训。自私和冷淡的形式主义,几乎熄灭了爱的火焰,破坏了那使人的品格放出芬芳的美德。许多承认主名的人忘记了基督徒的责任是代表基督。我们若不在家庭中、邻里间、教会里或无论什么地方,能在实际行动上舍己为人,那么无论我们口里怎样表白,总不能算是基督徒。 – {DA 504.2}”

愿上帝赐福我们,让我们全心地投入,跟随耶稣的脚步,为祂和其他人做一些事,并带领他们到这位大医师和老师面前来,祂很快就会复临。

In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about total member involvement, a global campaign of the Adventist church wherein every member is encouraged to get actively involved in ministry and mission.

In Luke 10, a lawyer challenged Jesus, asking what he must do to inherit eternal life. The answer was to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your neighbor as yourself.”

When the lawyer asked who that neighbor was, Jesus told him about the story of the good Samaritan, who encountered a man attacked by robbers as he was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.

A priest saw the man but passed by. Another religious leader came and saw him but passed by, too. But when the Samaritan came, he took pity of him, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

When Jesus asked who among those three men was a good neighbor, the lawyer said it was “the one who had mercy on him,” referring to the Samaritan.

The Samaritan represents Jesus, Who puts on us and clothes us with His robe of righteousness. We are to follow His footsteps by doing medical missionary work in comprehensive health ministry, helping people physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually.

With this, Elder Ted quotes from Ellen White’s book, The Desire of Ages, page 504, saying, “The lesson is no less needed in the world today than when it fell from the lips of Jesus. Selfishness and cold formality have well-nigh extinguished the fire of love, and dispelled the graces that should make fragrant the character. Many who profess His name have lost sight of the fact that Christians are to represent Christ. Unless there is practical self-sacrifice for the good of others, in the family circle, in the neighborhood, in the church, and wherever we may be, then whatever our profession, we are not Christians.”

May God bless us as we engage in total member involvement, following Jesus’ footsteps, doing something for Him and others, and pointing them to the Master Physician and Teacher and His soon second coming.