聆听神的话，也“聆听”世界[2月25日专题信息]

专题信息｜聆听神的话，也“聆听”世界

2月25日

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朱志山牧师

经文: 来4:12-13；太16:16,21,24

课题: 神的话/真理/事实, 世界观, 美意/神的旨意, 门徒培训, 属灵医治,

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基督徒活在每一个时代中都面临的同样挑战就是在这世界中成为“不妥协”，且不被“淘汰”的信徒，但这两者（不妥协与不淘汰）像似水火不容一样。特别活在现代的城市社会中，信徒都面对环境带来的压力。世界的价值观、言语、生活需求、现实难处是一直在给我们施加一种无形的压力，叫我们妥协于世界。但是，圣经明明叫我们要分别为圣，不思念地上的事，反倒思念天上的事。当一个信徒想到思念天上的事的时候，他不禁会问自己：“那我的生活处境与节奏怎么办？”学生们需要时间读书，工作者需要精力上班，结婚有孩子的需要过婚姻生活，且需要养儿育女。特别，当我们成为父母或是牧者，我们会发现我们孩子和会友都一律会面对这等的信仰压力。当我们面临要牧养他们的现实时，我们会听见他们所摆设出的种种难处。有的是非常主观的，但也有的听起来是合理的。我们在此是否有深思其中的难处呢？有时我们可能从神的话掌握了一套答案或方法，但是旁边同样想跟从主的人不一定能够与我们有一样的领悟，那我们有否在深思他们的处境呢？另外，当我们基督徒在面对外界（外邦人），特别当我们的信仰受到他们的挑战时，有时我们是否太快的要否定他们，或是以我们现有的神学知识给出一些“人已经听过”的讲解，却没有深思非信徒所带出来的疑点呢？所以渐渐地，我们基督徒就很容易给人一种“只是说道理”的感觉，却没有办法真切与实际的考虑人的处境，也将那绝对不变的神的话应用在人的困惑中，或是以人能明白的话来解答他的疑惑。对此，可能我们信徒常会给的对应是：“不是不要，乃是不知怎么做”。其实，答案就在于我需要多聆听。“聆听”是我们领受智慧的管道。怎么聆听呢？就是“双重的聆听”（其观念曾在斯托得牧师的一本书“现代信徒”有描述到），讲说我们当聆听神的话，也同时要懂得聆听世界。可能这句话听起来像是有误导性，因为圣经只叫我们不要爱世界，没有叫我们聆听世界。没错，圣经是神给世人的启示，它将上帝、永恒、宇宙与这世界一切的奥秘说明。没有神的话，没有一个人能够正确的认识上帝与我们所活在的这个世界。但是我们也当晓得神也同时借着这个世界来向我们说话（一般启示），也将我们放在其中生活。这世界是我们活出神的道的现场，且是我们宣扬主恩的平台。可能我们在神学与知识上对神的话已经很了解，但这未必代表我们正在正确的受真理圣灵的指示。可能我们所懂的“爱人如己”的道理没有发生在我们的夫妇生活，或者我们旁边肢体的难处没有受到我们担当。甚至我们能与人进到神学的辩论，却不能与我们不信主的同事或亲友传福音。为何有这样的差异呢？因为我们没有聆听，或者可能我们听的不够不准。有时我们封闭自己心灵的耳朵，有时我们有先入为主的想法，或者有时我们仍带有的一些宗教性质的观念导致我们无法聆听。可能在我们顺着圣灵行的这一个功课里，最难的就是同时聆听神的话，也聆听世界。确实，在这网络与资讯发达的时代，每个人心中都很容易产生出自己喜爱的道理与自己想听的声音。倘若我们没有聆听世人的声音，我们无法正确的指引人走向正路。但在此，我们也要谨慎的一件事就是“我们聆听世界的心态何在？”。许多信徒带着一种没有谨慎的心来聆听世界，或是要得着一些合乎自己想法的心态，或者更加糟糕是因为要满足自己那喜爱新鲜道理的性情，那他们便很容易会掉入“因聆听而被绊倒”的光景。愿我们在双重聆听的事上能得蒙主亲自的指教。

In every era that Christians live in, they face a common challenge of “not compromising” with the world, and not being an “obsolete” believer. However, these two (not compromising and not becoming obsolete) do not seem to go well together. In particular, believers living in city today face pressures from their environment. The world values, languages, demands, and practical difficulties, are always giving us some kind of unknown pressure, leading us to compromise with the world. However, the Bible clearly calls us to set apart, and do not think about earthly but heavenly matters. When a believer thinks about heavenly matters, he can’t help but ask himself, “What should I do with my life situations and rhythm?” Students need time to study; those who are working need the energy to work; the married with kids need to have their marital living and raise their children. When we become parents or shepherds, we will realize that our kids and brethren are all facing such pressures in their faith. When we are made to face the reality of shepherding them, we listen to the various difficulties presented by them. Some are very subjective, but they sound logical. Have we ever pondered about this dilemma? At times, we may seem to receive some kind of answers or methods from God’s word, but those beside us who also wish to follow the Lord may not necessarily receive it the same way. Do we think deeper about their situations? In addition, when Christians face the external world (pagans) and are challenged by them in our faith, sometimes, do we deny them hastily, or we explain with our current theological knowledge which “people have heard before”, not thinking deeper about the doubts these non-believers raised? Hence, gradually, Christians may easily exude a sense of “only talk about theories”, but not able to put themselves in others’ shoes practically and genuinely. Neither could they apply the unchanging word of God in man’s problems, or provide answers to their queries in layman terms. In this, our response may be, “It isn’t that we do not want, rather, we cannot.” Actually, answer is in listening more. “Listening” is the channel through which we receive wisdom. How to listen? It is “double listening” (this term is described in Pastor’s Stott’s book “Contemporary believers”), i.e. we need to listen to God, but we also need to listen to the world simultaneously. It may sound misleading, for the Bible only instructs us not to love the world, but it does not instruct us to listen to the world. Certainly, the Bible is God’s revelation to men. It reveals about God, eternity, the universe, and all that are in the world. Without God’s word, no one can know God and the world we are living in correctly. But we also need to understand, God is speaking to us through this world (general revelation), and make us live in this world. This world is the field where we live out God’s word, and the platform where we proclaim His grace. Perhaps we are very well versed in the word of God theologically and rationally, but this does not mean we are correctly led by the Spirit of truth. Maybe, the truth of “loving others as self” is not happening in our spousal living, or we have failed to share in the burden of our brethren. We may go into theological debates with people, but we cannot evangelize with colleagues and relatives who are non-believers. Why such discrepancies? Because we do not listen, or we have not listened accurately. Sometimes we shut off our spiritual eyes, sometimes we have some pre-determined mindset, or sometimes, we cannot listen because we still carry our religious nature in us. In this lesson of submitting to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, perhaps it is most difficult to listen to both God and the world simultaneously. Indeed, in this era where Internet and information are so advanced, it is so easy to have our own kind of theory and own preferred voices inside us. If we do not listen to the voice of the world, we cannot lead people towards the right path. Over here, we also need to be careful about “our mentality of listening to the world?” Some believers listen to the world without a vigilant heart, or they just want to receive something that is compatible to their mindset, or worse – they merely want to satisfy their temperament of delighting in new and fresh theories. If such is the case, they may easily fall into a state of “being stumbled by their listening”. May we receive Lord’s personal guidance in the matter of double listening.

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