Local Church is the Hope of the World

其實我最想談的是在 9th CCOWE 地區會議中，我想問夏忠堅牧師的問題，我的問題是 「華福台灣區未來在台灣辦的角色？身為一位台灣的堂會傳道人，以 ARMD 的範籌為例，華福要取代暨有事工嗎？為什麼要多一層華福在中間？」 這個問題我在 Day 3 與 Day 4a 的分享中，用生態系的概代描述了。 所以我只想問自己：「我會不會再參加華福，或是華福大會？」 （本篇一定會引來爭議！我無意辯論，只想成為一個聲音。新媒體提供人發聲的機會，即使不知何時才有人聽，但是最起碼有機會） 但開始前，還是要碎念

今天身份被發現了，提問時還被大夏牧師虧了一下。我明明是提問，他卻請我上台，要給我時間「碎碎念」（He literally said that）。 那就先碎念吧

未了的生態系，可能要先能要先閱讀《 第九屆世界華人福音會議 Day 3 》的文章中後段。 福音生態系 Gospel Ecosystem 上篇一好像因為過了凌晨，所以寫不下去了。我決定把自己逼死，多寫一下。只有主事者才知真正的壓力，以下，就當作純建議。看看就好。 我無法想像一個只有暴龍的世界，最後暴龍自己也會餓死；對全球危害最大的物種是人類自己，人類再壯大下去，至終受害的是人類自己；而當一切的教會機構都想要包山包海，最後死在沙灘的，是自己。

重新整理大會文字連結，一切版權與資訊以大會為主。 釋經講道（講員皆為曾金發牧師 Rev. Edmund Chan） Day 1: 徹底翻轉的重新定向：進入神的聖潔會所（詩 73）： https://youtu.be/zGfKWn1pjRI Day 2: 徹底翻轉的門徒身份：活出同釘的十字生命（加 2:20）： https://youtu.be/zO7EPJ1lh4E Day 3: 徹底翻轉的使命策略：營造專注的門訓教會（太 28:18-20)： https://youtu.be/NTi3old-iQU Day 4: 徹底翻轉的差傳宣教：收割豐㯋的普世莊稼（路 10:1-20）： https://youtu.be/ypht2CZOQME

某方面，我覺得 9th CCOWE 比起福音會議，釋經講道的強度更勝事工研討。所以送上昨天（8/23）與今日（8/24）曾金發牧師（Rev. Edmunc Chan）的釋經講道 YouTube 影片。

回應 Liang 「我們這世代的鄉愁」 妳的問題讓我在公車上停不下來！其實這個問題，我想大部份的社會觀察家、或是歷史學者、甚至經濟學者們會看得更透激。我越來越相信，基督徒過度相信自己的眼光，忘了神賜下的智慧也在週圍，不自覺得小看了非督徒們與專家們的成果。 我們這世代的鄉愁，站在一個 1979 年出生，父母為軍公教，幾乎畢生都在台灣台北（純地理描述，別對號入座，但可各自發揮），也是被這個淺在儒家思潮歷史養大的芋頭蕃薯，血統不純的天龍人，填鴨式教育的產物，這是我的角度。這是一個心裡一直在抗議者的心聲。 我的鄉愁是「沒有我們、沒有鄉」

今天我看到台灣基督教會界與台灣宣教史的國寶：彭蒙惠老師。她在台上與天韻詩班一同演奏，我覺得坐著聽是一種不敬，所以站著，也必須錄下來，與大家分享。 Day 2b

為了養成好的品格，今天早晨我決定以讚美與感恩開始。 今天敬拜時看到中間的螢幕有中英文詩歌 PPT，好感恩啊！ 會議中間有點心，外面有飲料與熱咖啡。Cup holder 上有印有代禱事項（感謝 UMOT 的用心） 場外綜合服務台的同工非常友善，還幫我查了資料，發現原來我們這組的組長沒來。 中餐又是呷七碗又是水果、配烏龍茶，十分飽足。 而且我聽到了布農族八部合音，有一種整個會場都在震動的感覺。唱完想站起來，但我卡在中間的位置還撞到腳。（不要問我台灣原住民算不算華人的問題） 這張圖是偷彭書睿 Ray Peng 的 早晨我在王永信牧師的影片中，看到 CCCOWE 的起源，在 1974 年的 洛桑福音大會，3000 多名與會者中的 70 幾名華人，在自發的禱告聚集中，生下的運動。這是神的工作。 (以下為負責任的、純為個人觀點的、完全有篩選性的、且重要性完全由我個人決定的內容）

這不是報導，只是我個人參與「第九屆世界華人福音會議」（以下及以後簡稱 9th CCOWE）的觀察、心得、及看似報怨式的碎碎念實為想要找到同好的取暖文。 9th CCOWE 是什麼？ 圖片來源為 9th CCOWE 網站 這是一個從世界各地從事華人福音工作（大部份是牧師）的會議，口語街頭的意思是華人界的牧師大拜拜。在 活動網頁 並沒有清楚地陳述這個會議的核心價值與主要的目標訴求，但此次的大會定名為「國度、榮耀、使命－改變為基督」，英文是 The Glory and Mission of God - Becoming Radical Disciples of Christ」。與會者超過千人（大會還沒有提及實際參與人數），地點是新店行道會美河堂。

2014/3/19-21, 3 days in Hong Kong. Main theme is Grace to City. Rev. Timothy Keller spoke on 4 topics with Mandarin translation. Grace Dynamics - 恩典的動力 ( my notes ) Contextualization - 福音的處境化 ( my notes ) Integrative Ministry - 事工的整合 ( my notes ) Movement Dynamics - 福音運動的活力 ( my notes ) Q & A ( my notes )

Tim did a Q & A with church planters, pastors, and core members. Just quick notes but from my perspective, it's extremely helping because of these customized questions. (Spending time to a person) - We can't not spend too much time to a needy sheep and ignore the other 99 sheep (not preparing sermon well feeding them). Distinguish a lost person, a potential christian leader, and a needy person. (Church model) - prefer doing church planting rather than an multi-site church Recommend St. Gregory the Great's book:  The Book of Pastoral Rule: St. Gregory the Great (Popular Patristics Series) (Confidence or calling to doing ministry in NT city) - He didn't have one. He didn't have any confidence or arrogance. He went because no one wanted to go after his asking. He went because there was an opportunity over there. "It's a duty," Tim said. Why not for out of "duty" and "should?" For almost beginning 2 years in NT city, he was a...

Personal revival, church renewal, to the whole city movement. Let't dive into the last speech by seeing what is movement, what is gospel movement, and how to promote the movement. What is movement? There are 2 different organizations (not 2 entirely different, like an spectrum) Movement Institution Core Common Visions Hold by rules and traditions New ideas From all over (collaboratively) From top to down Format Constantly changed (innovated, creative, always moving) Hard to change, resist to change, Job to conserve things, refuse to change, rules and bylaws Power Willing to share Is guarded Question: a church is a movement or an institution? Both! Acts 7, a great persecution, Steven murdered. Acts 8, apostles stayed, else scattered. All results are not planned. It's a movement. At the same time, in Samaria, they called the apostles from Jerusalem. Why approval from them needed? They have authorities give by Churc...

God blessed Abraham, so that he may become a blessing to others. God brought him in, then sent him out. God will never call you in without sending you out. We are all in mission. The 2nd night, on the topic of Integrative ministry, Timothy Keller is going to walk through Luke 5 and show us 3 aspects of mission: out into work, out into margin of society, out so that people may return to Jesus. 1st: Take faith out and into our work (Luke 5:1-11) Meeting Jesus means change your identity and then change your view of work. Change your identity If God is infinitely good (beautiful), don't you fell bad (ugly) in front of him. See Isa 6:1-5 and Job 42:5-6. This is exactly what happened to Peter. He feels more truly than he is. His greatness destroys Peter's self-image. So Peter said in Luke 5:8, "Depart from me, for dI am a sinful man, O Lord.” In stead of throwing him away (remember the good vs. bad, beautiful vs. ugly contrast), Jesus included him. Now the true Peter bec...

Introduction "If what we have learned yesterday could be summarized as gospel into personal motivation ( see Gospel Dynamics ), today we're going to see how the gospel goes into the community," Keller spoke. If a person is greedy, we can tell. What if the whole society becomes greedy, it will be invisible. Don't ask a fish about water, because it doesn't know. Most of the time, culture is invisible. If a foreigner goes to a new country, the culture becomes more visible. Each culture has it's particular sin, and the gospel provides the particular redemptive hope. More people move into a city, the city culture becomes more complicated. For example, to the same church, the its neighborhood with Hindu and Pakistan background thinks the Christianity not conservative enough, while with Caucasian background views the Christianity way to conservative. If you want to address to them, contextualization is a skill. Tim Keller will presents this topic: Definition Ca...

Opening Timothy Keller goes back to Luke 15:11-32, traditionally called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son" but titled "The Prodigal God" by Keller, as the foundation of this 3-days conference. This is the focal points of the spiritual renewal. He believed. And Keller tries to show the concept , the problems, and the remedies from the text. We must carefully notice the audience of the original text. It's Pharisees and the scribes (Luke 15:2) Jesus was address to. Besides, at the end of the text, the father is talking the elder brother, not the younger. It gives us confidence that it's the elder brother we should think and address more deeply Concept: two ways of controlling God Controlling God means being you own savior. Either being very bad or being very good could be ways of controlling Him. Being very bad is obvious and easily understood. Being very good, acting morally and perfectly, still could be a form of selfishness inside you heart. Whatever ...