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刘同苏:“先声”以后--北加州漫谈纪要

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作者:刘同苏

由于一个偶然的机会,几位海外资深的牧师,神学院与基督教机构的带领同工,会同来自中国家庭教会的牧者,神学生与平信徒领袖,于2012年2月20日在美国加州北部,就北京守望教会事件的起因,性质,影响,目前形势,未来走向,进行了一次漫谈式的非正式讨论。作为一个非正式的漫谈,讨论并没有达成完全一致的共识。本文作者仅仅极为扼要地报告一下此次讨论的内容。由于本文作者自身的取向,报告不一定代表了所有参与讨论者的立场。

尽管讨论者为守望教会事件列举了许多偶然因素,比如在外部环境方面有政府内部的“左”倾势力抬头,社会环境里面的“茉莉花”运动,等等,在教会内部有异向的领受,策略与时机的选择,内部矛盾的处理,等等,但是,绝大多数讨论者同意:守望事件的发生必须置于更大的历史景观里面加以考虑,即中国家庭教会已经进入社会的主流人群,开始在社会公共空间里面公开向主流人群传扬福音,而中国官方的现行宗教管理政策滞后于社会发展现实,仍然不承认家庭教会信仰自由的宪法权利;在公民社会形成的历史变革时代,这种冲突是必然的,而家庭教会对自身信仰权利的申明,虽然是为了信仰的缘故,却在客观上代表了形成公民社会的要求。

多数讨论者同意:无论具体的缘由,守望事件的本质是保持信仰的独立(对内)和申明信仰的权利(对外)。守望事件的焦点是社会公共空间里面传扬福音的权利问题。一位年长的牧者甚至指出:从学理上讲,守望教会事件类似于宗教改革的先声;尽管目前该事件尚未产生直接的效果,未来将会导致根本性的变化。

绝大多数讨论者承认:尽管守望教会事件具有其自身的意义,但是,中国家庭教会的发展最终取决于基础性的建造。一个教会的抗争可以标明教会进入主流社会的深度,并且会有力地促进这一进入,但是,必须有实体,标志才会发挥标志的作用。所以,除了支持这类标志性的教会以外,更重要的是加强教会的日常性的基础事工;对内应当重视以堂会为基础的牧养工作,对外应当着重社区性的社会参与。

 

大多参与讨论者欣赏守望教会对原则的坚持,但也认为守望教会在策略的选择方面还有较大的改进余地。由于中国社会文化处于全面变动的时代,各个阶段与不同地区的形势常常呈示出不分明的灰色状态;在此情形之下,有时具体地区的策略选择会间接地为根本性变化定型。

所有的讨论者都确认,因为目前北京地方政府方面“赶尽杀绝”的极端手段,守望教会的外部形势严峻。至于守望教会的内部情形,由于讨论者的消息来源不同,所以,有着截然不同的判定。不过,不管对守望内部情形的判定有何不同,所有讨论者都同意:在2011年12月25日以后,守望教会面对新的情况,必须领受新的异象,并据此采取新的策略。

参与讨论者一致同意:通过长期的“户外聚会”已经达到申明在社会公共空间传扬福音之权利的目的;一种权利的形成需要长期的社会文化发展和多次的抗争得以形成,守望教会的“户外聚会”已经尽了当尽之份,不应期待“毕其功于一役”。参与讨论者建议:在不离开社会公共空间的前提下,守望教会无需纠结于已经构置的处所,也不要拘泥于聚会地点对人数的容纳程度;对公共空间的坚守在于性质,而不取决于数量或特定地点。

 

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Since Dec 2, 2012, my father Pastor Shengliang Gong had High Blood Pressure and Cerebral Infraction, but he never got the proper medical checkup and adequate treatments. Consequently, my father’s illness got worse and worse. More than once my father almost fell to the ground during last November.

Finally when he got the checkup on November 26th 2013, the doctor said my father’s illness was not very optimistic. He was having Cerebral Infraction, Encephalatrophy, Brain Lesions and Leukoaraiosis, etc. The doctor said that my father needs to have checkup every three months. So we repeatedly requested the prison officials to perform checkup accordingly, once every three months. The prison said that they had one done on April 17th, but refused to release the hospital’s medical treatments records and conclusions to neither my father nor the family members. They would not make any specific statements about my father’s illness. Now, my father and our family have no ideas about the level of his illness.

       Since my father illness, previously we could buy some appropriate medicines for him according to his known conditions pieced together from oral communications of diagnosis, after consulting with doctors. Though this won’t amount to totally healing, it was the only way our family could do for him under the circumstances. But now, as the prison withholding medical records from us, we are unable to know his condition and thus cannot providing suitable medicines for him-the very minimum request was denied of us.

       The inadequate medical treatments within the prison cannot give my father prompt and sufficient treatments. Yet the prison won’t send him to hospitals outside for necessary treatments and regular checkups, causing further serious damages to his health. The prison won’t allow him the fundamental human rights; they also deprive his right to know about his illness condition. The prison as law enforcement agency behaves illegally. Effectively, they are directly pushing my gravely ill father to dead end street of death.

       I appeal to the international communities concerning my father’s health and human rights conditions. Please join us to rally for my father and our family’s rights to medical records and the right to know the situation of my father’s sickness; also his right to have regular medical treatments, thereby saving his life and protect his fundamental rights!!

 

Pastor Shengliang Gong’s daughter: Huali Gong

June 30th 2014

Cell Phone: 13241248388

Han Kou prison department phone number: 027-83556018

Instructor Hanwen Wang: 15327298562

 

 

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