劉多加 / 基督日報記者
近十年來,中國城市新興教會的迅速發展,很大程度上推進了城市有知識文化的年輕信徒的興起,城市新興教會更具備這個時代的特徵,如開放性、多樣性等。近日,北京福音宣教教會的張永生牧師在接受基督時報記者採訪時時,稱中國的城市教會正處在試煉臺的位置。
城市教會缺少教師
張牧師坦承,這個時代的城市教會缺乏牧養經驗。“上一代前輩為我們留下的是持守信仰的寶貴精神,但沒有留下牧養教會的經驗,所以需要這一代牧者們去探索適合中國教會的牧養、發展模式。”
張牧師續說:“現在的教會在規模和內容上已經超出了“家庭”式教會,可以說是城市教會,這是歷史的必然,也是教會的一個試練臺。”
他提醒道:“這一代城市教會的牧者一定要清醒,我們在走別人沒有走過的路,你怎樣走,會影響下一代的人。而且這一代城市教會的帶領人都在40歲左右,上面沒有老師,沒有老師,學生會很危險。我想這是這一代牧者一個最大的盲區。”
牧者當謙卑靠主走
針對城市教會面對的這一大問題。首先,張牧師指城市教會的牧者能堅定在主的引領中走下去的重要前提,就是要更加信靠主,千萬不能只靠自己,即要具備謙卑和誠實。這是最重要的條件。否則,這位牧者的前途和教會的前途就很沒有保障了。
張牧師強調,我們一定要堅持獨立自主的建立教會路線,同時也需要帶著開放的心。多向其他國家有復興歷史的教會學習;從他們的經驗中,可以看到他們是怎樣帶領教會的,有很多是值得我們學習,因為我們沒有這種經驗,所以中國的城市教會,已經放在一個試練臺上,每一步,一定要信靠主,按照主的旨意走下去。
張牧師稱以前中國教會處在逼迫和試練中,反而更加安全,因為比較單純,不容易變質。但是如今中國教會面對的道路,不是我們走過的,而是一個更自由的空間,在物質和名譽方面可以在世人面前拿出來的階段。
以色列百姓在曠野受訓40年,當時只要跟隨摩西和帶領摩西的神就可以,但是他們進入到迦南地就不一樣了,有很多來自世上的誘惑和陷阱,如今中國教會也是這樣。
探索中國教會牧養模式
張牧師認為“中國教會前行的路比過去還要坎坷,過去是逼迫,好像是坎坷,其實不然,那時反而更加單純,下一步中國教會如何走是更加艱難的。”因此,他提醒,要始終保持純正,才會走得更好,教會不純正的話,前途很迷茫。
如今是中國教會非常重要的時期,如果現在的城市教會能真正榮神益人,就可以成為一個典範,後代跟著走就可以。如果這一代走不好,會把課題留給下一代人,這是非常重要的問題。
前面一代人為了堅守信仰,留下了寶貴的精神,奮鬥和抗爭的精神,那現在環境已經有所改變,比以前更加寬鬆,城市教會誕生了,城市教會走向哪里,中國沒有先例,沒有可以參照的基礎。
最後再次勸勉,中國這一代城市教會正處於試煉臺的位置,教會前面的道路該如何走,領袖們要緊緊抓住神。
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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
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