九牧者100字阐释福音

九牧者100字阐释福音

  我们问九个牧者：假设你站在讲台上，要求你向来自世界各地、各民族的听众分享福音，用词不能超过100个。你会说些什么？

彼得・亚当斯　

  神创造了万物和人类。他掌管整个宇宙，照着他的形象造了我们人类。他造我们的目的是让我们来认识他、事奉他，并且我们要为我们的生活交账。

  因为我们不认识神、不事奉神，神差遣他的爱子耶稣基督来指明给我们应当怎样活，传讲神的事，并且担当了我们应受的审判，代替我们死了。之后他又从死里复活，与神一起掌权。我们应当信神的儿子，成为他的子民，领受圣灵，为荣耀他而活。

         God made everything and everyone. He rules the universe,and made us in his image. He made us to know and serve him, and we will have toaccount for our lives.

         Because we do not know and serve God, God sent his Sonthe Lord Jesus Christ to show us how to live, teach us about God, and die inour place, taking on himself the judgment we deserved. He then rose from thedead, and rules with God. We should turn to trust in God’s Son, join hispeople, receive his Spirit, and live for his glory.

  彼得・亚当是瑞德里学院墨尔本分校的校长。他的下一本书题为，《为我们而写：接收圣经中神的信息》。

格雷戈・吉尔伯特　

  只有一位神，他创造了世界和世界上的一切。尽管神本意是让人在他里面掌管这个世界，然而我们每个人都犯罪得罪了神，罪的工价就是死亡和地狱。但是因着神爱我们，他差遣他的爱子耶稣基督来到世上过纯全的生活，并且替他的选民钉死在十字架上。第三日，他从坟墓里复活升天，如今在天堂里掌权，赐下饶恕、公义及永远的生命给那些为罪悔改、因单单信他而得救的人。

         There is only one God, who created the world andeverything in it. Though God intended humans to rule the world under him, eachof us has sinned against him, the penalty for which is death and hell. Butbecause he loves us, God sent his Son Jesus to live a perfect life and die on across as a substitute for his people. On the third day, he rose bodily from thegrave and now reigns in heaven, offering forgiveness, righteousness, andeternal life to all those who repent of their sin and trust solely in him forsalvation.

    格雷戈・吉尔伯特在肯塔基州路易斯维尔市的第三大街浸信会担任主任牧师。他是《更高的生命(Kairos)》 ——面向牧师的网络期刊的供稿者。

利亚姆・戈利格

  神似乎经常缺席，离我们很远，或对我们很冷漠。但设想他要来看望我们，成为我们中的一员？我们会欢迎他么，还是会忽略他，甚或像人们对耶稣做的那样谋杀他？那样神本有毁灭我们的理由。然而福音是神我们的创造者，爱我们这些他所造的人，并且道成肉身以耶稣的形象来到我们中间担当了罪人一切的刑罚，又复活了，因此通过接受耶稣为主，人们可以同神建立起联系，并享受神以及他为永恒预备的一切。

         God can often seem absent, distant, or indifferent to us.But suppose he were to visit us, become one of us? Would we welcome him, orignore or even murder him as people did Jesus Christ? God would then bejustified in destroying us. The good news is that God the creator loves us hiscreatures and has come in Jesus to take the place of guilty people, died tobear their deserved punishment, and rose again; and that by receiving Christ,people might have a living relationship with God now and enjoy him and all hehas made for eternity.

  利亚姆・戈利格是伦敦里士满公爵大街教会的主任牧师。是《耶稣福音》（The Jesus Gospel）的最近的作者。

迈克尔・霍顿

  你最惧怕的是什么？如果我正在世界各地问这个问题。答案很可能会集中在基本的需求上，如自来水，食物，疫苗，住所。然而对于美国的大多数人来讲，我们最大的恐惧更可能是孤独、是把我从向上攀登的梯子上扔下来的灾难性的事件，是离婚，或是无法找到人生的终极意义。因这些而恐惧没有一样是说不过去的，然而也没有一样是能给我们的恐惧画上句号的。这些恐惧抓着我们是因为我们还能奢侈地让这些恐惧抓着我们。直到我们面对神—在他及其庄严、严肃、又令人害怕的对我们的生命作出要求时，我们的心却被生命中一些次要的麻烦掠走。但是当我们出于某种原因，微瞥见神的圣洁时，我们要么努力压制真理，尝试把神驯养成为宠物，要么逃到山上躲避神的面。

  神应当是你最敬畏的对象。对于神公义的审判，除了神自己没有人能给予救赎，能给我们平安的就是同一位令我们畏惧的神。如果我们能躲避他的审判，那肯定是因神的伟大而非我们身上什么特质。是神先接近我们，甚至是冲向我们—不是来审判，就像我们以为的。而是来拥抱、来和好，用基督的义披戴我们，以便我们能被圣洁的神接纳。上面就是你今被招来马上可以拥抱的恩典。基督代替罪人活出了完美圣洁的生活，在十字架上承担了他们的罪，为了让我们称义，他从死里复活了。这就意味着“那些在基督里的人是无可指摘的了。”我们得着神的恩典，并非藉着我们做了什么，经历了什么，尝试了什么，亦或决定了什么，而是藉着基督为我们所做成的。这是一个好消息，并非好的建议。这不是呼召你来自我提升，而是呼召你在基督里完全向自己死，得复活的新生命。这是一份不用负任何代价就能得到的赦罪之恩，是与神同在的权利、这恩使我们成为神的儿子继承他的产业、将我们从罪的辖制下解放出来。作为神的使徒，我现在奉耶稣基督的名呼召你离弃其他一切的拯救者、主，来拥抱耶稣基督作为你的义、你的圣洁和救赎，与神和好。快前来就他吧。他的爱要胜过冤仇；他的恩典胜过你的罪；他的平安胜过你的惧怕。

          What is your greatest fear? If I were asking thatquestion in many parts of the world, answers would probably cluster aroundbasic needs such as running water, food, vaccines, and shelter. For most of usin the United States, though, our greatest fears are more likely to be thingslike the fear of loneliness, some cataclysmic event that throws me off theladder of upward mobility, divorce, or the inability to find any ultimatemeaning in life. None of these fears is illegitimate, yet none is ultimate.These fears haunt us only because we have the luxury of having them haunt us.Until we are confronted with the reality of God—in all of his blinding majesty,weightiness, and frightful claim on our lives—we are overwhelmed by secondarytroubles. But when for some reason there is the slightest glimpse of God in hisholiness, we either do our best to domesticate him, turn him into a pet bysuppressing the truth, or run for the hills to escape the confrontation.

           God should be your greatest fear. Yet there is nosalvation from God’s just judgment from anywhere else than God himself. Onlythe same God who fills us with fear is able also to give us peace. If we are toescape this judgment, it will only be the result of the greatness in God’sheart and not something in our own. That God has moved toward us—even lungedtoward us—not in judgment, as we should have expected, but in loving embraceand reconciliation, clothing us in Christ’s righteousness so that we can beacceptable in his holy presence, is the good news that you are called here andnow to embrace. Christ lived a perfect life in the place of sinners, bore theirsins on the cross, and was raised again for our justification. This means that“there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Notbecause of anything that you have done, experienced, attempted, or decided, butbecause of what he has accomplished for you, can you be assured of God’s favor.It is good news, not good advice. It is not a call to self-improvement, but todie to self altogether and be raised a new person, in Christ. It is the freegift of forgiveness of sins, right standing with God, adoption as his heirs, andliberation from the tyranny of sin. As his ambassador, I am calling you in hisname to be reconciled to God by turning away from all other saviors and lordsand embracing Jesus Christ as your righteousness, holiness, and redemption.Come to him now. His love is greater than your enmity toward him; his grace isgreater than your sin; his peace is greater than your fears.

  迈克尔・霍顿是位于埃斯孔迪多的加利福尼亚西敏神学院系统神学和护教学的约翰格林山姆・梅钦教授，著有《即将来临》（the upcoming），《盟约与救赎——与基督联合》（Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ），于2007年9月由威斯敏斯特约翰诺克斯出版。

迈克尔・纳齐尔

  当我们在黑暗和失败中，耶稣基督就像一道光，将神的真理和爱显给我们。他代替我们，做了我们一起不能做，个人又不愿做的事情，以此转走了神因我们的过犯、和我们对自己、对别人、对神的国度的伤害而产生的愤怒。耶稣被钉在十字架上是他使命的高潮，他的使命就是使我们与神和好。让我们为自己接受耶稣所做的吧。让我们藉着他与神做朋友吧，让我们分享神赐予他而他又赐给我们的新生命吧！

        In the midst of our darkness and failure, Jesus Christshines as a bright light, showing us God’s truth and love. He stands in ourplace, does what we cannot do together and are unwilling to do personally andso turns away God’s anger from all our wrong doing and our abuse of others,ourselves, and God’s world. His sacrifice on the cross is the climax of hismission which is to make us friends again with God. Let us accept for ourselveswhat he has done. Let us be friends with God with him and so share the new lifewhich God has given him and which he shares with us.

  迈克尔・纳齐尔是阿里罗切斯特主教,是英国首相在穆斯林事务上的顾问，著有很多书，如：信仰和冲突：回教、基督教和世界秩序（Conviction and Conflict: Islam,Christianity, and World Order）。

弗兰克・雷铁夫

  整个宇宙的创造者——神，差他的儿子耶稣基督来到这个世界。他的死使不可能变为可能——一扇失丧的人藉以重归神怀抱的门。所有的人，无论知道与否，都与神隔绝，落在他的审判之下。但是神差来一位救主、一位王——耶稣基督将饶恕和生命赐给所有为不信的罪悔改，在信和悔改中归向耶稣的人。如果你归向耶稣基督，你将会受到天父亲自的欢迎，你将成为新家的一员，在这个新家里充满着神的祝福，并且你将在神的国度里有份。

         God the Creator of the Universe has sent his Son JesusChrist into the world. He died to make the impossible possible – a doorway backto God for lost people. All people, whether aware of it or not, are alienatedfrom God and under his judgment. But he has sent a Saviour and King JesusChrist to offer forgiveness and life to all who will repent of their unbeliefand turn to Jesus in repentance and faith. If you turn to Jesus Christ you willreceive a welcome from the Father himself and you will be made a member of anew family who shares many blessings here and will participate in the world tocome.

  弗兰克・雷铁夫是南非英格兰教会的主教。著有好几本书。

爱德・罗伯特 (出于安全原因,使用假名)

  奉主耶稣的名，万民唯一的活着的救主，和你的创造者和好吧！靠着耶稣基督美善而纯全的典章而活。他是和神、神的国度、以及其他人建立正常关系的唯一道路。只有一位神。转离他，我们理应承受他的烈怒。谦卑下来，向神承认你背弃了神——选择自己的道路、随从自己的私意、摒弃神的诫命。在耶稣基督的降生、死与复活里，悖逆的人的罪能得赦免。所以，不要再悖逆了。心里相信，口里承认：耶稣基督就是主！

        In the name of Jesus Christ, the only living Saviorof all peoples, be reconciled to your Creator! Live under the kind, graciousrule of Jesus Christ. He is the only way to have a right relationship with God,with his world and with other people. There is only one God. Turning away fromhim, we deserve his wrath. Humble yourself, agreeing with God that you haverebelled against him, choosing your own way, believing your own ideas,rejecting God’s demands. In Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection,rebels find forgiveness. So, stop rebelling. Believe with your heart; confesswith your mouth: Jesus Christ is Lord!

  罗伯特先生在美国植了一个教会。并且一直在中亚建立教会，有一段时间还在中亚做了发展教会领袖的事工。

麦克・斯泰尔斯

  你或许不知，自己面临着一个两难窘境。你是被爱着的因你是神特别的创造。但又因神是圣洁的，所以你因自己的罪恶而与神隔绝且落在他的审判之下。圣经讲述了神的拯救办法：耶稣—完全的神也是纯全无瑕疵的人，通过十字架上的死将我们救赎。他付了我们罪债且又从死里复活以此证明他就是道路、真理。从这样的两难境地出来吧！转离罪恶；跟从耶稣，完全的相信他委身于他吧！

        Maybe you don’t know, but there is a heavenly dilemmaover you. You are loved as God’s special creation. But because God is also holyyou are cut off from him by your wickedness and under his judgment. The Bibletells of God’s one solution: Jesus, fully God and fully sinless man, ransomedus to God through his death on the cross. He paid our sin-debt and rose fromthe dead as proof that he is the way and the truth. Eliminate the dilemma! Turnfrom sin; follow Jesus by putting your complete faith and trust in him.

  麦克・斯泰尔斯是阿拉伯联合酋长国，迪拜的一个商人，著有《耶稣的话》（Speaking of Jesus），《孩子教给我的关于神的17件事》（Things My Kids Taught Me About God），《麦克和里安的短宣指南》（Mack & Leeanne’s Guide to Short-Term Missions）的作者。

阿德里安・沃诺克

  尽管我们有很多不同，但我们在很多方面是相似的—-渴望难得的内心的平静和幸福，这只有造万物的神那里才能找到。我们既是罪的受害者又是罪的执行者，公义的神万不会以有罪的为无罪。作为神的仇敌而叛逆的活。只有一个人过着纯全的生活—–基督，他为我们而死，担当我们的刑罚，并且从死里复活，以便我们与他一同复活。请读林后5：17-21，尤其是21节：“神使那无罪的，替我们成为罪，好叫我们在他里面成为神的义。”

         Despite our differences, we are similar in many ways —longing for the elusive peace and happiness found only in the God who madeeverything. We are both victims and perpetrators of evil that cannot be justlyoverlooked, rebels living as enemies of God. Only one man lived a perfect life— Jesus, who died our death, suffered our punishment, and was resurrected sothat we could be reborn. Please read 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, especially verse21: “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him wemight become the righteousness of God.”

    阿德里安・沃诺克，一位训练有素的精神病医生，开通了一个很有知名度的博客     http://adrianwarnock.com且是英国伦敦朱比利教会的常任牧师。

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