興旺福音的教會 A Multiplying Church

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1 興旺福音的教會 A Multiplying Church
使徒行傳 Acts 2:42-47

2 人們為什麼想要來教會. Why do people attend church. 如何吸引更多的人來教會
人們為什麼想要來教會? Why do people attend church? 如何吸引更多的人來教會? How to draw more people to our church?

3 使徒行傳 Acts 2:42-47 42 都恒心遵守使徒的教訓，彼此交接，擘餅，祈禱。 43 眾人都懼怕；使徒又行了許多奇事神跡。 44 信的人都在一處，凡物公用； 45 並且賣了田產，家業，照各人所需用的分給各人。 46 他們天天同心合意恒切的在殿裡，且在家中擘餅，存著歡喜、誠實的心用飯， 47 讚美神，得眾民的喜愛。主將得救的人天天加給他們。 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

4 初代教會增長的祕訣 Principles OF Multiplying a Church
敬畏神 Fear God  遵行神的話 Obey God's Word 同心合意 Unite in the body of Christ 廣傳福音 Proclaim the Gospel

5 1.敬畏神 Fear God 誰敬畏耶和華，耶和華必教導他當選擇的道路。 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. (詩篇 Psalm 25:12) 凡敬畏耶和華、遵行他道的人有福了！ Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. (詩篇 Psalm 128:1) 要招聚他們男、女、孩子、並城裏寄居的、使他們聽、使他們學習、好敬畏耶和華你們的神、謹守遵行這律法的一切話。 Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law. (申命記 Deut 31:12 )

6 2. 遵行神的話 Obey God's Word 你們要將我這話存在心內，留在意中，繫在手上為記號，戴在額上為經文。也要教訓你們的兒女，無論坐在家裏，行在路上；躺下，起來，都要談論。又要寫在房屋的門框上，並城門上。 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates (申命記 Deut 11：18-20) 你的話是我腳前的燈，是我路上的光。 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. (詩篇 Psalm 119:105)

7 使徒行傳 Acts 2:44-46 信的人都在一處，凡物公用；並且賣了田產，家業，照各人所需用的分給各人。 他們天天同心合意恒切的在殿裡，且在家中擘餅，存著歡喜、誠實的心用飯 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts

8 3.同心合意 Unite in the body of Christ
我賜給你們一條新命令，乃是叫你們彼此相愛，我怎樣愛你們，你們也要怎樣相愛。你們若有彼此相愛的心，眾人因此就認出你們是我的門徒了。 34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (約翰福音 John 13:34-35) 我不但為這些人祈求，也為那些因他們的話信我的人祈求，使他們都合而為一。正如你父在我裡面，我在你裡面，使他們也在我們裡面，叫世人可以信你差了我來。你所賜給我的榮耀，我已賜給他們，使他們合而為一，像我們合而為一。我在他們裡面，你在我裡面，使他們完完全全的合而為一，叫世人知道你差了我來，也知道你愛他們如同愛我一樣。 20 My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (約翰福音 John 17:20-23)

9 4. 廣傳福音 Proclaim the gospel
大使命的呼召 你們要去，使萬民作我的門徒，奉父、子、聖靈的名給他 們施洗。凡我所吩咐你們的，都教訓他們遵守，我就常與 你們同在，直到世界的末了。 Great Commission 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (馬太福音 Matt 28:19-20)

10 省察與回應 Reflection and Response
耶穌責備以弗所教會“把起初的愛心離棄了”(You have forsaken the love you had at first) (啟示錄 Rev 2:4) 來吧! 讓我們重拾起初的愛心— 愛神的心 (Love God) 愛神話語的心 (Love God’s Word) 彼此相愛的心 (Love one another) 愛人靈魂的心 (Love people’s soul)