牧者心聲
眾裡尋祂

林道川牧師
2023 年 7 月 15 日 / 16 日


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思忖著普通話群體過去半年的經歷,心裡浮現了三個觸動自己心靈的時刻。

恩冕(長者)團契除了主日中午的恆常團契時間外,也從 2 月 16 日開始加設週四的線上見面時間,每次由不同的弟兄姊妹講述自己的生命故事。聽長者們分享自己的人生如何走到今天、經歷怎樣的高山低谷,往往令人對生命肅然起敬,並驚歎神在各人生命中的帶領、保守與看顧。一位長者分享自己從小信耶穌,但後來遠離了主,直到有一天感受到自己傷痕纍纍,才再想起主。這位長者正當內心感到對主無比愧疚而憂傷,竟然發現主「還在那裡等我,用耐心、慈愛等我,用深情的眼光凝視我,敞開雙手擁抱我,安慰我說:『孩子,回來就好,一切可以重新開始。』」回顧過往走過的路,不免會碰觸到許多傷痛,然而在主溫柔的邀請下,傷痛卻使生命更深連結於祂。

第二個令我深有觸動的時刻是線上祈禱會。大家每月有兩至三次一起透過詩歌和默想,向主禱告,並學習聆聽祂,從而留意祂在當下和生活中的臨在。一位長者分享有一天下午,自己很疲憊,在空調直吹著的情況下睡著了,睡夢中她突然感到被人拍了兩下,於是醒過來,睜眼看,竟無人在身邊,她才明白是主親自拍醒自己,免得她像過往那樣,常因空調吹著睡覺而病倒。祈禱會中大家分享自己遇見主的經驗,讓我們深深體會到:我們的主是一位臨在自己生活中的主,只要我們用時間、用心留意,就能在生活點滴中看到祂臨在的足跡。

第三個時刻是一個歡送會,近百位弟兄姊妹一起送別即將移居英國與孩子們團聚的吳家恆伉儷。在這離別的時刻,過去與他們相處的一幕幕重現眼前:看見他們如何單純地信主、受洗;看見一位又一位長者因他們而認識主和在主裡成長;看見他們每天到不同家庭探訪(他們在離港的前一天仍在探訪);看見他們電話關心弟兄姊妹的情況⋯⋯每個人都從他們領受了深深的、無私的愛。那天我想著如何向他們表達感謝,內心浮現了一句話:「吳伯、吳伯母,能和你們生活在同一個時代,被您們照顧與愛護,真好⋯⋯」是的,吳家恆伉儷向我們展示了基督愛人的樣式,使普通話群體成了一個愛的群體,深盼我們都能學效他們,活出基督的愛。

願教會的主也祝福我們,叫我們成為一個能時常「看見」祂臨在、彼此切實相愛的群體。


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Pastor's Sharing

Finding Him in Our Midst

Rev Doh Chuan Ning

  Pondering the Putonghua Ministry’s experience over the past six months, memories of three soul-touching moments came to mind.

  From February 16 onward, our Crown of Grace (Senior) Fellowship added a Thursday online session to the usual fellowship time on Sunday at noon. Every time, a brother or sister would tell their life story. Listening to the seniors share how they have walked the journey of life till today and the hills and valleys they have been through often inspires our respect for life. We are also at awe at God’s leading, keeping and care for each. One senior shared how he believed in Christ when young but strayed from the Lord until one day, feeling bruised and broken, he finally thought about the Lord again. While he was grieving due to a deep sense of sorrow and guilt towards the Lord, he found to his surprise that the Lord “…was there waiting for me, waiting for me with patience and lovingkindness. He gazed at me with profound love, and He stretched out His arms to embrace me. He comforted me and said, ‘My child, it is good that you are back. Everything can start afresh.’” Looking back at the path one has been through often gets back in touch with many wounds and pains. Nevertheless, with the Lord’s gentle invitation, the wounds and pains make our lives more closely connected to Him.

  The second moment that deeply touched me was an online prayer meeting. Two to three times every month, we pray to the Lord through hymns and meditation. We learn to listen to Him and notice His presence in our lives. A senior shared that one afternoon, she was tired and fell asleep with the air conditioner directly blowing on her. During her sleep, she suddenly felt that someone tapped her a couple of times, waking her up. She opened her eyes but saw nobody around. Then she realized that it must have been God who woke her up so she would not fall sick again because of the air conditioner blowing on her when she slept. At the prayer meetings, we share our experience of encountering the Lord. That lets us understand thoroughly this: Our Lord is One who is present in our daily lives. If only we take time and pay attention to notice, we will be able to see the footprints of His presence in our lives.

  The third moment is a farewell gathering. Close to 100 brothers and sisters came to bid farewell to a couple, the Ng’s (吳家恆伉儷), who were migrating to the UK to join their children. At that moment of separation, a lot of the times that we went through together came back to mind: We saw that they have simple faith in the Lord and were baptized; we saw that one after another senior came to know and grow in the Lord because of them; we saw that they visited different families every day (they were still visiting the day before they left Hong Kong); we saw how they liked to convey care for brothers and sisters by phone… We could see in them deep and selfless love. That day when I was thinking how to express gratitude to them, this came to my mind: “Uncle Ng, Auntie Ng, it is so good that we have been together all this time and be loved and cared for by you…” Indeed, the Ng’s have displayed how Christ loves man, helping the Putonghua congregation become one of love. I earnestly hope that we will be able to learn from them and live out the love of Christ.

  May the Lord of the church bless us, enabling us to be a congregation which always “see” His presence and which genuinely love one another.






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