第10章 从事传道工作的青年
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第10章 从事传道工作的青年
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Chap.10 Young Men in the Ministry
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不可轻看传福音的工作。无论举办任何事业，都不应使人因而认为传道工作是次要的。传道工作决不是次要的。凡轻视传道工作的，就是轻视基督。传道工作的任何一方面都是所有工作中最高尚的。所以，应当使青年时常记得，没有什么工作较比传福音的工作更蒙上帝赐福。{GW 63.1}[1]
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There must be no belittling of the gospel ministry. No enterprise should be so conducted as to cause the ministry of the word to be looked upon as an inferior matter. It is not so. Those who belittle the ministry are belittling Christ. The highest of all work is ministry in its various lines, and it should be kept before the youth that there is no work more blessed of God than that of the gospel minister. {GW 63.1}[1]
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不可拦阻本我们的青年参加传道的工作。现在有一种危险，就是有人会因热情动人的宣传，而被吸引偏离上帝所吩咐他们当行的路。有一些人原应预备自己加入传道工作，却被人怂恿，转而习医去了。主呼召更多的传道人进入祂的葡萄园里作工。有命令发出来说：“要巩固前哨阵地。世界各处都要有忠心的哨兵。”青年们，上帝呼召你们。祂呼召胸襟开阔，志向远大，深爱基督和真理的青年大军。{GW 63.2}[2]
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Let not our young men be deterred from entering the ministry. There is danger that through glowing representations some will be drawn away from the path where God bids them walk. Some have been encouraged to take a course of study in medical lines who ought to be preparing themselves to enter the ministry. The Lord calls for more ministers to labor in His vineyard. The words were spoken, Strengthen the outposts; have faithful sentinels in every part of the world. God calls for you, young men. He calls for whole armies of young men who are large-hearted and large-minded, and who have a deep love for Christ and the truth. {GW 63.2}[2]
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才干或学问的大小，远不及你作工的精神重要。传道工作并非要伟人及博学之士；也不要滔滔能言的演说家。上帝所召的，乃是愿将自己献给祂，好被祂的灵充满的人。因为基督和人类的圣工需要圣化的、自我牺牲的人，能出到营外忍受凌辱的人。他们为人都当刚强、勇敢，配担当重大的事业，也要用祭物与上帝立约（参来13:12,15；又诗50:5）。{GW 63.3}[3]
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The measure of capacity or learning is of far less consequence than is the spirit with which you engage in the work. It is not great and learned men that the ministry needs; it is not eloquent sermonizers. God calls for men who will give themselves to Him to be imbued with His Spirit. The cause of Christ and humanity demands sanctified, self-sacrificing men, those who can go forth without the camp, bearing the reproach. Let them be strong, valiant men, fit for worthy enterprises, and let them make a covenant with God by sacrifice. {GW 63.3}[3]
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传道的工作绝非懒惰人所能担负的事业。上帝的仆人在工作上要完全尽职。他们不可懈怠，乃是要竭力尽忠，讲解圣经。他们应当不住的学习。他们当使自己的心灵活泼，牢记着工作的神圣以及蒙召责任的重大；这样，就可以使他们无论在何时何地，不至于因没有用功研究和祈祷而把残疾的祭物献给上帝。{GW 64.1}[4]
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The ministry is no place for idlers. Gods servants are to make full proof of their ministry. They will not be sluggards, but as expositors of His word they will put forth their utmost energies to be faithful. They should never cease to be learners. They are to keep their own souls alive to the sacredness of the work and to the great responsibilities of their calling, that they may at no time or place bring to God a maimed sacrifice, an offering which has cost them neither study nor prayer. {GW 64.1}[4]
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主需要有热切属灵生活的人。每位工人都可得着从上头来的力量，并可抱着信心与希望在上帝吩咐他走的路上前进。上帝的道常存在献身的青年工人心里。这样的人乃是敏捷，热诚，大有能力，因蒙上帝指导而有源源不绝之济助的。{GW 64.2}[5]
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The Lord has need of men of intense spiritual life. Every worker may receive an endowment of strength from on high, and may go forward with faith and hope in the path where God bids him walk. The word of God abides in the young, consecrated laborer. He is quick, earnest, powerful, having in the counsel of God an unfailing source of supply. {GW 64.2}[5]
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上帝已宣召我们的人，将基督快要复临的信息传给世人。我们是要向人发最后的恩召，请人来赴福音筵席，也就是羔羊婚筵的末次邀请。世上有极多的地方还没有听见这一呼召，但将要听见。有许多人还没有传过这信息，但将要去传扬。我要再请求我们的青年说：上帝岂不是已经召你传扬这信息吗？{GW 64.3}[6]
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God has called this people to give to the world the message of Christs soon coming. We are to give to men the last call to the gospel feast, the last invitation to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Thousands of places that have not heard the call are yet to hear it. Many who have not given the message are yet to proclaim it. Again I appeal to our young men: Has not God called upon to you to sound this message? {GW 64.3}[6]
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我们的青年有多少愿意参加上帝的工作，不是要受人的服事，乃是要服事人呢？从前曾有人专心救一个接一个的人，向主说：“主啊，帮助我救这个人。”这样的事现在可不多见了。试问有多少人的行事为人能表示他们认识到罪人的危险呢？又有多少人在祷告之中，将自己明知是在危险里的人，都带到上帝面前并求上帝拯救他们呢？{GW 65.1}[7]
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How many of our young men will enter the service of God, not to be served, but to serve? In times past there were those who fastened their minds upon one soul after another, saying, Lord, help me to save this soul. But now such instances are rare. How many act as if they realized the peril of sinners? How many take those whom they know to be in peril, presenting them to God in prayer, and supplicating Him to save them? {GW 65.1}[7]
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使徒保罗论到早期的教会，他能说：“他们就为我的缘故，归荣耀给上帝”（加1:24）。我们岂不应当努力如此生活，以致人也可以为我们说同样的话么？那些愿意全心寻求主的人，主必为他们预备方法与道路。祂愿意我们承认，在预备作工田地，并预备成功占有这些田地的方法上，都有神圣的主宰管理着。{GW 65.2}[8]
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The apostle Paul could say of the early church, They glorified God in me. [Galatians 1:24.] Shall we not strive to live so that the same words can be said of us? The Lord will provide ways and means for those who will seek Him with the whole heart. He desires us to acknowledge the divine superintendence shown in preparing fields of labor and in preparing the way for these fields to be occupied successfully. {GW 65.2}[8]
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牧师、传道人和福音布道士应当多用功夫与那些被真理感服的人一同切心祈祷。并须记得基督常与你们同在。主预备随时显明祂最宝贵的恩典，来加强并鼓励那诚挚谦卑的工人。然后要将上帝已经照在你们身上的光返照别人。那些这样作的人就是将最宝贵的祭物献给主了。那些传扬救恩佳音的人心里必然火热，满有颂赞的精神。……{GW 65.3}[9]
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Let ministers and evangelists have more seasons of earnest prayer with those who are convicted by the truth. Remember that Christ is always with you. The Lord has in readiness the most precious exhibitions of His grace to strengthen and encourage the sincere, humble worker. Then reflect to others the light which God has caused to shine upon you. Those who do this bring to the Lord the most precious offering. The hearts of those who bear the good tidings of salvation are aglow with the spirit of praise. . . . {GW 65.3}[9]
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作传道工作的人数目不应减少，反当大大加增。如今只有一位传道人的地方，应该再加添二十位；并且若是上帝的灵管理他们，这二十位必竭力宣扬真理，以致还要再加添二十位。{GW 65.4}[10]
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The number of workers in the ministry is not to be lessened, but greatly increased. Where there is now one minister in the field, twenty are to be added; and if the Spirit of God controls them, these twenty will so present the truth that twenty more will be added. {GW 65.4}[10]
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基督的尊荣与职务，乃在乎祂能随己意定下工作的条件。祂门徒在信心和爱弟兄上越近乎完全，就在宣传真理上变得越来越有能力。凡人的才力所不能应付的一切紧急需要，上帝已预备神力扶助。祂赐圣灵帮助我们胜过艰难，坚固盼望，增添信心，开朗思想，并且洁净我们的心。祂的意思是要预备十分便利的方法来成就祂的计划。我劝你们要寻求上帝的忠告，全心寻求祂，“祂告诉你们什么，你们就作什么”（约2:5）。——《教会证言》卷六第411-415页{GW 66.1}[11]
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Christs dignity and office-work are in imposing such conditions as He pleases. His followers are to become more and more a power in the proclamation of the truth as they draw nearer to the perfection of faith and of love for their brethren. God has provided divine assistance for all the emergencies to which our human resources are unequal. He gives the Holy Spirit to help in every strait, to strengthen our hope and assurance, to illuminate our minds and purify our hearts. He means that sufficient facilities shall be provided for the working out of His plans. I bid you seek counsel from God. Seek Him with the whole heart, and whatsoever He saith unto you, do. [John 2:5.]--Testimonies for the Church, Vol. VI, pages 414, 415. {GW 66.1}[11]
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有了这样一支训练有素，装备精良的青年工人大军，那被钉，复活，而又快来之救主的信息，就能何等迅速地传遍全世界啊！末日，就是苦难，悲伤和罪恶的结束，就会何等迅速地来到啊！我们的儿女又能何等迅速地承受他们的产业，就是“义人必承受地土，永居其上。”“城内居民必不说，我病了”，“其中必不再听见哭泣的声音”的地方，以代替他们这被罪恶和痛苦所摧残的地上产业啊（诗37:29；赛33:24；65:19）！——《教育论》271页{GW 66.2}[12]
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With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come,--the end of suffering and sorrow and sin! How soon, in place of a possession here, with its blight of sin and pain, our children might receive their inheritance where the righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever; where the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard! [Psalm 37:29; Isaiah 33:24; 65:19.]--Education, page 271. {GW 66.2}[12]