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这是我一位信仰根基比较浅的家人M最近经历的:

 

回台湾时,我参观了X教会。由于只是参观,所以我不是很清楚该教会的情况。地点离M的家很近,所以介绍M去看看。

 

我去过三四次,发现他们讲道内容一次是讲反同婚,另一次讲使徒教会,复兴与神迹,还有一次讲说要建一个很棒的堂,把意想图放出来,说要进入社区服务社区。内容比较多是形容过去的经历即未来的理想,但没什么提到圣经。牧者还说他们是不开会的,直接做决定,因为开会没意义,只会一团乱。

 

我带M参加一次聚会,牧者把她加入了一个line群组,结果M整天就是看到群组的人在骂民进党与同婚,里面没有什么有营养的内容。 我听了觉得也是:议题归议题,党派归党派,我们不可能同意任何一个党派里所有的立场。与其整天骂,不如分享如何建立更好的家庭关系,好让人们真正的能从自己的生命中见证到一夫一妻的家庭为何会比较好吧。更何况,我的父系家族就住在228案发点(我奶奶还在两年前的228当天气到发心肌梗塞被送到马偕),母系家族有人是公务人员却因为不是支持国民党的职场生涯一直处于瓶颈。所以,即使我在同婚合法化议题不站在民进党同一线,但不管怎么样我们家都不会支持国民党的。表达自己对议题的观点并坚持自己的立场是没问题的,教会向一些违反基督徒价值观的政策提出反对也还ok,但是以教会为平台来向政治人物做出人身攻击,我觉得是有问题的。

 

两个月后,M稍为比较有时间了,她自己再去一次X教会的主日,讲的道又是有关教会开始的经历,以及希望成为门徒教会。M虽然信仰根基浅,她居然向我抱怨:「牧师讲道都没用圣经,凭空而讲,听得我都睡著了。结束后我问有关于如何参加小组,他们指这三四个坐在一起正再咭哩瓜拉用方言祷告的人说那就是小组聚会!后来我在他们的line问他们有关小组聚会的时间地点,居然没有人回应。」

 

享受神的同在,领受圣灵的能力,只是为了自high?

 

最近跟一位属灵长辈对话,讨论到神迹奇事可能会让人感到暂时的震憾,但如果没有伴随神的话语时间久了会发现很空。只有神的话语才能带来真正的满足。

 

我只能继续代祷M能找到一个神话语的根基比较牢固,并且在关怀上有较多实际的行动的教会。

 

最近比较多想到关怀这一块是因为读了神学院一位老师Andrew Sloane写的书。他本来是医生来的:

Sloane is not persuaded that the view "medicine is about health and healing and the alleviation of suffering" works. Instead he believes medicine is "primarily an expression of care for vulnerable human beings whose finitude and frailty has been exposed by physical or psychological ailment and whose ability to function in meaningful relationships has been compromised; its goal is to care for such vulnerable people so as to demonstrate our solidarity with them as suffering persons and seek to enable them to return to a reasonable level of functioning in relationships. Theologically, medicine is an appropriate expression of a well-formed community's care for vulnerable members of the community, a reflection of the character of God and an anticipation of the final transformation of all things to which God is drawing us and all things."

Medicine needs some EBM but also needs to transcend the physical and material to include values and relationships. It is not just medical knowledge but caring for vulnerable people. The "interpersonal relationship which constitutes the clinical encounter… repersonalises medicine."

"Modern medicine can at times be an instrument of alienation rather than restoration; it can cost people much in time and money and pain and inconvenience, and leave them worse off than they were before, even if they are "physically better". We need to imitate the character of Jesus, caring for people in their vulnerability, seeking to show them and others the dignity that inheres in them as a human creature, whatever their weakness and frailty, and act in compassion whatever the outcome."

我自己在职场上的经验是觉得在职场上帮人解决问题不难,但是让他们感受到被关怀到,以及关系达到可以传福音的程度,是一个很大的挑战。正在更多的祷告如何更多的把职场跟信仰连结起来。十月教会与CanCare要开一个关于关怀探访的课,希望去上课会有些帮助。

http://www.cancarecentre.org.au/

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