東莞之行

Today, I visited a factory in Tongguan to preach gospel. I loved preaching as this is an important task that Jesus assigned the desciples. I found that the workers are egar to know something about Jesus Christ. But they seldom have a chance to know it. Some of them told me that there is no church in their home province. Though the time for us to share is not enough, I think I just did what I should do - to share the good news as Jesus requested.

Recently, when I did something related to preaching, I found that it is not easy for me. It is a struggle in my heart. On one hand, it is a task I am longing to. On the other hand, the feeling of unwillingness brusts out. Under God's grace, I overcome the hard feeling somehow. Thanks God. I know that I gained victory again.

今日，我到東莞的工廠傳福音。這是我第二次到那兒。我十分喜歡傳福音，因為這是大使命。
和工人傾談後，我發覺他們對信仰有興趣，只是沒有門路，在他們的家鄉還未有教堂或信主的人。由於時間關係，和他們的分享時間不多，但我覺得自己只是盡上耶穌所要求的本份而已。

最近，當我為神作福音的工作時，都有點困難。內心交戰：一方面這是我所愛的事奉，另一方面不願意的感覺彈了出來.....但感謝神，我又戰勝了一次！

Lesson 2

Today, I went throught the history of the first generation of martyr. It is impressed that how come they are brave enough to face such tortures? For example, some of they were burned or killed by animals. It is quite horrible and disgusting. However, they still have conviction that they died for Jesus. Because of them, many people became Christians. That is the reason for the drastic growth of Christians. That is what Tertullian said, " the blood of Christians became the seed of Gospel."

今日，我上了第二課，有關第一個世紀的殉道者故事。最令我深刻的是為甚麼他們能面對如此的逼迫？有些是給火活生生的燒死，有些則給野獸咬死。但他們死的時候，仍對神有很大的信心。亦因此，旁觀者亦成了基督徒。因此特土良說：「基督徒的血成了種子。」

使徒的殉道：
雅各（約翰的哥哥）：在被定罪時，仍無怨無悔，令一名旁觀者即場信主，和他一起被處決。
多馬：在印度傳福音被殺害，但對當時印度信徒影響深遠。
猶大的兄弟西門：被釘在十架上。
奮銳黨的西門：在埃及成為主教，後被火燒死。
巴多羅買：在印度傳福音，後被釘十架，但不死，遂遭剝皮及斬首。
腓力：與他的女兒一起被釘死於十架。

主教或信徒殉道：
伊格那丟：被餵野獸而死，死前說：「現在我才開始作主的門徒」。
坡旅甲：士每拿的主教，死時86歲，在被捕後，求獄卒給他一個小時禱告，為每一個他所遇見的人，無論信與不信。因此，獄卒也深受感動，勸他獻祭給凱撒，但坡旅甲卻說：「我事奉主86年，祂從不虧待過我一次，我沒有理由不認祂。」最後，他被火燒死，死時圍觀的群眾也哭了，並有不少人後來信了主。
泊伯多雅：是貴族女子，但她信了耶穌，並受洗加入教會。後遭逮捕，其父力勸她放棄基督徒的身份，但她反說她的身份就是基督徒，除了基督徒外，自己甚麼也不是。最後在被判給野獸咬 死。

看著這些故事，我反問自己為甚麼信主？我，作為一個基督徒，目標究竟是甚麼？可能我不用好像上述的人作大事，但我相信神是有祂心意，問題是我能否配合呢？

After heaing such kind of stories, I asked myself the reason why I believed in Him? Being a Christian, what is my missions? I am not a great person as the above-said. On the contrary, I am just a small potato, though I still believed that God has His planning. The improtance is that how could I carry out His planning?

如何為你自己禱告

其中一課題：主啊，讓我對你的話語有更深的體會

十個讀聖經的好理由：
1. 讀經能幫助你明白自己要往那裡去—
「求你用你的話使我腳步穩當，不許甚麼罪孽轄制我。」（詩119:133）
2. 讀經能給你智慧—
「耶和華的律法全備，能甦醒人心；耶和華的法度確定，能使愚人有智慧。」（詩19:7）
3. 讀經能幫助你獲得成功—
「這律法書不可離開你的口，總要晝夜思想，好使你謹守遵行這書上所寫的一切話；如此，你的道路就可以 亨通，凡事順利。」（書1:8）
4. 讀經能幫助你過聖潔的生活—
「少年人用甚麼潔淨他的行為呢？是要遵行你的話語。」（詩119:9）
5. 讀經能幫助你順服神—
「耶和華啊，求你將你的律例指教我，我必遵行到底。求你賜我悟性，我便遵守你的律法，且要一心遵守。 求你叫我遵行你的命令，因為這是我所喜愛的。」（詩119:33-35）
6. 讀經能帶給你喜樂—
「耶和華的訓詞正直，能快活人心；耶和華的命令清潔，能明亮人的眼目。」（詩19:8）
7. 讀經能幫助你在信心中成長—
「可見，信道是從聽道來的，聽道是從基督的話來的。」（羅10:17）
8. 讀經能幫助你尋得救贖—
「你們若常遵守我的道，就真是我的門徒；你們必曉真理，真理必叫你們得以自由。」（約8:31-32）
9. 讀經能帶給你們平安—
「愛你律法的人，大有平安，甚麼都不能使他們絆腳。」（詩119:165）
10.讀經能幫助你分辨善惡—
「我將你的話語藏在心裡，免得我得罪你。」（詩119:133）

信得越耐，對神話語的熱衷程度好像減少了，但這一天的課題卻給我當頭捧喝，作為基督的門徒，真的不能離開神的話語，因為神的話語是帶著能力，能夠修正我的思想與意念，有清晰的思考能力，使我有正確的價值觀，並且帶給盼望，幫助我建立完整的生命。

門訓課程開始了，讀經每天3-4章為功課之一，我要繼續努力，不但交差，而是深深喜愛神的說話，並行出來。
另外為了令弟兄姊妹也讀聖經，我會邀請職青區弟兄姊妹參加聯堂聖經問答比賽的話劇。

Being a Christian for several years, it is noted that the enthusiaisms towards God's wors are running down. I made many excuses to myself to escape from reading scriptures, say too tired, too busy and so on. However, after reading the said chapter last night, I found that God's Words could correct me and save me from the wrong pace. What is more, God's Words bring HOPE to me so that I could have a better life under God's grace. Reading scriptures is one of my assignment everyday as required by descipleship training. I would try my best to read it and to love it and to carry out what God's saying. Besides, I am planning to invite b/s in my community to join the drama contest of Bible Contest.

「你們要行道，不要單單聽道，自己欺哄自己，因為聽道而不行道的，就像人對著鏡子看自己本來的面目，看見，走後，隨即忘了他的相貌如何。」（雅1:22-24）

Nicam

The reasons for me to build up an English Blog are that it is convenient to type in English and I could get used to writing English to prepare my studies next year. However, according to my target audience's opinion, it is a good idea to have a Chinese version. From now on, I would try my best to provide two versions.


我建立英語綱頁的原因為英文打字較方便，而且我希望寫多些英文以應付將來讀書之用。但我的觀眾卻以為中文版較好，因此我決定由現在開始會提供中文版。