unknown 不知 / 未知 / 無知 20200517

[Anthony Su]

Are there any parts in the Bible that fascinate you, or turn you off?  有沒有聖經裡的哪部分吸引過你的注意或好奇，讓你倒盡胃口？

Have you considered the faith, the religion, and the church are simply philosophy? 你是不是曾經以為信仰、宗教、教會都只不過是哲學而已?

Have you considered the faith, the religion, and the church are simply games that the unintelligent people play? 你是不是曾經以為信仰、宗教、教會都只不過是缺乏知識的人在玩的遊戲而已?

Watch and study the sermon for today, and think about how intelligent people like Paul and the Greeks responded to the deity and the unknown. It was my turn to translate the sermon into Chinese. It took me several days and several rounds to figure out some of the points. They are challenging and fascinating. I have learned that handling the unknown is the must-learn in our life. We live our adult life handling the unknown and the untrained matters every day. But the schools only teach us to handle what we have learned. 觀看今天的講道影片，研讀那講道稿一番，或幾番。我輪到翻譯那講道稿成為中文。我花了好幾天的時間，讀了好記遍，才送清處理面的一些要點。真是挑戰，又引人入勝。我學到「處理為知」是我們人生的必修課。我們的成人生活裡天天都需要處理「不知道」、「沒受訓過」的事情。可是，學校都只教我們處理學過的事情。

Has anybody truly knows the issues we have to deal with every day? Just look at the virus and the related consequences we are facing now. 有沒有人真正知道我們天天的處理的事務？看看目前大家所面對的瘟疫以及相關的後果。

Hymn-briefing is a new innovative project at the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church of Greater St. Louis, for this congregation during the lockdown, and the worship services are carried out through viewing the pre-recorded video. We try to enhance the quality of the worship services. Since we have many first-generation Christians who are not familiar with the convention of hymn singing, in the congregation, briefing on the hymn to be sung in the worship service seems to be a good and essential way to facilitate the joy and the spirit of worshiping.  聖詩簡介是在新路易台灣人長老教會為這個會眾所創新的一項方案。 這期間，禮拜堂關閉，禮拜儀式經由觀看錄影進行。我們設法提升禮拜的品質。由於會眾裡有許多第一代基督徒對於傳統的「唱聖詩」並不熟悉，簡介當天要唱的聖詩就成為提升禮拜品質的一項好又必要，可能促使大家享受禮拜的樂取與精神的措施。

Everything we do so far has been exploratory because nobody knows what is the best way, the right ways, not even the potential ways. The only thing we know for sure is the demonstration of the Taiwanese pronunciation of the Taiwanese lyrics. Based on the previous trial with Hymn-study in a Sunday-School class we thought to touch the theology, the doctrines, and the faith-related subject might be helpful to the ways we sing. Another thing for sure is the avoidance of jumping into a drill for the skill of singing and the avoidance from asking all to sing alike because we should not assume that everyone likes to sing and the related exercises. 我們已經進行的簡介都是探索性的，因為沒有人真正知道最好的方法、。正確的方法、甚至可能的方法。唯一確知的事項就是示範台與歌詞的發音與咬字。另一件確定的事情就是「避免跳入音樂技巧的磨練，而且避免要大家唱得一模一樣」因為我們不可以預設每個人都喜歡唱歌，喜歡參加有關唱歌的磨練。

The hymn briefing 03 today might need to be corrected, updated, or enhanced continuously. Watch the reporting in this newsletter or visit that blog being linked.  我們今天的簡介可能需要繼續修改，簡化，請注意這電子報的報導或是去那個鏈結的佈絡閣看看。