Test, being tested, tested!測試、 測試中、測試了

[Anthony Su]

🖥 STLTPC Sunday Worship 主日崇拜 - 06282020

本主日將在9:30開始聖詩教唱-第222首。線上主日崇拜將於(美中時間)上午10點開始。

This Sunday, we will start streaming at 9:30am for Hymnal learning #222. Online worship starts to stream at 10 am.

http://stltpc.org/all-resource-list/sermon_20200628/

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Topic: Congregational Conversation

Time: Jun 28, 2020 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Pastor Aline

Although we have gone through many tests in the schools there are many types of tests waiting in our life after we left the school text forever. We all have learned that the open-book tests are not any easier than the closed-book ones. I once executed a special final-examination in college by asking the students to answer the essay questions they each derived from the textbooks. They admitted that was the most difficult final they ever had. This sounds like a paragraph in a graduation address. 儘管我們在學校中曾經參加過許多測試，但是在我們永久離開學校考試之後，仍有許多類型的測試在等著我們去經歷。 我們都知道，我們都已經知道「看出作答的考試」並不比「靠記憶考試」容易。 我曾經在大學裡進行過一次特殊的期末考試，要求學生回答他們各自從教科書中提煉出的「論述題」。 他們承認那是有史以來最困難的期末考。 這聽起來有點像是在畢業典禮中向比業生致詞的一段話。,

Some teachers give tests that have been repeated over the years while others keep the tests unpredictable. What kinds of teachers give easy tests and what kinds do the other ways? 有些老師使用陳年考古題，有些努力變化，讓學生猜不到。什麼樣的老師提出簡單的測驗題，什麼樣的剛好相反？ 

I tend to believe that our God would not give us tough test but allowing the devils to test us severely sometimes almost beyond our capacity and tolerance. A lot of times we actually lead ourselves into tests. Practically, the motives of God are not a researchable subject which is not worth-discussing. It will be like the story of the 10 blind me, if tried. We can only deal with the facts that we have gone through and perhaps survive or simply win over the innumerable test. (Some people win but die or win by dying). 我傾向於相信，我們的上帝不會給我們艱難受不了的考驗，而是容許魔鬼嚴厲地考驗我們，有時甚至幾乎超出我們的能力和耐力。 很多時候，我們實際上是自找麻煩似地向自己進行測試。「上帝的動機」不是可能當做「實效研究」的標的，甚至不值得討論。 如果嘗試了，就會像是「盲人摸象」的故事一般。我們只能處理我們經歷過的事實、經過測試後生存下來，或只單純贏過了無數次的考驗。 （有些人贏了，但死了，或是經由死亡而得勝了）。

What’s the point in this sermon we will hear today? The Mandarin and the Taiwanese in our thinking mind could not help us enough comparing with the English words in this case. This is one reason that we need a church of multiple languages. In English “believe” and “trust” are distinguished while in Mandarin the difference is not always clearly expressed. 今天我們將聽到這個講道的重點是什麼？ 在這種情況下，與英語單詞相比，我們思維中的普通話和台灣人無法提供足夠的幫助。 這就是我們需要擁有多種語言的教會的原因之一。 在英文中，“相信”和“信任”是有區別的，而在中文中，區別並不總是清楚地表達出來。

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The hymn we will study today is an ambiguous one. The ambiguity provides us rooms for imagination and individualized interpretation. The simpler the music/lyrics the more profound and challenging it is.我們今天又簡介一個相當含糊的聖詩。這個含糊的特質提供很大的空間讓我們產生個別化的解讀與表達。越簡單的歌或詩就月奧妙極具有挑戰性。