「敬拜〔神〕的，必須以靈和真理敬拜他。」（約4:24）
只要你略懂希臘文，或單看比較通行的英譯，也會發現經文中的「靈」字，本無「心」字在前。此外，中文和合本的「誠實」，實該譯為「真理」。
如此，你會看見多麼美麗的三一神學：我們是藉著「神的靈」（聖靈）和那自稱是「道路、真理、生命」的耶穌（聖子），敬拜我們的父上帝。
在敬拜中，能力、途徑和目的，都在神。
我們的三一神。
噢，我們多久沒有因為認識這樣的一位神而真正產生敬拜之情？
對比〔我的〕「心靈」、〔我的〕「真誠」，那種自我中心得叫人打冷震的了解，
構成多大的反差，卻又帶來多大的安慰！
You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
Stay updated on my meandering thoughts (Syndicate).
2 Comments
Anson
Yeah, Thomas Torrance once said:
“In our worship the Holy Spirit comes from God, uniting us to the response and obedience and faith and prayer of Jesus, and returns to God, raising us up in Jesus to participate in the worship of heaven and in the eternal communion of the Holy Trinity” (Theology in Reconstruction, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965, p.250)
Heavenly worship has always been in progress. When we worship, we are merely drawn into the Son’s eternal love and worship of the Father through the Spirit. That alleviates both the worship leaders and the worshiping community the fear of not doing a good enough job to worship God.
My professor Darrell Johnson said the incarnation is not effective only one way (bringing God to us), but two ways (also bringing us to God).
“To pray in Jesus’ name and through him means that we enter into Jesus’ status in God’s favour, and invoke Jesus’ standing with God and the efficacy of his redeeming work (over against our own sinful deficits) to be given access to God. In this light, Christians do not properly approach God as an expression of some ill-founded sentimentality about God’s ‘daddy-hood’. Christians properly call God “Father” neither to make God ‘sire’ of the world or of us, nor because we want to deify fatherhood and maleness, but instead precisely because we enter into Jesus’ relationship to God as Father. We are to consider ourselves as enfranchised into Jesus’ sonship with God.” (Larry W. Hurtado, At the Origins of Christian Worship, p.107-8)
Oh, how good it is to study Greek and how the truth!
We really need more of this exposition in the church so that we can be freed by the truth.
Nov 23rd, 2009
edmund
Yes, TF’s theology of worship is a summary of the early church Fathers: “By the Spirit, through the Son, to the Father”.
Nov 24th, 2009
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