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對屬靈大屠殺永不沈默
聖公會主教述說分裂陣痛

伍德賢主教屬聖公會盧旺達教省，但他的工場不是非洲，真正的身分是非洲聖公會差派到 加拿大的宣教主教，更有趣的是，他本來就是在加拿大牧會，幾年前脫離加拿大教省，當眾撕破牧師委任狀，後轉投盧旺達教省，最近晉升主教。他的際遇迂迴曲 折，見證北美聖公會內部分裂的哀傷歷史。[全文]

[link: 國度復興報]

I am on my way to LA. My first time. Too bad it is only an airport-hotel-church-hotel-airport overnight stay.

取自那天的日記：

Feb 24 2009

剛從按立禮回來。為那眾多我不認識，卻又為我擺上這一切的弟兄姊妹，並那些出席的好友感謝神。我是誰？神你這般顧念我，讓這麼多人的愛來環繞我一家呢？

過去幾天，我總是這樣想：這是神給我們一些人的第二個機會。第一次，我們沒有做好，我們坐著等著，我們單顧自己的事，到了不可收拾的時候，我們只有選擇離開。這是我們必須承認的罪惡：當錯誤來到之前，我們早已選擇退後，或是以為事不關己…

這壓根兒就是我們不該有的第二次機會。現在的，只可能是祂的恩典。而今次，我們不能再這樣，不能再走那熟悉、卻又注定滅亡之路。

A church without conversion is a dying church。或者，我可以抄這個教會、那個教會的成功秘笈，但最後的，還是我所牧養的教會，當中的人是否活像耶穌？而我，又是否活像耶穌？

這才是我最後要按著交帳的真正問題。

Yes, we arrived safely. Thanks everyone for your prayers — especially for Jocelyn.

My ordination as Deacon will take place tonight (Tues, Feb 24) at 8pm. The place is Richmond Emmanuel Church (7451 Elmbridge Way, Richmond, BC). If you are available, please come and give thanks to the Lord together with me and my family.

Alan, I will see Anson tonight, see if the 3 of us can sit down and have a chat later this week.

My family and I will head for Vancouver for a week. Other than taking a short time off (time-out?), Cc and I will have a short and private retreat with the retried Anglican Archbishop of South-East Asia, Archbishop Yong Ping Chung and his wife Julia.

On Tuesday night, I will then be ordained as deacon under AMiA (Anglican Mission in Americas). This is a crucial step for me to serve as pastor-in-charge of the new church-planting project in Toronto, Toronto Emmanuel Church, starting March 2009.

We are so grateful for God’s providence in the past few years in MGC. Please keep me and my family in your prayers as we step out, and get into this whole church-planting business! We believe that it will be a humbling, challenging and exciting step forward for us all at the same time!

Emmanuel – God with us!

What is it that makes a bunch of Christians, who never met before in their entire life, sing and share and live together as a family in the bond of love?

Yes, this is communion of saints as it should be.

I am on the way again. My 5-day conference is over. Will hit the road soon. For my friends in Toronto, see you tomorrow!

And so it begins:

It is midnight and I am finally in Greensboro, NC. No, nothing unexpected happened. Just that my connecting flights are hours apart…

But I do thank my sister for getting my battery charger and cell phone all the way from home to the airport!