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「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！

Jocelyn, Cc and I were at Enoch Summer Camp during the Civic Holiday long weekend. It’s been a while since the last time I posted some family pictures. Hope you enjoy them!

主日講道：怎樣才算作神的工？（約6:24-35）

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MGC – 20090801 – Niagara on the lake – Enoch Summer Camp

That the “Beloved Disciple” was Lazarus and not John Zebedee?
According to BW3, YES!

What I am talking about is of course Witherington’s article entitled “THE HISTORICAL FIGURE OF THE BELOVED DISCIPLE IN THE 4TH GOSPEL“. It was first presented at SBL last year and is made available online recently.

To start, Ben says:

If you want to cause Biblical scholars to get their knickers in a knot there are two sure fire ways to accomplish that end: 1) you can skewer a sacred cow whether a liberal or conservative one; 2) you can propose a theory that requires one to believe in the possibility of the miraculous to even entertain the thesis. If you can accomplish both with one theory, well, you’ve created a Mallox moment! I seem to accomplished this at the last SBL meeting in November when I gave the following lecture. I’ll let you decide whether you find it illuminating or inflammatory. Flame On!

And as he concludes, he says:

If I am right about all this it means that the historical figure of Lazarus is more important than we have previously imagined, both due to his role in founding churches in and round Ephesus and of course his role in the life of Jesus and Jesus’ mother. Jesus must have trusted him implicitly to hand over his mother to him when he died. Lazarus was far more than one more recipient of a miraculous healing by Jesus. He was “the one whom Jesus loved” as the very first reference to him in John 11 says. We have yet to take the measure of the man. Hopefully now, we can begin to do so.