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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

9.14.20 與神與人「對話」的探索4: 效法神



話說上星期日講道後,妻子給了一個回應:「你講到有一個新的領受讓你很震撼,我以為是什麼🤔」。我的回應是:「保羅說我們要效法神,不是很震撼嗎?」我非常享受與所愛的人有這樣的「對話」。下面是一些個人感想,願小小分享,鼓勵大家多多對話。

有時候我覺得基督教,在頭腦上接受了「效法基督」(Imitation) 認為他屈尊降卑虛己成人(condescension),所以我們好好學他作為「人子」的樣式就是了。最近,反思東正教和天主教的靈修傳統時,欣賞他們持守著一種靈性上的嚮往「效法神」或俗稱「聖化」(Divinization) ,早期教父亞他那修認為「基督成為人,為了教我們得成聖」(注1)

 

在過去半年,傳講了六篇以弗所書的信息,最深刻的領受是與基督「一同復活,一同坐在天上」(弗2:6)。我深信教會在屬靈含義上已與基督一同坐在天上(注2)。反省教會所傳所講的應更多反映「在地如同在天」。我也反省了一個現象,有些基督徒為了更「接地氣」(down to earth)只求「日用的飲食」,而忽略了天父在基督裏曾賜給我們「天上各樣屬靈的福氣」(弗1:3)。反觀,安靜下來,朝向至高天父(up to heaven)可說是在每次靈修中與基督「「一同復活,一同坐在天上」(con-ascension)的體驗。

 

默想

他在基督裏曾賜給我們天上各樣屬靈的福氣: (以弗所書1:3)

 

所以,你們該效法神,好像蒙慈愛的兒女一樣。 (以弗所書5:1 )

 

靜觀:

天父,我願更像袮,像袮聖潔。



注1:"From the point of view of scripture, deification is never an individual experience, it is always in the context of the entire church.The Pauline, present-tense expression of the fullness of God, together with the Johannine expectation of here-and-now effects on the κοσμος (world, John 17:23), indicate to me that in significant ways they are accomplished facts, just as God has seated us in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. For me, it is not so much an experience to be attained, but a reality to be experienced. The two are not, however, mutually exclusive." https://biblethumpingliberal.com/2011/10/28/god-became-man-that-man-might-become-god/ 

The Church is the Pleroma (fullness) of God
In Christ all the pleroma of Deity
lives in bodily form. (Colossians 1:19)
May you be filled to the measure of
all the pleroma of God. (Ephesians 3:19)
Until we all attain to the whole
measure of the pleroma of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13)
In Christ you have been brought to
pleroma. (Col 2:9-10)
The church is the pleroma of God. (Ephesians 1:22-23)


注2:空間等效的實現終末論 spatial equivalent inaugurated eschatological” D.A. Carson  

 

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