---蒙特婁台灣基督長老教會---: December 2010

27.12.10

2010 DEC 27 (星期一）做工當得工價

默想經節歌林多前書 9: 01-18

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? ² Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

³ This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. ⁴ Don’t we have the right to food and drink? ⁵ Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?

⁷ Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? ⁸ Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? ⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? ¹⁰ Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. ¹¹ If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? ¹² If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

¹³ Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? ¹⁴ In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

¹⁵ But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast. ¹⁶ For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! ¹⁷ If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

教會活動

- 12月31日星期五各團契時間將於教會舉辦跨年禱告會，歡迎大家參加
- 本期3067教會公報，「聖誕牽手護杉原灣」，歡迎點擊閱讀

- 本週主日崇拜許志三牧師證道 --- 祝福錄音

代禱事項

感謝事項

--感謝神，「孩子漸漸長大，強健起來，充滿智慧，又有神的恩在他身上。」 (路加福音2:40)
--感謝神， Jean Macdonald長老的服事,願神賜福紀念
--為2011年各團契的會長以及輔導同工感謝神
--感謝神，2011年各團契新任同工訓練會及教育組同工會議於12月18日進行順利
--感謝神，羅元谷, 葉庭郁; 顏于真, 董欣怡於12月19日接受洗禮; 堅信禮; 史明山, 史家維弟兄, 宋秀鴒, 王佳莉, 陳文靜姊
妹成為會員
--感謝神，關懷組重新整理教會的會友通訊錄已經完成並印出
--感謝神，史家維弟兄之子史亞男(Timothy)已經康復
--感謝神，紐約大學已經接受蔡丞雋弟兄的申請
--感謝神，黃俊強 (Martin) 弟兄計畫於2011年7月3日在本教會舉行婚禮,已經完成婚前輔導課程.
--感謝神，林博司長老夫婦、蔡穎仁長老從台灣、楊川台執事及女兒Jessie從美國、吳鴻佺從Edmonton, Alberta平安回來

為教會

--為本教會吳柏翰牧師的牧會，與同工的合一，吳牧師未來的講道將會著重在福音性質方面
--為2011年度的主題「至於我和我家，我們必定事奉耶和華」(約書亞24:15)
--為12月24日 (週五) 晚上的聖誕聚餐和晚會慶祝活動
--為喜樂團契2011年度會長鄭秀蓮姊妹
--為2011年成人詩班隊長賴由莉，指揮林美芳，柯少真姊妹
--為聖歌隊團長戴宗穎弟兄，指揮林佳蓉姊妹

--為兒童主日學校長蔡政峰弟兄
--為2011年各團契會長；輔導: 社青: 顏偉哲；吳柏翰牧師。大專:戴宗穎；許嘉恩、林世雄。青契:陳芷瑩；顏偉哲、林佳
蓉。少契: 伍威；蔡丞雋、白瑀璇
-- 為教育組將進行的各項事工: 1. 青年團契主辦年終跨年禱告會

2. 主日學幼幼班輪值服事的媽媽同工
3. 推廣青契讀經
4. 社青聚會方式將採家庭小組方式, 歡迎並邀請年輕家庭參加.計畫於一年內分組

--為2011年度週二查經禱告會聚會的方式內容及使用教材的選取
--為2011年二月新任長執的選舉，長執候選人
--為2011年將要舉辦的全教會靈修會主題「愛我們的家」，講員陳明賢牧師、募款的計畫與活動

為肢體

--為本會牧師們、長執們及會友們的家庭作守望禱告: 吳柏翰牧師、黃貴美長老、卓純真執事、廖興隆弟兄、林美芳姊妹
--為最近外出的兄姊: 吳清江夫婦，高玉珍姊妹、林佳蓉姊妹、李明芬姊妹、鄭英州夫婦、蔡內慧長老夫婦、陳美佑姊妹
吳素月姊妹、朱志龍夫婦、杜水木執事夫婦
--為身體欠安的弟兄姐妹代禱: 林千代姊妹開刀後的復健、白瑀璇姊妹回台灣將之前眼睛開刀的縫線拆掉、林世雄醫師之
子奕恩呼吸的問題、吳清江弟兄、陳冠諼姊妹
--為吳國慶執事的房子能順利賣出
--為社青: 琴愔、鄭偉、鴻儒、蕭漢城、丞雋、Timothy 陳
--為新來的朋友: 陳俊宇弟兄
--為宗奇弟兄的太太Eryn產期已近、黃以白姊妹懷孕健康平安
--為謝謹, 張政平夫婦退休生活
--為趙秀寶姊妹的身體和工作
--為陳文靜姊妹的先生將於12月26日來蒙特婁, 旅途的平安

24.12.10

2010 Dec 23 (星期四）再論結婚與否

默想經節歌林多前書 7: 29-40

請點擊此處連結到今天的經文默想

²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not; ³⁰ those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; ³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
³² I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord. ³³ But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— ³⁴ and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.
³⁶ If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are too strong and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. ³⁷ But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing. ³⁸ So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better.
³⁹ A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.⁴⁰ In my judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

教會活動

--今年聖誕晚會時間訂於12月24日晚上7:30到9:30.主題為:「福音與家庭」.從今天起到12月20日止,請向賴由莉長老,蔡丞雋弟兄報名晚會表演節目.歡迎兄姊捐贈和晚會主題相關的禮物.請邀請朋友一起來慶祝耶穌的降生.

--12月24日(週五)晚上將舉辦全教會圍爐火鍋晚餐及慶祝晚會.晚餐時間:5:30-7:30.報名費: 4歲(含)以下免費. 5-12歲(含), 60歲(含)以上:$2. 13-59歲(含) :$5.請向秀娟姊妹報名繳費以便確定人數.報名於今日截止

- 本期3067教會公報，「聖誕牽手護杉原灣」，歡迎點擊閱讀