【双语灵修】福音引起我的共鸣THE GOSPEL RESONATES WITH ME

哥林多后书 5:16-21

所以，我们从今以后，不凭着外貌认人了。虽然凭着外貌认过基督，如今却不再这样认他了。若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。一切都是出于神，他藉着基督使我们与他和好，又将劝人与他和好的职分赐给我们。这就是神在基督里叫世人与自己和好，不将他们的过犯归到他们身上，并且将这和好的道理托付了我们。所以，我们做基督的使者，就好像神藉我们劝你们一般，我们替基督求你们与神和好。神使那无罪的替我们成为罪，好叫我们在他里面成为神的义。

9月28日

福音引起我的共鸣

“若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了！” - 林后 5:17

在未来几天，让我们思想一下，福音如何引起我们的共鸣，然后延伸至我们与其他人的关系，最后向整个世界发出响声。

我最近在加拿大的一间教会讲道，这教会曾为数以百计来自中东某个国家的移民洗礼。在崇拜结束后，一位年轻人走近我，用他不大流畅的英语告诉我，这是他第一次到教会。他刚移民到加拿大，他对耶稣感到好奇，那天早上他到教会是想知道基督教的信仰是怎么一回事。我很高兴可以告诉他有关耶稣对他的爱，又介绍他认识一些能够用他自己的语言，向他解释耶稣的福音的人。他受到热烈的欢迎，又被邀请去体验怎样亲身与耶稣产生共鸣。

在今天的经文中，我们看见福音被传扬开去：“若有人在基督里…旧事已过，都变成新的了！”这段经文邀请我们去接受耶稣在十字架上为我们所成就的一切。我们每一个人—不论是谁和不论有怎样的过去—都可以藉着耶稣基督亲身与神和好。在耶稣里可以有完全的赦罪—这是送给所有人的好消息！

愿耶稣的喜乐和盼望在你心中引起共鸣，又愿你凭信心回应，得以与神和好！

祷告

耶稣啊，你本是无罪的，为着使我们能与神和好，你替我们成为罪！愿这赐生命的信息，今天在我们每个人的心中引起深刻的共鸣。阿们。

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

THE GOSPEL RESONATES WITH ME

If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! —2 Corinthians 5:17

For the next few days, let’s think about how the gospel resonates with us personally, then spreads into our relationships, and then rings out further into the world.

I was speaking in a church in Canada recently that has baptized hundreds of new immigrants from a country in the Middle East. After the service, a young man came up to me and shared in broken English that this was his first time in the church. He had just immigrated to Canada and was curious about Jesus. He had shown up that morning to see what the Christian faith was about. What a joy it was to be able to tell him about Jesus’ love for him and to connect him with someone who could explain the good news of Jesus in his own language. He was warmly welcomed and invited to experience personal resonance with Jesus.

In our passage for today, we hear the good news ringing out: “If anyone is in Christ . . . the old has gone, the new is here!” This passage invites us to receive all that Jesus has accomplished on the cross for us. Each one of us—whoever we are, whatever our story—can be personally reconciled with God through Jesus Christ. The promise of complete forgiveness is possible in Jesus— and this good news is for everyone!

May the joy and hope of Jesus resonate in your heart. And may you respond in faith and be reconciled to God!

Dear Jesus, you who had no sin became sin for us so that we could be reconciled to God! May this life-giving message resonate deep within each of us today. Amen.