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巴別塔的故事足以成為今日教會的借鏡

合一是教會最重要的一件事
但往往驕傲卻足以毀壞一間教會的合一
因為驕傲替教會建造了無比巨大的巴別塔
讓大家四分五裂地分散了力量
驕傲所帶來的不是合一的力量反而是變亂的根源

看自己比別人強
往往造成了教會合一的阻礙

在教會並非比較自己投入多少時間於服事之中
也並非要比較自己能夠替教會成就任何的大事

服事教會服事神首要於委身
就算
沒有任何學歷
沒有任何才能
只要願意委身於教會的各類需要
都會是最好的服事
就算只是委身於最小的弟兄身上

標榜能力
標榜學歷
標榜屬靈
標榜恩賜
標榜經歷

或許都可以成就神國大事
但若是以驕傲的心態處之

任何一個服事都不會是神所喜悅的事

願你我委身於呼召並謙卑行事
看他人比自己強
莫讓眼光定睛於屬世之中
仰望神國大事
合一在主耶穌基督裡
成全百樣事工

驕傲是變亂的來源
唯有謙卑順服成就合一




創世記

11:1 那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。
Now the whole earth had one language and few words.
11:2 他們往東邊遷移的時候，在示拿地遇見一片平原，就住在那裡。
And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
11:3 他們彼此商量說：「來吧！我們要做磚，把磚燒透了。」他們就拿磚當石頭，又拿石漆當灰泥。
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
11:4 他們說：「來吧！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。」
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
11:5 耶和華降臨，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.
11:6 耶和華說：「看哪，他們成為一樣的人民，都是一樣的言語，如今既做起這事來，以後他們所要做的事就沒有不成就的了。
And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
11:7 我們下去，在那裡變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。」
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
11:8 於是耶和華使他們從那裡分散在全地上；他們就停工，不造那城了。
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
11:9 因為耶和華在那裡變亂天下人的言語，使眾人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴別【就是變亂的意思】。
Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.