In-person services of a church in Shaanxi were suspended again as the virus rebounded in China.
All activities of 14 Christian churches in Fufeng County were suspended on January 26, 2020, and resumed on June 14 of the same year.
Temporarily shut down from January 10, Fufeng Church in Baoji immediately started having Sunday services and ministries virtually.
Beginning at 10 am on January 17, the third Sunday service of 2021 was live-streamed, lasting one hour.
A sister led the intercessory prayer, “Although we are able to meet in the church, may you be with us and may you incline all our hearts unto you. Let us thirst after your word because it is our power of triumph over the pandemic. We’re aware that you will lead us to overcome the virus again despite its resurgence.
Pastor Deng Juni preached a sermon entitled “Do You Love the Lord the Most?” based on John 21:15-17.
Deng stated that excessive love of material, fame, or fortune was vanity and just for the present time, while our spiritual lives last forever through our love for the Lord, his church, and other believers as well as working for him.
She urged the congregation members to join the choir, the prayer time, or the visitation fellowship that reaches out to those who are unable to come to church.
Help for believers with difficulties or care for orphans and widows could comfort painful hearts, make the weak strong, and support those who stumble.
The pastor said that those elderly members who did not know how to use a cellphone or failed to get access to the Internet should be visited, assisted, and encouraged that they would not be forgotten.
As there are many gifts and opportunities in the house of God, she called on believers to play their own parts.
(The original article is published by Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Karen Luo
陕西扶风基督教会,在接到当地政府疫情防控紧急通知后,第一时间召开了堂委会。
从2021年1月10日开始,再次暂停了教会一切日常实体线下活动,重启恢复了线上网络牧养、证道、敬拜、赞美活动。
2021年1月17日这天是个主日,也是新年后第三个主日。
笔者在上午9:30左右打开电脑,来到陕西扶风基督教会的网络牧养群里。
随着他们的网络音频进程,准备参加上午10:00至11:00的网络主日崇拜赞美活动。
扶风县教会范克孝长老的几段音频讲话。
只听他说:“亲爱的家人兄弟姐妹,上午平安,因疫情影响,仍然不能正常去教会作礼拜,今天礼拜天仍然在线上牧养群分享神的话,请放下手中的忙碌,专心来听道吧。
时间上午十点至十一点,愿上帝祝福他的话语,也祝福听他话而遵行的人,我们继续为疫情祷告,求神眷顾他的百姓,减少灾难的日子。
以马内利!
亲爱的主内家人,弟兄姐妹,主内平安!
再次宣布教会的重要告示:
一、因疫情反弹,接上级紧急通知,教会从2021年1月10日暂停一切线下实体聚会,重启在网络上的音频牧养,分享证道,敬拜、赞美活动。
二、望家人及兄弟姐妹,遵守群规,不推销产品。
不卖牛羊鸽子,不传播异端言论,不发负面信息,攻击教会的链接。
三、经堂委会研究,决定重启牧养群规,继续加强管理,维护牧养群的神圣性,严肃性,规范性。
四、每周礼拜一早上至周六早上8:00~8:05发布神的话语,分享管理员郭婉珍姊妹会按时通知提醒。
五、每周四下午14:30至16:00有敬拜,赞美祷告会。
由管理员李美婷姊妹负责。
六、早上6点有每日读经计划,由管理员杨小林主持安排每天读经章节。
七、教会有重大通知事项,由范克孝长老负责通知。
八、每个主日10:00—11:00有网络音频证道。
九、接下来再次重申群规,不遵守群规,乱发信息,乱发链接,推销产品,负面信息,攻击教会的言论。
第一次提醒,第二次警告,第三次退群。
十、对教会安排,不回复、不点赞、不阿们,留心看群规。
扶风县基督教2021年元月10日告示通知。”
上午9:50,扶风基督教会主日网络敬拜赞美,在任彩红姊妹主持下开始了。
她说:”亲爱的家人们,主日平安,今天是新的一年第三个主日,我们虽然不能相聚一起,但是神是无所不在、无所不能、无所不知的神。
我们深信他今天与我们同在,现在我们每个人预备自己的心……我们共同献唱赞美诗歌第405首《何等大的慈爱》。
“在任姊妹领唱下,大家齐声献唱,笔者也紧随跟唱起来。
虽然没有音乐伴奏,任姊妹的歌喉还是很宏亮。
献唱结束后,任姊妹宣信了《使徒信经》。
紧接着任彩红姊妹开始了代祷:“亲爱的阿爸父,我们感谢你赞美你!
在这个不平凡的日子里,我们的心和你在一起。
是你的祝福,让我们这些你所爱的儿女,虽然处在当前这个环境当中仍然很平安。
我们深知你永远为王,这个世界的一切都在你的掌管之中。
主啊,我们感谢你赞美你!
我们虽然不能在教堂相聚相会,求祢与我们同在,使我们的心完全归向你。
让我们通过网络来渴慕你的话语,因为你的话语就是我们战胜疫情的力量。
虽然疫情目前还在反弹蔓延,但是我们知道你会带领我们再次战胜疫情!
主啊,你会让每一个儿女都在这个环境当中胜过一切。
因为你在十字架上胜过了仇敌,让信你的人得救蒙到了恩典。
但愿我们靠着你胜过目前这个环境,给我们加力不惧怕不胆怯。
让我们天天享受你赐给的平安。
主啊,我们感谢你赞美你,求你祝福你的出口,使我们得着祢的怜悯和你的喂养。
因着你的话语,使我们的生命得以更新和改变。
在基督里做一个新造的人。
主啊,我们感谢你赞美你,求你与今天不能上线崇拜的父老长辈同在。
无论他们在哪里,都能让他们也享受你的大爱和祝福!
以上的祷告,奉主耶稣基督的名所求。
阿们!”
代祷结束后,任彩红姊妹宣读了启应经文,诗篇第121篇。
上午10:10,邓菊妮传道以经文(约21:15-17)章节为依据,围绕《你最爱的是主吗?》
主题,用了近四十分钟时间讲了三大部分。
一、你爱我比这些更深吗?
1.物质 ;2.名利;3.钱财 。
二、你爱主吗?
1.爱自己 ;2.爱教会;3.爱弟兄姐妹。
三、爱主为主做什么?
1.为主做工;2.为自己劳碌;3.在神家尽忠。
邓菊妮传道的整堂证道非常接地气,她以圣经章节为引导,联系当前实际,娓娓道来通俗易懂。
告诉了大家一个朴素的真理,那就是过重爱物质、名利、钱财是虚无、是暂时的;只有爱主、爱教会、爱弟兄姐妹,为主做工(或作教会里的牧者,或作顺服主的羔羊),我们的属灵生命才能常青永存。
是啊,我们要做忠心主的仆人,像圣经里的摩西一样效法主跟随主。
在我们今天的教会里,能够尽上自己的心来为主做工,或者到诗班参加献唱、或者参加祷告组去祷告,或者参加探望团契走出教会大门,深入到不能来教会的姊妹弟兄家中送去主的爱,让他们感受到主与他们永远同在并深深爱着他们。
我们要积极参与到教会团契中去,去尽心尽力地服侍神和服侍好神的家(教会),因为我们都是神所爱的仆人啊!
我们在教会无论哪个团契,无论做何种服侍,我们都是神的仆人。
我们去看顾那些有困难需要帮助的姊妹和弟兄,看顾那些需要照顾的孤儿和寡妇。
因着我们的上门探望,使痛苦的心得着安慰,使软弱的得以刚强,使跌倒的得以掺拉扶持。
还有那些不会用手机,听不到网络传神话语的年长弟兄姊妹,我们更应去看望他们、帮助他们、勉励他们,唤起他们继续前行的信心,使这部分羊儿不再成为被遗忘的角落。
所以,神家的工作很多,职分岗位也很多。
我们都要来尽上自己的本分,听从神的呼召成为被神使用的那件器皿。
证道结束后,范克孝长为大家祝福:“荣耀、复兴全能的主,我们感谢你赞美你!
主啊,你的名在我们中间何其美好,主啊,你的话语何等的甘甜,主啊,我们今天爱主太少。
天父爱我们将他的独生爱子赐给我们,使我们得救不至灭亡,反得永生!
主啊,我们感谢你赞美你啊!
在这疫情反弹期间,主你仍然与你每一个孩子同在、与你的教会同在。
主啊,你减少这灾难的日子吧,让我们都能过上安康平安的好日子。
主啊,我们感谢赞美你。
我们把荣耀归给你,愿赐平安的上帝亲自使我们全然成圣,蒙上帝保守。
在主基督耶稣再次降临的时候,我们完全无可指责。
愿主的灵常与我们同在,阿们!
”
上午11:00,在主持人任彩红姊妹邀请大家共颂《主祷文》后,结束了主日网络崇拜。
疫情反弹再次暂停实体线下聚会 陕西扶风教会重启主日网络崇拜
In-person services of a church in Shaanxi were suspended again as the virus rebounded in China.
All activities of 14 Christian churches in Fufeng County were suspended on January 26, 2020, and resumed on June 14 of the same year.
Temporarily shut down from January 10, Fufeng Church in Baoji immediately started having Sunday services and ministries virtually.
Beginning at 10 am on January 17, the third Sunday service of 2021 was live-streamed, lasting one hour.
A sister led the intercessory prayer, “Although we are able to meet in the church, may you be with us and may you incline all our hearts unto you. Let us thirst after your word because it is our power of triumph over the pandemic. We’re aware that you will lead us to overcome the virus again despite its resurgence.
Pastor Deng Juni preached a sermon entitled “Do You Love the Lord the Most?” based on John 21:15-17.
Deng stated that excessive love of material, fame, or fortune was vanity and just for the present time, while our spiritual lives last forever through our love for the Lord, his church, and other believers as well as working for him.
She urged the congregation members to join the choir, the prayer time, or the visitation fellowship that reaches out to those who are unable to come to church.
Help for believers with difficulties or care for orphans and widows could comfort painful hearts, make the weak strong, and support those who stumble.
The pastor said that those elderly members who did not know how to use a cellphone or failed to get access to the Internet should be visited, assisted, and encouraged that they would not be forgotten.
As there are many gifts and opportunities in the house of God, she called on believers to play their own parts.
(The original article is published by Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Karen Luo
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