“ True Believers Like Wheat ” and “ The Wicked Like Chaff ” “John answered them all, ‘I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’” (Luke 3:16–17). Let us meditate on this passage and receive its spiritual lessons: (1) When the people, who had long awaited the coming of the Messiah, began to wonder in their hearts whether John the Baptist might be the Messiah (Luke 3:15, Modern Translation ), John testified clearly that he was not the Messiah, but that the One coming after him was. (a) John 1:8 says: “He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light” ( Modern Translation : “He was not the light himself but came only to bear witness to the light”). (i) The purp...
지나치게 조직화 되어가는 교회 교회가 지나치게 조직화 될 때 숨막힐 수가 있습니다 . 너무 조직회 되어서 기계적일 때 교회는 생동력있게 움직일 수가 없습니다 . 교회는 조직 (Organization) 이지만 동시에 교회는 유기체 (Organism) 입니다 . 이 긴장 (tension) 속에서 균형 (balance) 을 이루어 나가야 합니다 . The church is both organism and organization. There is tension between them. And there should be balanced between them. But it seems to me the church is geared more toward organization. Thus we feel like church is a company. There is no vitality!