“ 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...
"미래 인재 키우려면 가르치지 말고 질문하게 하라" 오래 전에 저희 교회에 동부 웨스트민스터 신학교에서 교육한 박사 학위를 하신 목사님이 오셔서 교육 세미나를 인도하신 적이 있었습니다 . 그 때 저는 그 목사님을 통해서 배운 교훈은 질문을 잘 해야 한다는 것이었습니다 . 그 때 그 교훈을 지금까지 잊지 않고 있는 것은 어쩌면 그 교훈이 저에겐 신선한 충격 (?) 으로 다가왔기 때문인 것 같습니다 . 받은 그 교훈대로 실천에 옮겨야 하는데 ... 먼저 제 자신에게 하나님의 말씀으로 올바른 질문 ( 자문 ) 을 하는 습관을 기르고 싶습니다 . 그러한 가운데서 제 아내와 제 자녀들에게도 그럴 수 있길 기원합니다 . http://news.joins.com/article/21547409#home