Message From The Pastor for May 25

Message from the Pastor for First Sunday after Trinity
Once a sweet young thing going out of church said to me, “Doctor, you make me feel like a worm.” Well, who knows, perhaps she needed to feel like a worm! My sermons often make me feel like a worm, too. Partly because I know my life does not measure up to them. But if I could practice everything I preach, it would not be worth the preaching. It is not the church’s job to make sinful men and women feel cocksure and self-satisfied in the presence of the eternal God. The minister seeks to love people, to respect them as individuals, but not to pamper their prejudices or coddle them or tell them they are right when they deny God’s truth. His business is to see people as they really are, and to put them in vital touch with God in Christ.—William H. Hudnut, Jr.
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一次一個小家伙在聚集後對我說，“博士，你令我覺得自己像條蟲那麼沒用。”或者她真的需要有這個感覺才成呢！我的講道有時也令我自己覺得像條蟲一樣。部分原因是因為我知道我的生活還達不到講道要求的標準。但如果我能完全做得到它要求的標準，那麼講道就是多餘的了。教會的責任不是去令有罪的人在永生的神面前自豪和自義。牧師是要愛人，尊重人，但不是去奉承人，嬌縱人，或當人否定了神的真理時仍說他是對的。他的職責是看見人的本相，把人帶到基督的面前得到神的接觸。--作者William H. Hudnut, Jr.是一位堂會牧師。