我們需要的教會 │The Church We Need (Traditional Chinese Discovery Series Booklet)

耶穌是教會的創始者。因此，我們需要一個能讓我們體會耶穌真實同在的教會，猶如當年的猶太人與祂同走加利利塵土飛揚的道路。然而，我們永遠找不到像耶穌那麼完美的教會，也沒有任何教會具有耶穌那樣的能力。所以我們需要尋找的，是以耶穌的眼光看人的教會。

尋找這樣的教會時，我們必須謹記箴言所說：「人吃飽了，厭惡蜂房的蜜；人飢餓了，一切苦物都覺甘甜」（27章7節）。當我們經歷傷痛，承認心靈的需要，不再自滿時，才會體恤教會中那些不完美和傷痛的人。教會是基督的身體，是寬恕、真誠和愛的真正泉源。

──狄馬汀（Mart DeHaan）

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Members of the church are never justified in feeling they can go it alone.

The church we need is one that gives us a taste of what it would have been like to walk the dusty roads of Israel with the church's Founder. While we will never find a church as perfect as He is, and while there is no such thing as a church where members walk on water, we need to find a church that sees people the way He did.

As we look for that kind of church, there is something to keep in mind: A wise proverb says, "A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet" (Prov. 27:7). Only when we are broken and emptied of our own self-sufficiency will we value other imperfect, broken people who have found in the church, the body of Christ, a genuine source of forgiveness, honesty, and love.