ネット社会で問われる「信頼」の大切さ 「情報と福音」テーマに集会 再録
ネット社会で問われる「信頼」の大切さ 「情報と福音」テーマに集会 再録
★「沖縄に重元清あり！」、私にとって、まさにその通りです。
今回も、重元先生の企画力と実践力で、「情報と福音」をテーマ、「ネット社会と私の福音伝道」を副題ににした集会が２月９日、沖縄キリスト教学院シャローム会館（沖縄県西原町）で開催され、日々直面している課題について話す機会を与えられました、感謝。
「情報と福音」をテーマにした集会が２月９日、沖縄キリスト教学院シャローム会館（沖縄県西原町）で開催された。主催は日本福音キリスト教会連合（ＪＥＣＡ）石川福音教会（同県うるま市）で、講師はクリスチャントデイ論説主幹の宮村武夫牧師。「ネット社会と私の福音伝道」を副題に、参加者は講演を聞きながら、インターネット社会における福音伝道の在り方についてあらためて考えを分かち合った。
集会は「インターネットを活用した伝道方法」を学ぶものではなく、「顔と顔とを合わせ、人格を通して福音を伝えること」と、「インターネットを駆使して『コピーされた福音』を伝えること」の本質的な違いを、講師の発題を元に共に考えていく内容だった。参加者８人の小さな集会だったが、石川福音教会の重元清牧師は「大切な一歩を踏み出す集会だったのではないでしょうか」と話す。
顔と顔とを合わせて行う福音伝道から、「コピーされた福音」を広く伝える伝道にシフトしたのは、５００年余りも前のこと。マルティン・ルターは、新しく誕生したヨハネス・グーテンベルグによる印刷技術を用いて、ドイツ語訳聖書を民衆に普及させた。この時すでに、福音伝道の方法に大きな変化が起こっていた。しかし、ルターが印刷技術を積極的に用いた背後には、権威主義に傾いていた当時のカトリック教会との戦いがあった。では現在、インターネットの普及により起こっている爆発的な「コピーされた福音」を使った伝道は、どこに向かっているのか。何と戦っているのか。大きな時代変化のただ中に生きているわれわれは、まだ客観的に判断できないのではないのか。
重元牧師によると、沖縄県には現在３００近い教会があるが、その中の無牧となっている教会では、コンピューターの映像を用いて「説教」を聞き、礼拝を守るところが増えてきているという。重元牧師はこうした現象について、「権威主義に傾く牧師の姿を解体しつつある一面があるかもしれない」と語った。
宮村牧師はまた、時と場所に応じてコミュニケーションの方法を使い分けていると語った。１つ目は、顔と顔とを合わせて直接語り合うこと。２つ目は、電話をかけて直接話すこと。３つ目は、自筆の手紙を書くこと。そして、パソコンとインターネットを利用してメールやブログなどで一斉に情報を発信すること。「どこに向かっているのかよく分からないインターネット時代の中で、私たちの取るべき態度は、宮村牧師のように時と場所に応じて適切な方法を用いるということに要約できるのではないでしょうか」と重元牧師は言う。
ルターの時代には、時と場所を越える普遍性を持つために、印刷物は細心の注意が払われて作成された。事実、グーテンベルグが印刷した聖書の文字の美しさは芸術的なほどに洗練されている。しかし現在、インターネットの中で行われている「コピー」は、あまりにも安易なコピーであり、信頼すべき情報なのか、うその情報なのか、分からない世界を生み出している。顔と顔とを合わせることもなく、電話で直接話すこともなく、また手紙を書くこともなく、インターネット上の情報が自由に切り貼りされ、それがまた大量に流されて行く。重元牧師は集会を終えて、次のように感想を語った。
「今回の集会では、このインターネット時代に『信頼』の大切さがあらためて確認されました。またその一方で、本当の『信頼』がどこから来るのか分からないまま、多くの情報に振り回されている私たちの姿についても確認する時となりました」
Miyamura in English Encouragement of a 100-Year-Old
Miyamura in English
Encouragement of a 100-Year-Old
[ ]Introduction
I am so thankful that we can worship the Lord together this morning. I would like to say thank you, that you gave me the oppotunity to study the Bible with you.
When I heard the theme of your Exchange Program, the Role of Christians for the Aged Society", even at first,I had conviction that you must have important study through your program. We have been praying for your meeting at our church.
Whenever I read the Bible, I am always interested in times, dates, ages or things like these in the Biblical text.
For example Genesis 25:21, let me read this in NIV
gIsaac prayed to the Lord on behalf his wife, because she was barren. The Lord answered his prayer,and his wife Rebekah became pregnant." If we read this Bible verse without being careful of its context, we get the impression that Isaach's preyer was answered soon. So we may think there is a gap between this and our real day-by-day experience.
However, we need to read carefully just one verse before Genesis 25:21, this is,20.
Genesis 25:20gand Isaac was forty years old when he marriaged Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean."
Then, we must be careful to read verse 26.
It says, when Isaac's prayer was answered and Rebekah gave birth to Esau and Jacob, Issac was sixty years old.
Therefore, Isaac had benn praying fof his wife Rebekah, nearly for twenty yeares, day after day.
Genesis 25:21 inclues within its short verse nearly twenty years. This fact makes us be careful when we read the statement of times,
ages, dates and so on, in our Bible.
Among the persons who the Bible mentions about their ages, Joseph, one of Isaac's grandsons,is especially noteworthy.
[ ]Joseph, the grandson of Isaac
In the case of Joseph, the Bible writes clearly his age three times. that is,
Genesis 37:2, Genesis 41:46 and Genesis 50:22
Let me read each of them.
Genesis 37:2 g---Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers,---"
41:46 gJoseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt."
50:22 gJoseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten yeares."
After we moved to Okinawa from Tokyo area in Aprile 1986, we continueto experience blessings of our Lord, even though it is true
that we face some difficulties. One of the precious blessing is to participate in the Sunday afternoon worship service of Mt.Olibe
hospital elderly people's home every the 4th Sunday over ten years.
From this experience, the story of Joseph's life became much more meaningful for me. At Mt. Olive elderly peoples home worship service,some are in their 80's, or 90's and several are even 100 years old. One of them, Granma Inafuku will be 101 years old on her
next September birthday. She is the grandma of our church member, so I have known her very well for the last 15 years. Whenever I meet her, she says,gI am Genki", just like this.
[ ]To understand a 100 year old person life, through the Bible or by the Bible.
After we moved here, I am interested in reading the Bible not only at this new place, but also in understanding the new place through the Bible or by the Bible. To know the content of our Bible and preach it, is necessary and important. But it is no enough. We need to
understand everything of our daily life through the Bible.
We read the life of Joseph in our Bible. Then we learn to see and understand the existence of Joseph, not only at sixteen years old, but throughout his life. We see the 17-year-old Joseph, the 30-year-old Joseph, and 110-year- old Joseph. In this way, we really understand who Joseph is.
In the same way, I learn to understand each precious life of Mt.Olive hospitale old people,through the Bible text of Joseph in
Genesis.
For example, about
17 years old
We can think of the life of each one of elderly home people, at 17 years old, through our picture of 17-year-old Joseph.
17 years old Joseph. Of course, there is back-ground before that time. Joseph was created in his mothers womb, just like the Psalm 139 shows us. The Psalm says.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your
thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
Joseph went through each step one by one, untill he became 17 years old and he was separated from his family and home land, and then was moved into the new circumstances.
Just like Joseph, quite a few of our elderly people of Mt.Olibe hospital had to leave this beautiful land, for one reason or another and live in mainland where they experienced discrimination.
30 years old
We can imagine each one at 30 years of age, through the picture of the 30 yeas old Joseph.Joseph went through adverse circumstances one after another, but he did his best faithfully in every situation. His rights were not recognized, but he was made responsible for all that was done there. And finally Jpseph got his life work at 30 years old.
Through this picture, we can understand the lives of each noe of our elderly people, when they were 30 years old. How faithfully they continue to live in any particular situation.
Especially the picture of Joseph's life makes us think about the days of their lives from 30 years old to today.
What a heavy step each one of elderly people went through in the middle of the hard days in Okinawa through and after World War .
Let us see how Joseph saw his whole life.
I would like to read Genesis 50:19,20.
Genesis 50:19
But Joseph said to them,gDon't be afraid. Am I in the place
of God?
20 You intemd to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what was now being done, the saving of many lives."
Joseph clearly saw that the living God guides his total steps of his whole life, and confessed the faith of Divine Probidence.
Just like Joseph, now Grandma Inafuku recognizes tnat her Lord guides her whole life and she praises the name of the Lord by her whole existence.
Conclusion
What is the encouragement of a 100-year-old person, like Grandma Inafuku, for us who are given the theme, gthe Role of Christians for the Aged Society"?
I think there are two teachings at least.
The first one is encuragement that gives hope.
Second is encouragement of sound mind.
Let us think about first point. As you know , elderly people think and tell things from many years ago like yesterday.
For just Grandma Inafuku,the past 50 years, even 70 years is quite a shout time.
She can see through the whole process of it at a moment and she praises the Lord for it.
But it is not the whole story. As a true 100-year-old person, she can see through the next 50years, or even 100 years like tomorrow, while many of us see the dificulties and some of us became pessimistic, even disappointed. She encourage us by her existence as Joseph says the following gGod will surely come to your aid."
Second, sound mind( timothy 1:7)
I would like to read Timothy 1:7
gFor God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of soun mind."
Of couse, Grandma Inafuku is no longer a 17-year-old, or 30-year-old. Now, she is helped in many ways by other people. In the present situation, she express the fulfilment of Isaiah 46:4 gEven to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you.
I will sustain you and I will rescue you."
I would like to read the last part of Isaiah
40:3, also.
gYou whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth."
Not just at our mother's wonb, not just our old age. But from the first moment of our existence to the end of our earthly journey, the Lord continues to carry us, even though we do not usually recognize it.
We, as a Christian, confest that it is the living God who carrys us even while we are young and strong as a 17-year-old or 30 year old. This understanding is part of what it means to have a sound mind, to free from haughtness.
gThe Role of Christians for the Aged Society."
It is to show the real humanbeing befor the Lord, by our existence, as Grandma Inafuku does. The real humanbeing, whom the living God created and redeemed. The real humanbeing with hope, and with sound
mind.
Let us prray. Our Heavenly Father thank for this oppotunity of
worshiping You together. Please use each one of us at the real
situation of our society for your glory in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
10月19日（金）ヨハネ20章の味わい その2 16：00クリスチャントゥデイ矢田社長来訪、コラムのため協労
10月19日（金）ヨハネ20章の味わい その2
16：00クリスチャントゥデイ矢田社長来訪、コラムのため協労
https://youtu.be/9p453z7EXMk
ヨハネ２０：２ 動画的動きのある描写
［１］前半
（１）「それで、走って」
墓へ行くマリヤ→走るマリヤ、マリヤの走り
（２）「シモン・ペテロと、イエスが愛された、もうひとりの弟子のところに来て、」
墓と弟子たちのところを行ったり来たり
［２］後半
（１）「だれかが墓から主を取って行きました。」
マリヤの誤った推察。それを伝える誤報。
（２）「主をどこに置いたのか、私たちにはわかりません。」
自分自身の無知、制約認識と告白
この朝の一首、この日の恵み、感謝
この朝の一首、この日の恵み、感謝
「この朝の一首」（A Japanese short poem "tanka" for the day with pictures taken by Philip)：
鳥取観光シリーズ：No.18
・ 大山に紅葉観んと只管に車走らす観光道路 愛馬伝師 I drove the high-way that is surrounding the Mt. "Daisen" to see forests of which trees' leaves were turning beautifully red and yellow.
"この朝の一首" (フィリップが撮影した日の日本の短い詩"短歌")
鳥取観光シリーズ：No.18
・ 大山に紅葉観んと只管に車走らす観光道路愛馬伝師私は山を取り巻く高い道を運転した. "大仙"は, 木の葉が美しく赤と黄色になっている森を見ている.
恩師ロージャー・ニコール先生への手紙
恩師ロージャー・ニコール先生への手紙
2008/04/12
Dear Papa Nicole
Greeting from Okinawa.
Thank you for your mail.
It is so good to know that our faithful Farther is supporting you every day..
Kimiyo and I are praying for you day by day.
10copies of Speaking the Truth in Love are very effective to get understanding and support concerning the translation of your book and publication among my close friends who have well trainings.
Thank you again for your works to send them to me.
I like to introduce Mr.and Mrs. Ishimatu.
Mr.Ishimatu is now a student at Reformed Theological Seminary.
And Mrs.Ishimatu is the daughter of one of my best pastor friends who graduated from Westminster Theological School.
I am very thankful that they are now there,even though he can not study under Dr.Nicole like me.
I hope that your secretary Ms.Cecilia P. Helm and they become good messengers between Dr.Nicole and us.
Please give my paper in English and Japanese concerning revelation to your secretary,then Mr.Ishimatu will go to Ms.Helm and take it.
That paper was written when I was 19 years old many years, but it may be even now helpful to him.
As General Director of Nihon Send, I am doing two main things, that is,
preaching trip and publishing E-mail magazine which is called From Grace to Grace.
I had preaching trip to Shikoku from February 16 to February 25.
From March 15 to March 21, I went to Osaka area and had great time at different churches and other places.
I am going to go Tokyo area from April 19 to 28 and preach and have personal contacts with many different peoples.
Since 1969,I had taught at Tokyo Christian College, Tokyo Christ Seminary ,Tokyo Christian University and Okinawa Bible Seminary, so my former students who
are now pastors at different places all over Japan. They always welcome me very much and helpful for my task.
I enjoy myself writing on E-mail magazine From Grace to Grace and get responses.
One of them came front Pastor Yoshida of Tront Canada.
「Your detailed description of the "Parchments" mentioned by the Apostle Paul is most interesting.
And your comparison with Paul's love of his parchments with yours is a very effective
one. Not only your love for these "old" books from post-war Japan but your preservation of these books will be much appreciated in some seminary library, as many of these books are now out of print.
Thus your contribution to the evangelical scholarship of Japan & Okinawa cannot be
fully appreciated until others realize what you have personally done.
May the Lord richly reward & bless you & Kimiyo for taking on this task in Jesus
Name.」
Kimiyo likes her work at Christian Book Store three day a week.
We attend Naha Baptist Church. I am going to preach there tomorrow.
Dr.Nicole, we pray for you day by day that our Lord support you
God bless you.
With perseverance and hope (Rome 8:25).
Takeo and Kimiyo Miyamura
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今朝の一首、今日の恵み、感謝
今朝の一首、今日の恵み、感謝
・ 巡り来る聖日毎に主を仰ぎみことばに聴く神の子の幸 愛馬伝師 It is a blessed and happy experience for children of God to go to a church on every Sundays and listen to a preaching from the Word of God.
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