Interpretation Learning – Aug 2016 (Funeral/Wake Service)

*Funeral/Wake Service

NO	ENGLISH	CHINESE
1	To make a difference / to have an effect	有影响
2	Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)	所 以 ， 我 們 不 喪 膽 。 外 體 雖 然 毀 壞 ， 內 心 卻 一 天 新 似 一 天 。 我 們 這 至 暫 至 輕 的 苦 楚 ， 要 為 我 們 成 就 極 重 無 比 、 永 遠 的 榮 耀 。 原 來 我 們 不 是 顧 念 所 見 的 ， 乃 是 顧 念 所 不 見 的 ； 因 為 所 見 的 是 暫 時 的 ， 所 不 見 的 是 永 遠 的 。（歌 林 多 後 書 4:16-18)
3	Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (Proverbs 4:23)	你要保守你的心，勝過保守一切。因為一生的果效是由心發出。 (箴言4：23）
4	Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26)	耶 穌 對 他 說 ： 復 活 在 我 ， 生 命 也 在 我 。 信 我 的 人 雖 然 死 了 ， 也 必 復 活 ，凡 活 著 信 我 的 人 必 永 遠 不 死 。 你 信 這 話 麼 ？ （約 翰 福 音 11:25-26）
5	We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)	我們坦然無懼，是更願意離開身體與主同住。 (哥林多后书 5:8)

Interpretation Learning – July 2016 (Funeral/Wake Service)

*Funeral/Wake Service

NO	ENGLISH	CHINESE
1	Wake Service	追思礼拜
2	Sending Off Service Cemetery Crematorium Lay to Rest	出殡礼拜 坟场 火葬场/焚化场 埋葬
3	Bereaved Family	丧家/死者家属
4	Time of Bereavement	丧亲之痛的时间
5	Life after death / Life to come	来生
6	Bringing up children	养育孩子
7	Rested his/her earthly labour	息了世上的劳苦
8	Their deeds follow them	作工的果效也随着他们
9	Called home to glory	蒙主恩召回到天家
10	Fairy Memorial Parks	仙境山庄
11	Nilai Memorial Park	孝恩园
12	Nirvana Memorial	富贵山庄
13	Eulogy/Memorial Speech	悼(dào)词
14	Pay the last respect	瞻(zhān)仰遗容
15	John 14:1-3 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.	約 翰 福 音 14:1-3 你 们 心 里 不 要 忧 愁 ； 你 们 信 神 ， 也 当 信 我 。 在 我 父 的 家 里 有 许 多 住 处 ； 若 是 没 有 ， 我 就 早 已 告 诉 你 们 了 。 我 去 原 是 为 你 们 预 备 地 方 去 。 我 若 去 为 你 们 预 备 了 地 方 ， 就 必 再 来 接 你 们 到 我 那 里 去 ， 我 在 那 里 ， 叫 你 们 也 在 那 里 。
16	2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.	歷 代 志 下 7:14  这 称 为 我 名 下 的 子 民 ， 若 是 自 卑 、 祷 告 ， 寻 求 我 的 面 ， 转 离 他 们 的 恶 行 ， 我 必 从 天 上 垂 听 ， 赦 免 他 们 的 罪 ， 医 治 他 们 的 地 。
17	Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.	彌 迦 書 6：8 世 人 哪 ， 耶 和 华 已 指 示 你 何 为 善 。 他 向 你 所 要 的 是 甚 麽 呢 ？ 只 要 你 行 公 义 ， 好 怜 悯 ， 存 谦 卑 的 心 ， 与 你 的 神 同 行 。

Discipling Post Modern Youth: Issues & Challenges

1) Revisiting Postmoderns’ (POMOs) Issues

a) Their Nicknames…

- Starbucks Generation (wanting a holistic experience)

- Entitled Generation (weekend parents who give in, compensate & have lost discipline, children are the centre of everything)

- Abandoned Generation (parented by their grandparents or maids)

b) Their Rocky Travels

- Travel with disillusionment (finding their idols have clay feet, fail them)

- Travel without anchor (estranged from God)

- Travel with missing pieces (haven’t found themselves their identity, not enough safe place)

c) Oddyssying with Them

- Disciple making in the midst…

2) Discipling Issues Unraveled

~Mathetes~ - Learner, Pupil

J.I. Packer: “Jesus said feed my sheep, not my giraffes!”

a) D’Textbook Disconnect

- Systematic Erosion: life is erratic (不稳定), our systematic syllabus, feel hollow & irrelevant

- Sterile Contamination: the messes of their lives, contaminate our clean sterile messages about God

- ‘Shock’ Phobia: we tell them without words, “no shock” allowed, get cleaned up and then only come in

b) Crisis-Oriented Discipling

- We see crisis as a blot to be solved: it becomes an end itself

- We become crisis-busters-seeing our role as putting out “fires”

- Forgetting that our role is to set them on a journey: with new anchor, new mindsets, new values, new purpose

c) Life, Our School Ground

- learners, pupils using the materials & syllabuses of their lives

- disciple-maker ~ the road sign, the facilitator, the connector

- a classroom of one is preferred ~ where each learner gets individual attention

3) A Re-Examination of our Discipling

1 Chronicles 28

Esther 2:5-7; 3:5-9; 4:7-17

a) David’s Boost to Solomon

- Giving up his personal agenda

- Sacrificial company

- Commending the Lord’s presence

b) Mordecai’s Pricking to Esther

- Providing a safe place for her nurture

- He spoke with his lifestyle ~ picked her to act

- Pointed to the Lord’s acting & showed that the current reality did not nullify that

c) Making Shifts in our Discipline Making

- From informing to making

- From activity to relationship

- From accumulative to deploying

- From program to purpose

4) Our ‘Incarnational’ Vocation

To provide an arena where SPIRITUAL COMPANIONING can take place

a) One disciple at a time

b) Schooling without a ‘right’ textbook

c) Willing to get feet, hands & heart dirty

d) Searching for, pointing to and becoming road signs to God

e) Helping them put out anchors

Source: By Annette Arulrajah organized by Ministries for Asia Pacific (MAP) on 25th June 2016