亲爱的弟兄们，
作为认识并侍奉耶稣的男人，什么是我们能做的最简单且又最伟大的事情呢？
就是表达我们对祂的爱和敬拜。
这里我不是在说教堂里用我们的嘴唇唱一首圣歌，或只是在祈祷中说的一些话而已。我说的是仰望耶稣，真实地向祂表达我们的爱意。
作曲家费尔南多·奥尔特加 (Fernando Ortega) 有许多耶稣充满深切渴慕的歌曲。比如在“向耶稣歌唱”这首里，他邀请我们来到耶稣面前，定睛仰望他，唱一首回应耶稣大爱的诗歌。
有时我们只需要对耶稣说，“我爱你”，这就会改变我们一天。
渐渐地，当我们经常这样操练时，这就会改变我们与祂的关系。当我们体验到那种不断增长的关系之爱，而不只是停留在神学理论里的，当我们深深地感受到即使有许多缺点、弱点和罪，但我们仍然被耶稣所爱时，这真的会改变我们的生命。因为那正是我们作为男人所需要的——被爱。
他的爱不是抽象的。在祂无私赴死中，我们看到在十字架上祂对我们所彰显的奇妙之爱。祂的爱并不取决于我们是否行为够好，而是作为祂的孩子，我们永远不需要去挣得天父的爱。这是一份珍贵的礼物，白白地赐予。不像春天的细雨，因为主耶稣是将其倾注浇灌于我们身上！
在这首歌中，我们听到了男人内心的渴望。他们意识到上帝如此伟大而深厚的大爱之后，就以爱来回应。这就是关系。
当然，从耶稣的拥抱中站立起来后，我们不仅将会为祂而活，也会为祂同样想邀请进入这爱的人们倾注我们的生命。只要我们在地上还一息尚存，我们就会心甘情愿地这样做。
然而事工并不是我们能做的最伟大的事情。但是对于那些被祂的心所触及的人，我们让自己的灵魂一次次地被这永恒之爱所浸润，因而我们再次表达我们对祂的爱。这是一个崭新的时刻，因为我们是在对上帝倾述，祂是万物的全能创造者，我们的阿爸父。这就是我们在短暂的生命中，所能做到的那唯一最伟大的事情。
“因我们还软弱的时候，基督就按所定的日期为罪人死。 为义人死，是少有的；为仁人死，或者有敢做的。 惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死，神的爱就在此向我们显明了.”
罗马书 5:6-8
山前团契的使命：
把每一个男人带进神奇妙的爱里！
Dear Brothers,
What is the simplest and greatest thing we can do, as men, who know and serve Jesus?
It is to express our love and adoration to Him. I’m not talking about singing with our lips a song in church or merely saying the words in a prayer. I’m talking about looking at him and truly expressing love to him.
Songwriter Fernando Ortega has many songs that are deep and full of longing and love for Jesus. In “Sing to Jesus,” he invites us to come to Jesus look on him, and sing a song of responding love.
Sometimes we just need to say to Jesus, “I love you,” and it changes our entire day.
Gradually, as we do this regularly, it changes our relationship with Him. and when you experience that kind of growing relational love, not just theological theory love, and when you have that deep sense that we are loved even in spite of our many faults, weaknesses and sins — it truly changes our lives. It changes is because that is what we need as men — to be loved.
His love is not abstract. In a selfless act of dying we see his marvelous love for us, on the cross. His love is not dependent on us being good enough — as his children we never need to earn our Father’s love. It is a precious gift — freely given — and it does not arrive in tiny drips —- for He showers it upon us!
In this song we hear the man’s heart longing. He realizes such a great and deep love and he responds with love. That is a relationship.
Rising up from such an embrace from Jesus, of course, we will live for him, pouring out our lives for people he wants to invite into his love — and we will gladly do this for as long as we have breathe on this earth. And yet ministry is not the greatest thing we can do.
But for those whose have been touched by His heart, we allow our souls to be permeated time and again with Everlasting love and so we speak out our love for Him once more. And it is a new moment. For we are speaking to God, the almighty creator of everything, our father. This is the single greatest thing we will ever do with our temporary lives.
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:6-8
Trailhead Fellowship Mission:
To bring each man into the marvelous love of God!