20191029 church newsletter for TPCSTL

Two week in a row Pastor Aline participated in the discussion-based open study of the Wilderness Sunday School class, on the 27th. This is a new trial of English ministry -- to facilitate the usage of Gospel-through-English in the immigrants' English lives.

AS usually we shared our understanding and our extended interpretation of the sermon through a mixture of English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese. It is a beautiful scene seeing everybody tried to help one another comprehend over a "bridge of culture and language".

It was first mentioned in the previous Sunday that some kind of abstract would help receiving and processing the sermons. Here is one kind of abstract for those who want to continue the study of that sermon on the 27th. This is a conventional abstract where the concrete interpretations are summarized. Next week we might share a new kind of abstract where the ideas in the sermon might be presented (forecasted) through question-based abstract.

 Here is the outline:

1. Apocalyptic Literature        世界末日文學
2. All Saints Day November is All Saints Day. 再來談談「萬聖節」/11月1日是萬聖節(諸聖節)。
3. What Is A Saint? 麼什麼是「聖徒」呢？
4. So who gets to be a saint? 麼什麼樣的人會成為聖人呢？
5. So How Do We Get to Be A Saint? 們如何成為聖徒呢？Many Saints有這麼多的聖徒
6. So Many Saints 有這麼多的聖徒
7. What Do Saints Do For Us? 些聖徒們為我們作了什麼？
8. How do Saints Live? 那麼聖徒們如何生活呢？

Here are a couple of quotable quotes from the sermon: