9. Children’s Meeting 儿童聚会

1) Q. If I have a children’s meeting in my neighborhood, will it be considered a meeting of the church?
A. Even in our neighborhood there must be a children’s meeting that should not be considered as the children’s meeting of the church. This is a children’s meeting work in the saints’ neighborhood.
问:如果我邻近的地区有一个儿童聚会,这该被视为召会的聚会吗?
答:甚至在我们邻近的地区也必须有儿童聚会,这不该视为召会的儿童聚会。这是在圣徒邻近地区儿童聚会的工作。


2) Q. I don’t have the time to do a children’s meeting on the Lord’s day. What other days can I do one?
A. Children’s meeting does not need to be done on the Lord’s Day. It can be on Saturday or in the afternoons when the children return home. This is a very effective way to preach the gospel.
问:我没有时间在主日来作儿童聚会。那我可以在哪天作呢?
答:儿童聚会不需要在主日作。可以在周六或下午在回到家以后作。这是一个传福音非常有效的方法。


3) Q. If the children’s meetings can be used to preach the gospel, should we focus only on the children?
A. The gospel is preached to the children. Yet our goal is not merely on the children, but to reach their parents, brothers, and sisters through them.
问:若是儿童聚会可以被用来传福音,我们应该只注意儿童吗?
答:福音传给孩子们。然而,我们的目标不仅仅是孩子们,而是要通过他们达到他们的父母,兄弟和姐妹。


4) Q. I usually open my home for the gospel meeting. Can anyone open their home for a children’s meeting?
A. The most benefited advantage is that every brother or sister can open his or her house to have children’s meeting, just like what we do with the gospel.
问:我经常打开家为着福音聚会。任何人都可以为儿童聚会把家打开吗?
答:最有益处的事是每一位弟兄或姊妹都可以把家打开有儿童聚会,就像我们在福音上所做的一样。


5) Q. I am a little nervous about opening my home for a children’s meeting. How easy is it?
A. You just open your living room, invite five or six children from the neighborhood, and in this way you can have a children’s meeting in your house.
问:关于打开家有儿童聚会我有一点忧虑,它容易吗?
答:你只要打开客厅,从邻近地区里邀请五六个孩子,这样你在家里就有了儿童聚会。


6) Q. Children like to sing in the meeting. How many songs should we sing?
A. The more songs the better. Children can be easily and strongly impressed by singing songs, even slogan songs. They will never forget these for their entire life.
问:儿童喜欢在聚会中唱诗歌,那我们应该唱多少诗歌呢?
答:诗歌越多越好。唱诗歌可以很容易并且很强地给孩子们留下印象,甚至是口号诗歌也是如此。他们一生之久都不会忘记这些诗歌。


7) Q. In our children’s meeting, what is the first thing that we can help the children with?
A. First, help them to be proper human beings. Let them know that man and animals are different, and that man is different from flowers and trees.
问:在儿童聚会中,我们能帮助儿童的第一件事是什么呢?
答:第一,帮助他们做正确的人。要让他们知道,人和禽兽不同,人和各种花草树木不同。


8) Q. When you say that we need to help them to be proper human beings, what do you mean?
A. Lead them to learn to honor their parents, to love people, to be clean, disciplined, honest, and to be a proper person. Don’t give them too much religious thought and concept.
问:当你说我们需要帮助他们作正确的人时,你的意思是什么呢?
答:带领他们学习孝顺、爱人、清洁、规矩、诚实,作个正确的人。不要给他们太多宗教的思想,宗教的观念。


9) Q. We need to help them to be proper human beings, but shouldn’t we also give them some Bible teachings?
A. We do not need too much teaching of theology. Because premature education always damages the children, we shouldn’t give them too much premature teaching.
问:我们需要帮助他们成为正确的人,但我们该不该给他们一些圣经教导吗?
答:我们不需要太多的神学教导。因为先期知识会破坏儿童,我们不该给他们太多先期的教导。


10) Q. You say that building a proper humanity comes first before Bible teaching. Why is this important?
A. To build up a proper humanity is the way to prepare our children to be the best material to receive God’s grace. We have to help them to grow up in a good environment and in the education of their humanity.
问:你说建立正确的人性是在圣经教导之先。为什么这很重要?
答:建立正确的人性,乃是预备孩子成为最好的材料,以接受神恩典的路。我们必须帮助他们在一个良好的环境和人性教育里长大。