사람들을 필요로 하는 사람(PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE)

💙 사람들을 필요로 하는 사람

 ✝  로마서 16:3 - 16:16 

“ 너희가 거룩하게 입맞춤으로 서로 문안하라 그리스도의 모든 교회가 다 너희에게 문안하느니라 “
[로마서 16:16]

스포츠 기자로서 명예의 전당에 오른 데이브 킨드레드는 수백여 건에 이르는 주요 스포츠 경기와 선수권 대회를 취재했으며, 무하마드 알리의 전기도 집필했습니다. 그가 은퇴 후 무료함을 달래기 위해, 동네 학교에  여학생 농구 경기를 참관하게 되었습니다. 얼마 후 그는 매 경기마다 기사를 써서 온라인에 올리기 시작했습니다. 그런데 데이브의 어머니와 손자가 죽고 아내가 뇌졸증으로 고생하면서, 그가 취재했던 그 농구팀이 자신에게 공동체의 연대감과 삶의 목적을 제공해주고 있다는 사실을 깨달았습니다. 그 팀이 그를 필요로 하는 만큼 그도 그 팀이 필요했던 것입니다. 
킨드레드는 말했습니다. “이 팀이 나를 살렸어요. 내 삶이 점점 어두워질 때, 이 팀이 나에게 빛이 되어 주었거든요.”
어떻게 전설적인 저널리스트가 동네 여학교 농구팀에 의지하게 되었을까요? 

전설적인 사도 한 사람이 선교여행에서 만났던 사람들과의 교제에 의지했던 것과 마찬가지입니다. 바울이 그의 서신을 마무리하면서 안부를 전했던 많은 사람들을 보셨습니까?(로마서 16:3-15). “내 친척이요 나와 함께 갇혔던 안드로니고와 유니아에게 문안하라”(7절). “또 주 안에서 내 사랑하는 암블리아에게 문안하라”(8절). 그는 다 합해서 무려 25명 이상의 사람들을 거명했고, 이들 중 대부분은 이후의 성경에 더 이상 언급되지 않은 사람들입니다. 하지만 바울에게 그들은 필요했던 사람들이었습니다.

여러분의 공동체에 누가 있습니까? 최고의 장소인 여러분의 교회에서 먼저 시작해 보십시오. 어두운 삶을 사는 사람들이 주위에 있습니까? 하나님의 인도하심을 따라, 여러분은 그들에게 예수님을 가리키는 빛이 될 수 있습니다. 훗날 그들이 여러분에게 그 호의를 되돌려 주게 될지 모릅니다.

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당신이 의지할 만큼 아는 사람은 누구입니까? 
하나님께 그런 친구를 허락해 달라고 기도하십시오. 
당신은 어떻게 그런 친구가 될 수 있을까요?

<하나님 아버지, 예수님 안에서 좋은 친구들을 허락해 주셔서 감사합니다. 저 또한 좋은 친구가 되기를 기도합니다.>

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[로마서 16:3 - 16:16]
3. ○너희는 그리스도 예수 안에서 나의 동역자들인 브리스가와 아굴라에게 문안하라
4. 그들은 내 목숨을 위하여 자기들의 목까지도 내놓았나니 나뿐 아니라 이방인의 모든 교회도 그들에게 감사하느니라
5. 또 저의 집에 있는 교회에도 문안하라 내가 사랑하는 에배네도에게 문안하라 그는 아시아에서 그리스도께 처음 맺은 열매니라
6. 너희를 위하여 많이 수고한 마리아에게 문안하라
7. 내 친척이요 나와 함께 갇혔던 안드로니고와 유니아에게 문안하라 그들은 사도들에게 존중히 여겨지고 또한 나보다 먼저 그리스도 안에 있는 자라
8. 또 주 안에서 내 사랑하는 암블리아에게 문안하라
9. 그리스도 안에서 우리의 동역자인 우르바노와 나의 사랑하는 스다구에게 문안하라
10. 그리스도 안에서 인정함을 받은 아벨레에게 문안하라 아리스도불로의 권속에게 문안하라
11. 내 친척 헤로디온에게 문안하라 나깃수의 가족 중 주 안에 있는 자들에게 문안하라
12. 주 안에서 수고한 드루배나와 드루보사에게 문안하라 주 안에서 많이 수고하고 사랑하는 버시에게 문안하라
13. 주 안에서 택하심을 입은 루포와 그의 어머니에게 문안하라 그의 어머니는 곧 내 어머니니라
14. 아순그리도와 블레곤과 허메와 바드로바와 허마와 및 그들과 함께 있는 형제들에게 문안하라
15. 빌롤로고와 율리아와 또 네레오와 그의 자매와 올름바와 그들과 함께 있는 모든 성도에게 문안하라
16. 너희가 거룩하게 입맞춤으로 서로 문안하라 그리스도의 모든 교회가 다 너희에게 문안하느니라

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💙 PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE

 ✝  Romans 16:3 - 16:16 

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings. [ ROMANS 16:16 ]

In his hall-of-fame career as a sportswriter, Dave Kindred covered hundreds of major sporting events and championships and wrote a biography of Muhammad Ali. Growing bored in retirement, he started attending girls’ basketball games at a local school. Soon he began writing stories about each game and posting them online. And when Dave’s mother and grandson died and his wife suffered a debilitating stroke, he realized the team he’d been covering provided him with a sense of community and purpose. He needed them as much as they needed him. Kindred said, “This team saved me. My life had turned dark . . . [and] they were light.” How does a legendary journalist come to depend on a community of teenagers? 

The same way a legendary apostle leaned on the fellowship of those he met on his missionary journeys. Did you notice all the people Paul greeted as he closed his letter? (ROMANS 16:3–15). “Greet Andronicus and Junia,” he wrote, “my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me” (V. 7). 
“Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord” (V. 8). 
He mentions more than twenty-five people in all, most of whom are not mentioned in Scripture again. But Paul needed them.

Who’s in your community? The best place to begin is with your local church. Anyone there whose life has turned dark? As God leads, you can be a light that points them to Jesus. Someday they may return the favor. 
-MIKE WITTME

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Who are the people you know you can count on?Ask God to give you that kind of friend. 
How can you be a friend like that?

<Father, what a friend I have in Jesus! May I be that kind of friend to others.>

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[Romans 16:3 - 16:16]
3. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
4. who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;
5. also [greet] the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.
6. Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.
7. Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8. Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
9. Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
10. Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the [ household] of Aristobulus.
11. Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the [household] of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
12. Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord.
13. Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.
14. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brethren with them.
15. Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you