Isonto

IBandla, umzimba kaKristu, liwumphakathi wabo bonke abakholwa kuJesu Kristu futhi okuhlala kuye uMoya oNgcwele. Ibandla lithunywe ukushumayela ivangeli, ukufundisa konke lokho uKristu ayala ukuba abhapathizwe, futhi londle umhlambi. Ekufezeni lesi sigunyazo, iBandla, liholwa nguMoya oNgcwele, lithatha iBhayibheli njengesiqondiso futhi lihlale liqondiswe kuJesu Kristu, inhloko yalo ephilayo. IBhayibheli lithi: Lowo okholwa kuKristu uba ingxenye “yebandla” noma “yebandla”. Kuyini lokhu, “iBandla”, “iBandla”? Ihlelwe kanjani? Liyini iphuzu? (1. AbaseKorinte 12,13; AmaRoma 8,9; Mathewu 28,19-20; AbaseKolose 1,18; Kwabase-Efesu 1,22)

UJesu uyalakha ibandla lakhe

UJesu wathi: Ngifuna ukwakha ibandla lami (Mathewu 16,18). IBandla libalulekile kuye – wayelithanda kangangokuba waze wanikela ngokuphila kwakhe ngenxa yalo (Kwabase-Efesu 5,25). Uma sicabanga njengaye, nathi sizolithanda iBandla futhi sizinikele kulo.

Igama lesiGreki elisho “ibandla” [ibandla] lithi ekklesia, okusho umhlangano. KuZenzo 19,39-40 igama lisetshenziswe ngomqondo wokuhlangana kwabantu okuvamile. KumKrestu, nokho, i-ekklesia inencazelo ekhethekile: bonke abakholwa kuJesu Kristu.

Ngokwesibonelo, lapho aqala khona ukusebenzisa leli gama, uLuka uyabhala: “Ukwesaba okukhulu kwehlela phezu kwebandla lonke...” ( IzE 5,11). Akadingi ukuchaza ukuthi igama lisho ukuthini; abafundi bakhe base bebazi. Lalifanekisela wonke amaKristu, hhayi lawo kuphela ayebuthene kuleyo ndawo ngaleso sikhathi. “IBandla” kusho ibandla, kusho bonke abafundi bakaKristu. Umphakathi wabantu, hhayi isakhiwo.

Iqembu ngalinye lendawo lamakholwa liyibandla. UPawulu wabhala “ebandleni likaNkulunkulu eKorinte” (1. AbaseKorinte 1,2); ukhuluma “ngawo wonke amabandla kaKristu” ( Roma 1 Kor6,16) kanye “nebandla laseLawodikeya” (Kolose 4,16). Kodwa futhi usebenzisa igama elithi isonto njengegama elihlangene lokuhlanganyela kwawo wonke amakholwa lapho ethi “uKristu walithanda ibandla futhi wazinikela ngenxa yalo” ( Kwabase-Efesu 5,25).

Isonto likhona emazingeni amaningi. Ezingeni elilodwa kunomphakathi wendawo yonke noma isonto, okubandakanya wonke umuntu emhlabeni ozibiza ngoJesu Kristu njengeNkosi noMsindisi. Imiphakathi yasendaweni, imiphakathi ngomqondo omncane, amaqembu ezifunda abantu abahlangana njalo, asezingeni elihlukile. Ezingeni eliphakathi kukhona amahlelo noma ukuvuma izono, amaqembu amabandla asebenza ndawonye ngesisekelo esifanayo somlando nenkolelo.

Amasonto endawo kwesinye isikhathi abandakanya abangakholwa - amalungu omndeni angazibizi ngoJesu njengoMsindisi kepha abamba iqhaza empilweni yesonto. Lokhu kungafaka nabantu abacabanga ukuthi bangamaKrestu kanti bayazikhohlisa. Okuhlangenwe nakho kubonisa ukuthi abanye babo kamuva bayavuma ukuthi babengewona amaKristu angempela.

Kungani sidinga isonto

Abantu abaningi bazichaza njengabakholwa kuKristu, kodwa abafuni ukujoyina noma yiliphi ibandla. Nalokhu kumele kubizwe ngokuthi yisimo esibi. ITestamente Elisha liyabonisa: Indaba evamile ukuthi amakholwa ahlangana njalo (Hebheru 10,25).

Ngokuphindaphindiwe uPawulu ubiza amaKristu ukuba abe omunye komunye futhi asebenze omunye nomunye, ukukhonza omunye komunye, ebunyeni (KwabaseRoma 1)2,10; I-15,7; 1. AbaseKorinte 12,25; KwabaseGalathiya 5,13; Kwabase-Efesu 4,32; AbaseFilipi 2,3; AbaseKolose 3,13; 2. Thesalonika 5,13). Kunzima ukuthi abantu balalele le mithetho lapho bengahlangani namanye amakholwa.

Isonto lasendaweni lingasinikeza umuzwa wokuba ngabathile, umuzwa wokuxhuma kwamanye amakholwa. Kungasinika ubuncane bokulondeka okungokomoya ukuze singaduki ngemibono engajwayelekile. Isonto lingasinika ubungani, ubudlelwane, nesikhuthazo. Ingasifundisa izinto ebesingeke sizifunde sisodwa. Kungasiza ukukhulisa izingane zethu, kungasenza sisebenze kangcono enkonzweni yobuKristu, kungasinika namathuba okusebenzela esikhula kuwo, ngokuvamile ngezindlela ezingacabangeki. Ngokuvamile kungashiwo: Inzuzo umphakathi osinikeza yona ilingana nokuzibophezela esikutshalayo.

Kodwa mhlawumbe isizathu esibaluleke kakhulu sokuba ikholwa ngalinye lijoyine ibandla yilesi: Ibandla liyasidinga. UNkulunkulu unikeze ikholwa ngalinye izipho ezihlukene futhi ufuna sisebenzisane “ukuze kuzuze bonke” (1. AbaseKorinte 12,4-7). Uma kuphela izisebenzi ezithile zifika emsebenzini, akumangalisi-ke ukuthi isonto alenzi okuningi ngendlela ebesilindelwe ngayo noma ukuthi asiphilile njengoba besinethemba. Ngeshwa, abanye bakuthola kulula ukugxeka kunokusiza.

Ibandla lidinga isikhathi sethu, amakhono ethu, neziphiwo zethu. Udinga abantu athembele kubo - udinga ukuzibophezela kwethu. UJesu wabiza izisebenzi ukuba zikhuleke (Mathewu 9,38). Ufuna ukuthi ngamunye wethu alule isandla hhayi nje ukudlala isibukeli esingenzi lutho.

Noma ubani ofuna ukuba umKristu ngaphandle kwebandla akawasebenzisi amandla akhe ngendlela okufanele siwasebenzise ngayo ngokuvumelana neBhayibheli, okungukuthi, ukusiza. IBandla “liwumphakathi wokusizana,” futhi kufanele sisizane, sazi ukuthi usuku lungafika (yebo, selufikile) lapho sidinga usizo ngokwethu.

Izincazelo zesifunda

Isonto likhulunywa ngezindlela ezahlukene: abantu bakaNkulunkulu, umndeni kaNkulunkulu, umakoti kaKristu. Siyisakhiwo, ithempeli, umzimba. UJesu wakhuluma nathi njengezimvu, njengensimu, nangesivini. Ngayinye yalezi zimpawu ikhombisa uhlangothi oluhlukile lweSonto.

Imifanekiso eminingi kaJesu ngombuso kaNkulunkulu nayo ichaza ibandla. Njengembewu yesinaphi, iBandla laqala lincane futhi lakhula (Mathewu 13,31-32). Ibandla lifana nensimu lapho ukhula lumila khona kanye nokolweni (amavesi 24-30). Kufana nenetha elibamba izinhlanzi ezinhle nezimbi ( amavesi 47-50 ). Kufana nesivini lapho abanye besebenza amahora amade, abanye isikhathi esifushane (Mathewu 20,1:16-2). Ufana nezinceku ezaziphathiswe imali yinkosi yazo futhi eziyibeke kahle ngokwengxenye enye kabi (Mathewu )5,14-enye).

UJesu wazibiza ngokuthi ungumalusi nabafundi bakhe umhlambi (Mathewu 26,31); Umsebenzi wakhe kwakuwukufuna izimvu ezilahlekile (Mathewu 18,11-14). Uchaza amakholwa akhe njengezimvu okufanele ziluswe futhi zinakekelwe1,15-17). UPawulu noPetru nabo basebenzisa lolu phawu, bethi abaholi besonto kumelwe ‘baluse umhlambi’ ( IzEnzo 20,28; 1. UPetrus 5,2).

“Nina niyisakhiwo sikaNkulunkulu,” kubhala uPawulu 1. AbaseKorinte 3,9. Isisekelo nguKristu (v. 11), okubekwe phezu kwaso isakhiwo somuntu. UPetru usibiza ngokuthi “ngamatshe aphilayo, akhelwe indlu yomoya” (1. UPetrus 2,5). Ndawonye sakhiwa “sibe yindawo yokuhlala kaNkulunkulu ngoMoya” (Efe 2,22). Thina siyithempeli likaNkulunkulu, ithempeli likaMoya oNgcwele (1. AbaseKorinte 3,17; 6,19). Kuyiqiniso ukuthi uNkulunkulu angakhonzwa kunoma iyiphi indawo; kodwa ibandla linokukhulekela njengenye yezinjongo zalo eziyinhloko.

“Singabantu bakaNkulunkulu,” uyasitshela 1. UPetrus 2,10. Siyilokhu abantu bakwa-Israyeli okwakufanele babe yikho: “isizukulwane esikhethiweyo, nobupristi bobukhosi, abantu abangcwele, abantu abayimfuyo” (indima 9; cf. 2. UMose 19,6). SingabakaNkulunkulu ngoba uKristu wasithenga ngegazi lakhe (Isambulo 5,9). Singabantwana bakaNkulunkulu, yena unguBaba wethu (Efesu 3,15). Sibe nefa elikhulu njengezingane futhi ngenxa yalokho kulindeleke ukuba simjabulise futhi siphile ngokuvumelana negama lakhe.

Umbhalo futhi usibiza ngoMlobokazi kaKristu - igama elihambisana nokuthi uKristu usithanda kangakanani nokuthi yiluphi ushintsho olukhulu olwenzekayo kithi ukuze sikwazi ukuba nobuhlobo obuseduze neNdodana kaNkulunkulu. Kweminye yemifanekiso yakhe, uJesu umemela abantu edilini lomshado; lapha simenyiwe ukuba sibe ngumakoti.

“Masijabule sijabule futhi simnike inkazimulo; ngoba umshado weWundlu usufikile, nomlobokazi walo uselungisiwe.” ( 1 Kor9,7). “Sizilungiselela” kanjani? Ngesipho:

“Futhi wanikwa ukuba embathe ilineni elicolekileyo kakhulu elihle” ( ivesi 8 ). UKristu uyasihlanza “ngokusigeza ngamanzi ngezwi” (Efesu 5,26). Ubeka iBandla phambi kwakhe ngemva kokulenza libe nenkazimulo futhi lingabi nasici, libe ngcwele futhi lingabi nasici ( ivesi 27 ). Usebenza kithi.

Ukusebenza ndawonye

Uphawu olubonisa kahle ukuthi amalungu ebandla kufanele ahlobane kanjani yilo lomzimba. “Kepha nina ningumzimba kaKristu,” kubhala uPawulu, “futhi yilowo nalowo kini uyisitho” (1. AbaseKorinte 12,27). UJesu Kristu “uyinhloko yomzimba, oyibandla” (Kolose 1,18), futhi sonke singamalungu omzimba. Uma sihlangene noKristu, sibuye sihlanganiswe omunye nomunye futhi - ngomqondo oyiqiniso - sizinikele komunye nomunye.

Akekho ongathi, "Angikudingi" (1. AbaseKorinte 12,21), akekho ongathi akahlangene nebandla (v. 18). UNkulunkulu usakaza izipho zethu ukuze sisebenze ndawonye ukuze sizuze sonke futhi kulokho ukubambisana sisize futhi sithole usizo komunye nomunye. Emzimbeni akufanele kube khona “ukwahlukana” ( ivesi 25 ). UPawulu uvame ukugxeka umoya weqembu; ohlwanyela ukungezwani uyakuxoshwa nokuxoshwa ebandleni (KwabaseRoma 1 Kor6,17; Thithu 3,10-11). UNkulunkulu wenza ukuba ibandla ‘likhule kuzo zonke izindlela’ ngokuthi “wonke amalungu asekele elinye ngokwamandla alo” ( Efesu 4,16).

Ngeshwa izwe lobuKrestu lihlukene phakathi kwamahlelo, okungavamisile ukuxabana lodwa. Ibandla alikapheleli ngoba alikho ilungu eliphelele. Noma kunjalo: UKristu ufuna ibandla elihlangene (Johane 17,21). Lokhu akudingekile ukuthi kusho ukuhlanganiswa kwenhlangano, kodwa kudinga umgomo ofanayo.

Ubunye beqiniso bungatholakala kuphela ngokulwela ukusondela kakhudlwana kuKristu, ngokushumayela ivangeli likaKristu, ngokuphila ngokwemigomo yakhe. Inhloso ukumsabalalisa, hhayi thina.Nokho, ukuba namahlelo ehlukene nakho kunenzuzo: Ngezindlela ezahlukahlukene, umyalezo kaKristu ufinyelela kubantu abaningi ngendlela abangayiqonda.

Inhlangano

Kunezinhlobo ezintathu eziyisisekelo zokuhlelwa kwesonto nobuholi emhlabeni wobuKristu: isigaba sabaphathi, intando yeningi kanye nabamele. Babizwa nge-episcopal, sebandla kanye ne-presbyterial.

Uhlobo ngalunye oluyisisekelo lunokwehlukahluka kwalo, kepha ngokomthetho imodeli yama-episcopal isho ukuthi umfundisi unamandla okusetha izimiso zesonto futhi agcobe abefundisi. Kumodeli yebandla, amasonto uqobo anquma lezi zinto ezimbili.Ohlelweni lwe-presbyterial, amandla ahlukaniswe phakathi kwehlelo nesonto; Abadala bakhethwa futhi banikezwe amakhono obuholi.

Umphakathi okhethekile Isakhiwo seBandla asinqunywanga yiTestamente Elisha. Ikhuluma ngababonisi (ababhishobhi), abadala, nabelusi (abefundisi), nakuba lezi ziqu zibonakala zishintshashintsha. UPetru uyala abadala ukuba benze njengabelusi nababonisi: “Yalusani umhlambi . . .1. UPetrus 5,1-2). Ngamazwi afanayo, uPawulu unikeza iziyalezo ezifanayo kubadala ( IzEnzo 20,17:28, ).

Ibandla laseJerusalema laliholwa yiqembu labadala; isifunda saseFiliphi sababhishobhi (Izenzo 15,2-6; AbaseFilipi 1,1). UPawulu wayala uThithu ukuba amise amalunga, wabhala ivesi elilodwa mayelana nabadala nabambalwa ngababhishobhi, njengokungathi lawa amagama ahlobene nabaholi bomphakathi (Thithu. 1,5-9). Encwadini eya kumaHeberu (13,7, Menge kanye ne-Elberfeld Bible) abaholi bomphakathi bamane babizwe ngokuthi "abaholi".

Abanye abaholi bamabandla babizwa nangokuthi “othisha” (1. AbaseKorinte 12,29; UJames 3,1). Uhlelo lolimi kwabase-Efesu 4,11 libonisa ukuthi “abelusi” kanye “nabafundisi” babengaphansi kwesigaba esifanayo. Esinye sezimfanelo eziyinhloko zezikhulu zesonto kwakufanele kube ukuthi “... bakwazi ukufundisa nabanye” (1. UThimothi 3,2).

Isici esijwayelekile ukuthi kwaqokwa abaholi besonto. Kwakunenani elithile lenhlangano yomphakathi, yize iziqu ezisemthethweni ngqo zazingezesibili.

Amalungu bekumele akhombise inhlonipho nokuthobela izikhulu (2. Thesalonika 5,12; 1. UThimothi 5,17; Hebheru 13,17). Uma umdala elawula okungalungile, ibandla akufanele lilalele; kodwa ngokuvamile kwakulindeleke ukuba isonto lisekele umdala.

Benzani abadala? Uphethe umphakathi (1. UThimothi 5,17). Balusa umhlambi, bahola ngesibonelo nangemfundiso. Baqapha umhlambi (IZenzo 20,28). Akufanele babuse ngobushiqela, kodwa bakhonze (1. UPetrus 5,23), “ukuze abangcwele balungele umsebenzi wokukhonza. Lokhu kungukwakha umzimba kaKristu.” (Efesu 4,12).

Abadala bazimisele kanjani? Ezimweni ezimbalwa sithola ulwazi: UPawulu uqoka abadala (Izenzo 14,23), ucabanga ukuthi uThimothewu uqoka ababhishobhi (1. UThimothi 3,17), futhi wagunyaza uThithu ukuba amise abadala (Thithu 1,5). Kunoma yikuphi, kwakukhona ubuholi kulezi zimo. Asizitholi izibonelo zendlela ibandla elikhetha ngayo abadala balo.

Abadikoni

Nokho, sibona kuzEnzo 6,1-6, ukuthi labo okuthiwa abanakekeli abampofu [amadikoni] bakhethwa kanjani ibandla. La madoda akhethwa ukuba abele abaswele ukudla, abaphostoli base bewabeka kulezi zikhundla. Lokhu kwavumela abaphostoli ukuba bagxile emsebenzini kamoya, nomsebenzi wenyama nawo wenziwa (v. 2). Lo mehluko phakathi komsebenzi webandla ongokomoya nowenyama ungatholakala futhi 1. UPetrus 4,10-11.

Izitebhisi zomsebenzi wezandla zivame ukubizwa ngokuthi abadikoni, ezisuselwa egameni lesiGreki elithi diakoneo, yini
"ukukhonza" kusho. Empeleni, wonke amalungu nabaholi kufanele "basebenze", kodwa emisebenzini yokukhonza ngomqondo omncane kwakukhona izikhulu ezihlukene. Amadikoni wesifazane kukhulunywa ngawo okungenani endaweni eyodwa (KwabaseRoma 1 Kor6,1). UPawulu ubiza uThimothewu ngezimfanelo eziningana idikoni okufanele libe nazo (1. UThimothi 3,8-12) ngaphandle kokucacisa kahle ukuthi inkonzo yabo yayihlanganisani. Ngenxa yalokho, amahlelo ahlukene anikeza amadikoni imisebenzi ehlukene, kusukela kumuntu okhonza ehholo kuya ekubalweni kwezimali.

Okubalulekile ezikhundleni zokuphatha akulona igama, noma isakhiwo sazo, noma indlela ezigcwaliswa ngayo. Incazelo nenjongo yawo ibalulekile: ukusiza abantu bakaNkulunkulu ekuvuthweni kwabo “esilinganisweni esiphelele sokugcwala kukaKristu” (Kwabase-Efesu. 4,13).

Izinhloso zomphakathi

UKristu wakha ibandla lakhe, wanika abantu bakhe izipho nokuqondisa, wasinika nomsebenzi. Ziyini izinhloso zesonto?

Ukukhulekela kuwumqondo oyinhloko wenhlanganyelo yesonto. UNkulunkulu usibizile “ukuba nishumayele izibusiso zalowo owanibiza niphume ebumnyameni ningene ekukhanyeni kwakhe okumangalisayo” (1. UPetrus 2,9). UNkulunkulu ufuna abantu abazomkhonza (Joh 4,23) abamthanda ngaphezu kwanoma yini enye (Mathewu 4,10). Noma yini esiyenzayo, kungakhathaliseki ukuthi singabantu ngabanye noma njengomphakathi, kufanele ngaso sonke isikhathi siyenze ngokumhlonipha.1. AbaseKorinte 10,31). Kufanele “sinikele njalonjalo umhlatshelo wokudumisa” kuNkulunkulu (KumaHebheru 1 Kor3,15).

Siyalwa ukuba “sikhuthazane ngamahubo nangezihlabelelo nangamaculo okomoya” (Efesu 5,19). Lapho sibuthana njengebandla, sihlabelela izindumiso zikaNkulunkulu, sithandaza kuye futhi sizwe izwi lakhe. Lezi izinhlobo zokukhulekela. NjengeSidlo SeNkosi Sakusihlwa, njengobhapathizo, njengokulalela.

Enye injongo yesonto ukufundisa. Kusenhliziyweni yoMyalo Omkhulu: “... nibafundise ukugcina konke enginiyale ngakho” ( Mathewu 28,20). Abaholi bebandla kufanele bafundise, futhi ilungu ngalinye kufanele lifundise amanye (Kolose 3,16). Kufanele sikhuzane (1. AbaseKorinte 14,31; 2. Thesalonika 5,11; amaHebheru 10,25). Amaqembu amancane ayisizinda esihle salokhu ukwesekwa nokufundisana.

UPawule uthi labo abafuna izipho zikaMoya kufanele bafune ukwakha ibandla (1. AbaseKorinte 14,12). Umgomo uthi: ukwakha, ukuyala, ukuqinisa, ukududuza (v. 3). Konke okwenzeka ebandleni kuhloswe ukuba kube nokwakha ebandleni (v. 26). Kufanele sibe abafundi, abantu abazi futhi basebenzise iZwi likaNkulunkulu. AmaKristu okuqala adunyiswa ngoba “ahlala egxilile esifundisweni sabaphostoli, nasekuhlanganyeleni, nasekuhlephuleni isinkwa, nasemithandazweni.” ( IzE. 2,42).

Inhloso yesithathu enkulu yebandla yinkonzo (yomphakathi). “Ngakho-ke asenze okuhle kubo bonke, kodwa ikakhulukazi kwabangakholwa,” kubuza uPawulu (KwabaseGalathiya). 6,10). Okokuqala, ukuzibophezela kwethu emndenini wethu, bese kuba emphakathini, bese kuba emhlabeni osizungezile. Umyalo wesibili omkhulu uthi: thanda umakhelwane wakho (Mathewu 22,39).

Leli zwe linezidingo eziningi ezingokwenyama futhi akufanele sizishaye indiva. Ngaphezu kwakho konke, lidinga ivangeli, futhi akufanele sikuzibe nalokho. Njengengxenye yenkonzo yethu emhlabeni, ibandla kufanele lishumayele izindaba ezinhle zensindiso ngoJesu Kristu. Ayikho enye inhlangano eyenza lo msebenzi - umsebenzi webandla. Wonke umsebenzi uyadingeka - abanye "baphambili", abanye endimeni yokusekela. Abanye bayatshala, abanye bayavundisa, abanye bayavuna; uma sisebenza ndawonye, ​​uKristu uyokhulisa iBandla (Efesu 4,16).

UMichael Morrison

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