Our True Title – 我们真实的头衔

ROMANS 1
罗马书第一章

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God
【罗1:1】耶稣基督的仆人保罗，奉召为使徒，特派传　神的福音。

OUR TRUE TITLE
我们真实的头衔

I was once on a Ning group, filled with ministers of the gospel, and they all had titles. Some were called pastor, and some incredibly were called apostles, indeed some were senior and chief apostles, this was totally mind blowing to me and indeed it was so wrong.
我曾经在一个宁小组（一个可以自己创设社交小组的网站）里，里面满是传道人，他们都有头衔。有些被称为牧师，甚至有些被称为使徒，确实有些是资深的和首席的使徒，这对我来说完全让人震惊，确实是错误的。

We all like titles. It’s nice to be given a title, however small it is. It makes us feel important, doesn’t it?
我们都喜欢头衔。被给予一个头衔是件好事，无论它有多么小，它让我们觉得重要，对吗？

If anyone deserved a title in the life of the New testament church it was Paul. He was the apostle to the Gentiles, but the first words to the Roman church, and to the church of Philippi and to his Brother in Christ Titus were these: Paul, a servant [or slave] of God/Jesus Christ.
如果在新约教会的生活中有人应得头衔，那就是保罗。他是外邦人的使徒，但对罗马教会、腓立比教会和他基督弟兄提多的第一句话是这样的：保罗，神/耶稣基督的仆人[或奴隶]。

He had every right to be called an apostle and in many other letters he calls himself an apostle, but he always remembered that he was a servant first and foremost.
他完全有权称为使徒，在许多其他书信中他称自己为使徒，但他始终记得自己首先是仆人。

If you are a pastor reading this, and I know there are many-you are not Pastor-you are a servant.
如果你是一位牧师读到这里，我知道有很多，你不是牧师……你是一个仆人。

That goes for all of us, we are first and foremost servants, or to put it into context, we are bond slaves of Christ.
对我们所有人来说都是如此，我们首先是仆人，或者放在上下文中说，我们是基督的奴隶。

The only title we should be crave and want to be known by, is this Servant of Jesus Christ
我们唯一应该渴望被称之为的头衔是这个-耶稣基督的仆人

Joseph parker says this
约瑟夫·帕克（一个英国十九世纪著名的公理会传道人，伦敦“城市圣殿”City Temple的传道人）说过

How does Paul describe himself? “A servant of Jesus Christ.” Some titles we would take from men, because we are able to prove that they have no right to them; the title is larger than they are; they perish under a weight of ornamental nomenclature; when Paul announces himself as a servant of Jesus Christ, all who have studied his life up to this point, as we have done in this People’s Bible, will say, that is right: truer servant God never had; more willing slave never followed the chariot of the Cross: let Paul be crowned the prince of the servants of Jesus Christ. Paul would have called himself by a name which in English seems to be lower than servant; again and again Paul describes himself as “the slave of Jesus Christ,” as who should say, I must always be under the chains of my Lord’s captivity, I disdain any liberty that does not hold me in sweet bondage and fealty to the Son of God; I want no freedom that is not centered in, and sanctified by his Cross.
保罗如何描述自己？“耶稣基督的仆人。”有些头衔我们会从人那里取得，因为我们能证明他们没有权利拥有它们；这个头衔比他们更大；他们在华丽的命名负担下灭亡；当保罗自称为耶稣基督的仆人时，所有研究过他生平的人，就像我们在这本《人民圣经》（约瑟夫帕克所著的圣经注释书名为“人民圣经”）中所做的那样，都会说，这是正确的：神从来没有拥有过更忠实的仆人；再没有一个愿意的奴隶跟随十字架的车辆：让保罗被加冕为耶稣基督的仆人之王吧。保罗会称自己为一种在英语中似乎比仆人更低的称谓；保罗一再自称为“耶稣基督的奴隶”，好像是说，我必须永远处于我主的奴役之下的锁链下，我蔑视任何不把我囚禁在甜蜜的束缚和对上帝儿子的效忠中的自由；我不需要任何不以他的十字架为中心和得以他的十字架圣洁的自由。

We are God’s servant’s first and foremost. Let us finish with the words of our Saviour in Luke 17
我们首先是上帝的仆人。让我们以我们救主的话语结束在路加福音 17 章中的话：

9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants;[e] we have only done what was our duty.’”
路17:9】仆人照所吩咐的去作，主人还谢谢他吗？【路17:10】这样，你们作完了一切所吩咐的，只当说：‘我们是无用的仆人，所作的本是我们应分作的。’”