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作者：小羊冰冰
（转载生命河灵粮堂教会《你一直都在见证集》2021年3月31日）

中国有句话说：“你走你的阳关道，我走我的独木桥。”  意思是两人意见不合，从此分道扬镳，不再相见。身在异国为异客，客居他乡思远亲。我和妻子身在德国，常常想念中国家乡的亲人，屈指算来，竟然有三十九位至亲的亲人生活在国内。感谢主，我们双方的父母亲都健在，身体健康硬朗，兄弟姊妹们都已成家立业，儿孙满堂。

今天是一个值得纪念的日子，我到德国生活已经整整20年了。这20年的时光仿佛与国内的生活迥然不同，充满了挑战，新奇和拼搏，也布满了辛苦，困惑和失落。一晃之间，时光如同白驹过隙，悄无声息地过去了，留下的却是岁月的沉淀和心灵的成长。

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20年前，我们夫妻刚来德国，在一位留学生的邀请下，生平第一次参加了基督教会。聚会的地方虽然简陋，然而我却感受到许多爱的温暖，以及内心说不出来的踏实和平安。于是我们就常常参加礼拜，唱诗，听道，很快我们就决志信主了。一切都像是水到渠成，圣经的话语落在我们的心里，生根发芽，开始成长。我们逐渐认识了创造万物的上帝，原来是他一直在保守我们，供应我们一切的需要。我们越认识他，就越感恩喜乐。偶而天降小雨，滴在我们的头上身上， 仿佛上帝的恩膏降临到我们心里，我们不由得举目望天，敬拜赞美天上的父亲。

从此我们打算把这福音传给我们的家人和亲人。感谢主，我们总算找到了这条阳光大道，这条蒙福之路，这条有主同在，有主看顾保守的属天道路。然而，我们的亲人们却仍行走在那条崎岖的羊肠小道，他们仍旧在黑暗里摸索，靠着自己的眼见和经验，活在自我的世界里。他们何时才能走到这阳光大道，何时才能得到天父莫大的救恩呢！

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谁也没想到，去年3月，新冠疫情突然袭卷欧洲，这下人们都慌了手脚，不知怎样应对。我们全家被困在家里，整天谨小慎微，如履薄冰。我报名参加的新心音乐事工圣乐培训营取消了，全德基督徒造就营也搬到网上举办了，而我的工作岗位也正在发生很大的变动，一切都似乎在不停地朝着坏的方向发展。我心中常常祷告上帝，求他来为我们在困境中开出一条路来。看似已经被阴霾死死笼罩的现实，何时才能有灿烂的阳光大道呢！

3月，全德基督徒造就营在网上通过Zoom平台举行。我突发奇想，何不邀请亲人通过Zoom来参会呢? 我就帮助我的父母亲和妹妹们等亲人安装了手机软件，邀请他们参加网上营会。营会刚过，偶然间在YouTube上发现硅谷生命河灵粮堂的主日敬拜直播，收听到最美好的敬拜赞美和主日布道信息。感恩之余，赶紧也邀请亲人参加生命河教会的线上主日聚会。

4月，亲人小组成立。上帝在家乡为我们安排了本地同工，我们一起向我们的家族开特会，作见证，传福音。4月特会《三国演义》和5月特会《行走在阳光大道》均有许多亲人出席参加，上帝赐下活泼有力的信息，让人的心门逐渐打开，心里的硬土开始松动，神的话语在亲人小组带来美好的改变。8月，本地同工结束在柬埔寨的一年宣教旅程，顺利返回家乡，亲人小组开始每周聚会，查考新约路加福音。感谢主恩充沛！

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20年以来我们渴望将美好的福音传给亲人，亲人信主后我们盼望他们参加团契生活。然而由于种种的原因，亲人的生命成长却非常缓慢。在疫情爆发之前，我已经意识到这个问题，只是苦于没有良方解决。不想，疫情给我们当头一棒，我才看到上帝已经为我们预备了一条阳光大道，一条冲破疫情阴霾，冲破地域限制，冲破心灵堡垒的道路。耶稣说：“我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉着我，没有人能到父那里去”（约翰福音14:6）。

独木桥和阳关道本来是两条互不相通的道路，然而因着上帝的爱，这两条路竟然产生了交集，最终奇妙地连接在一起了。越来越多的亲人逐渐从以往的独木桥转到阳关道，我们常常在一起查考圣经，聆听上帝的话语，寻求他的心意，努力地学习信靠他，跟随他。

“爱我、守我诫命的，我必向他们发慈爱，直到千代。” （出埃及记20:6）愿天父使用我们的工作，成就他美好的旨意。愿天父赐福保护我们，直到永远。

（2021年2月28初稿  1570字）

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英文翻译版：

Under the Sunshine

Author: Xiaoyang Bingbing
(Reprinted from River of Life Christian Church, “You Have Always Been Here – Testimony Collection,” March 31, 2021)

In China there is a saying: “You take your broad highway, and I will walk my single-plank bridge.” It means that when two people cannot agree, they part ways, never to meet again.

Living as a sojourner in a foreign land, I often feel this sense of separation. My wife and I have made our home in Germany, yet our hearts still ache with longing for our family in China—thirty-nine close relatives in all. We give thanks to the Lord that both sets of our parents remain strong and healthy, our brothers and sisters are well established, and the family is blessed with children and grandchildren.

Today marks a day of remembrance: it has been twenty full years since I first set foot in Germany. These two decades feel like an altogether different life from the one I left behind in China—filled with challenges and discoveries, striving and hardship, confusion and loss. Time, like a galloping steed, has slipped past in silence, leaving behind only the sediment of years and the growth of the soul.

Part I

Twenty years ago, soon after we arrived in Germany, we were invited by a fellow student to attend a Christian church service. The meeting place was simple, almost bare, yet within those walls I felt a warmth of love and a deep, unexplainable peace. We soon began attending services regularly—singing hymns, listening to sermons—and before long we made the decision to believe in Christ.

It was as if everything unfolded naturally. The words of Scripture fell into our hearts, took root, and began to grow. We came to know the God who created all things, the One who had always preserved us and supplied our every need. The more we knew Him, the more our hearts overflowed with gratitude and joy. At times, when light rain would fall upon our heads, we felt as though heaven’s anointing had descended upon us, and instinctively we lifted our eyes in worship to our Father above.

From that moment, we resolved to bring this gospel to our family. How grateful we were to have found this sunlit highway—the blessed road, the heavenly way where the Lord walks with us and keeps us. Yet our relatives still wandered upon a narrow, winding path, groping in the dark, relying on sight and human experience, dwelling in their own world. When, we wondered, would they step onto this bright highway? When would they receive the Father’s great salvation?

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Part II

No one could have foreseen it: in March of last year, the pandemic swept suddenly across Europe, throwing all into confusion. Our family found ourselves confined at home, cautious and anxious with each passing day. My plans to attend a Christian music ministry training camp were canceled, the nationwide discipleship camp for believers moved online, and at the same time, changes were unfolding at my workplace. Everything seemed to be sliding toward uncertainty.

I prayed constantly, asking God to open a way for us in the midst of the storm. Would there ever be light breaking through the suffocating clouds, a return to the sunlit highway?

That March, the nationwide Christian discipleship camp was held virtually through Zoom. A thought struck me: why not invite my relatives to join as well? I helped my parents and sisters install the software and brought them into the online gathering.

Not long after, by chance I stumbled upon the livestream Sunday service of River of Life Christian Church in Silicon Valley. I was moved by its worship and sermons, and at once invited my relatives to join.

By April, a family fellowship group was formed. The Lord raised up local co-workers to labor with us. Together, we hosted special gatherings for our extended family, sharing testimonies and proclaiming the gospel. In April the message was “Romance of the Three Country”; in May, “Walking on the Sunlit Highway.” Many relatives attended, their hearts stirred by God’s living Word. The hardened soil of their hearts began to soften.

By August, our co-worker returned safely from a year of mission service in Cambodia, and the family fellowship began to meet weekly, studying the Gospel of Luke. Truly, the grace of God overflowed.

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Part III

For twenty years we had longed to bring the gospel to our relatives, and when some came to faith we hoped they would enter into fellowship. Yet their growth was slow, hindered by many circumstances. Before the pandemic, I had already sensed the difficulty but could find no solution.

Then the pandemic struck—and in that very moment, I saw that God had already prepared a highway through the storm: a way that broke through the shadows of the pandemic, shattered the limits of distance, and pierced the fortresses of the human heart.

Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

The single-plank bridge and the broad highway once seemed to be roads that could never meet. Yet through God’s love, they have crossed and joined. More and more of my relatives have begun leaving the old bridge for the sunlit highway. Together we study the Scriptures, listen for God’s voice, seek His will, and learn to trust and follow Him.

“But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Exodus 20:6).

May the Father use our ministry to accomplish His good will. May He bless and keep us, now and forevermore.

(Feb. 28, 2021 Berlin)