建立健康的横向連結 Build healthy horizontal connections

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主耶穌是我們兩面對齊的榜樣 Jesus is the role model of two-fold alignments

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人为朋友舍命，人的爱心没有比这个大的。 你们若遵行我所吩咐的，就是我的朋友了。 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. (約翰福音 John15:13-14)

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橫向對齊的要求 The requirement of horizontal alignment

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在大戶人家，不但有金器銀器，也有木器瓦器；有作為貴重的，有作為卑賤的。人若自潔，脫離卑賤的事，就必作貴重的器皿，成為聖潔，合乎主用，預備行各樣的善事。你要逃避少年的私慾，同那清心禱告主的人追求公義、信德、仁愛、和平。Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. (提摩太後書 2 Timothy 2:20-22)

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濫交朋友的，自取敗壞；但有一朋友比弟兄更親密。 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (箴言 Proverbs18:24)

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環境是橫向連結的試金石 Environment is the touchstone of healthy horizontal connection

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朋友乃時常親愛，弟兄為患難而生。 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (箴言 Proverbs 17:17)

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朋友加的傷痕出於忠誠 (箴言27:6 ) Faithful are the wounds of a friend. (Proverbs 27:6 )

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鐵磨鐵，磨出刃來；朋友相感也是。 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.(箴言 Proverbs27:17)

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學習兩代同行 Two-generation walking together

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你的朋友和父親的朋友，你都不可離棄。你遭難的日子，不要上弟兄的家去；相近的鄰舍強如遠方的弟兄。 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.(箴言 Proverbs 27:10)

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橫向連結來完成大使命 Horizontal connection to fulfill the great commission（马太福音 Mat. 28:18-20)

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人子來，也吃也喝，你們說他是貪食好酒的人，是稅吏和罪人的朋友。 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ (路加福音Luke 7:34)

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學習做個感恩的人 Be a person of showing appreciation

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凡事謝恩；因為這是 神在基督耶穌裡向你們所定的旨意。give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (帖撒羅尼迦前書 1 Thessalonians 5:18)