Pierce the Veil
“Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4 WEB)
The good news (Gospel) of Jesus Christ is actually gloriously bright. It is so dazzling that Satan has used all sorts of methods to “veil” the Gospel from unbelievers.
Slandering methods:
“Going to church is so boring!”
“The Bible is so ancient and outdated. We live in the 21st century now.”
“God is not real—that concept is just a crutch for weak losers.”
“Look at that pastor who embezzled money from his church. All these churches are just out to con people of their money. Don’t be a fool!”
If that doesn’t work, he may try to heap condemnation and feelings of unworthiness in unbelievers:
“Church is for holy people. You are a rotten sinner. If you step into church, God will strike you down immediately.”
“You, go to church? Don’t make me laugh—you’re probably the worst kind of sinner there is.”
In many shows and movies, Christians are portrayed as weird people who others stay far away from.
Sometimes, preachers help the devil’s agenda by preaching that God is angry with everyone, and that we should be afraid of His punishment. There is almost no mention of God’s love, and it is frequently preaching against sin.
Then, there is the example that Christians set. Some believers get into embarrassing arguments on social media, live just like the unbelievers so that there is no discernible difference, and are so devoid of love and compassion—instead, they are constantly judging and criticizing.
In all these, the glorious light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ becomes veiled. The world can’t see the full measure of light because of all the bad things they have heard and seen about Christianity.
It is time to pierce these demonic veils. To unleash the full light of the Gospel, we must preach Jesus Christ based on what we read about Him doing in the four Gospels and beyond.
When you show how Jesus is full of grace and truth, how He demonstrates the Father’s heart of love and mercy towards the world through His miracles, words and actions, the veil of unbelief will be pierced through.
People will see a good, generous God who is full of love, who welcomes sinners to freely receive the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
We have a beautiful Gospel to share. It is a precious treasure we have in these earthen vessels (our flesh). Let the light shine, and darkness will scatter!
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美國、日本、台灣三國智庫共同主辦「2020台美日三邊印太安全對話」,包括蔡英文總統、美國前國務院助卿坎博(Kurt Campbell)、前國防部印太安全助理部長薛瑞福(Randall Schriver)、日本前駐美大使佐佐木賢一郎等重要人士都與會。
我也參與三國國會議員的對談,與羅致政委員、陳以信委員、美國聯邦眾議員貝拉(Ami Bera)以及日本眾議員鈴木馨祐,交流2020後的印太及台海情勢與願景。
結果準備厚厚一疊的英文講稿幾乎沒派上用場,講太HIGH不小心就脫稿演出....。無論如何還是提供原本的講稿跟大家參詳,一起來練習英文吧:
2020 Taiwan-US-Japan Trilateral Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue
Hello moderator, fellow panelists, I am Taiwan legislator Freddy Lim.
This year, due to the pandemic, we can only conduct this panel online. I’m still very glad to be invited to attend this event and exchange ideas with these great panelists. Here I want to share my views on today’s main topic: “Challenges and Opportunities in the Indo-Pacific Region and the Taiwan Strait in 2020 & Beyond”.
First I want to start with the conventional positioning of Taiwan under the established international order.
After WWII, the international order led by the allies dragged Taiwan into China’s civil war. Since then, Taiwan's been struggling with the “One China” dispute, unable to gain independence and world recognition like many other colonies.
Even though Taiwanese people have built an independent and democratic country after half a century of hard work, now we enjoy freedom and human rights, the international community still isolates Taiwan. One of the main reasons is obviously China.
The established international community viewed China as a huge economic opportunity, a partner that would eventually carry out political reforms and be integrated into modern international order. Under this conventional thinking, the international community is willing to help China ease and suppress many of its unpleasant problems, including the thorny "Democratic Taiwan."
This has reduced Taiwan to merely China’s “Taiwan Problem”. We’re even slandered as the “troublemaker” of the Taiwan Strait; As a result, the respect that Taiwan deserves continues to be shelved, and the active role we can play, the contributions we can make in the international community are also ignored.
However, this established international structure is now changing.
After decades of appeasement policy, and acquiring WTO membership in 2001, China’s various structural changes that the world anticipated have never taken place. On the contrary, China’s been using organized measures, such as bribing, infiltration, and hybrid-warfare, to undermine international norms. It’s worked hard to manipulate and control international organizations, in order to project its influence onto the world. These actions have been even more distinct after Xi Jinping became President of China in 2012.
Internationally, China implemented debt-trap diplomacy on many countries through the Belt and Road Initiative. It established Confucius Institutes around the world, which are basically intelligence operations in the name of culture. Chinese tech giant, Huawei also aids China’s international surveillance. Not to mention China’s relentless expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases, creating man-made islands. This year, it’s even more serious. We witnessed the long time Chinese infiltration into UN organizations. The favoritism towards China helped its cover-up, which led to the dysfunction of WHO, ultimately causing the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Domestically, the Chinese government not only failed to implement any political reforms, but it also created the “Social Credit” system with advanced technology, to surveil and control its own people; In addition, the Chinese government built the notorious “Reeducation Camps” - concentration camps in reality, in Tibet, Xingjian, where human rights conditions were already in a bad shape. Even the Hong Kong people, who were supposed to be protected by the promise of “One Country, Two Systems”, their freedom and human rights were completely destroyed by the Chinese government.
These compelling examples show that there is some serious fallacy in the conventional way of viewing China. All facts point to this: Taiwan is not the problem. China is the problem. China is the troublemaker of the Taiwan Strait. It’s the troublemaker of the Indo-Pacific region. It’s even the troublemaker of the entire world.
Under decades of collective misjudgement, China was allowed to become the most terrifying, largest digital authoritarian government in human history. It’s a new form of dictatorship. As a response, many countries have vastly changed their China policy in recent years, thus the change of international structure.
This brings me to my next point: Give Taiwan the status it deserves. Let us contribute to the international society.
In a new international structure, Taiwan shouldn’t be categorized as “China’s Taiwan Problem”. Instead, we should be one of the key countries for international cooperation, responding to the new type of dictatorship.
Taiwan has faced authoritarian China on the front line for decades. Many countries are now facing the problem of China's infiltration under its United Front programs. Taiwan started dealing with the same problems 10 to 20 years ago. We have gained a lot of experience to contribute to the international community.
Taking the COVID pandemic as an example, Taiwan has studied and analyzed the actual situation and the information provided by the Chinese government with a serious and high-vigilance attitude. Based on our experience and lessons learned from the China SARS epidemic in 2001, we decisively formed a series of epidemic preventive measures. We have handled the crisis with the principle of openness and transparency. Our people have been self-disciplined and willing to cooperate. All of this demonstrates the high level of democracy in Taiwan’s society.
After the domestic epidemic was brought under control, Taiwan has continued to share our epidemic prevention supplies and the experiences on forming epidemic prevention policies with the world.
Although Taiwan was suppressed, even excluded by China in various international organizations in the past, we’ve been doing our best to comply with the norms & regulations of international organizations. We always actively contribute every time we have the opportunity. What I want to say is, all of this proves Taiwan could be a reliable partner in the international community. We are capable of working with other countries to solve major problems. We deserve our seats and participation in international organizations.
Regarding the impact of U.S. change of administration.
Now the U. S. presidential election is over and the administration is currently under transition. Many countries, including Taiwan, are concerned about whether the new U.S. government will change its course on foreign policy, especially its China policy. However, the "Rebalance (of Asia-Pacific Region)" proposed by the Obama administration in 2011, was in fact already a strategic adjustment in response to the rise of China and possible subsequent expansion.
The Trump administration further proposed the Indo-Pacific strategy in 2017 to promote and uphold international law and regulations, aiming to ensure every country has the liberty to be free from oppression and coercion. I believe that both parties in the U.S. understand the root cause of the Indo-Pacific regional problem comes from the Chinese government. Even for the Biden administration, it will have to provide practical responses. Facing the new structure, they can’t just go back to the traditional thinking of the last century.
As for Taiwan, the pro-Taiwan acts in the U.S., such as the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, Taiwan Travel Act, Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement, were passed with strong consensus between the Republicans and the Democrats. I believe Taiwan could be a key partner to the international community and play an active role in the free world. This isn’t just the consensus of the two parties in the U.S., but will be the consensus of all democratic countries.
In a progressive aspect, the International community can benefit from a wider recognition of Taiwan.
In recent years, the performance of Taiwanese society in terms of epidemic prevention performance, human rights, gender equality, marriage equality, and open government are actually in line with many progressive ideas and visions. The ideas and visions that many democratic countries have long supported. Therefore, I’m quite optimistic that, after 2020, Taiwan can make even greater progress, on multiple levels and in broader aspects, contributing to the international community.
Finally, I want to emphasize again that to truly resolve regional problems, we need dynamic multilateral cooperation. But this must not be a return to the conventional thinking of the past century, which was "expecting" China to abide by the international order. The outdated thinking had been proved to be a failure. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a series of Chinese infiltration and aggression after its rise in recent years, which became one of the most difficult issues in the world. I believe after 2020, U.S., Japan, and Taiwan can establish a new model of international cooperation through deeper collaboration and communication. And hopefully, this model will maximize the security of the Indo-Pacific region and promote peace, stability and development in the region.
This concludes my speech, thank you all for listening.
Lastly, I’d like to express my gratitude to the moderators, my fellow panelists, and the organizers of this event.
I wish everyone peace and good health. Thank you.
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[英文口說] When “experienced” IELTS teachers get together...
當英文「老」師聚在一起練習口說的時候…
加起來,我們大概有超過1世紀的英文口說經驗。
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回歸正題…
那麼,我們要如何在雅思口說部分表現優異呢?
雅思的評分標準告訴我們要注意流暢性及連貫性 (fluency and coherence)、詞彙多樣性 (lexical resource)、文法多樣性及準確性 (grammatical range and accuracy),以及發音 (pronunciation)。然而,這些評分標準並沒有提供太多關於我們該如何建構回答的資訊。第1部分要求考生回答三組日常生活相關的問題,第2部分要求考生具備連續兩分鐘口說的能力,第3部分則回答與第2部分相關但相對複雜與抽象的問題。
我們該如何回答這些問題呢?
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在第1部分,你可以通過闡述和解釋來擴展你的答案。切記不要只提供單一字詞的回答。由於問題通常是普遍的日常話題,所以你可以參考一些常見的答案。你不應該採用太過僵化而老套的答案作為自己的回答,但有資訊參考總是有所助益。
在第一部分中,有六種方式可以擴展你的答案: 舉例 (provide examples) ,解釋原因 (explain) , 給相關細節 (give details) ,比較和對比(compare and contrast),頻率 (mention frequency) ,與未來計畫 (talk about future plans)
Example:
My favourite colour is black.
(Give an example) I’ve got lots of black clothes.
我有很多黑色的衣服。
(Explain) I wear a lot of black because I look thin in black.
我常穿黑色的衣服,因為我穿黑色顯瘦。
(Frequency) I think I wear black too often though. My entire wardrobe is black.
我想我太常穿黑色了,我整個衣櫃裡都是黑色。
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關於第二部分,如果可以的話,使用心智圖 (mind mapping)的方式做筆記,這可以幫助你逐個破解子問題。心智圖還可以幫助你把想法串聯起來,增加回答的連貫性。需要電影「TENET天能」的心智圖例子請留言「All three teachers look very young」 。
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至於第三部分,討論部分,你可以使用 A-E-C (Answer, Example, Concede or Conclude) 的方法。
以下是在雅思口說Part3中使用AEC的例子。
Staying in hotels
1. What things are important when people are choosing a hotel?
當人們選擇旅館時,哪些因素是重要的?
(Answer) Well it really depends on the individual. (Example) Location is one important factor to consider. (Explanation) You wouldn’t want to stay in a hotel that is too far from public transport if you don’t have a car. (Example) Another important thing most people care about is the price. (Explanation) Wealthy travellers might not even look at the price, but for the majority of people, it’s important to find a hotel that’s good value. (Example) Then there are other considerations, like the reputation of the hotel, the décor and the services and facilities that they provide.
(答案)嗯,這真的因人而異。(例子)位置是一個重要的考慮因素。(解釋)如果你沒有車,你就不會想住在離大眾運輸太遠的旅館。(例子)另一個大多數人都關心的重要因素是價格。(解釋)有錢的旅行者可能根本不看價格,但對於大多數人來說,找到一家物美價廉的旅館很重要。(例子)然後還有其他的考慮因素,比如旅館的口碑、裝潢以及他們提供的服務和設施。
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更多的結構、例子和技巧都可以在Leeds Mayi的新課程中找到:
里茲螞蟻: 三步邁向進階英文口說。
如果你有興趣瞭解更多關於雅思口說的知識,或者一般的英文口說,可以在這裡查看課程:
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