1961年5月25日，约翰·F·肯尼迪总统发表演讲，宣布美 国计划在1970年之前将人类送上月球。「我们选择在这十年内 登月并完成其他事情，不是因为它们容易，而是因为它们困难。」 On May 25th, 1961 President John F. Kennedy made a speech where he said it was the United States' plan to put a man on the moon before 1970. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard.
这个简单的想法，一个前所未有的目标，团结了整个国家和美国航 空航天局，为这一独特的焦点比以往任何时候都更加努力工作。 This simple idea, a goal that had never been achieved before, united a nation and NASA to work harder than ever at this singular focus.
我的头盔正压到我的脸上。 My helmet is coming up into my face.
有一个故事说，肯尼迪总统下班后参观美国航空航 天局的一个设施时，看到一位正在扫地的清洁工。 There's a story that JFK was touring one of the NASA facilities after hours when he saw a janitor who was there sweeping the floors.
他走到那个人面前问道：「你在这里做什么工作？」 He walked up to the man and said, what is it that you do here?
那人回答说：「我在帮助把人送上月球。」 And the man said, I'm helping put a man on the moon.
「把人送上月球」成为了一个口号，某种程度上成 为了团结美国航空航天局和整个国家的使命宣言。 Put a man on the moon became a rallying cry, in a way a mission statement that unified NASA and the country.
美国航空航天局的每一个人，从工程师到清洁工，都知 道他们的工作是为了实现把人送上月球这一独特使命。 Every single person at NASA, from the engineers all the way down to the janitors, all knew that their work contributed to the singular mission to put a man on the moon.
那么，使命宣言真的有效吗？ And do mission statements actually work?
它们能帮助公司和组织蓬勃发展吗？ Do they help companies and organizations thrive?
如果使命宣言是有效的，我们能否将使命宣言应用到我们的日常生活中？ And if mission statements are effective, could we apply mission statements to our everyday lives?
我们拍到了吗？ Did we get the shot?
哦，在一根线上。 Oh, on a string.
它们刚刚飘过去了。 They just floated by.
好的。 All right.
所以我们请来了商业专家迈克尔·霍夫曼来谈谈使命宣言。 So we brought in business expert Michael Hoffman to talk about mission statements.
迈克尔，使命宣言重要吗？ Michael, do mission statements matter?
实际上，只有当你想完成某事时，它才重要。 I actually, only if you want to get something done.
它应该让组织中的每个人都清楚我们的目标是什么。 It should bring clarity to anybody in an organization as to what we're about.
这就是我们的信念。 This is what we believe.
这就是我们的身份。 This is who we are.
让你的行为反映这一点。 And let your behaviors reflect that.
你的企业使命宣言是什么？ What is your business mission statement?
尽可能赚更多的钱。 To make as much money as possible.
如果有人不为这个目标努力，就会被解雇。 And if anybody's not working towards that goal, you're fired.
商业。 Business.
在我广泛的商业研究中，我发现三个特质使使命宣言最有效。 In my extensive business research, I found that three qualities make a mission statement most effective.
首先，使命宣言统一了一群人。 First, mission statement unifies a group of people.
他们围绕使命宣言中明确表述的共同语言和事业团 结起来，这就引出了第二点，使命宣言易于记忆。 They rally around a common language and cause that's stated clearly in the mission statement, which brings us to two, mission statements are memorable.
它们很容易传达给其他人。 They're easy to pass along to other people.
它们会深深印在你的脑海里。 They stick in your brain.
这就引出了第三点，使命宣言有实际影响。 And that leads us to three, mission statements have a practical impact.
你可以阅读使命宣言，并理解如何将其应用到你的工作、职业、生活等方面。 You can read a mission statement and understand how you can apply that to your work or to your job, your life, et cetera.
使命宣言是一个组织存在理由的简要表述。 A mission statement is shorthand for why an organization exists.
教会以比使命宣言更有力的方式，使用简短的信仰公式来向他人传递信仰。 In a more powerful way than mission statements, the church has used short formulas of faith to pass on the faith to other people.
《公教会教理》第186至187段说，从一开始，使 徒教会就以简明的公式向所有人表达并传递她的信仰。 It says in the catechism paragraph 186 to 187, from the beginning, the apostolic church expressed and handed on her faith in brief formula for all.
但很早的时候，教会就想把她信仰的基本要素汇集成 有机且明确的概要，特别是为受洗候选人准备的。 But already early on, the church also wanted to gather the essential elements of her faith into organic and articulated summaries intended especially for candidates for baptism.
这些综合被称为信仰宣认，因为它们概括了基督徒所宣认的信仰。 Such syntheses are called professions of faith since they summarize the faith that Christians profess.
它们被称为信经，是因为它们通常以拉丁文的第一个词「credo」（我信）开头。 They are called creeds on account of what is usually their first word in Latin, credo, I believe.
它们也被称为信仰的象征。 They are also called symbols of faith.
那么让我们来谈谈信仰的象征。 So let's talk a little bit about the symbol of faith.
教会使用信经来统一信徒围绕共同的信仰语言和共同的信念。 The church has used creeds to unify believers around the common language of faith and the common beliefs.
当你想到教会教导的所有不同事物时，可能会感到有些畏惧。 It can be intimidating when you think about all the different things that the church teaches.
在教会早期，你怎么知道你去的任何特定教会教导的是你所相信的信仰呢？ And in the early days of the church, how would you know that any particular church you went to taught the faith that you believe?
这就是为什么信经被称为信仰的象征。 This is why the creed is known as a symbol of faith.
希腊词「symbolon」意味着一个被折断的物体 或印章，用来验证某人的身份或信件、消息的真实性。 The Greek word symbolon means a half-broken object or a seal that is used to verify someone's identity or say the authenticity of a letter or a message.
你拿起这个象征物并把它折成两半。 You take the symbolon and you break it in half.
你拿起这个象征物，非常小心地把它折成两半。 You take the symbolon and you very carefully break it in half.
如果我就这样做呢？ What if I just did this?
现在这不是完全对半，但这是我们用这个盘子能做到的最好的了，而且效果很好。 Now that's not exactly in half, but that is the best we can do with this plate and it works perfectly.
这样你就有了印章的两个部分。 So then what you'd have is two parts of the seal.
如果你有一半，信使有另一半，你就可以验证信息的真实性，因为两个部分会完美契合。 So if you had one half and the messenger had the other half, you could verify the authenticity of the message because the two pieces would fit together.
象征物的两个部分会契合在一起。 Two pieces of the symbolon would fit together.
所以当你去一个教会，他们诵读与你相同的信经时，你就知道你是在真正的教会里。 So when you go to a church and they recite the same creed as you do, you know that you're with the true church.
此时，你可能在想，等一下，埃德蒙。 So at this point, you're probably thinking, wait a minute, hold on, Edmund.
使徒信经并不是那么短。 The Apostles' Creed is not that short.
我是说，它不是应该能印在T恤上吗？ I mean, isn't it supposed to fit on a t-shirt?
你说得对。 And you're right.
使徒信经不只是一句简洁的话。 So the Apostles' Creed isn't just one pithy sentence.
但是这样如何？ But how about this?
如果我们把它分成三个部分，我可以向你展示一种更容易记忆的方法。 I can show you a way that makes it easier to memorize if we break it up into three parts.
信经基本上分为三个部分。 The creed is basically split into three parts.
我信圣父神，我信他的儿子耶稣基督，我信圣灵。 I believe in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his Son, and in the Holy Spirit.
圣父，我信圣子，我信圣灵。 Father, I believe in the Son, and I believe in the Holy Spirit.
从某种意义上说，画十字圣号是一个微型信经。 In a way, the sign of the cross is a mini creed.
因圣父、及圣子、及圣灵之名。 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
这是我们开始和结束每次祷告的方式。 That's the way we begin and end every prayer.
所以今天，你可以去世界上任何一个公教会教堂，那里的人都会宣认和相信同样的信经。 So today, you can go to any Catholic church in the world and the people there are going to profess and believe the same creed.
这是同一个信经，只是用不同的语言表达。 It's the same creed but in different languages.
信经是我们所信仰的一切的概括。 The creed is a summary of everything we believe.
它比使命宣言更有力量。 And it's more powerful than a mission statement.
它应该指导我们所做的一切。 It should inform everything we do.
信经使我们作为信徒的群体团结在一起。 And the creed unifies us as the body of believers.
这个信经已经传承了几个世纪，它应该对我们的日常生活产生巨大影响。 This creed has been passed down for centuries and it should have huge implications on our everyday life.
信经不能只是空洞的词语。 The creed can't just be empty words.
我们对信经的信仰改变了一切。 Our belief in the creed changes everything.
它可以帮助我们作为教会团结在一起，也可以帮助我们以简单的方式向他人传递信仰。 It can help unify us as a church and it can help us pass on the faith to others in an easy way.
它也是一个简短的祷告，让我们祈求神加深我们对这信经的信心， 并祈求神赐恩典，使这信经和对它的信仰影响我们的日常生活。 It also is a short prayer for us to pray and ask God for more faith in this creed and to ask God for the grace for this creed and belief in it to impact our daily lives.
我想鼓励你尝试用信经祷告。 I want to encourage you to try praying with the creed.
每天用信经的一行祷告一周，然后再进行下一行。 Take one line of the creed and pray with it every day for a week before moving on to the next line.
如果信经中有些部分你不理解，教理问答会帮助你解读信经的词句。 If there are parts of that line of the creed that don't make sense to you, the catechism will help you unpack the words of the creed.
教理问答的四大支柱中的第一个支柱正是这样做的。 The very first pillar of the four pillars of the catechism does exactly this.
它深入探讨信经的每一行并加以解释，这样你再也不会用同样的方式看待或诵读信经了。 It dives into every line of the creed and unpacks it so you'll never look at the creed or pray the creed the same way ever again.
一如既往，我们应该因圣父、及圣子、及圣灵之名做这一切。 And as always, we should do all of this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
阿们。 Amen.
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目前，所有这些视频都以多种语言免费提供。 And right now, all of these videos are made available for free in multiple languages.
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现在，我们正在尝试完整讲解教理问答的第一个支柱。 And right now, we're trying to go through the entire first pillar of the catechism.
我们希望制作更多视频来涵盖整个教理问答，我们想用更 多语言来做这件事，并继续免费向所有人提供这个资源。 We hope to make even more videos to cover the entire catechism, and we want to do it in even more languages and continuing to make this resource available for free to everyone.
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每一点帮助都能助我们实现这个目标。 Every little bit helps us accomplish this goal.
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了解所有你可以支持这个使命的方式。 to learn all the ways you can support this mission.
谢谢你。 Thank you.
感谢。 Thanks.