撰文／阮琦雅｜圣灵月刊378期-2009.03｜主题／在天与在地
节妮芙答应我儿子──撒母耳，课后开车载他去买玩具。在前往店家时，兴奋的撒母耳和节妮芙作了如下的对话──
节妮芙：你想当我儿子吗？
撒母耳：不可以。
节妮芙：为甚么不可以呢？
撒母耳：因为你不是基督徒。
节妮芙：是不是基督徒跟这事情有甚么关系？
撒母耳：那么你安息日就不会带我去教会。
节妮芙：我没有去是因为我儿子褒伯太小不适合去。
撒母耳：啊呀，那不是问题。连婴儿都去教会。
节妮芙：但是褒伯去那里会很吵而且很烦躁。
撒母耳：别担心那事。我们全部小孩在教会敬拜神以外，也会在一块玩……。
※节妮芙有两个孩子，柏琳达和褒伯。柏琳达和撒母耳一样是7岁，所以节妮芙要求我教撒母耳英文时也一起教柏琳达，也因此他们来教会聚会过一次。他们没深入地跟我分享为甚么没继续来教会，我也只将这问题留给神。
没想到撒母耳将这问号留在心中，并适时找出答案；更没想到的是，即便在我拒绝唾手可得的德国名车后，在他倍感渴望拥有车子的心情下，仍不愿用世上的任何东西与自己的基督徒身分交换，这也是为甚么在这事上称他为基督精兵。
Jennifer promised to drive my son, Samuel, to buy a toy after class. Samuel was very excited about that while they were going down stairs to the store. And this conversation happened during that period.
Jennifer: Do you want to be my son?
Samuel: No way.
Jennifer: Why not?
Samuel: Because you are not a Christian.
Jennifer: What’s the matter with it?
Samuel: Then you won’t take me to church on Sabbath days.
Jennifer: I don’t go there because my little son, Bob, is too young to be there.
Samuel: Anyway, it doesn’t the matter. There are even babies there.
Jennifer: But Bob will be noisy and fussy there.
Samuel: Don’t worry about it. We children all worship God and play there together.
※ Jennifer has two children, Belinda and Bob. Belinda and Samuel are the same age of seven, so Jennifer asked me to teach Belinda and Samuel English together. Therefore, they went to church once.
They didn’t tell me why they stopped attending the service sincerely, and I just left that question to God. I didn’t know Samuel put it in his mind and tried to find it out on the proper time.
And furthermore, though he’s been longing for a car since I refused to get a famous German car, he refused to exchange being a Christian for anything else on earth. That’s why he is worth being a little Christian soldier in the case.