He Made Us Unable to Help
but Walk the Same Pathway as He
Brother Wu was my senior in the physics department of Taiwan Normal University. He was the quarterback of the university's rugby team, the key player when Taiwan Normal University often won the championship in the national collegiate rugby tournaments of that time. This was also true in the later church life: in coordination, when he fought for the Lord's interests on the earth, he always took all the saints into account, just as in the ball games he regarded every teammate as important. The team spirit of those days was surely like the building up of one another in today's spiritual life.
In the church life he always took the lead to love the saints by being a pattern. I remember that while he was still teaching at the Affiliated High School of Taiwan Normal University, he was at the same time serving the Gospel Book Room. It was during this period that I first began to learn to serve. Because the co-worker ahead of me, Brother Zhang Xiangze (張湘澤), had fallen ill, I often accompanied him, and each time I would encounter Brother Wu hurriedly delivering books, periodicals, or videotapes to the book room and then rushing back to school to teach class. His diligent, burden-bearing character was already very evident. Within a few years, he received the burden from Brother Lee and, with Brother Zhang's encouragement, took up the service of the Gospel Book Room.
This service was extremely difficult; it was the work of serving the ministry of the word. From the beginning of the 1980s he began to serve the word of the church life. He was a faithful serving one in the Lord's recovery, and also a Brother Paul who did not fear difficulties. He not only coordinated in the church in Taipei, but also in the coordination throughout the various regions of the world. What he cared for was the Lord's interests on the earth. He was a valiant warrior who fought for God, and also a messenger of peace, able to coordinate and build up with brothers of different races and different backgrounds. He labored to knit together the members of the Body of Christ; he was an important joint and sinew. Among those close to him, it seemed that every one regarded him as his own dearest and nearest one. In the church service, from the elderly to the young, his care for each person was always so fitting that it was unforgettable.
He was an elder who always bore certain unseen responsibilities, so that the brothers and sisters under the church life all felt he was a protective umbrella. Although, being in different halls, I did not have many opportunities to fellowship with him, yet he always knew what we were doing, and at the appropriate time he would always appear in a timely way to be together with us and to encourage us. He prayed for us sincerely and cared for us constantly. In the 2019 gathering for counting the Lord's grace, he came especially to Hall Seventeen and testified of his experience of death and resurrection, so that the saints were all stirred up.
Whenever the church had an action, he always led with a positive view; he poured out himself that others might gain happiness, and forsook his own peace and quiet that others might gain comfort. In 2020, during the recent Monday-morning morning-revival meetings of the central district of the church in Taipei, he still personally cared for and participated in every service, letting the brothers know profoundly that such an exemplary brother—serving without regard for his own life, ever placing himself beneath the cross or in the place of death—made us unable to help but walk the same pathway as the brother.