In search for a holistic christian identity.

Friday, July 27, 2007

What you want to hear from me

I long to talk to you
Telling you all my plans
Guide you through all your path
Showing you the way of life
But I find it hard to talk to you
To show all I have for you
You don’t seem to understand
Cause you choose what you
Want to hear from me

But I’m waiting for you to come back
To say you want to hear
Everything from me
To be loved and to love
To received blessing
As well as suffering
Willing to give up
Everything for me.

Your ears are open to me
When I say “I love you”
But you would turned away
When I say “love your enemies”
You want the blessing of my bread
Reject the suffering of my cup
You thought my way was easy life
Cause you choose what you
Want to hear from me

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Is All About Love

Is All About Love

In beginning
He’s the only one
Sharing love among the three
Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one
Fellowship in unity

Is all about love
Is all about love
In this union
Is all about love
Is all about love
This is the life in Him

And one day His love
Overflows into all creation
And He place His love
In the hearts of men
His very own

Is all about love
Is all about love
In His people
Is all about love
Is all about love
This is the life He brings.

He reached out for our hand
To ask us for a dance
In His kingdom
And this is His dream
That all men may live
In community

Is all about love
Is all about love
In His kingdom
Is all about love
Is all about love
This is the life He seeks.

Fear Factor

some people put on safety belt because fear of "saman", some people study for exam because fear of failing, some people eat vegetable because fear of constipation (cannot go toilet), but how many people will live their life according to God's way because of the Fear of God?
Moses say to the people "do not be afraid, God has come to test you so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning." Exodus 20:20

Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Wounded Healer

Jesus the Son of God, came to suffer and die for us. He went through all kinds of trial, attack, insult, betrayal, pain and emotional struggle, any form of human suffering that is known to men and came out victorious. that is why He is able to understand and comfort and heal those who are going through the same suffering. He is the wounded healer. Sometimes we ask God why we had to go through certain suffering and pain, now i'm quite certain that one of the reason and purpose is that we too may become a wounded healer. As we have been wounded and healed by Jesus, we can go out to heal those still in pain. "We can't lead others beyond where we are now." If we want to help others overcome certain problem we ourselves must overcome it first....

Monday, April 16, 2007

Love Is Blind

3 reasons Why love is blind...

1. Love is blind because love is acceptance. love accepts even weakness, failure and rejection ... But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

2. Love is blind because love is sacrifice. love sacrifices even when it is not returned..... This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10)

3. Love is blind because love transforms. someone has been made blind so that we who are blind can received sight..... God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Co 5:21)

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Admin? Activities? MInistry?

From the duration that i was missing from this blog you would probably know how i come to this thought. well it has been 8 months since i join the church in full time ministry, for the past few months we have been quite tied up with activities after activities. and i fully agree what our dear bro daniel who said that ministry is about ministering to the brokeness of people, i see myself lacking in that sense.

Many a times when the church grows larger, its leaders would tend to be more and more busy. but what are they busy about?
Most of the time i see leaders busy with meetings, paper work, administration and creating a system... especially so in the setting of a prebyterian church where there is an unsaid system where elders are to take care of spiritual matters and the deacons are the administrator doing paper work and arrangement. Yes this is a biblical foundation of church "organisation" recorded in Acts 6:1-4, where the apostles are too busy with the ministry of the Word of God so therefore selected 7 to serve the needs of the widows among the Grecian Jews but busy church leaders have miss the point, the seven was selected not to ease the administration work of the apostles but to serve the needs among the believers whom they cannot handle. at the end of the day it is still ministering to the needs of people whether is spiritual, physical, emotional or intellectual needs.

sometimes it seems so machenical.... where are the humans?

Friday, January 05, 2007

To be Godly...

To be Godly, to many of us it means to have the nature of God which is holy, righteous, just, loving, kind and etc... but in my 6 months of full time ministry i realised that we have miss out another important part of Godly. Godly is not just having the nature of God but also asking where is the presence of God. Many christian can have good christian conduct on the outside but without the power of Jesus inside. We are capable of living Godly lives without God, having christian programmes without Christ.
"In all that we do asked, where is God in all this?"

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Precious gift?

How would you define a precious gift? is it by the size or the price? who has given more, the rich who gave out of their wealth or the widow who gave out of her poverty all she had to live on? who love you more, the rich guy who use 2 miniutes to buy you a RM5000 present or the guy who spend 24 hours knowing what you like and 48 hours seraching for it and use 90% of his bank account to buy you that gift?
"If it doesn't cost me anything to give you something is worth nothing, it cost Jesus his life to give us eternal life and its worth our everything."