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....

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)

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?