Just last week in camp, i was having a mini apologetics discussion with my friends in my bunk. We talk about many things, certain practices like slaying of the soul that is practised by city harvest. Also he questioned about many moral issues concerning christ like is it justifiable that an evil man that do bad things thru out his life came to know christ in his last breath would be forgiven of his sin n would be able to go to heaven? Does it mean to say that we can juz do as much as we want then come back once in a while to i repent to be saved?
I explained as best as i could n i hope he catch my answer but there was one thing that they said impacted me alot. They did not like christianity because they met many christians who are not acting lk one, forces ppl to go church n making arrogant comments that are hurtful n sensitive to others as well as their religion. Hearing this, i really felt a sense of pity for them. If only they knew how much God loves them. But i guess our actions has hindered them from establishing a relationship with God and we should be grieving n ashamed for this.
Gandhi once said, "I love the Jesus that the christians preach but i hate the christians."
Even though on our lips we have been proclaiming to be the children of God, but are we really living a life that is worthy to be called that?
Brothers and Sister, its really time to wake up. In the acts church, the testimony of the living God could be seen in the followers life but now when ppl ask for testimony
, all we can say is look at the life of jesus as we know that our lives can will not be a testimony. I really wanna encourage all of us here today to start evaluating our lives n c what areas we can improve in so that in due time our lives will be a living testimony of our heavenly father.
"not what we preach but what we practice that make us Christians"
Therefore, lets not stop at juz being a preacher of God's word but a doer of His word as well! Amen?
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
God's Lesson
God really taught me a tough lesson lesson today. Well it was like this. On my way to nexus for word for life, i saw this uncle who had a deformity condition on his face. As i walked past him, God nudged me to approach him to pray for him but well i admit i was a bit of a coward to approach him so i juz continued walking on to word for life. Thru the lesson, God talk to me bout the incident even in the teaching. We were going thru the passage in acts that talks about peter n john meeting a man who was lame begging for money at the temple gates. ya n jiehui was stating a pt that tis man had no real help n hope even though religious man were passing by him so often(after all he was at the temple gates). Also jie hui made one statement that hit me hard.
"People can feel compassion for him but no one really wanted to go out of their way to help him. what hope does he have then? All he can do was to concede to his situation n continue being helpless..."
When i heard this i knew for sure that it was God speakin or should i say rebuking me for the incident just now. Whatever it was, i immediately felt burdened n ashamed. To top it off, God pull another 'stunt' on me. At the end of the lesson, Jon Lim suddenly spoke to the grp bout the same man that i saw.
He said, "lets apply what we have learned today n as child of god show compassion to those in need n give what we have which is the best hope he can get which is god. Y not lets go n pray for him like wat peter and john did for the lame at temple gates."
Hearing this, i felt extremely compelled and guilty. Guilty for not living lk a child in God n compelled to pray for that man n give him a true hope. We went down to where we saw him but sadly he had already left. But that was not the end, on our back to nexus, we saw a blind struggling with his equipments for busking outside centrepoint.
Immediately, we felt God's prompting and this time there was no hesitation. We went up to help him with his equipments n offered to pray for him there n then. Praise be to God! Though there was no miracle healing but we invited him for service and he said that maybe he could make it on a sunday n asked us for our contact so that he may contact us again. It was really heartwarming exp to pray for one in need n seeing him coming one step closer to God.
Looking back at what happened, i was reminded of a very simple command from God.
"Love your neighbours as yourself......"
Who are our neighbours? EVERYONE!
"People can feel compassion for him but no one really wanted to go out of their way to help him. what hope does he have then? All he can do was to concede to his situation n continue being helpless..."
When i heard this i knew for sure that it was God speakin or should i say rebuking me for the incident just now. Whatever it was, i immediately felt burdened n ashamed. To top it off, God pull another 'stunt' on me. At the end of the lesson, Jon Lim suddenly spoke to the grp bout the same man that i saw.
He said, "lets apply what we have learned today n as child of god show compassion to those in need n give what we have which is the best hope he can get which is god. Y not lets go n pray for him like wat peter and john did for the lame at temple gates."
Hearing this, i felt extremely compelled and guilty. Guilty for not living lk a child in God n compelled to pray for that man n give him a true hope. We went down to where we saw him but sadly he had already left. But that was not the end, on our back to nexus, we saw a blind struggling with his equipments for busking outside centrepoint.
Immediately, we felt God's prompting and this time there was no hesitation. We went up to help him with his equipments n offered to pray for him there n then. Praise be to God! Though there was no miracle healing but we invited him for service and he said that maybe he could make it on a sunday n asked us for our contact so that he may contact us again. It was really heartwarming exp to pray for one in need n seeing him coming one step closer to God.
Looking back at what happened, i was reminded of a very simple command from God.
"Love your neighbours as yourself......"
Who are our neighbours? EVERYONE!
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