CNY service at EXPO

sch ended at 6 plus today. took bus to clementi. man the bus jammed along e MRT line for 30 minutes! by e time i reached e station it was 7...LOL

reached expo jus nice...750pm. svc started at 8pm. e presence of God was great :) worship was even better. =) tears jus flowed like a river as i plugged into God's presence and loved him through my worship. it felt great ^^ and ive finally fulfilled my building fund! yeah! =)

then came e preaching of e word, i dun really like interpretation that goes along with e preaching, makes e sermon a bit patchy...lol a bit here and there..then like got lag in between. nevertheless it was good. after svc, andy drove sylvia, me and my bro home, as andy stayed jus opposite my block...hahaha across e road lols ^^ andy = chiongster haha...x)

during svc learnt that we shld be more accepting towards others, that acceptance is NOT approval. you can accept people without approving of their lifestyle. many ppl try to reach out to people using their own methods, door to door, etc.

but to be effective me must inculcate the Jesus Method:

1. Bless the lost
2. Fellowship with them
3. Pray for the them; Find a need and meet it; Find a hurt and heal it
4. Share the gospel

many like to start from the bottom up. to win souls is to develop relationships. its all about RELATIONSHIPS. soul-winning is NOT a method! pastor also talked about shallow, weak, religious and OVERLY righteous christians.

these weak christians live by culture and tradition, rather than by the Word and the Spirit. they come up with nonsense such as, TV is the devil's box, black is bad luck, money is evil, music is demonic, santa claus is demonic, rock music is demonic, poor equals holy (so we say gong xi fa cai, they say gong xi puo chan???), makeup is demonic, jade is demonic, demonic here and there, maybe u should stop focusing on demons and really start focussing on God!

and other nonsense such as...

church music cannot be loud
you cant wear this and that
you cannot eat this and that
hair color, style, fashion and other issues

these issues are not mentioned in e Word. there is a difference between MORAL, IMMORAL and AMORAL. moral and immoral are 2 obvious extremes that e Word mentions about. moral things include, mercy, grace, giving, forgiveness, love, etc.

immoral include, murder, theft, lying, adultery, etc. these are CLEAR LINES. however, in between the immoral and the moral u have the AMORAL. which is neutral. these issues like arts/media/culture/fashion/style/music/food/dressing/etc...are not mentioned in e Bible. because these are AMORAL (neutral)!

what does it mean for these things to be amoral? It jus means its up to you to decide. choose as you would, led by the Spirit. weak christians, need other people to be their 'Holy Spirit' for them. but for the mature, for the strong, they know how to be led by the spirit.

its not about whos right or whos wrong, its about whos living in faith and whos not, bcos anything that is not faith is sin. (rom 14:1-2, 5-6, 22-23) -> let everyone be convinced in his own mind.

the weak tend to have an easily-offended conscience. dont try to be more righteous than God, dont take anything away from the Word and dont add anything to the Word! it will only lead to destruction of lives.

fear blocks u from being open. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and of a sound mind. weak christians are fearful all the time, they live insecure, fearful lives. if God accepts you for who u are and He sent His Son to die for u despite ur past, present and future mistakes, what gives you the right to condemn those that He died for???

God didnt give the Word to imprison our lives, but to give us liberty and freedom! we should be the most happy people in the world yet some christians live as if they had never knew Christ! saved, but not renewed...inspired but not transformed.

we can be contemporary, exciting, yet love God wholeheartedly and love people fervently and yet God is with us. dont live by tradition, dont live by customs, dont live by culture....what is culture?

ps kong mentioned before, culture is a man-made (not frm God, but from man's FALLEN nature), artificial, secondary environment superimposed on what God has originally intended. after e fall of man, man wanted to find back their 'eden' (paradise) so they tried to create a new Eden. (culture)

instead, we should live by the Word and the Spirit. the devil builds on e negative, but God builds on the positive. the more negative u are, the more e devil can use it to put u in bondage and paralyse u forever. whereas, when u are positive, when u have faith, God can move in ur life and bring u to e next level.

lets be conversionists, lets live a live that truly reflects the One who first loved us and whom we love...im so excited, ps said tt he received a Word that we are gonna grow like never before this year. and ps ulf is coming to give a prophetic message on growth. indeed, we will cross 30000 this year...cant wait ^^ hehes....

the size of your dream, reflects the size of your God. people who criticise and complain all the time will never be used by God. God is not looking for talents or abilities, but God simply wants your availability, someone who can say, 'here i am, send me"...