love turned a page--preparation
Sunday, January 24, 2010
hiya people
how has the preparation been so far? i mean, of course i know how has the progress been since i was there like almost everytime.
so what i was trying to say was, how do you feel about concert prepartion so far? and i don't mean the actual process but what ARE your feelings.
tired? weary? bored? sick?
let us review what pr annie tan told us this afternoon. i personally thought her message made a deep impact on me, especially regarding the preparation for the concert.
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2
i admit it is very tiring to having go back church twice a week, staying till past 9 to do repetitive mundane chores. it feels worse than school right?
but these verses reminded me that as 'living sacrifices' to God, these is a 'spiritual act of worship'. 'do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world' by complaining because this is our responsibility as a christian. it is not our responsibility to make this drama, or concert as a whole, a perfect flawless one.
it is our responsibility to offer our best to God and everything else will be placed unto God's hands.
during the whole course, we may think that this is not good enough, or that should not work that way. i always thought that some things are missing from the skit, its not as what i think it should appear to be. but then again, does all these matter? sometimes we are too obsess with what the audience would think.
would they think we suck? would they think we did something wrong here or there? but in actual, who IS our audience?
by now, i think you would have known.
God, the almighty one.
sure, this concert is a mean of attracting our friends who have not heard of the gospel before. however, no matter how this concert is carried out, it is still a worship. God is our only congregation. we are performing for him. worship is not that 15mins of singspiration every sunday; worship is not that 30 mins of message the speaker conveys every sunday and worship definitely is not that 3 hours we spend in church every sunday. we worship God everyday of our lives whether you are sitting in the bus, showering in your bathroom or even sleeping during lectures.
worship is how you 为神做见证 in front of others. this whole concert is in fact an act of worship. so what kind of attitude should we have during a worship? one that complains? or one that obeys?
ask yourself again, what IS the purpose of this concert? i hope i need not answer this question for you.
"Don't always think that we must be constantly on our guard doing a lot of stuffs and get ourselves so weary and tired out. sometimes we may need to stop DOING and allow God to mould our BEING to be conformed into HIS LIKENESS." Richard Blackerby
by the way, before i forget, how many of you have already started inviting? don't be too engrossed in the whole concert and forget the whole invitation process.
Experienced God @
9:02 PM
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