Anyway, just to summarise. the Sunday Service was excellent! They don't have singspiration but the hymns were wonderful! Imagine few thousands people singing their heart out! So touching! Korean songs sounded so nice as well! The message was very good as well by the Senior Pastor, Rev Hung. It was about the Fire of the Holy Spirit. How have we neglected it in the past, it's time to seek it back.
Our CMCA has been too conservative until we have neglected Holy Spirit's works. We don't know what truly are spiritual gifts, touched by the Holy Spirit, etc. We must now look back into our gospel & theology, then refine our theology to get more understanding of the Holy Spirit. It's not that what we knew previously was wrong, it's just that we have forgotten some.
We also had friendly badminton games with the church people! Malaysia won the 2 games by the way. He He!!
Then on Monday, we had 2 very strong message. One is a lecture, the other is a testimony by the Senior Pastor's wife.
The message is about the Truth, Goodness & Beauty (power) of Christianity. It's too long to even summarised it here as I don't want to miss out any important points. I'll ask for the research paper by Rev Dr John Lee for us to see. In very simple words, it's about Christianity must be united to be strong again (like how Koreans have done it). We need the truth (emphasis on reasoning - Mainly Orthodox churches), Goodness (do what we preached - Mainly Evangelical churches) and Beauty (God's power & sovereignty - Mostly Charismatic Pentecostal churches) to combine together.
Without the unity, the churches are separated~! That's what Satan wished for! Each church to focus on 1 of the 3 strengths only. Then criticises each other, no unity. How have we failed in this area! We need to look into this matter urgently!! Hoping Bishop will take the lead to correct this theological error.By the way, I did get to speak to Bishop but not in full yet. Looking for a 2nd time but schedule is so busy. By the time we finish, both of us are really exhausted already. I dare not to ask for a time slot from him.
For all CMCA churches, we really need to wake up and pick up the baton to run the race. Stop sleeping or in state of denial! WAKE UP
We'll see how it goes! Back to 5am prayer tomorrow.
1 comment:
Interesting comments on the emphases of different streams of Christian tradition. But is it really an "error", in the same sense as we talk of heresy? I believe the approaches of different traditions stem back from the environment those traditions were founded in. For example, the Orthodox church tends to be more "philosophical" because they never had to deal with threats to their existence early on, while the western church tends to be more "practical" because they had to face threat after threat, from heretics, the Roman persecution, barbarian invasions, etc. Perhaps its more useful to realise that God in his wisdom has shaped us all differently, and recognise the need to understand how God has shaped us and our views, and then engage and interact with other traditions.
I also find it interesting that you didnt mention the catholics ;).
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