Haha I'm blogging again......
Yesterday we celebrated my Aunt's, my cousin and my birthday in a mega birthday bash haha but more on that next post.
Today I just want to comment on the chinese service I attended today. Because I missed service on saturday and I had Chariskidz on Sunday morning, so I had to attend the cantonese chinese service, at Shekinah. So I prompty left Chariskidz at 1030 hrs and went down for service.
I soon was prompty lost because I had forgotten that the service was in Cantonese mainly and not chinese. Initially it was a bit difficult to change channel but it was ok. I would just like to point out some differences between their service and my usual one.
First, the people at shekinah have twice the energy of us youths, even though most are 4 times older than us. I was welcomed promptly without any hestitance and the people were very warm. Now i wonder why we youths are so lethargic when it comes to service. Pastor has to coax us out of our seats to welcome each other when at Shekinah, they do it spontaneously.
Second, there is a real communal sense in their worship, and I could see all were truly enjoying worshipping God. I also worshipped God and enjoyed it though all I could sing was the Halleluia refrain coz my cantonese is so bad. But I realised when you really put your heart into worshipping God, there is no barrier to it, definitely not a communication barrier.
Third, their community. These elderly and chinese folks care for one another they way we don't do. The sense of caring for each other really is palpable, unlike we youths when we are so cold sometimes
Its so different with us youths. Sometimes we can be so hypocritical and complacent. Sometimes we can also be warm and welcoming. But I won't deny youth needs a serious wake up call. We have dwindled over the years and now we are so small already. We have so many people missing; people like Jia En, huihui, eilene, jerome, alex, justin etc... we also have ppl who should be with us but aren't like kian hee, cynthia, weizheng, william and more.
The flame of the youth ministry is almost dead. Starved of fellowship, God's word and the communion of God's people, our members are dying off. New life has come in but its just replacing ppl if we keep doing this. What do we do?
I have the answer.
But I'm not posting it now or here.
Bye!
Yesterday we celebrated my Aunt's, my cousin and my birthday in a mega birthday bash haha but more on that next post.
Today I just want to comment on the chinese service I attended today. Because I missed service on saturday and I had Chariskidz on Sunday morning, so I had to attend the cantonese chinese service, at Shekinah. So I prompty left Chariskidz at 1030 hrs and went down for service.
I soon was prompty lost because I had forgotten that the service was in Cantonese mainly and not chinese. Initially it was a bit difficult to change channel but it was ok. I would just like to point out some differences between their service and my usual one.
First, the people at shekinah have twice the energy of us youths, even though most are 4 times older than us. I was welcomed promptly without any hestitance and the people were very warm. Now i wonder why we youths are so lethargic when it comes to service. Pastor has to coax us out of our seats to welcome each other when at Shekinah, they do it spontaneously.
Second, there is a real communal sense in their worship, and I could see all were truly enjoying worshipping God. I also worshipped God and enjoyed it though all I could sing was the Halleluia refrain coz my cantonese is so bad. But I realised when you really put your heart into worshipping God, there is no barrier to it, definitely not a communication barrier.
Third, their community. These elderly and chinese folks care for one another they way we don't do. The sense of caring for each other really is palpable, unlike we youths when we are so cold sometimes
Its so different with us youths. Sometimes we can be so hypocritical and complacent. Sometimes we can also be warm and welcoming. But I won't deny youth needs a serious wake up call. We have dwindled over the years and now we are so small already. We have so many people missing; people like Jia En, huihui, eilene, jerome, alex, justin etc... we also have ppl who should be with us but aren't like kian hee, cynthia, weizheng, william and more.
The flame of the youth ministry is almost dead. Starved of fellowship, God's word and the communion of God's people, our members are dying off. New life has come in but its just replacing ppl if we keep doing this. What do we do?
I have the answer.
But I'm not posting it now or here.
Bye!
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