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Soaking in the Spirit (Tuesday, 8pm)
There will be a special guest, Ps Josie Chu from Agape Renewal Center, USA, coming down to lead us into a time of praise and worship. It'll be a great experience as she is really annointed. Please try to come down if you are free.
Prayer Requests:
- Pray for Cindy whom is Italy now. Pray that she can settle down asap, and that she can adapt to the weather and enviroment. Pray that God will continue to show her His goodness as Cindy trust and rely on God.
- Continue to pray for all the uth leaders.
- Pray for Shiyin, Huimin, Iwan, Junping and Zhiliang. Semestral exams starts on Friday.
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Thought for the Week:
Rabbit-Hole Christians
Read Luke 19:1-10
Jesus . . . said to him, "Zacchaeus, make haste and come down,
for today I must stay at your house."
—Luke 19:5
Rabbits are timid creatures that pop out of their holes every morning, try to avoid everything (except other rabbits), eat their food, and jump back into their holes in the evening. "Whew! We made it through another day," they'd say if they could talk.
Rabbit-hole Christians are a lot like that. They eat lunch with other Christians at work and relate almost exclusively with fellow-believers in their church. They avoid socializing with unbelievers and wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to one of their parties. No wonder unbelievers equate being a Christian with a kind of aloof self-righteousness.
No one could say that about Jesus. He actually invited Himself to the home of Zacchaeus, a notorious tax collector. His congeniality among disreputable people earned Him the title of "a friend of tax collectors and sinners" (Matthew 11:19). He reached out to such people because He knew He couldn't help them without becoming their friend. Jesus never said anything He shouldn't have said, nor did He laugh at off-color stories. He won people's respect by caring for them.
Jesus has equipped us with the Holy Spirit and assured us that He'll be with us so we can follow His example. Let's guard against being rabbit-hole Christians.
Help us, O Lord, to live our lives
So people clearly see
Reflections of Your caring heart,
Your love and purity.
—Sper
Jesus leaves us in the world to be a witness to the world.
taken from RBC ODB:
http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb-03-10-05.shtml
http://www.rbc.org/odb/odb-03-10-05.shtml
