:: after the prelims ::
phew... the prelims are finally over man... was playing like mad the past few days... spent over three hundred dollars... now m almost broke... haha... was watching all the movies, ranging from irrational ones like the night watch and the longest yard to the more interesting ones like four brothers and initial d... was quite cool... catching up with friends like michael, justin, kenneth and zhuomin... went ice skating too... was really cool... released all the stress that have been built inside of me during the prelims... one thing i missed was laraine.. didnt have time to meet up with her... haha... but after the o's i promise i will do smt about it... :)
went back to the church of singapore yesterday... was back because of my friends there, like guoyi, were asking me to go back many times already... turned him down a couple of times cos i was studying... felt really bad about it and thus i went back yesterday... despite the fact that i was "new" there and didnt really know alot of people... alot of people still came up to me and shook hands... i felt really welcomed... the sermon and the songs might be new.. but once i felt welcomed and accepted into the family, it didnt really matter anymore... when i left the church, there were about two hunderd members and i was the only ursher there... now, there are like three hundred in just a year and there is a team of urshers already... i was just wondering what is it exactly that made the church grow so fast... is it the pastor? is it the venue? orpc also has both but how come it is not growing as fast? some may say i m focussing too much on these worldly things... some may say i m irritating... but i remember reading that "a non-believe does not care how much you know until he knows how much you care"... is this caring issue smt that is lacking in orpc? i believed that they have set up a team to care for the church members... but i feel that a church must work as a body of christ... everyone plays an important part... just like in cosbt, its not just the urshers that welcomed me, the church members came and shook my hand by themselves and they didnt know me at all... it was easy to communicate with them and it had a "family" atmosphere in it... i feel that this is how a church should be, showing the christian love and care to anyone and everyone, instead of basing it on attendence and contribution... if i was a non-believer, i would feel more inclined to stay on at cosbt as it really "found its way into my heart"...
school is reopening tomorrow already... dunno if i would receive my results... its kinda of freaking me out, with all this suspense and terror... really hope to do well and get into a good jc for the first three months... but there is nothing that i can do now... its all in God's hands... " trust in him with all your hearts and he will make your path straight"...
went back to the church of singapore yesterday... was back because of my friends there, like guoyi, were asking me to go back many times already... turned him down a couple of times cos i was studying... felt really bad about it and thus i went back yesterday... despite the fact that i was "new" there and didnt really know alot of people... alot of people still came up to me and shook hands... i felt really welcomed... the sermon and the songs might be new.. but once i felt welcomed and accepted into the family, it didnt really matter anymore... when i left the church, there were about two hunderd members and i was the only ursher there... now, there are like three hundred in just a year and there is a team of urshers already... i was just wondering what is it exactly that made the church grow so fast... is it the pastor? is it the venue? orpc also has both but how come it is not growing as fast? some may say i m focussing too much on these worldly things... some may say i m irritating... but i remember reading that "a non-believe does not care how much you know until he knows how much you care"... is this caring issue smt that is lacking in orpc? i believed that they have set up a team to care for the church members... but i feel that a church must work as a body of christ... everyone plays an important part... just like in cosbt, its not just the urshers that welcomed me, the church members came and shook my hand by themselves and they didnt know me at all... it was easy to communicate with them and it had a "family" atmosphere in it... i feel that this is how a church should be, showing the christian love and care to anyone and everyone, instead of basing it on attendence and contribution... if i was a non-believer, i would feel more inclined to stay on at cosbt as it really "found its way into my heart"...
school is reopening tomorrow already... dunno if i would receive my results... its kinda of freaking me out, with all this suspense and terror... really hope to do well and get into a good jc for the first three months... but there is nothing that i can do now... its all in God's hands... " trust in him with all your hearts and he will make your path straight"...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
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