My Journal

A lot of the so called Christian leadership trainings today are more focused on methods, following others' samples, blindly. And when speaking of humility of a leader, they go as far as to deny their leadership authority, especially when facing responsibility issues.

The worst kind of authority abuse is denial of authority. Our Lord never denied who he is nor his authority.

Christian leaders today are so convinced that they should humble themselves hypocritically that they could care less to see God's glory being seeped away by their specious action.

I think it is because of enthusiasm without knowledge, many rather blindly promote leaders and patiently learn the mystery of God's wisdom. And they say: See...Lord...See...so many wants to serve you!!! See Lord!!!

The western style is: Many call themselves servants being a caring hero. Hero, nothing less. And how great is this hero, if he denies his identity of Ubermensch.

A stubborn person is asking for either rebuke, or rejection.

I believe most of us, at some point, considered Jesus not Lord, but merely a good friend. This is a problem, this kind of faith is equivalent to that of Judas Iscariot's (even though one might think he would not betray Jesus), for as the other 11 called Jesus, "Lord", at the first holy communion, Judas could not. Because of His TRUE Lordship, we find ourselves unworthy and in need of repentance. Because of God's righteousness, Christ was forsaken on the cross by GOD in his sacrifice for us. And because He is the Son of God, there can be no better sacrifice. Because He is the Son of God, He is worthy of worship, and because He is worthy of worship, He can only be of divine equivalent with God and therefore the triune God for there is ONE GOD, a concept beyond human understanding except by faith according to the Scripture.

I gather that there can be at least a thesis made for every infinitesimal subject. For that reason, it is not possible to fully grasp the absolute.

Therefore, it is necessary for a student, even teacher, to seek the connections between different level of theses. If there is a new thing, a connection must be formed first, otherwise, it must be made secondary or put aside, especially for teachers, despite how tempting it may stir up curiosity from either the students or the teacher himself.

I find this an important entry because I have seen a pastor loved to bring up data, even debunked theories for seemingly no purpose at all: As if he ran out of ideas to impress the audience, as if he wished to show off something he was sure no one else knew--wherefore where else lies the abundance of such curious informations other than the debunked controversies. For example: The word "call upon" in Genesis 4:26 also meant and held by many Rabbis to be the opposite meaning "profane". Another example: Some dead have been measured to lose a infinitesimal weight right after their last breath, this pastor wished the class to wonder about the possibility of the effect of the spirit leaving the body.

There are some you expect to be shallow, but usually, we find many who shouldn't be this shallow when it comes to the community of the educated, of those who are expected to work with the increase knowledge in Christ our Lord.