My Journal

I realize that those who love to converse for the sake of conversation love to ask a bunch of questions that aren't connected, questions so many that they would very likely forget.

If they could fully remember, then one has to wonder where's all these questions leading to? One should be able to tell from comparing their facial expressions with the bunch of questions they ask.

Personally, I believe these are quite shallow. Perhaps even irresponsible.

So, sometimes, one do not need to ask a lot, allowing the other to ask if they are so eager to ask, so one can know the other by just listening to what he asks.

My love for this church grows more and more.

Other than the minor surprises here and there, which made me wonder why I didn't come to this church sooner.

I believe even those of different churches should know enough churches so that they can recommend others to churches that are more convenient, suitable for different individuals. Instead of keeping people in their own church. When we pray for other churches, do we truly put our hearts in them?

I've seen quite a bit, including Pastors and those who are selected to lead a group, fellowship, Bible Study, when they lead, they lead with a hidden attitude of "Leaders are better, therefore I must be humble".

This kind of error in logic is the beginning of virtually untraceable problems to come.

Instead, if become leader, one must first know himself already if he's really called for this post by the Lord and not by people around him in the first place. So that he is sure of what gifts God requires of him.

As for humility, that is the ever learning process for everyone, in every area. There is no causality between these two.

Those Christians, preachers alike, who love to tolerate, refusing to
judge which is sinful, deeply believe that they are as loving and as
accepting as Jesus Christ.

So let's see:

When Jesus accept sinners, they turn good and want to be holy before God.

When these accept sinners, they continue sinning even more and want to party before God.

(Hmmm...Doesn't this sound like Matthew 23:15?)

Need I say more?

By keeping a simple prayer list about people I know with names on a paper, in the order of importance, I realize that I have to frequently update the names, remove some, add some, swap some.

A Christian should seek after authority. Not in greed. But in obedience to God.
Therefore, this authority is distinctly different in every individual.

For some, the authority to be a good husband, and some, good wives, good masters, good servants, good manager of homes, of environment, of organizations, good teachers, good parenthood, good leaders, etc.

And when we have obtained such authority, we must remind ourselves that this is not the authority for us, it is the authority given us to honor our Creator, ultimately pointing to the authority of Christ our Lord. One which we will be held accountable for.