\nTim: Gentlemen, we are here to discuss my choices on my recent church
\nservitude. I have been asked by the pastor to serve as youth leader in
\nthe coming retreat since their main leader cannot make it due to work. I
\nhave accepted it based on the fact that they couldn't find any other.
\nHowever, I am contemplating on pulling out my services for 1. leading
\nFriday Bible Fellowship, 2. participation of Wednesday stay at home
\nprayer meeting. For all things in the universe, there is a balance.\n<\/p>\n
\nMr.
\nQ: Why can't you participate in all three?\n<\/p>\n
\nTim: To teach them a
\nlesson, if they ever learn.\n<\/p>\n
\nJello: Who do you think you are,
\nteaching them a lesson. What lesson?\n<\/p>\n
\nTim: I am just a concerned Christian looking at the failing
\nchurches in America. Everyone just kept praying and praying for God to
\nhelp but they don't do what is right...\n<\/p>\n
\nJello: And you think
\nyou're doing what is right? You lazy bum!\n<\/p>\n
\nTim: As far as I understand, so help me God. I'm not lazy or
\nrejecting any responsibility. All services I provided from teaching to
\ncleaning I do it to my fullest zeal and best ability. But, like you
\nsaid, who am I? I am nobody, comparing to most of them, I have no status
\nin the academics as well as society while many of them have both. Thus,
\nwith much benefits, why are they giving less? Busy with families &
\nbabies? So this is their equation? This is their principle? No wonder
\nAmerica is falling and everyone thinks it's not their fault. There was a
\nvery good pianist who was in a similar position as I in terms of social
\nstatus, this church didn't do anything for him and his wife other than
\njust asking him to serve as a pianist. I would admire him more if he
\nstayed strong and stayed longer. I wouldn't be angry if he didn't
\nrequest for any help as I, but when someone falling victim to a popular
\ncontroversial injustice in this country and asks for help for both
\nhimself and his wife, you try your best to help him nonetheless. Instead
\nof just saying: Oh, we will pray for you. But serve the Lord as a
\npianist here, while we enjoy our social security benefits and
\ncitizenship priviledges and feel sorry for you.\n<\/p>\n
\nMr. Q: Maybe the
\npastor just couldn't come up with a solution. What, do you think just
\nbecause there's no solution, he shouldn't be asked to serve?\n<\/p>\n
\nTim: I
\ndo not think so. There is always a solution with the right heart and a
\nChristian should always be available to serve. However, based on what do
\nwe ask people to serve? Lack people? Then again this church lacks no
\npeople. But as Matthew 23 puts it, obey those on Moses' seat, just don't
\ndo what
\nthey do.\n<\/p>\n
\nCalmBoy: Maybe those other people are just less willing
\nto serve like you. So it is better to get a more willing servant.\n<\/p>\n
\nTim:
\nOh, as much as I'm willing to serve, I just cannot turn a blind eye to
\nwhat I've just said. The pastor had even once asked me not to tell
\npeople of my status, but I thought to myself, if she's afraid for me or
\nherself. Most likely the former. But why the need for this secrecy and
\nyet pushing\/promoting me to serve this and that? To help me gain some
\nkind of "publicity" since I've "helped" so much in order to perhaps
\nsomeday, have an easy route to American Citizenship or whatever
\nrecognition that's going to make my life "better"? Whenever people ask,
\nwhich is unavoidable when serving this much, I just tell them the truth
\ninstead of "not telling them" as she had told me. I believe I am
\nfollowing "not doing what they do" in Matthew 23:3. Because how can you
\nask someone not to tell the truth and assume him to be a willing
\nservant?\n<\/p>\n
\nCalmBoy: I'm sure the pastor saw you a highly treasured
\nfrom God.\n<\/p>\n
\nTim: That is very possible in this case. But with those
\nprinciples, she'll never see my faults and adjust the situations
\naccordingly. This is a common problem with many this type of Chinese
\nchurches, they love to admire admire admire, but don't push themselves
\nto match the people they admire as if that's not their business. This no
\ndoubt produces jealousy in others which I blame it on them.\n<\/p>\n
\n CalmBoy: This meeting is adjourned...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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