{"id":850,"date":"2008-05-25T00:29:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-05-25T00:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:29:31","slug":"on-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"On Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a phone conversation with a fellow brethren in Christ about Fellowships today. We talked about how many fellowship activities are not really productive even at the secular level: Playing useless games, wasting time on vain issues during Bible discussion. <\/p>\n<p>I told my friend that while in college, I&#39;d rather go to some scientific lectures held for the public than attending the CCF (Chinese Christian Fellowship).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I believe those who have theological training should be the ones responsible to lead a group. Not using the excuse of &quot;training others&quot; to allow others to lead, worse is when they take turns to lead. It is not the format of the leadership I have problem with, sure you can always gain experience on leadership when you lead with some supervisor &quot;guiding&quot; in the background. However, it is the motive I am most disgusted of.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#39;s better at leading the Bible study? Should we not give the BEST quality to others? Especially when they take time to come to fellowship and learn of God&#39;s word.<\/p>\n<p>Have some bones, time to pick up the armor of God already.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion is this: I rather spend time to share the wonders of God with non-believers than waste my time talking nonsense with fellow brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a phone conversation with a fellow brethren in Christ about Fellowships today. We talked about how many fellowship activities are not really productive even at the secular level: Playing useless games, wasting time on vain issues during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}