Friday, November 21, 2008
TOday i went abit later but nevertheless managed to catch Pastor Ulf in the overflow hall for the morning session. He talked about the Holy SPirit! Very Basic yet very fundamental in our walk with God...Lunch was great and Pastor really reduced our expectation on the quality of the food from what he mentioned previously but the standard of the dishes was rather high!!! Quite a sumptuous meal I would say...
This is what I had for dinner~
I attended my favourite elective The Art of Worship Leading! Basically, it was a very general one teaching about the technical and spiritual aspects of leading praise and worship. But it was really a great experience to hear Annabel and Ally share from their personal experience on what it takes to be a leader. It takes years of discipleship for them to be able to rise up, and it is never about your skills, but your heart and character. Of course, i enjoyed the teachnical aspects more coz it widened my perspective and I get to understand more on the dynamics behind. Of course, a skillful worship leader is not necessarily an anointed one and anything without the presence of God has no power. There are three general aspects of the voice: tone, skill and anointing. The first one is God-given and cannot be worked upon, but the latter two can be achieved through hard word and perseverance and waiting upon the Lord. Worship leading is really about the people. The congregation you are ministering to. If the focus is about oneself, then that is not true worshipping...Service at night was about the Holy Spirit again~ It was great when Carola sang the part, "Harvest Harvest Harvest....Fire..Fire...Fire..." I really felt that tonight was a night of heavy "fire"component. 
Tomorrow I cant make it for Rev AR Bernard and Pastor Phil's session but I will definitely rush down after my paper at 5pm. Hope that I can manage to make it in time for the power packed night session!!!
Greater things have yet to come! All the best for my own paper oh yea...