Friday, December 5, 2008
I met up with my cgl yesterday for fellowship and visitation of Uncle Peter.
It is great hearing my cgl shared about her experiences during Asia COnference. Her family actually provided accomodation for one foreign pastor and she was actively serving and following the pastors during the entire AC. She shared about how the pastors are so personal in making the effort to know other pastors or people from other countries and not just sat back to be served at. And because vincent has alot of contacts with other foreign delegates especially those from taiwan due to his ministry last time, she got the chance to be introduced to many pastors and leaders from other churches.
There are two main things I got out of my conversation with her. First, discipleship is not forced. It is always the disciples going after the discipler and not the discipler going after the discples. Think Jesus and his discples. Many of His disciples would want to be with Jesus and follow Him wherever He goes. Jesus taught them whenever they ask Him questions on things they couldnt understand. The willingness to be discipled is so important. If a cgl is always chasing after the members to go church, to go cg, to tithe, to give, to pray, then there is no true discipleship there.
The second interesting perspective is regarding the issue of whether God first, ministry second, family third, or God first, family second or ministry third. My cgl told me that last time pastor phil once mentioned, God should be in the centre of everything, not the first nor the last. God should be in the centre of family, ministry and all things should revolve around HIm. So regardless of the priority, if God is in the centre, our lives will be right and ordered by Him.
Tomorrow FYP briefing... Then cellgroup after two loooong weeks...Oh yea~