Learning to reflect how I live my Christian life. Have all that I have been doing out of duty or out of devotion ?
Is out of self or out of love for God?
This I truly need to process and reflect through.
Looking Back
Its been 4 years,
reading back i feel amaze and ashamed
It was in the past i had that flame
So strong i didn't think it ever will dim down
Until i took faith and journal only now
With love that grace had been with me
But how could i not see?
May the Spirit fills my soul
Just as how the river flows
Not the duty the nature seeks
But the devotion and faith my Lord sees.
Thursday 18 October 2018
Wednesday 8 January 2014
A Certain Kind 1-10
Woke up 3am and couldnt sleep any more. So i decided to commit the time to the Lord and pray. To also read through A certain kind before I go to class soon. =) Lets reflect
Chapter 1: A certain kind
1. Who believes that the Holy Spricture is God inspired.
2. That Jesus is God
3. Faith in Jesus
4. Certain that our salvation is complete through the cross
5. Certain of our calling
Person Purpose Process Product
A certain kind of Person
Committed to a certain kind of Purpose
through a certain kind of Process
to reproduce a certain kind of Product.
The ABCs of a certain kind of disciple
1. Authentic in the worship of God
2. Brokenness in the walk with God
3. Courage in the work for God
Chapter 2. What is a Disciple ?
A learner and a follower of Jesus.
Mathetes (Disciple/learner)
If anyone wishes to follow Me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross and follow Me. Matthew 16:24
None of you can become My disciples who does not give up all his possessions. Luke 14:33
Chapter 3. What is Discipleship?
Discipleship is a passion and a relationship with God through a pilgrimage of following him.
A call to surrender after counting your cost. *hahaha
Chapter 4. What is Disciplemaking?
1. Bring people into a right relationship with God
2. Developing them into full maturity.
3. Through intentional growth Strategies
4. That they multiply the entire process to others also
Chapter 5. What is an intentional disciplemaking Church?
1. Purpose driven Disciple making the core mission of the church
2. Evangelism Intentional out reach and follow up
3. Intentional growth strategies Develop people via their gifts and calling
4. Leadership modeling More than just agreement and commitment but resonance
5. Vision Casting Disciplemaking is articulated regularly
6. Concretising vehicles Disciple making work on (follow ups and training)
7. Small group infrastructure small group mentoring or cell ministry
8. Spiritual multiplication transformation taken place and multiplies
Chapter 6. Clarity of Vision
Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18
1. we work without a vision Often going through the motion without vision
2. We are satisfied with a vague generalisation of a vision we need to be specific
3. We try to borrow someone else's vision
4. We try to engineer a vision We often force out a plan or something good to do
5. We form a committee to determine a vision Vision is given to a person, the committee refines and affirms it.
6. We divorce the vision from faith The faith to do and go
7. We sugar coat the vision no radical power action and worthiness
8. We fail to concretise the vision talk but no action, no strategic work plans
9. We mirco manage the vision too small and church centered, not God centered.
10. Heart too small to hold a God sized vision weak hearts with fears and sin, leaders must guard their hearts
11. We dont preserve to realise the vision its difficult testings but it also molds us and grow us
12. We get sidetrack from seeking God for the vision dont lose focus!!
Chapter 7. A wake up call
We are losing the people, the leaders the next generation
5 Cries of the Church
1. Too many programmes but not aligned to churchs core mission (Gods call)
2. Too few volunteers and leaders : hard to find people
3. The leadership direction is not clear : poor direction from leadership
4. The leadership is not united
5. The members are not discipled : members not fed to grow in depth
Chapter 8.why an Intentional disciplemaking church?
1. Its biblical and theological foundation: a primary calling of the new Testament Church
2. The heart of the Great comission: Jesus himself commanded it and modeled it. Matt 28:18-20
3. The master plan for evangelising : many christians little disciples, no roots.
4. The key to church health : to disciple a certain kind of people
5. The genius of spiritual multiplication: it works!
6. The heart of a purpose driven church: no disciples, no church
7. Effective leadership emergence : to groom spiritual, biblical and authentic leaders
8. Its relevance to real life : Truth and practical to real life
9. A powerful vehicle for truth : more is caught than taught
10. To fulfill the great commandment : One cannot love God without loving others. Love God with everything, love one another
Chapter 9. Capturing The IDMC Vision
To be mentored and mentor at the same time helps us grow a lot.
It takes TIME, INTENTION, PASSION, PERSEVERANCE
1. Capture the vision to cast to the people
2. Concretize the vision with
3. Clear steps
4. Commission the vision to key leaders to pass on
Chapter 10. Dont just go through the Motions
Chapter 1: A certain kind
1. Who believes that the Holy Spricture is God inspired.
2. That Jesus is God
3. Faith in Jesus
4. Certain that our salvation is complete through the cross
5. Certain of our calling
Person Purpose Process Product
A certain kind of Person
Committed to a certain kind of Purpose
through a certain kind of Process
to reproduce a certain kind of Product.
The ABCs of a certain kind of disciple
1. Authentic in the worship of God
2. Brokenness in the walk with God
3. Courage in the work for God
Chapter 2. What is a Disciple ?
A learner and a follower of Jesus.
Mathetes (Disciple/learner)
If anyone wishes to follow Me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross and follow Me. Matthew 16:24
None of you can become My disciples who does not give up all his possessions. Luke 14:33
Chapter 3. What is Discipleship?
Discipleship is a passion and a relationship with God through a pilgrimage of following him.
A call to surrender after counting your cost. *hahaha
Chapter 4. What is Disciplemaking?
1. Bring people into a right relationship with God
2. Developing them into full maturity.
3. Through intentional growth Strategies
4. That they multiply the entire process to others also
Chapter 5. What is an intentional disciplemaking Church?
1. Purpose driven Disciple making the core mission of the church
2. Evangelism Intentional out reach and follow up
3. Intentional growth strategies Develop people via their gifts and calling
4. Leadership modeling More than just agreement and commitment but resonance
5. Vision Casting Disciplemaking is articulated regularly
6. Concretising vehicles Disciple making work on (follow ups and training)
7. Small group infrastructure small group mentoring or cell ministry
8. Spiritual multiplication transformation taken place and multiplies
Chapter 6. Clarity of Vision
Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18
1. we work without a vision Often going through the motion without vision
2. We are satisfied with a vague generalisation of a vision we need to be specific
3. We try to borrow someone else's vision
4. We try to engineer a vision We often force out a plan or something good to do
5. We form a committee to determine a vision Vision is given to a person, the committee refines and affirms it.
6. We divorce the vision from faith The faith to do and go
7. We sugar coat the vision no radical power action and worthiness
8. We fail to concretise the vision talk but no action, no strategic work plans
9. We mirco manage the vision too small and church centered, not God centered.
10. Heart too small to hold a God sized vision weak hearts with fears and sin, leaders must guard their hearts
11. We dont preserve to realise the vision its difficult testings but it also molds us and grow us
12. We get sidetrack from seeking God for the vision dont lose focus!!
Chapter 7. A wake up call
We are losing the people, the leaders the next generation
5 Cries of the Church
1. Too many programmes but not aligned to churchs core mission (Gods call)
2. Too few volunteers and leaders : hard to find people
3. The leadership direction is not clear : poor direction from leadership
4. The leadership is not united
5. The members are not discipled : members not fed to grow in depth
Chapter 8.why an Intentional disciplemaking church?
1. Its biblical and theological foundation: a primary calling of the new Testament Church
2. The heart of the Great comission: Jesus himself commanded it and modeled it. Matt 28:18-20
3. The master plan for evangelising : many christians little disciples, no roots.
4. The key to church health : to disciple a certain kind of people
5. The genius of spiritual multiplication: it works!
6. The heart of a purpose driven church: no disciples, no church
7. Effective leadership emergence : to groom spiritual, biblical and authentic leaders
8. Its relevance to real life : Truth and practical to real life
9. A powerful vehicle for truth : more is caught than taught
10. To fulfill the great commandment : One cannot love God without loving others. Love God with everything, love one another
Chapter 9. Capturing The IDMC Vision
To be mentored and mentor at the same time helps us grow a lot.
It takes TIME, INTENTION, PASSION, PERSEVERANCE
1. Capture the vision to cast to the people
2. Concretize the vision with
3. Clear steps
4. Commission the vision to key leaders to pass on
Chapter 10. Dont just go through the Motions
Sunday 5 January 2014
The God that bless 1 chr 14
David was sensitive to acknowledge Gods blessings In his life, to gain favor from man and growth as a King. God did it to bless his people through King David.
Principle 1: God bless us so that he can bless the people around us
David was attacked by the philistines
Principle 2: there will always be warfare even when we are doing the right things
David seek God before the war
principle 3: Those who trust In God and his ways gains victory
David was attacked by philistines a 2nd time
Principle 4: We are consistently having warfare
Principle 5: we don't place our confidence in our strength or past victories
Principle 6: God don't always work the same way and we need to continuely seek him in all aspects of our lives.
All the nations fear King David
Principle 7: when God is with us, even the enemies can tell.
My personal application ; always learn to depend on God and seek him in all kinds of warfare. Learn to ask God what to do next, and blessings belongs to God and the purpose of blessing his people.
Saturday 4 January 2014
1 chr 13 Fear God
I kinda understand King David when his anger became fear towards God. I too fear him... A fear not out of love. But I want to believe also in His love and grace upon my life.
God is so Holy, and his ways so different that Uzzah had to die not his fault I feel sad for him but I also understood God's holiness and perfection... I wish for God's blessing and love, that also means that I must follow and obey him his ways.
Thursday 2 January 2014
Philip 2:1-11
How do encourage my classmates in IDMCI?
Attitude: to take the lead from Christ to be a servant to the people around me.
Application: to attend to their needs if any, to learn from them if any, to fellowship with them if any, to be tender and compassionate I must be. To learn to pray for all of us to grow in the Lord.
To give back the Glory to God?
Humility in obedience: to obey God just as Christ did to the cross. To deny myself and submiting myself to Jesus authority, as my God. Giving him the credits and thanks giving.
Application: to serve the church where God has place me without any interest, without any comfort, without significance.
Monday 28 October 2013
Tired
I've been in and out hospital everyday. Spending time with my dad and family. It's kind of tiring. Almost all my family members are sick. Had to deal with work and church. Usually mornings I am energetic, now I couldn't even find strength to go gym. Also with my shoulder injury.
I hope to get a good rest. That is the inner rest
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