Praying the lost into the kingdom of God

hello all :)
I believe we all sat through a power-packed sermon today and I hope it tugged at your heart as it did mine. I will try my best to summarize the key points here for the benefit of those who couldn't make it/didn't manage to copy down everything (i didn't manage too either haha) but will try to do as much justice to Pastor Tan's sermon as possible!
Pastor Tan began by asking the question, something along the likes of: "if we did away with big events and outreaches, can you still reach out to the lost?" This was definitely food for thought since big events and outreaches forms a huge bulk of the evangelizing effort.
something that he mentioned as well struck a cord in me when he asked "do you have the burden?" at that point i felt that all this while, i have been selfish in my christian walk. Yes I do pray for the lost, but does it move my heart when I pray for them? To what extent will I go to see them saved? What doesn't move your heart will not move God's. How true indeed.
Here are some guidelines Pastor Tan mentioned in order to win the lost w/o outreaches etc.
1. Spritual fruitfulness
John 15:2-6
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit
We are all called to bear fruit because God himself was fruitful. From the soil came man, from Adam came Eve, from a woman (Mary) birthed man (Jesus), from God and flesh (Jesus) came eternal life.
2. Spiritual Adoption (praying in the spirit)
Be a spiritual parent for the lost.
Pastor Tan drew the analogy of the birth of a child. It follows that there is a stage of CONCEPTION, then GESTATION and finally birth. Just like how a mother has to P.U.S.H for the child to come out, the same goes for the spiritual birth of a lost soul.
P ray
U ntil
S omething
H appens !
The Great Commission can be broken apart and read as CO-MISSION. We are definitely not alone, we have our fellow workers and the Holy Spirit.
John 5:19
Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner"
Even Jesus did not rely on Himself, eventhough he was the King of kings and Lord of lords. He relied on God's strength and wisdom, how much more must we rely on the Holy Spirit? :)
3. Spiritual Empowerment (walking with the Holy Spirit)
I Corinthians 2:10-11
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
All of us occupy a place in God's spirit. He who dwells in the secret PLACE of the most high abides in the shadow of the Almighty (psalm 91:1) How can we abide in His spirit and be empowered? PRAY! i think most of us need to pump up our prayer life huh :p

So how can the Holy Spirit help us?
1. To come up with an effective name list
2. Helps us to have faith, to have visions and dreams.
and sry guys I missed out on the 3rd one if anyone knows please supplement :)

this summary is not even half as good as listening to the real sermon so I suggest those who missed it or want to listen to the sermon on www.chc.org.sg when it comes out!

There is one verse that really spoke to me throughout the whole sermon, it goes "the harvest is plenty, but the labourers are few" (can't remember where it's found) I just felt today that i'm too comfortable as a Christian, and it's not that we shouldn't be happy people and do the things we like or enjoy but we owe our life to the one who gave His all for us. The fact that we can be happy people with hope and faith is because of Jesus' sacrifice.
Thing is, He also gave His life for the friends and family members we have arnd us who have yet to be saved.
I feel God tugging at me, saying, What are you waiting for? The veil is torn, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. The time to harvest is NOW!

a friend forwarded this to me!

if:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1 22 23 24 25 26


H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%


&



K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

BUT


A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%


but, let's see how far God's love can take you:


L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It’s the Love of God that will put you over the top!

so study hard and work hard hee!
have a wonderful everyday my dear friends!
God Bless!

Introduction!

Boo!

Welcome to the newly revamped E410 blog! Junwei and I felt that the old blog was stagnant, dead and an eyesore due to lack of updates. Thus we decided to breathe new life into it!

The new blog shall hopefully be constantly updated with posts about our reflections on sermons and cell groups. It will be a place to share our revelations, interesting messages and experiences, or generally stuff that can help to inspire others and build faith. Junwei and I shall aspire to be regular contributors, but he's going army and I'm a lazy bum. More importantly, its not exactly an E410 blog if there's only 2 contributors. If that happens, both of us will do the following things:

1) I will go DOTA, while Junwei will prepare for book in and field camp.

2) We will set up a new blog at chen&wei4ever.blogspot.com

So what are you waiting for? No one wants that, so please help to contribute, for us and for God.

Administrative Instructions:

1) If you would like to be a contributor, errr tell us!

2) Tagboard is for spam comments like "JUNWEI SLEEP DURING SERVICE" or "JC ROCKS!"; comments section is for stuff like "Hmm that's a very meaningful post, i feel that..." or "You know, that day i was reading the Bible and..." or even "JC ROCKS!". Basically comments section is for stuff worth keeping and retaining. If you spam our comments section or type essays into the tagboard, we will insult/scold/tell you depending on our mood.

Lastly, please reply to the posts! A short tag or insightful essay would go a long way in telling the contributors that people are actually reading and appreciating the effort they go through. You are always welcome to share your views and counterpoints, it's all in the name of encouraging and learning from one another. I don't care if you're a stranger or cell group leader (heh), please tag/comment! Don't stalk! If you were a contributor, I'm sure you wouldn't want to spend 1 hour typing something only to have 0 replies to it.

So that's it for the first post in our new beginning! Let's all work together and make this initiative a success! GOGO E410! :)

Yst isabelLA and aaron was baptised at JW church, it was definitely a fond memory there. Although JW church is friggin far, i like the idea of the places that i used to hang out. the coffeeshop, the playground, the baptism pool. All this definitely brought back sum good memories. We were running helter skelter wif all the stuffs that the members brought, and jc and i missed them getting baptised. Kinda sad for jc, since u noe. He's the luggage bearer and he didn't even get to see 2 of his gd frens getting baptised. Oh claire was there too, yes derrick. it's our claire. Coincidentally she's isabelLA's gd fren. Anyway, this are sum pictures of them going through the lil ritual after baptised. grp photo i nid to get from isabelLA ltr.

i rmb telling them, if u see a light when ure under water. dun be frighten. it's just the sun.

the light of the world. Resemble by a lit candle

The salt of the earth. As u guess it, Resemble by eating salt. just look at aaron's face

The apple in God's very eyes.

The card tt Annie made for them

Presents!

my hair rocks! and tt's claire

Well to the 2 of u. Really glad ure baptised. From the time tt i first saw u 2 till now, you 2 have grown so much closer wif God. Now you're baptised, it's really a new look at your own walk now. So much closer, so much more.

Your journey begins here.

i read this awhile back and today i chanced upon it again! thought i just post it up =)

The interview with God

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.

"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”

TEAMWORK

cny~

its already the 2nd month of 2008 but the last post is still dated back in 07..
>.> whats the long list of contributers on the right doing lol

okay to reemphasize that its the new year; here we are- doing the yu sheng thing for 08

ps to jon: yu sheng is not an old people activity K. haha

the chinese fish salad when its still neat

lol

grp pic; like a visit to an art exhibit
half strength though
but yeah happy lunar new year allll~ :)

edit: GOGOGO!