Project Timothy, Ministry Matters, came to an end on the 6 of March, at abt 1 p.m. it was really a weekend of studying God's word, fellowshiping with the many like-minded brothers and sisters of Christ... all in all, an amazing weekend where i could throw away the cares of the secular world to come back to reading the word of God.

challenged.. as always.. Chris Chia, Vaughon Roberts (Von) and John Chapman (Chappo) were really good speakers. And when i say good, i don't refer to how dynamic they were and how they riled the crowds.. instead, they held everyone's attention.. simply by preaching the one true gospel faithfully, plainly and simply.. they showed the marks of someone being in a ministry, proving their point of living in line with the true gospel that we preached. much to learn from them and their attitudes. What struck me was when Chappo challenged us with love. it's so easy to not love the people you preach to. then why preach to them? why bother? this is not telling to not preach to people you don't love. rather, preach to people and love them with your all. look at our Apostle. Paul. He goes to strange lands and preaches the word to strangers. He loves them all.. evident from how he responses to them when he's far away. his many letters, addressing pressing issues in the churches, only serve to remind us that we are to love each other... to continually exhort, encourage and charge each other. amazing, really.

another issue abt evangelism was something that made me relief. I shouldn't be just asking God for courage to evangelise. i shld be praying for opportunities... understanding that God is in charge, even to the pt of telling me the time to evangelise and all.. i shld be praying for both opportunities and courage to take on myself these opportunities when they arise. pray pray...

(chong yak's the hospital. think he's having his surgery now. hoping he'll be fine at the end of it.. praying for him that all will go well. pls pray for him too..)

abt prayer, i don't pray enough. i don't place enough emphasis on the importance of prayer. it's talking to God, isn't it? and i'm not talking about nonsensical prayer.. i'm talking abt prayer that centers around God, not around me. i shldn't be praying for good grades, a nice car, house and future. i shld be praying that in every aspect of my life, i will live it in accordance to His will.. here's a challenge for christians. i dare each and everyone to pray that we live lives worthy of God... living in line with the gospel we preach, instead of hypocrisy.

what's living in line with the gospel? the bible spells it out plainly. we see it clearly that we do not indulge in "sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like". (Galatians 5:19-21) Sexual immorality?

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, Godhaters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they ot only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them" (Romans 1:18-32)

I do respect people's choices. but don't tell me you're a Christian when you think all those are ok in God's eyes. i agree, i do have a depraved mind. i do sin. i forget once in a while that God shld be the center of all of my decisions.. but i recognize that what i do is wrong. i recognize that i have a lot of make up for. it's not to earned my salvation that i live a life pleasing to God. it's understanding what God's done for me.. that because of His love and mercy, I shld live a life in the Spirit, now that Christ is in me.. living in accordance to the gospel i hold to, rather than being a hypocrite. so don't tell me that you're a christian when you don't see anything wrong with being a homosexual. ppl are entitled to engage in pre-marital sex or be homosexuals. all men are sinners, after all. but don't tell me that it's ok to do all that when you say you're a christian. Don't.

don't tell me times have moved on.. that i shld be more liberal. i'll show "liberal" the door. the gospel is unchanging.. it's God's word. not ours. don't change it to suit us. it was not made that way. It was made so that we'll change for God... it was so we'll understand our fallen state.. not to indulge in it further.

read somewhere that times have changed.. that women shld no longer be submissive to their husbands. let me tell ya, i do not agree.. it says clearly in Ephesians 5, that women are to submit to our husbands just as the church submitted to christ. we do not dominate the relationship. yes, i'm a girl. so? i'm not saying that we shld be doormats. i'm saying that we shldn't not rule over our husbands. same reason why pastors aren't women. don't cry foul play. man was after all, created before woman. God wills it that way.. don't change it to suit us!! i plead to my Christian brothers and sisters... pls do not read the Bible the way we deem please. read the Bible the way God wants it to be read.. with God in the center of it all. it's not by man.

And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe. (1 Thes 2:13)

Take heed, my dear christians out there.. take heed of God's words, not man's. and oh yar.. pray for chong yak too.. thanks.