Wednesday, February 27, 2008

To switch church or not? That is the question.

And below is my answer:

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Dear ......,

Thank you for your email.  Unfortunately I cannot reply to you until now.  My apologies.

I am glad to receive your sincere sharing about your feeling after visiting our church.  Obviously no one can decide for you whether you should stay at your home church or join ours.  In my humble opinion, below are the points to consider:

1.  Christians need to grow spiritually;

2.  Every church has or will have politics.  You have the choice to stay away from it;

3.  No matter which church we belong to, as Christians we have the duty to evangelize (I Cor 9:16).  Outreach and evangelism can be done in a lot of ways.  And you can participate in whatever way you want; and finally

4.  Let me para-phrase what US President John F. Kennedy once said:  Do not ask yourself what the church can do for you.  Ask yourself what you can do for the church.

I welcome your questions/comments.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Mom still in hospital

It has been a week now. She is getting better. But the doctors want to be sure that everything with her body is 100% OK before they discharge her.