Some thoughts these days...

Well, I'm on "holiday" now.... in the sense that I don't go to the sunday service in All Saints' in the month of January.

I don't like the idea of travelling to different churches, but I did it because I want to get exposed. After God answered my prayer, I know I need to help All Saints'. But in what sense? How? I talked to Rev Lee for several times already and I know he has a plan. While I don't doubt his intentions to rebuild the spirituality of the congregation, I don't know whether his plan works (I am not talking about this in a negative sense). I just don't know. He may be a bit optimistic than I do and that's all I can say. With God, anything is possible. At least I learn one thing from him and that is "patience". I'm sure that he has a lot more patience than any of us in the church does. Patience doesn't mean no action, but at the same time we need to wait for the result. God has His time to do things. It is always not easy for me to wait because I like to get things done immediately. As a lay person in church, my role is to support him and continue to pray for the church.

Edmund's mother is leading sunday school at the moment and around 20 people came. This is good news and a lot of new faces that we don't usually see showed up. I guess, except a few people, the congregation starts to wake up from its sleeping state. People seem to start to reflect and I'm quite sure they still love All Saints' church (the next question is whether they love God.... this needs to be addressed). Funny enough, when Edmund's mother asked what is the greatest commandment, someone answered to love your neighbour as yourself (ha! not love the Lord your God). I hope and pray that we can grow together in knowledge and in love. There are still a lot of problems but it will take a lot of time and caution to solve them.

As for fellowship, I think hard about how to expand our fellowship in number. Of course we don't want to sacrifice in quality. However, in my prayer, it seems to me that God thinks that we are not ready (not "salty" enough). We may be lacking in something... testimonies in our lives? courage? inclusiveness? maybe all of the above. I need to figure this one out so that we can help the fellowship to grow both spiritually and quantitatively.