SHOW ME MY JESUS!!!!!!!!!

hihihihhhihi my mummy is leading cell group this thursday and apprantly she has to summarise the whole last chapter of the book "The Power of Spiritual Alignment" by Frank Damazio for her cell members.

Soooo she asked me to take a look in case she needed some help =) It turns out that the book was really interesting and I would like to share one of the interesting point the author makes =

Quoted from the book....

"Members of the Willowcreek Community Church in Willocree, Illinois which is pastored by Bill Hybels, did a door to door survey around their church to ask the question, If you don't go to church, why? The five biggest reasons given by people surveyed were:

1. Its boring

2.Its irrelevant

3. The Church asks for money all the time

4. I am to busy already

5. I feel awkward at Church"

I was thinking about these 5 factors and realised that these factors also contributed to another boo boo.... "Church Hopping"

When the worship isn't electricfying or the sermons are becoming less insipring......so often the thought....

*PCA Accent + raises right hand to high heavens*
"It's time to move to another church so that I can spritually grow stronger"

You can smokescreen and "xian" all you want.... but the fact remains hard and cold..and that is you are simply buying God and treating church as a mere consumer commodity

Instead of serving God and our neighbours through church, we rate and choose churches based on the worship sessions, sermons and people....

One thing I am very sure about... be it you attend FCBC's youth service or a small little church in nepal, God's prescence and Glory is very much the same!!! If you can jump and go spirtually gah gah over Hillsong's "One Way", you can jolly well do the same for Franz Joseph Haydn's "Praise The LORD!!Ye Heavens Adore Him" <- what a mouthful for a title =x haha

I m very sure the electric guitar wasn't around during King David's time but he danced as though he was at a Planet Shaker's Ultraviolet worship session when he brought back the Ark of Covenant to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6:1-23

Frank Damizo drew the book to conclusion with this funny comparison of a football fanatic who stopped watching matches live because...

1. Eveytime time he went, they asked him for money

2.The people with whom he had to sit didn't seem very friendly

3.The seats were too hard and not at all comfortable

4. He went to many games, but the coach never came to call on him

5.The referee made a decision with which he could not agree

6. He suspected that he was sitting with some hypocrites- they came to see their friends and what others were wearing rather than to see the game.

7. Some games went into overtime, and he was late getting home

8. The band played some songs that he had never heard before and didn't even like.

Many of you bros are soccer fans and I m 100% sure you wont stop watching soccer because of any of the above reasons .... so lets try to do the same with God =) Lets strive to develope a PSALM 27:4-6 attitude

"One thing I ask of the LORD,this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.

Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD. " Psalm 27: 4-6

If we all love God a teeny weeny bit more =) wouldn't the world be a better place ?=)

WHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA