牧者心聲  Pastor's Message

07/26/2009


      1 Corinthians 1.9: God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

      While at a wedding banquet last Sunday, I happened to sit next to a young family. As I chatted with the parents, we got to talking about our respective churches and some of the similarities and differences between them. The wife also brought up how she was disappointed recently as a lay-leader. (Which reminds me, do we have lay-leaders at this church, or is this a new concept?) Her responsibility as a lay-leader is to help lead a fellowship. In her case, for the youth at her church. But after all the planning she did to set-up an activity for the youth, only one single youth came to the activity. All of the other kids went off to do something “more fun.” This forced her to think of what she might have done wrong, but also had her question what it is that is a priority for the youth. Is it to go to whatever activity is more fun? What is the purpose of the youth fellowship?

      Yet, we can also turn this question onto ourselves. How about you? What are your priorities? What are your commitments? Where is your faith put in your daily schedule of activities? Jesus calls us to follow him and to pray. And he also calls us to fellowship with one another (Acts 2.42-47). This is an important aspect of church. But, if you are not a leader or not showing up to church events, don't think that you are disappointing me or your brothers and sisters at church and at fellowship.

      The main question to ask is: Am I fellowship with God?

      If you are, good for you! But if not, what's stopping you? Join with us in fellowship with Christ today!



      Brother Benjamin Chung