Went to a church in Sungai Petani with a few youths of our church today.
We've been there for a few times already but not very often.
The last time I went there is already a year ago.
The service starts at 8PM..
So we went there...
Leaded the whole service...
And we had quite some fun over there...
When the service ended...
We had supper with the church members there...
It suddenly struck me that there are so little people there!
There are only 5-6 people from their church,
And we had like 10 people from our church
I was dumbstruck!
Later on...
I went to look at the notice board...
I saw two photos there...
One of them caught my attention...
It's a photo that our youth have taken with their church's youth and children
2 years back when we were celebrating Christmas with them...
There were like so many of them...
But today...
There is only one teenager there...
Only one.
She is around 14 or 15
And she was with us during the Christmas celebration two years back...
Back then..
There were 20-30 of them
Today...
There is only one...
During the praise and worship,
I can see that she, her father and her mother
Were worshiping and praising
Him, our God Almighty,
Passionately...
And that really moved me...
During the service,
Right after the praise and worship,
The girl did the scripture reading...
The mic was not set up properly at that time...
So I went to help her...
After I'm done with it...
She looked me into my eyes...
And I can see the words thank you in her eyes...
I felt really warm with that...
Then after the service...
The girl went to help her father to count the offerings...
I was paying attention at her through the service...
I can see that
Eventhough she has to do all this stuff alone
Without any youths from her church to help her
She did not show any dissatisfaction
She was WILLING
I was amazed at her passion for God
I was touched
Eventhough all the other people has left the church
She and her family stayed there
Because they know the importance of going to church
The importance of worshipping God
The importance of knowing The Word
Because they know that
God...
Is their way of life
And Jesus is their Salvation!
Through this blog post
To everyone who sees this
I want you guys to know
That I didn't post this for nothing
I didn't post this because I have a lot of free time
In fact, I'm already very tired from today's activities
I didn't even rested ever since I woke up at 7.30 this morning
And it's already 12AM now
I posted this because I wanted to show you the passion of a teenager and her family
Towards Christ
Their passion towards The Word of God
Their passion towards the Love of God
And their passion towards spreading the gospel
And at the same time
I hope that you would just take a few minutes
Just a few minutes
To pray for the churches in Malaysia
Pray that the gospel and the good news
Will spread like wildfire around Malaysia
And pray that the churches will never die
But they will continue growing
Pray for the churches that are facing problems
Pray for the churches that are crumbling
Pray that God will give the leaders of the churches
Wisdom and strength
To rebuild the churches
And also pray for the members
Who never gave up on their church
Pray for them so that their passion towards Christ would never falter
Pray that they would continue to grow in spiritual maturity
And continue to grow towards Christ.
Most of us are fortunate to have a church to go to
A church that has a lot of brothers and sisters in Christ to care for us
To love us.
But think about those that never have the opportunity to hear the gospel
To receive the good news
Those who go to church with only a few members to share the joy with
Even those that didn't have a church to go to.
Think about it.
We as one in the body of Christ
Are RESPONSIBLE to care for each and every Christian throughout the four corners of the world
Yes
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
If you've never thought about this,
Well, this is the time to know.
This is the time when we do something about it.
Brothers and Sisters,
Let us all pray for the churches in this country
And at the same time
Make an impact on the lives of people
Being the life-changers of our school,
Our community,
Our country,
Even our churches!
Are you guys with me?
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