Our Alpha journey continued last Saturday with "How can we be sure of our faith" and we had 21 people. We started with a 'lurve' game, which got everyone so excited but then it turned out to be 'Love your neighbour'.. well, it's still a lurve game ma! Then we went on to another more exciting and rough game which was played the week before; Bum Shuffling! Haha.. or Hot seats, whatever you call that game. It involves two groups who try to seat their way across a row of chairs to the opponent's area. Things can get pretty violent when bums clash!
Our visitor to our meeting was certainly intimidated by that game and he wisely stayed out of the way while the youths indulge. We had the company of a final year student from the Singapore Bible College, Eric. He will be joining us in CCL for the next one and a half months on attachment. We welcome him. Some of us went for a drink with him after youth meeting and we were reintroduced to 'cold jokes'... oh boy, we haven't had cold joke jokers for a while now! Hahahaha.. some of us may remember our dear friend Nicholas... and the 'crow effect.'
What was the lesson learned? That the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all help us to be sure of our faith. The promises that God the Father made in the Bible, that Jesus stands at the door of our hearts and knocks, and if we open the door and let Him in, He will never ever leave us. Another promise is eternal life that we have, once we accepted Christ into our hearts. Isn't it amazing God's love for us? And this super-duper-excellent-cannotgetfromanyoneelse gift is FREE. Yup, it's a free gift of eternal life. The only condition is that we have to accept this gift, which is as hard as sitting on a chair! That ain't hard, silly! Duh!
We also learnt of the sacrifice that Jesus did for us, that He died on the cross for our sins. And He sent the Holy Spirit to help and to change us from inside out; a change in our characters and also changes in how we treat people and our relationship with God. We also learnt a little bit of the Trinity. Of course pastors can preach whole load of sermons on this, but we just learnt the basics, that is - one God in 3 persons, kinda like how we see water, steam and ice; same substance but different specs. I believe this Alpha journey is certainly an eye-opener for some of us, and a refresher course for others, but either way, this journey of discovery should fall on fertile ground. That is my prayer!
So, we will be taking a break from youth meeting this week as many of you start your ten day hols. Don't forget about the Mission Conference everyone! Happy holidays! Stay outta trouble, k? Happy RTM!
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