"Hello you MMU-ians (: First semester in a few hours, are YOU ready?
Even if you're not, here's something specially organized by MMU Christian Fellowship. YOU are cordially invited to join us for our "Welcome Back Parteh". There will be worship, games, food and good company!"
If you've been to CF before, we can't wait to meet you again! If not, we can't wait to get to know you :)
Hello and greetings from the Education Ministry of CFMMU! This is considered to be the very first post from the ministry (at least a first for this academic year), but hope that you will be encouraged in some ways and gain some insights from this sharing. :)
For those who have yet to be informed by now, Truth in Action 2.0 or #TiA2 is the theme for the CF in the 2013/2014 academic year, whereby we strive to actualise God's truth in action (and the 2.0 means that it is an extension from the previous academic year). The theme verse is the same as the last academic year, which is
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:18
As we proceed to the beginning of the final trimester of the 2013/2014 academic year, I think it is appropriate to reflect upon the theme verse and ponder upon our actions and behaviours for the past 2 trimesters. Therefore, this prompts for the inception of a series of sharing in parts regarding 1 John 3:18, and this post being the first of the series.
I will begin this sharing or discussion by talking about the last word of the verse-"truth". Pondering about the verse, if we were to have actions without truth, I think we cannot effectively exhibit love. The other way round is true too-truth without actions is quite meaningless either. Hence, if we must love, we must love with BOTH actions (or in deed) AND in truth. However, I believe it is very important to ascertain the essential truth before we can act out or even love "in truth", because the truth is like a map and compass to a believer who is like a traveller in this analogy. To act without knowing the truth is like to walk without knowing where or which direction to go.
Let us go through the earlier chapters and verses before the theme verse of 1 John 3:18 to get an idea what this "truth" might be. And oddly, we will start with how we could be not "in truth".
In the first chapter of the epistle, we are told that we cannot live out the truth if we lie by claiming to fellowship with God yet still walking in darkness (or not in the light, which is God (1 John 1:5)) (1 John 1:6), and this is done by deceiving ourselves to say that we have no sin (1 John 1:8). This tells us something about the truth, in which: 1) to be in truth, we have to acknowledge that we all have sin.
Now, in regards of the topic of sin, many of you would react to statement number 1 like this: "You don't say?". Unfortunately, there are many sorts of ideas that claim to be Christian which suggests that we believers, as of current, do not have sin. It is a very long story and discourse regarding this matter, but in brief, this sort of idea is obviously not a new one (and that's why John has to write this epistle), and that there are people who denies this very basic principle of truth that stems out of Genesis 3. Well, 1 John 1:7 says quite explicitly: "and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin", which indicates that we all have sin, such that Jesus Christ died at Calvary to clean us from all our sins. Denial of sin is one very vain form of self-justified righteousness; and that if righteousness that derived from the old laws would have Christ's death in vain (or for nothing) (Galatians 2:21), how much vainer is Christ's death if we justify sin and righteousness ourselves!
Furthermore, when we deny to have sin, we do not merely deceive ourselves, nor merely lie, but also calling God a liar (1 John 1:10), being in contrary with Titus 1:2. (P.S. In the beginning verses of Titus it also discussed about "truth" too.)
This marks the end of Part 1. In the next part we will be looking at the the mention of "truth" in the second chapter of the epistle, so do anticipate and wait for it. :)
Signing off,
Benjamin Yau
Education Ministry Coordinator,
CFMMU
P.S. This is my very first time writing such a sharing, so do give some feedback!
We'll have someone to share with us on "Money Matters", the Christian perspective!
Sounds boring? (I can hear you yawn!Haha) Well, I know it's not your typical "God loves you" topic but we've gotta agree that money is undeniably a need to survive in this world. And sometimes we place too much/too little importance in money issues.
Too much; putting money before God. Too little; don't bother planning/budgeting finances
Hence, in tomorrow's fellowship, we get to learn how to use/plan our money wisely.
WHY PLAN?
The plans of the diligent lead to profit, as surely as haste leads to poverty. Proverbs 21:5 (NIV)
Hellooooooo!
So we had our first paintball outing last weekend and guess how'd it turned out?
All in all, we had a great time shooting and getting shot! *laughs* It's really awesome to discuss strategies, battling in the "war zone" and later feast on Bak Kut Teh together! These are the messages/feedbacks from the participants after the game:
Before the game, she said this:- " I do not know what was I thinking when I registered for this..."
Had a great first paintball experience! Amelia
Thanks for the paintball outing :-) The pain is starting to show now haha. But yah, it was nice! Joshua
Regret you didn't join us? Don't be! MMU CF committees will organize more AWESOME events for us to bond as a big family :)
P/s Christian Fellowship later! Remember it's at FOE CR 1026, 8pm.
First of all, The E.N.D means, TheEnergy Never Dies!! (totally ripped that off BEP's album)
Moving on, Welcome to a media filled blog post!!
This might or might not be your standard CF post. You have been warned! @.@
There's no CF this week, or for this sem for that matter. Weekly CF meetings will resume next semester.
Now, for a little recap and some goodies!! *not really*
We started CF in Week 3. Some of you know this, some noticed, some din't, for those who don't know, all the title of the blog post this semester are song titles!!! XD
Week 3: Let's get it started
*Just realized I started and ended with BEP this sem*
Week 4: Marchin On
*Alpha tour? More like Senior Tour featuring Alphas*
Week 5: Break Up
*the good kinda break up*
Week 6: One Love
*ahhh Duncan!! err, I mean One love..unity..yeahh*
Week 7: Lean on Me
*cory :/*
Week 8: Young, Wild and Free
*not really appropriate for CF huh? Oh well, YOLO*
Week 9: Who Am I
*wait? what? A Christian song?*
Week ∞: Resting Hour
*loves!! :3*
Week 10: Unbreakable
*Weee! Managed to put a westlife song in!! *cries* *
Week 11: Everybody
*if you din't dance to this when you were a kid, I'm sorry for you :| *
Week 12: Bridges
* I totally can't remember what song I was thinking then, here's KP's Roar instead. :/ *
Week 13: Run
*so hipster! No proper audio track online*
Week 14: The E.N.D
Waitttt! The E.N.D is the album..not a song!! =.="
*deal with it*
All nonsense aside, I would like to thank God for this awesome semester, all the ups and downs, everything!
Also thank YOU!! Yes, YOU!!! You are what makes CF, well, CF!
Good Luck with your finals guys. Still got time to study, so..
FOE BR1022 is free for you guys tonight if you wanna study there! :))
If you're tired and feel like flipping tables, remember this...
Isaiah 40:30-31
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
One of my favourite verses, so yeahhh, you're in good hands! :)
Also, If you still don't know what to do during sem break, CF CAMP LA WEI!!
It's gonna be AWESOME! FOR SURE!
If it's not awesome, Kim the President, will die her hair green next sem!
So register yourself, a little secret between you and me, you can still get the early bird price if you ask for it. :p
Sorry if I offended anyone this sem, through these blog post or in person.
If you are offended, I'm offended that you're offended!! *kidding*
Our, theme for CF this year was and is to impact or change the lives of others through our action. Preach the gospel, If necessary use words. - Francis of Assisi <-- deep="" huh.="" nbsp="" p="" some="" stuff="">
But yeah, hope you guys can remember all that you've learned in CF this sem!
So now, go out there and preach! XD
See you guys in or around campus or in CF Camp or Next sem!
Till then, keep prayin', keep rockin!! :))
Bye! :)
I expected more media...oh well...here's a picture of a puppy..
I just had to let that out. Anyways, this week in CF, a bunch of people from RunNat will be coming over to talk about....err RunNat.
What's RunNat?
"Run for the Nation" or RunNat for short is
a single morning running event that sees Christians praying as they run
throughout selected areas in the city or town where the event is held.
Come to CF this week and they'll explain more about the hows and why and also the objective of RunNat.
RunNat will be held on 5th October which is during our sem break. So if any of you are interested, you can bring RM40 tomorrow to register.
This week we'll be learning about the 10 COMMANDMENTS.
Simple enough!
But you'd be surprised about how much you can learn from this 10 simple commandments.
We've got some activities to make this one interesting...I think...
If there are no activities, it's still a pretty interesting topic. XD
Ms Annette from FES will be the speaker and the one conducting the activities.
PIC COMBO: Kim the President and Wee Nee the Wez Nez
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