worried..
I realised that a lot of my mid sessions are coming out, so I'm quite worried. Not to mention teaching Sunday School for the first time this week! And leading a bible study group means having to do stuff every week! I dont spend 3 hours a week on any of my subjects!
Went to a baptism yesterday and it was the longest meeting I ever sat through. Its one thing to have a bilingual meeting, but trilingual is just too much. At least the sermon was bilingual, but it still almost 45 minutes long. It was so funny when the translator was trying to translate the caucasian pastor (in describing God's love): "its not like being in the cool group in high school; you know the cool girls, who'd like you one day but hate you the next because you did your hair in a weird way". It was funny seeing him struggle to figure out what that meant..even though I didnt understand the mandarin.
And 5 people did testimonies that lasted 5-10 minutes each, some in canto, some in mando, and some in english. The worse about the mandarin one was that not only could I not understand anything, I couldnt even know when to start expecting it to finish. But worse of all were the songs, some of which were sung 3 times, once in each language! All up the meeting was almost 2.5 hours. o.. and the funniest thing was when they were dunking people, all these adult men got up with their digital cameras and video cameras and crowded up around the pool, so that no one could see anything! How typically Chinese..
this is not the worse one.. there was one where people were sticking their hands over the ledge almost..
I remember watching the Simpsons the other day and Homer said to Lisa, you better turn on something (the tv) quickly, I'm starting to think!
When he said that I started to realised that I was becoming a bit unthinking because of technology. We have a TV in our room of the house, and I can use my hard disk to record anything on TV, and then theres also cable TV. And with digital TV now, I can watch shows 2 hours after its on, so even more options. On some days I can watch about 12 episodes of Simpsons in one day.
And whenever I'm not watching TV, I'm always listening to my iPod. When I'm at uni and not talking to someone, I'm always listening to my iPod. Once my last class finish, I plug in my earphones and then I have it on on the train and bus until I get home, and turn on my TV. Scarily, when I sleep and I turn off my TV, I turn my iPod on again and put it on sleep so that it automatically turns off after 15 minutes, and I sleep with my iPod playing.
Continuing on from my hearts addiction.. the other day I was watching the Simpsons with the volume off, listening to MYC 2001 on my iPod, playing hearts, and chatting on MSN at the same time. One night I tried sleeping without my iPod, and I started to think... woah..
Comments on the pope:
I watched a special on the pope on sky news, and they talked about how when he visited the Archbishop of Cantebury (formerly George Carey), he was angry about how the Anglican Church had ordained women as priests. They even interviewed George Carey who talked about how he knew the pope was very unhappy about women's ordination. Evil though that is, how stupid, how stupid.. how stupid is it that they would talk about women's ordination. You have one guy who thinks he is infallible and that you are saved by works, and another who ought to believe in the 39 articles, but who knows what he believes.. and the best thing they have to talk about is women's ordination. Shocking.
It is partly a reminder though that there are more important things to talk about when we speak to people who may or may not be Christians. We should continue to speak about Jesus, about the Cross, about justification by faith alone. These are the really big issues.
Secondly, its annoying that people think he is so good. I'm afraid Catholics in my bible study group ask me what I think of the Pope and I'm forced to say he's in hell right now. This is a quote from a letter from Tim Costello criticising the Jensen brothers: "To the amazement
of colleagues, Phillip Jensen declared at an evangelism conference in Amsterdam in the early 1990s that Mother Teresa was an instrument of the Devil!" I dont know who would be amazed, because even if the report was true, I don't think there's anything surprising with that comment. But when people are perceived as good, Christians will get so knocked for criticising them.
edit:
I'm so excited I had to blog!! I just read the briefing for April and I read the first "couldnt help noticing" by Tony Payne on a certain church that I love so much. For the link of the page he refers to, go here. Reading that made my day.. Amen, brother.
Went to a baptism yesterday and it was the longest meeting I ever sat through. Its one thing to have a bilingual meeting, but trilingual is just too much. At least the sermon was bilingual, but it still almost 45 minutes long. It was so funny when the translator was trying to translate the caucasian pastor (in describing God's love): "its not like being in the cool group in high school; you know the cool girls, who'd like you one day but hate you the next because you did your hair in a weird way". It was funny seeing him struggle to figure out what that meant..even though I didnt understand the mandarin.
And 5 people did testimonies that lasted 5-10 minutes each, some in canto, some in mando, and some in english. The worse about the mandarin one was that not only could I not understand anything, I couldnt even know when to start expecting it to finish. But worse of all were the songs, some of which were sung 3 times, once in each language! All up the meeting was almost 2.5 hours. o.. and the funniest thing was when they were dunking people, all these adult men got up with their digital cameras and video cameras and crowded up around the pool, so that no one could see anything! How typically Chinese..
this is not the worse one.. there was one where people were sticking their hands over the ledge almost..
I remember watching the Simpsons the other day and Homer said to Lisa, you better turn on something (the tv) quickly, I'm starting to think!
When he said that I started to realised that I was becoming a bit unthinking because of technology. We have a TV in our room of the house, and I can use my hard disk to record anything on TV, and then theres also cable TV. And with digital TV now, I can watch shows 2 hours after its on, so even more options. On some days I can watch about 12 episodes of Simpsons in one day.
And whenever I'm not watching TV, I'm always listening to my iPod. When I'm at uni and not talking to someone, I'm always listening to my iPod. Once my last class finish, I plug in my earphones and then I have it on on the train and bus until I get home, and turn on my TV. Scarily, when I sleep and I turn off my TV, I turn my iPod on again and put it on sleep so that it automatically turns off after 15 minutes, and I sleep with my iPod playing.
Continuing on from my hearts addiction.. the other day I was watching the Simpsons with the volume off, listening to MYC 2001 on my iPod, playing hearts, and chatting on MSN at the same time. One night I tried sleeping without my iPod, and I started to think... woah..
Comments on the pope:
I watched a special on the pope on sky news, and they talked about how when he visited the Archbishop of Cantebury (formerly George Carey), he was angry about how the Anglican Church had ordained women as priests. They even interviewed George Carey who talked about how he knew the pope was very unhappy about women's ordination. Evil though that is, how stupid, how stupid.. how stupid is it that they would talk about women's ordination. You have one guy who thinks he is infallible and that you are saved by works, and another who ought to believe in the 39 articles, but who knows what he believes.. and the best thing they have to talk about is women's ordination. Shocking.
It is partly a reminder though that there are more important things to talk about when we speak to people who may or may not be Christians. We should continue to speak about Jesus, about the Cross, about justification by faith alone. These are the really big issues.
Secondly, its annoying that people think he is so good. I'm afraid Catholics in my bible study group ask me what I think of the Pope and I'm forced to say he's in hell right now. This is a quote from a letter from Tim Costello criticising the Jensen brothers: "To the amazement
of colleagues, Phillip Jensen declared at an evangelism conference in Amsterdam in the early 1990s that Mother Teresa was an instrument of the Devil!" I dont know who would be amazed, because even if the report was true, I don't think there's anything surprising with that comment. But when people are perceived as good, Christians will get so knocked for criticising them.
edit:
I'm so excited I had to blog!! I just read the briefing for April and I read the first "couldnt help noticing" by Tony Payne on a certain church that I love so much. For the link of the page he refers to, go here. Reading that made my day.. Amen, brother.
posted by Pingu at 4/04/2005 10:21:00 pm
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