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It was quite funny to go for dinner, haven’t seen them in such a long time that I almost miss them. She’s into making jewelery  (newest thing) and eng joo is now a 3SG. He’s going to ORD in february next year! Ord loh! haha.. Anyway being out with them triggered a few thoughts like

• Why don’t we spend time with people who are in church until they’re missing then we go find them?
• Does not bugging them about church constitute approval of what they do?
• Is coming to church even important or the whole point actually?
• How do we actually look at these people?

I have often thought in the past that people start misplacing priorities in life and how terrbly mistaken they are blah blah about what they are doing, give a sigh, shake head kinda thing. I just realised as we grow older and go into adulthood that these things just change and prioritising is not as simple as stacking lego bricks. Coming to church takes a back seat to placing God first in my life, being involved in service takes a backseat when compared with personal holiness (okay, this one still trying to take the backseat), my critical spirit gives way to love and encouragement. Probably the only reason I can say these things is that God’s grace enables you to show grace.

The church is God’s people. When God’s people show love, the church is showing love. When the church shows love, people like to come to the church naturally.

“Can we be more genuine and less fake?” What is genuine anyway? The best actor? haha.. I think being fake in a church going context is trying to look holier and more “on” than you really are. Everyone’s been guilty of it. It makes all the people who REALLY know their own condition discouraged and sad and feeling unworthy to come back to church. As I grow older, the propensity for hypocrasy gets stronger and stronger as young people in asian societies are told not to question older people’s motives and we sorta become people who don’t need to be accountable to anyone at all. Its real scary la. I dowan to grow old and become a stick in the mud, overbearing, stubborn, slack.

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