Be Free to Celebrate

Celebrations……
When I thought of celebrations, I thought of food, wearing new clothes, playing mini fireworks, meeting relatives and a time for reunion.
I’m a Chinese Christian and naturally when I thought of celebrations, I thought of Chinese New Year and also Christmas.

But wait……I’m also a Malaysian.
I remembered when I was in my secondary school; I was invited to my Malay friend’s house to celebrate Raya. That’s how I discovered what is nasi himpit. There are several invitations to friend’s house for Raya and Deepavali when I was in my secondary school, but now is lesser.

Are we free to celebrate with our friends who are not of the same race and religion?
Are we cutting ourselves off from celebrating with our friends who are not of the same race and religion?

Come and share with us some of your experiences.

Rise of the CEOs

What is the most successful model of leadership these days? What most easily comes to mind when leadership is mentioned? Prime Minister? President? Donald Trump? CEO?

Leadership now is about who is most powerful, who has the power of decision, who ultimately controls. CF leaders, church leaders, Christian leaders….all begin to look like what is out there. Power, commanding loyalty, and one-man shows have become very attractive. There’s hardly any place for team.

Come, take a look around us. What type of people are we choosing to be our leaders? Maybe we have fallen into the trap of looking for CEO-like characters

“…Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,…” (Mark 10:43-44)

Where has the true servant Jesus talked about gone to? Is now an era where servanthood is no longer ‘in’? Isn’t the Bible’s model of a leader outdated? Would we even want to respect such a person if he could be found?

CEO vs servant? You choose and you tell us how it should be.