Sivin Kit's Adventures

A bunch of us Lutheran pastors (about 10 of us) sat at a corner in IKANO’s food court. We kind of decided it’s time to have some fun! Adn not meet in the church premises. At first, the pastor who was in charge of this with me thought of bowling. Then, we felt maybe we might feel too guilty playing (which we shouldn’t of course). So, we landed in this new shopping mall for a more “take-it-easy” pilot run.

I liked the change and had a chance to share with them two resources. First, while we were waiting for a few others I introduced (with the help of another lady pastor) See Through the Scriptures.

The pastors flipped through the manual and workbook, the price was very attractive. Both of us (the lady pastor and I) shared how we are trying this out in our church context, she in Chinese me in English.

The other one was at the end, an interesting book with 1001 conversation starters for any occassion.

One pastor commented, “hey! where’s the answers?” … I said, “for us to find out ..”

Of course, I gave out a freebie (questions for normal people and fellow disciples)

It was funny how a few of them, ordered the chicken chop dish I ordered which looked more like fish then chicken. I was just plain naughty and playful. Then I think it was because I read something this morning about playing!

In his post Don’t do it…… Adrian Warnock says,

“It worries me that our blogging ‘communities’ and bible material online might make some more inclined to this way of life. I believe that a vibrant Christian life will usually not last several years outside of church. Thus, my prayer is for people to realise that frustration with how things are can be converted into vision for how things should be and a desire to join a group of people in aiming to acheive just that!”

I agree with him that those of us who still believe in the church as a people both sinners and saints at the same time, offering our feeble attempts to reflect his kingdom on earth need to just “keep on doing it!” (or at least begin converting what maybe ugly into something possibly beautiful)

What I mean by “doing it” is We (espcially those of us who are leaders and pastors together with others who “see it”) must work towards forming and constructing communities that not only embody how things should be, but also invite others to join us and “just do it!”. I think we are well “aware” that not all is well in our so called “Christian world”, but just being aware and not putting energies into working on an “Alternative” or at least joining one is even more painful.

Because the way forward is not “exiting” or just consider our Christian community life “expired”, but allowing and encouraging a “new-kind-of-refined” community life to “emerge”! At least, that’s the choice I made. And daily with God’s help, I make a choice to keep myself on track! It’s been a hard four years … I’ve faltered many times, but God has been faithful and patient.