I feel eternally grateful for the Body of Christ, sourced out of God’s infinite wisdom. My first church community group accepted me warmly into the family when I arrived in Boston from Shanghai in 1992. I was baptized into God’s kingdom, taught, and trained in different ministries. I learned about and experienced first hand the Body of Christ—living as Christ lives.
Read MoreThe Creator creates beings who, like Him, create. It’s a wonderful thought, beautiful even, but this does not just apply to art. Parents create families, homes; we even have children who are born looking exactly like us.
Read MoreMy first memory of encountering God was praying by my bedside at age seventeen. I was a teenager and was desperate to find meaning. I was very dissatisfied at such a young age and was in search of something bigger.
Read MoreIf what you want more than anything is God, then temptation loses its grip on you.” All I had ever wanted was a relationship. At that moment when I heard that, I felt something in my heart. I physically felt God reach into my chest and take my hardened heart in His hand and smash it. I went from feeling the deepest guilt I’d ever felt, immediately to desiring the Spirit of God in me.
Read MoreI’ve felt led to abandon the traditional sermon-central church model at times. As I’ve tried to remain in tune with God’s daily leading, too often my schedule and expectations get in the way. I realized a lot of my time and resources were going to holding traditional church, often at the expense of meeting people in their needs. Instead I’ve tried to remain nimble to the Spirit’s leading, supporting churches and individuals without rigid expectations for what it should look like.
Read MoreSadly, having knowledge and ease of living do nothing to positively change our character and sin nature. It takes work to live as a citizen of God’s Kingdom.
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