Back from Belgrave and it has been great hearing from 2 Corinthians and Proverbs from two very British preachers. Although it would have been great if I had more will power to stay up during the sermons but it is a bit of a hard task considering that your sleep cycle has been shot to pieces thanks to the past 2 weeks or so. Not to say I didn't try fixing that. I have to say the way Jonathan Lamb speaks is very much like Chris Wright, who happens to be the speaker last year. Probably not too surprised considering that both of them are at Langham Partnership International.
The very long but much needed conversation between three oddballs and a girl is probably something I will remember for awhile and obviously something to think about. Talking until sunrise about hard issues and how to deal with them is tiring and stressful to say the least, but if there is anything that we learned in Belgrave this year is the application of godly wisdom and to uphold Christian integrity in ministry are absolutely crucial for us Christians and I think those two lessons came at a very apt time in the grand scheme of things. These two things are quite fundamentally different qualities a Christian possess compared to the rest of the secular world and one where they are slowly fading away as Christian values are being pushed to a corner, cited as being irrelevant or discriminatory. Sadly, even among Christians this degradation is starting to take its toll among God's people and that we have somehow got sidetracked from living true godly and testimonial lives. Much like the Israelites in the Old Testament where they were to remember their God but they got lost among the pagans and the exact thing they were meant to do, they simply forgot. We might not be at that level of forgetfulness towards God but who's to say that we might get there if we do not practice godliness or godly wisdom. We must not lose heart in our Christian ministry, whether it is a ministry to non-Christians or a ministry for the edification of the Church. Because God is with us.
On a lighter note, been hard at work trying to finish as much of the bulk of assignments due in a couple of weeks time and I have to say I've never been this productive in the past two days. Maybe a little too productive. I'm sure Murphy is around a corner somewhere ready to pounce. I don't trust him.
Oh, and I forgot to take pictures in Belgrave. Kthxbai.
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