Of Church
My Parents have an important decision to make.For most of the 6/7 months I've been here, we've been going to a church called Bethlehem Baptist church. Its that really big and famous one, the one headed by Pastor John Piper? You've probably heard of it, well, your Pastor has at least, probably. Anyway, it's the church that my Dad's friends, the Harrison and Held families, attend. Those families include Jim and Sharon, the elderly couple who were surrogate grandparents to my two older brothers 18 years ago and also my sister's new best friend, Caroline, their real grand daughter.
However, my Parents recently got introduced to this other church called T4C. I can't remember what that stands for but its a neat little asian church with a very vibrant youth ministry. My sister loves it there and there's even a Singaporean family.
Coming in third is a church called Stadium Village. This was the church my Parents attended 18 years ago when they were students in Minnesota. It's predominantly composed of asian and white college students going to the nearby University of Minnesota.
The conundrum is this, which church should the Tan family (minus my two older brothers) attend?
That's what's new with me, so feel free to uphold us in prayer as we ask God for guidance, seeing as this is a decently important matter.
Cheers folks
So said Aerasio at 16:19
1 Comments:
I have a suspicion of big megachurches ... the ones in Singapore anyway, sometimes it seems more of hype and commercialism than true faith.
I liked the Chinese church I attended here - and yes, there was even a family from Singapore there - but in the end we reverted to the church we went to before we returned to Singapore, since the sermons and study groups were in Chinese, which I couldn't understand too well, and my sister was more fluent but still, comprehension was an issue, because it became more of attending a church in order to meet the Singaporeans (who are long time friends). Though pleasant, socialisation should not be an incentive (you may know Fabriz, who in particular chides people who come to church just to play soccer afterwards), since that can be done elsewhere - and well, an English service happened to serve that better!
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