The Call for Scientists

http://www.ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-leadership/culture/14361-everything-is-an-experiment

When you understand the intentions behind things, take a step back and think of how to achieve these things and then the mentality has to shift from that of a “Manager” to a “Scientist”

A Manager simply does the things from day to day running the same things to be able to achieve results.

A scientist constantly studies the individual chemicals and then thinks of how to mix things up in paper, understand it and then try it in actual grounds. A scientist studies theories and then experiments.

What are you experimenting today?

I believe

I believe Central is called to produce a generation of thinkers that will take their place in the kingdom in every dimension to bless the kingdom in everyway.

I believe Central is called to be the most happening district. A district that can have fun but yet also able to engage in spiritual stuff. Relevant but spiritual.

I believe Central is called to be the most enthuasiastic group ever. I believe that if one person were to be in the midst of Central people, the person will be electrified by our enthuasiasm.

I believe Central is called to build a principled world saving generation that will connect to God, connect to people and serve the world.

I believe that Central is responsible to build leaders not just for Central but for the future ministries. Not everyone might be a Lifegroup Leader in Central but i believe that they will be one  in the next phase of ministry be it Poly or JC whether the rest of the ministry leaders believe it or not.

I believe that Central is called to build leaders that are so capable and biblical that they will be leaders who will be high in demand. Every group will be snatching for them once they can be released.

I believe that Central is called to grow from glory to glory and not gory to gory. The Central of tomorrow should be much more glorious then the Central of today and even more then the Central of yesterday.

I believe that Central is called to fill and win every single one of the 34 schools no matter whatever culture, Tom,dick,Harry. We will take them all, contain them and grow them.

I believe that Central people all think but sometimes they don’t dare to share it out because of insecurity and therefore my responsibility is to create a environment where they will be comfortable to share what they think.

I believe every Centralite has so many talents and dreams and the moment they pursue it for God, there will be many blows to the kingdom of darkness and many people will cross the line of faith.

I believe the potential of Central goes beyond what it is now. We WILL fill room by room=>America room to Nexus Auditorium and beyond. We were the first district to hold a district service. We are the flagship and we will stay that way. We WILL NOT be a “submarine”.

I believe that everything i believe in CAN,WILL and MUST be done and the way to do it is in the minds of the Central leaders and people. Every single one counts.

I believe.. I believe.. I believe.. I believe….

I believe in Central. This is the place where i will use both my characteristic of a bull and that of a mule. The intense charge and the unshakable stubbornness.

I believe in Central

Godly Ambition,Godly dreams

Just had the first BOY Meeting yesterday with some of the guys from Central. We started this meeting because we really believe that we need to work together to form the next generation of male leadership within Central. The most encouraging part for me was the part when all of us started sharing about Godly Ambition and Godly dreams. We shared what are some of the things that we dream of doing. It was amazing to hear from them that they actually have many dreams just that they don’t usually say it.

When all the dreams are fulfilled, there would be such a big difference made. This is the potential of the guys in Oceania room that day. Many more are to come.

Godly Dream,Godly Ambition – What’s yours?

Power Point?

Was at school today and wanted to do work with my lap top and needed electricity. Saw a power point and wanted to plug it in but it couldn’t go in totally simply because the power point was designed in a wrong place. There was something at the bottom that was blocking the lower part of the adapter and hence the adapter cannot be plugged in.

Adapter cannot plug in = Electricity cannot flow = lap top cannot use
This implies that the electricity is there but it cannot serve its purpose.

Therefore this is a power point filled with power but because its placed at the wrong place, it cannot release electricity for me to use.

What a pity!!!!!

This is a very simple incident that happen but it can be a parallel to many things.

The Church can be like the power point. Its filled with power but until or unless the adapter is plugged in, the power is not really being used for its purpose. The question is Are we allowing people to plug in or did we build something that blocks people from plugging in like the stupid wooden thing below the power plug?

Our knowledge about things too. We might know a lot of things but are we applying? Are we allowing our situations around us to plug into the source of learnings that we have. Do we take time off to think What have we learnt that can better help us handle this situation? Until we do that, again the electricity in the power point is useless because things are not plugged in.

There can be many other parallels that will show us this relationship of plugging in if you take sometime to reflect. Feel free to contribute to more possibilities of the parallels that you can think of.

Are you plugging in?

Season for everything

Something i realise as i grow in Christ is there are such things as seasons in your life. God made the weather and gave it four seasons so that we can see different sceneries at different times and the animals were made to adapt and in the same way we are made that way too.

In everything there are seasons and you will not want to miss these seasons because every season is for a reason. If you are sharp and discerning, you will be able to ride on the seasons that God places in your life then you will realize that it will add up to your life in the long run.

Ecc 3:1
¹ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven

In Ministry, there are seasons that i’ve witnessed. We always say that there are seasons for evangelism during the ESS periods, there are seasons for discipeship during holidays and programs are built to be able to utilise those seasons to its maximum. Therefore, ministry has seasons.

In shepherding people if you take a step back and observe there are seasons too. Seasons where proximity matters for the persons growth, seasons where the relationship develops, seasons where space comes into the picture, seasons where discipleship is sped up just at that point in time because there’s more time and many more. Therefore, relationships has seasons.

In your own learning, there are seasons too. There will be time where you will want to learn different things at different times and in different ways. There are times where i learn a lot from books, there are times where i learn a lot from business cases, there are times where i simply learn talking to people.Therefore, learning has seasons.

Youth is like the season where you are the sponge, you simply learn everything and anything. You absorb the most things. When you reach university, you learn to question everything you can find. That is the season where you start to develop your own thinking and opinion based on what you have absorbed as a sponge and its your final hit for you to develop habits or basic fundamentals that will last. Therefore, life has seasons.

Ministry,relationships,learning, life and many others has seasons.
Therefore know the reason for the season to gain more wisdom.

What is the season for you today?

I give up

I tried to lose weight for three months already but still fail. I give up.

I tried working on this person for around 6 months already but still cannot. I give up.

I tried learning on how to get use to this ministry/cg/shepherd. I give up.

I tried studying this subject for like one whole year already but always fail one. I give up.

I tried working on this area of my life for two whole years already but still fail. I give up.

Try giving up the sentence “I give up”. It goes further. =p
< Read the article below and you’ll know what i mean>

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_451040.html

Signs of a secure leader

http://www.perrynoble.com/2009/11/05/10-signs-of-a-secure-leader/

Do note that you are a secure leader if those signs describe who are you. If those signs describe who you are not, you’ve got work to do like me.. Haha..

Welcome to the club

Good memories

Brings back very good memories.
In year 2010,we should have more of such things.

Steps for learning

Friend ” Have you read More then a carpenter?’

Daniel ” Yeah..Read it quite sometime ago.”

Friend ” What was it about?”

Daniel ” Erhx…I forgot!!!”

Something i find in myself more and more is reading does not equate learning but if you don’t read you definitely cannot learn. Reading is simply the FIRST step of learing but there are many more steps to come in order to facilitate learning. Some others steps that i find facilitates learning is:

• Discussing
  
  Things that are talked about are always things that can be remembered much better then what you read. When you discuss things with people on what you have learnt, there’s a higher chance you’ll be able to remember it because discussion brings about greater understanding and re-enforcement. Maybe this is the reason why studying together sometimes can be a little more effective?
• Reflecting
  
  This works also like talking but this is probably called “self talking”. People who are melacholic are very good at this. They reflect a lot and hence they are usually people who are very wise. They are wise because they don’t just go through the motion. They go through the motion, understand the notion and that gives them a portion of wisdom.
• Applying
  
  What better way to learn something then to do it. How did you learn cycling? How did you learn swimming? Simply by doing. Therefore, doing is superbly IMPORTANT. Its one of the best ways to facilitate learning.

What other steps are there to learning?

Online

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_449343.html

Things that are happening online is on the rise. This article is the second article i saw about churches going online. I’ve heard another idea where there was a church where people set up in this online game called “Second life” or something where people can actually go to church in the “virtual” world. Sounds very interesting but i’m not sure if this is the best. What i’m sure is “online” is going to play a much bigger role in church, in establishing the community of believers, in helping the community of believers to be able to support each other,  to bless one another and to serve more people.

“Online” is going to play a far bigger role in teaching, discipleship, caregroup and many others.

“Online” will take a far greater role more and more. Are you ready? What do you think the role of “Online” will be?