Inspiration Week,2010 (3)

Friday Vespers was presented by Pr. Johnny Wong and Pr. Gerard Bernard with a new conversation style message about the Body of Christ through the title “Anatomy and Physiology in the Spirit”.

Our body’s main parts are bones, muscles, and organs. Bones and muscles support the structure, and organs perform important functions. Three significant organs are heart, lungs, and stomach. Heart locates just behind the chest and pumps blood through the body. Lungs are protected by ribs, and left one is smaller than the other to make a space for the heart. Lungs are organs for breathing which keeps us alive. Prayer is important as breathing. How long can we live without breathing? Every moment, our souls need God’s Spirit as our bodies need fresh air. Stomach is a part of digestion system. How long can we go without eating? As our bodies need food to get energy, our souls need spiritual food.

Every part of our bodies needs something to function. Heart needs blood, lungs need oxygen, and stomach needs food. Our souls also need relationship with God to function as the body of Christ. Also, we need each other’s help by doing our parts. Our body parts are united as one as they work for one purpose. To work as the body of Christ, each of our functions is equally valuable and it is important to work on our own parts. “Let us be united” as the body of Christ that functions for God’s work.

On August 28 in Youth Worship, the Sabbath message was presented by Dr. Wann Fanwar to conclude our Inspiration Week through the title “Mangoes or Bananas: Fruit Salad.”

God made everyone unique and no one is the same. Thailand is said “the land of smile,” but not all of Thai people are smiley. We cannot say “all Thai is like this,” because God made everyone different. Even from same parents, different children come. None of us can be the same. If everyone was the same, it is not going to be fun. “God’s world is like fruit salad.” The attraction of fruit salad is its diversity. The twelve disciples were all very different with many characters. But they needed each other as God had purpose for them. Uniformity is not so important. “Unity of the church” is that each of the church members knows that they are special to God. Uniformity in no diversity is meaningless. The eyes cannot say “I don’t need you” to hands because God uses each of them. There are many kinds of fruits in this world, but fruit salad is great with its great diversity.

Some people function as eyes, some do as ears. Only mango is not enough, but we need other fruits to be mature. We cannot be Christ-like completely by ourselves. To make a good meal, we need many dishes. We all are different but work to be the body of Christ, the wonderful meal. For the church, to become the body of Christ is important.

In the afternoon at 3p.m., “Chat with a Rabbi” took place at the Fellowship Hall by Dr. Wann Fanwar. About thirty students, families, and faculties participated. There, our Rabbi answered interesting questions about marriage, vegetarianism, the Bible, and so on. Dr. Fanwar’s answers are always interesting and very beneficial to learn!