Love one another

Some of you may know about this, but Shinyee and I have moved to Melbourne and we are attending a church here called City Life Church. This was the church that Ps Lailing and Wilson and the entire Hope Movement sprang from.

Anyway, we've only been here for about almost two months. We've settled down in the church and attended a life group for youth adults and starting families. The life group happens once every two weeks, so we really haven't had much time to meet and interact with everyone.

However, just in a short span of just eight weeks, after much pouring out of heart matters and talking about personal opinions about matters, Shinyee and I could tell that almost 80% of people (except for its leaders) who are attending have in one way or another been hurt by Christians. YES, CHRISTIANS.

One of the ladies (let's name her C) who was there had been constantly bringing another lady (let's name her K) to the life group. C commented in the life group that for K to even come and step foot into a Life Group again, it was the grace and miracle of God.

How sad is that? To know that the only assembly of people that was meant and called to preach God's Love, ended up to be one of the most dreadful place K wanted to be in.

This cannot be the will of God. This cannot be the church that Jesus died for..... but it is. And it is a sad fact. I look at the Aussies around and I know, that one of the reasons why they are so hard-hearted, was that the church has failed to live up to what it first and foremost stands for - The Sacrificial Love of Christ.

We should be fervent and zealous for God. That's a definite yes. But if our zeal and fervency means that we become ignorant and insensitive to other's feelings (especially those within the church), then we have failed to live up to the commandment of God.

Let us reflect on the true Heart of Christ and start Loving One Another - Inside and Outside the Church!

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you MUST love one another." John 13:34