23.8.09

Archbishops regret gay 'wedding'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7459269.stm

St Bartholomew the Great Church
The service was held at St Bartholomew the Great Church

The Church of England's two most senior figures have expressed concern after the "marriage" of two gay priests was held at a London church.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said an investigation was taking place into the service.

The couple - the Reverend Peter Cowell and the Reverend Dr David Lord - were already civil partners.

But the vicar who performed the ceremony insisted he had no regrets.

Writing for the New Statesman website, the Reverend Dr Martin Dudley said refusing to bless the pair "would have been a negation of everything I believe".

Critics say the service, held in May at St Bartholomew the Great Church in the City of London, broke Church guidelines.

'Amazing flowers'

In a statement, the Archbishops expressed "great concern" over reports of the service.


Those clergy who disagree with the Church's teaching are at liberty to seek to persuade others
Archbishops' statement

They said they could not comment on the specific circumstances of the case because a an investigation had been launched by the Bishop of London.

But they said "various reference points" to the Church of England's teaching on sexuality were "well known" and remained in place.

"Those clergy who disagree with the Church's teaching are at liberty to seek to persuade others within the Church of the reasons why they believe, in the light of Scripture, tradition and reason that it should be changed," they added.

"But they are not at liberty simply to disregard it."

But Dr Dudley, who insisted he was "robustly heterosexual", wrote that he had not carried out the ceremony to provoke traditionalists.

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The Reverend Martin Dudley, who performed the service, said he had no regrets

"It is not we who have whipped up the whirlwind, replacing words of love and inclusion with those of hatred and exclusion," he added.

He described the service as "not a gay rally or demonstration, but a truly joyful celebration".

"Amazing flowers, fabulous music, a ceremony both solemn and oddly homely, familiar words reordered and reconfigured, carrying new meanings.

"Nothing jarred, nothing felt even vaguely inappropriate. New and untried - but not wrong."

Remain celibate

The couple are said to have exchanged vows and rings in front of hundreds of guests in the event, thought to be the first of its kind in the Anglican Church.

Anglicans worldwide are split over homosexuality and conservatives have condemned the service - which had no legal status - as blasphemous.

Critics say the wording of a traditional wedding expressly defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.

But liberals in the Church say the Bible should be reinterpreted in line with contemporary experience.

Under Church of England guidance, gay priests can enter civil partnerships as long as they remain celibate.

Guidance also says that gay couples who ask a priest to bless their partnership must be treated "pastorally and sensitively".


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My commentary on this news:

"Do not ask God to bless me! if I am a gay! It is sound like a blasphemy, bless me?"

Chaste system

Theologians induce that Christianity has 4 castes, this is a test for the theologians to take to continue to be a "caste 1" theologian, they must retake some exams, to update their knowledge about Christianity.

1. List those 4 castes, A,B,C,D, and explain them.
2. Are these castes, divisions dividing the churches?
3. Is the higher caste looking down to the lower chaste?
4. Is the higher caste helping the lower chaste?
5. Is caste system encouraged by Christ?
6. Is caste system a biblical teaching? Is verbal plenary preservation promoting caste system in Christianity? Why?
7. Is KJV reader the highest caste? Why?
8. Is Charismatics the highest caste? Why?
9. Is higher caste the richest?
10. Is lowest caste the poorest?

You must get 8 out of ten to "pass out" the test!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste

22.8.09

A forgotten Marriage!

Pastors, when you were laid on your heads by some one, to ordain you as a man and a servant of God, you were spoken with these words. But you have forgotten these few words.

"I ordain you to be a servant of God in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that with this laying hands, you receive the gift of goodness, that you will not covet any man's money!"

"I command you in the Name of the Lord, in front of the everlasting King and the One who is all seeing even all evil and good, and that with this laying of hands on you, you receive the gift, that you are going to live by faith, work by hope and serve by love."

"I command you pastors in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you are receiving the gift of preaching, with boldness you will speak without fears, you will speak with the authority from the Bible, you are going to speak as God is speaking in you, and you are to preach with a great and powerful voice and visions given, to prepare the way for the returning of the Great King! Make haste!"

"I now pronounce you to be the man of God, and command you to be the servant of God, and faithfully you will follow the Lord, until death you depart from the your ministry, and now you may kiss the Bible!"

After few years, what happened, you had forgotten those words, and you had broken God's heart, you quenched the Holy Spirit in you, you are lacking the glory of God! You become a thief to the Lord!

No so, return to the Lord, this moment, He is laying His hands on your head this moment, to ordain you again, do not look back, you are heading to heaven with you plow, and glory is coming back to you, His anger is not long, His mercy is forever, His heart is happy when you look to Him, the Cross, there He died for you, pastors do cry sometimes, Jesus wept even, why you are sadden this moment, my dear pastors, you are called not to fear, be strong in the Lord, nothing in the world is against you, not even great sin and mighty death, no, not one accuse, but go sin no more!

Do not fear for the damage brought by the teaching of Verbal Plenary Preservation, it is a small matter, the split does hurt some of you, but BP churches are called to be faithful, do not be a coward like me, but you must become a stronger man, because many haven't heard the voice from heaven, the gospel must be preached, and so make haste, start to mend those broken relationships in the BP circle, and God is willing to bring the promises He promises to your forefathers! Stand, and be strong in the Lord, for the Lord is near, nigh you go to Him, and you will find peace and grace! Make haste for the day of dawn is near! Wait not more to say, "I love you!" to your fellow servants, did not you see, even the theologians also have the same yoke like you, the Gospel? They preach the gospel with another different tone, and with a cane! They preached Christ awhile with their hands whipping on the Bible! That sound is scaring some of us, but that whipping sound will not remove the corner stone laid, for the foundation is the Rock, Jesus Christ."

Have you forgotten even that the Church is married with the Lamb! Not with those theologians? Who are these theologians who are whipping our Chinese Bible and CUV readers! They had been called as heretic because they split the church with those whippings! They had divided the unity Christ called us for! They had broken the yoke in Christ, they had been called as the heretic because they had made divisions in the churches, those divisions are very dangerous, and this division is a kind of corruption that weaken the churches!

Right words from a pastor!

Church Weekly for 23 August 2009 (http://www.calvarypandan.org/weekly/index.htm)

3. Evil fruits of Atheism and Evolutionism

The apostle Paul’s Roman Epistle exposes the evil effects of Atheism and Evolutionism. The evidence for Creation is present everywhere, demonstrable and visible for all to see, but men refuse.

“Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:19-20).

Since men refuse to acknowledge God their Creator, “… God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves … For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:24-28).

Refusal to acknowledge the Creator does not make men good. On the contrary, they fall into grievous sins.......

Lovingly in the Lord
Dr SH Tow, Sr Pastor

Work!

Life B-P Church Weekly - 23 August 2009, (http://www.lifefebc.com/weekly.php)

......So make every effort to maintain a spirit of joy in your work and to be a cheerful worker. Do not drag your feet or do your work grudgingly. Do not gripe about your pay and work conditions. Take pride in doing your best for the Lord in every task you are assigned to do. And be sure to give all the credit to Him after doing it.

20.8.09

12 disciples

In every 12 disciples of Christ, there is one Judas among them, beware!

One day Jesus told Judas, Judas is His student and disciple, "Go and do what you want to do." Jesus meant it to Judas, "Go ahead with your plan, if you wanted to betray me or kill me, go ahead, kill me then."

In every 12 disciples there is one murderer, beware! After some times later, Judas sold Jesus with a price, 30 pieces of silvers!

In every 12 disciples there is some one who is looking for silvers! In every 12 fundamentalist, there is one Judas! In every 12 charismatics, there is one Judas!
12 is a perfect number, but in this perfect number there is one which is not belong there! You thought every one is good in these 12? Not so!

When fundamentalist meets a charismatics, the fundamentalist must be prepared to be killed by the charismatics! When the charismatics, meets a fundamentalist, the charismatics must be prepared to be killed by the charismatics!

Christians whom I met are alike, we practice character assassination, this is a hidden sin, this is a murder, we are like Judas sometimes, but we do not admit this!

These few years, I heard from some parents one of of most strange phenomena in the area between 21th century science and fictions! A few parents destroyed their expensive desktop, they were furious and angry with the computer they bought for their sons and daughters, because their sons and daughters kept on quarreling and fighting over the computer, every one of them wanted to use the computer at the same time, time is wasted. Parents threw and smashed their computers into pieces!

If God sees us fighting over the perfect Bible, churches split over the Verbal Plenary Preservation, this is a minor theological bug and man made jargon, fighting over these Bible versions and those versions, over these manuscripts and those manuscripts, and quarreling over these gifts and over those spiritual gifts, and if Adonai sees us, we are murdering one another, killing one and another, how is He going to say on to us? Is He happy, in saying these words to us, "Go ahead with your planning!" Is Adonai has to react like those angry parents, when they see their sons and daughters fighting over the computers? Once, some 2000 years ago, Adonai Jesus Christ went into the temple in Jerusalem and He cleansed the temple Himself! Judas killed himself for that 30 pieces of silvers!

It is better for us to stay in peace and do not quarrel over minor issues! Beware the lion, which is looking for some of us, to devour us, do not forget its scheme and planning!

May God bless the 12th disciples!

Horses

An old pastor told me an old time story, he said, "Now a day people wanted their horses to run faster and faster, but they never give any grass to their houses, it is ridiculous."

A young girl heard the pastor's words, and she said, "If it is so, it is better for us that we do not keep any houses at all!"

The old pastor is actually not talking about mere horses, he is saying that churches now a day do not take good care for the pastors and staff workers and their family! And they asked their staff workers to work harder and harder, but they see that they do not need financial support, and even if they paid their pastors and staff workers, they like to use these words to support their view about pastor and staff workers, they like to talk to them about giving and receiving, it is more blessed to give than to receive!"

Even though I do not totally agree with the old pastor that the churches were ignoring the pastors and staff workers financially, maybe there is one or two churches. But I find there are still a lot churches taking good care on their pastors and staff workers!

I think I am not spiritual in this writing, I am like a frog, jumping here and there, looking for food. Mosquito...insects, fly and worms.

The Bible, speaks!

Few days ago, when I was flipping the sacred Bible, my eyes stopped onto this verse, this is the verse describe about myself, in writing this blog,

Proverbs 18

2 A fool finds no pleasure in understanding
but delights in airing his own opinions.

God is speaking to men and women until today! Though a small little voice hidden under the sacred pages of NIV, NKJV, CUV and KJV....! This is what I say, the underlying perfect voice of God!

The voice is not a human voice, but a voice, that speak to our spirit and soul! The Holy Spirit speak when we are meditating on the sacred pages of Holy Bible!

At that split of second, the Spirit of God rebuked me!

1. That I am fool,
2. I have no pleasure in understanding.
3. Delight in airing my own opinions!

Even until today, my writing did not bring me any where, my understanding is void, I do not understand any thing at all, until I kneel down to pray to God!

There is a little important in water baptism, there is very important in baptism in the Holy Spirit, covering by the Holy Spirit is far most important!

Searching the sacred pages is important, but the illumination from the Holy Spirit is more important than holding a perfect Bible.

Having a title like a theologian did not guarantee our place in heaven! But living a born again life is far most important!

In the end, the dust will go down to the dust, but the men and women belong to God will return to heaven, you do not need to be a theologian to have this assurance, simply trust some one who is graceful to love you until to the end, some one who is able to save you forever and some one who is peacefully helping you every moments, some one who is talking to you when you are hopeless, some one who is able to bring you through death and sin. You must find that person! I see that person is none other than the Adonai Jesus Christ. God come to mankind, in Jesus Christ!

May God forgive me, because I am living in hypocrisy. I remember some one sung in a hymn, "take time to be holy!"

Lamentation no. 3

Lamentations 4:17

Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

If the days ahead is becoming harder and harder, simply hook to the Lord's help! Leaning to the arms of God!

To the Israelites, have you read the Psalm, what did God tell you about these end time?

Psalm 118:9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

Psalm 146:3
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.

The time is nearer and nearer for you to make a choice to make peace, and that you are going to surrounded by armies one day! And no one is coming to help you, and you are alone that moment! Remember to call onto the Adonai, and He is coming in colorful cloud!

Luke 21:20
"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.

Even our life is getting harder, a man called onto the Name of Adonai is a blessed man!

18.8.09

Second unsent letter written to myself

I have made a commentary in the first letter, it is recorded in the Bible, that whosoever is not working, he shall not eat at all. Laziness is a sin mentioned in our Bible! This letter is intended written to Chinese, we have to be hardworking, to continue to build a better future!

2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

About stealing, it is obvious, a sin! Bible says we must not continue in stealing and robbing!

Ephesians 4:28
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.

Exodus 20:15
"You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

So it is my intention in this blog in these last days, we Chinese must be refrained from stealing and robbing properties and treasure belong to others. We must work with our own hands.

About lying, it is also a sin!

Proverbs 21:6
A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

It is a sin, that theologians hate one another, and so we must love our brother in Christ, even if there is a few minor differences here and there in our theological stand, in Christ we are one. There is only one name given under the heaven, by it we may be saved.

1 John 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

The Bible rebuked racism in our Christian kingdom.

Romans 3:9
[ No One is Righteous ] What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.

In this case, are we Chinese any better? No! All races are alike, we are all under sin! Chinese is not better than Indian, Chinese is not better than any other race.

Are our theologians becoming fat? Are they becoming thin? Are they becoming better with better deeds?

Jeremiah 5:28
and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor.

I pray that we are becoming better, united, hardworking, and continue to read our Bible, and continue to pray for people who are in lower stage and those who are in needs!

May God bless our theologians!

17.8.09

An unsend letter written to myself!

These few days are the days we are looking forward, the most important turning point in our life is taking shape, and we do not know what is the future until it came, but it is taking shape from these few days onward!

What we sow today, what we will reap a few days later!

For the people who are telling lies, let them continue to tell lies, for the time is come, let they do evil, continue to do evil, and let God be their judge, and the world remembers their lies, and the world remembered how they tell their lies! A race, a tribe which likes to tell lies, a race which promotes laziness, let the whole world come to know their people, a race which does not know what it is shame in telling lies, let the whole world comes to know them, a race which promoting racism, lies, murdering, brutality, a race which does not like to be educated, an unlearned race who survive in laziness, life is hard for them, let the whole come to see them, this is the race, which is living in telling lies, we will not stop them from telling lies, because we are not God, it is God, that can make a race, a tribe to be hardworking, it is up to God, the time is in God's hand, we are mere human, and we have to obey God rather man. Does God want us to tell lies, make this clear to our son and daughters, does God what us to be lazy?

Is hard working a sin? No, hard working is a good culture, is a good character, is a noble gesture of a race! Hard working is a right thing to preach and to shout aloud!

Do not blame God, if you are lazy, lying, killing, murdering, what you sow today, is what you will reap next few days, do not blame other races, who makes you to be lazy, it is you, your own race, if you do not rebuke this laziness in your race, you will becoming poorer and poorer, and that poverty will makes you to be more and more lazy!

You are sleeping in laziness and poverty, you are to blame yourselves! No one else! You are not happy when I am telling you this?

You lazy gluttonous, repent, who makes us to be religious a while and but we live in our laziness, who can change your laziness, but you want people to respect you, when you are lazy, you are dreaming! Awake from this dream in this darkness, did not you see yourselves in the mirror, are you still wanted to blame other for your failure, you failed because you are lazy! That's simple!

You still wanted to rob, and steal? Stop robbing and stealing, start to work with your own hands! So that you have enough food to eat, and then you can help other with what you have gained from your own hard works. If you do not work, do not eat at all, why you are lazy, but then you eat a lot! You become fat, and that tell others about your laziness, you cannot fool others, when you are fat!

A fat sale person is not working hard enough! That fatness is telling the truth! Are you fat? You eat too much, work too little! You do not buy books, but you buy more food! That is your own fault!

You know why some people are richer than you, why other races are more successful than you? Why? Because simply they worked from daylight to night fall, they are more hardworking than you, do not blame other if you are lazy! Why you are jealous, when others are more hardworking than you? And they become richer! Are you shame of your poverty? But you jealous, to see those riches gain by hardworking!

Why until now, no one tell you about this, you say you have the truth, but why you are lazy and telling lies? Why until today no one dare to tell you your faults? Because, why? Because you are unteachable and untouchable, because you proud.

Education must change a race! Without any changing in that race, that race is dying! I am talking about Chinese, we Chinese will be rebuked by our relatives and friends when we are lazy! I remembered even pastors are rebuked when they are lazy, no exemption even Chinese pastors, what about you?

We Christian are not racism, we must not promote racism, if we do, we are sinning, even we do not promote ourselves, even we Chinese must not promote only Chinese! If an Indian is doing the right thing, we must promote him to be our head, and we follow him!

If Mr Obama comes to your place, can he becomes your leader? No, why? He cannot, because of his skin color, so what can he become? A minister? No! A head of the local university? No! So what can he become in your place! If he comes to your place, he will probably becomes a lecturer in your private universities! He cannot be voted to be your leader! This is the fact, this is what racism is all about in reality! Can't you understand this! But you still insist to tell the whole world, we are so good and so good, and we are not racist, we are not telling lies, we are united, we are successful, we are growing, we are making progress, we are not liars, we are not lazy, we are so hardworking.

Sow, sow, continue to sow racism, and one day you will reap from racism!

An unsent letter written to myself.

16.8.09

Corruption is dangerous!

We, as Chinese must not support a corrupted Chinese Political party, this is the mindset belongs to the younger generation! Younger people are educated not to vote for this kind of corrupted Chinese political party, these younger Chinese younger men, wanted to see racism is stopped, they wanted to see unity in all races globally, we Chinese is not the head, but we are equally yoke with other races in the country, to make this country a developed and peaceful country, corruption is a danger and threat to our country, and we as a Christian, we do not want to intervene and interfere in politic and disturbing any politician. But we are praying for a good government! Because we love our country, we do not want bloodshed and corruption, may God protect the country from dangers and harms.

Why we Christians pray for a good government, because corruption is a sin to the people! Greed is a sin mentioned in our Bible. The people do not want a corrupted party! The people naturally do not want a corrupted leader to be their leader. The younger generation has been awaken from the route heading to corruption. Corruption is destroying so many countries, it is why the young men and women are fighting for justice for all races, not for one or two races, corruption must be fought until the justice prevail, without the justice, the country is in darkness and dangers! There is no future for a multiracial country, until racism is stopped! Corruption is fought, and then the better future is ahead for us!

May God bless our king and queen, and may God give them long life, may God bless our good leaders to stay away from corruption and racism. Amen.

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