Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Hi guys,
Well, I felt that I should share this with you guys. Its about building a loving cell group.
To start, a cell group should be more than just a social gathering. It should be a family of brothers and sisters that genuinely care and love each other. In the bible, Jesus said it is through our love for one another that He would know that we are his disciples. Perhaps, here are some of the things we could all do to keep the cell group bond strong.
1) Loving all
Well, we all love people that we love to love. (Sounds weird? Read again slowly and you would understand) The bible says that even sinners does that. What about the people that is hard to love? These people are the ones that lack love most. Jesus came to die for everyone not just some people. Just like how Hao Han shared about how he loved his platoon mate that is hard to love, we should learn to love people that is hard to love too.
2) Start by loving 1 person
So how do we start to love all? Let’s start by choosing 1 person in the cell group that you do not really know. Make an effort to try to know him more through fellowship. Then try to encourage and meet the person’s needs. Soon you would see the bonding between the two of you to grow to another level. At the same time, we should also be open so as to allow others that make an effort to press into our lives to come in. If everyone in the cell group does this, very quickly we would have strong bonds in our cell group.
3) Sowing words of encouragement
Many of us at some time or another tend to say words that can hurt others. Also many a times we would not know how much these words can hurt. In order to prevent this from happening, every time we fellowship, let’s sow good words, kind words, words of encouragement into each other’s life. For you reap what you sow. if you sow words of discouragement, it will come back to you. So let’s break the vicious cycle and sow good words into each other’s life.
So let’s do something for each other and genuinely love each other so that the world would know we are HIS disciples. Let’s grow together spiritually, academically and in numbers. Spread the love.
1 John 3:18 Dear Children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
Eric
every moment with GOD.