The Me I Want to Be

Young Adult's Cell group material July 2011- current

Your Life is God's project, not yours.

The Me I want to be, not should be.

1 John 1:9

1 John 1:9

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousnes

This is not meant for the believer. 

Only Paul was chosen to speak to gentiles and he wrote 3/4 of the new testament. Nowhere in his books is there mention to confess our sins. If confession was so important, he would have wrote about it somewhere.

Destined to Reign

This was my summary ( refer to post below). It is not written in nice prose but rather sentences that spoke to me- characteristic of all the other summaries in this blog. 

What's So Amazing about Grace.

This was actually written by David Lim at a time when I was trying to come to terms with  Joseph Prince's message of grace. For the unfamiliar, David actually attended New Creation church for about 2 years and the pastor there has a different take on the message and its application. And I needed intellectually to resolve the two interpretations before I can move on ( poor boy? haha).  So we decided to read two different interpretations of grace.. one by Philip Yancey who I'm familiar with and Pastor Prince's book on ' Destined to reign'. We then summarised a book each and shared it with each other. And they actually meet in many parts of their argument. Maybe I would do a similarities and differences one day when i reread these summaries written more than 2 years ago.

It was a long hard struggle of questioning before I came to some sort of resolution. I must thank David Chan also because he had a heart to share Ps. Prince message with us and loved enough to debate endlessly with me despite me being emotionally involved. And more importantly, he has a clear idea of why he believes what he believes which helped my understanding at the end. yup, i think i came away with a clearer idea of what grace is, something which i think is paramount! especially if you grow up with the image of a stern God. You should run to God more when you're darn dirty rather than wait till you're clean. okay enjoy reading if you decide to.

How Great is our God. DVD by Louie Giglio

Ps 33: By the word of the Lord, the heavens was made. The starry host by the breath of the mouth. Star breathing God. 

The Video describes 4 stars in the universe, with the intention to help us realise how truly big and marvelous outer space is.

Indescribable. DVD by Louie Giglio

 Indescribable

• God is indescribable. Using astronomy to emphasize it.
• Stars are shouting out to us that God is indescribable.
• Show of the splendor and the majesty of God who created the universe.
• We are really small and not in the center of our galaxy. Quarter and the galaxy is like the north America continent.
• What is man that you are mindful of him.
• Sun: intense power radiant splendor. That’s what came out of God’s mouth. Not a namsy pamsy God we are worshipping.
• He who did not consider equality of God something to be grasped..
• As high as the heavens is above, so great is the Father love for us.
• There’s grace everywhere.
• The cross in the black hole center of thewhirlpool galaxy
• Thank you for astronomical grace for teeny tiny people like us to rescue us back into His loving arms.

Faith and Asking

²⁴ Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. God's language of faith is present and past tense. When you pray, believe God for it and thank Him for it as if you've already 


'The Hebrew writers often express the certainty of a thing taking place by putting it in the past tense, though the actual fulfilment may not take place for ages. This is easily understood and appreciated when the language is used by God, as when He says, in Gen. xv. 18, "Unto thy seed I have given this land;" and in xvii. 4, "I, lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become a father of a multitude of nations."
http://www.ccel.org/bible/ylt/ylt.htm'


Matthew 18:19
"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

2 is the smallest plurality and the church is there even when there is two. 
The key word here is agree. If somebody believes that they would be cured by surgery, then pray with them for good surgery, for a painless recovery so that they can agree with you. Don't impose your ideas on them.