To Friends I Missed,
No matter where we turn we see people, people going places and doing things, others are just dreaming, thinking and wondering of lives wants, lost, joy and sadness. Much have gone through the lives of people all over the globe. In most cases when tragedy strikes or when loneliness creeps in then the individual begin to think about the purpose, meaning and reason for living. We would think this only happens to non-Christians and questions like these only comes to the mind of the unbeliever. Unfortunately believers alike asked the same questions even if they say "I KNOW" WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND WHAT JESUS PROMISED.....BUT... it seems like I only have an existence and not a life. This makes going to church and performing Christian duties and rituals a chore and a burden. The cliche "I KNOW" is a common one and yet the assurance is not firm and lack confidence.
Looking back to the last few months with the feedback that have been received after almost every meeting it does provoked new challenges to the life of any preacher, primarily me. Repeatedly men and women have said, "When you speak I felt life coming out of you or it touched my life, or it really brought life". The latest was in a bible school when someone said, "Most of the time we hear people speak knowledge here but you speak life". This cause me to ask myself, What do they mean? Thousands have heard the word being spoken week after week and maybe even day after day and yet it remains just "Knowledge". The word of God is the word of Life and Jesus is THE WORD and HE IS LIFE, that means the WORD SHOULD GIVE LIFE and not just knowledge. In preaching then I have to ask myself why are some giving just knowledge and some life? What do we have KNOWLEDGE OR LIFE? Do we share KNOWLEDGE OR DO WE SHARE LIFE? When knowledge is applied to daily living this is what some people called life, the word becoming flesh. The written word that becoming the living word.
That means it is for everyone of us to live out the word given to us through the scriptures so that become the living word and share the word of life to those around us. May the Lord help us by the indwelling Spirit to be totally obedient to the written word of truth. The visit to New Zealand brought about fresh challenges to our personal ministry. The Lord answering prayers and touching lives through weak vessels like us. Humbling, sobering and convicting. To Him be all praise, honour and glory.
Kenny Gan
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