Sunday, February 06, 2005

Passion


"...obedience without passion is just a duty..."
~unknown~


we need to passionate aout what we do and whether it is pleasing to God. Everyone is passonate about something, it maybe music, reading, sports, etc.. whatever it is everyone has a passion.
was listening to the sermon by Pastor Robert Ling and I came across this word Koinonia, yes it does sound like some cake or some "kuih" but it's a greek work for fellowship. it comes from the word Koinos which means share. So fellowship means to share with fellow brethen. I first came acoss this word when I was in Nepal. We were attending an international church where our host attended and it was called Koinonia Patan Church. I thought it was another nepali word but now i know the true meaning of it. There are some cool memories from this church. This is where I built a baptism pool with bricks. There was a baptism that was going to happen on that Sunday but they did't have a baptism pool so they asked our team to help them build one, and since all the guys were used to heavy stuff we started laying bricks with the supervision of an Engineer missionary (pretty cool guy) so we started placing bricks on top of each other and forming it into a wall and made a small shaped pool around. then we added steps to it. But there wasn't any cement or concrete to hold the bricks together, instead the walls were just a support. They used two huge tarps to retain water and that's even cooler.. sometimes they baptise people in wells.. But the best of all was one of our guys who built the baptismal ended up getting rebaptised coz he felt he was ready and wanted to rededicate his life to God. He was baptised with sprinkling when he was a kid thats why he wanted to be rebaptised. But isn't it great to see God's beautiful appointment. He was baptised in his hand built baptismal, and that's the greatest story.

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