Holiday Schedule

No group meeting on 12/25 and 1/1. Church's Christmas celebration is on 12/24 starting with potluck dinner at 6 PM and follow by a Christmas service at 7:30 PM.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Unity, Diversity and Division

I found an interesting article. I thought you might be interested. I thought we would change our discussion tonight (12/11/09) to this topic instead of the study of Mark. We will pick up the study of Mark next week.

The title is "Unity, Diversity and Division." Very often we hear about the discussion of unity and division. Rarely we hear it discuss with diversity.

http://www.the-highway.com/articleOct02.html

I hope you'll find the following excerpts insightful:
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Uniformity among Christians is not necessarily a good. When carried to extremes, it becomes an evil. It can be shown that complete uniformity within the church would not enhance its beauty but rather detract from it.

the term multiformity has often been employed to excuse schism within the church. Schism is sinful division.
Multiformity and schism are by no means synonymous.

Unity that comes to expression in uniformity may well be, and usually is, superficial. On the other hand, unity that constitutes the background of multiformity is necessarily deep. For us to be at one with those who are like us is easy; to be at one with those who are unlike us is possible only if a profound unity underlies surface differences.

When love rises above uniformity and embraces multiformity, the greatest of Christian virtues comes to glorious expression.
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I did not know who Dr. RB Kuiper is. It turns out that he was the president of Calvin Theological Seminary from 1952-1956.

http://www.calvinseminary.edu/aboutUs/presidents/kuiper.php

I hope we can learn from this article about the unity in Christ.

12/18 Study 12 - What Jesus Came to Do

Study 12 - What Jesus Came to Do
MARK CHAPTERS 8:31 -9:1

Study Leader - Daniel
Refreshments - Kenny and Lauren
Meeting Place - Kenny and Lauren's house.

December/January Schedule

Date   Leader  Refreshments
12/4   Steve     Cuong & Julie
12/11 Daniel    Steve & Sharon
12/18 Moses   Kenny & Lauren
12/25 Christmas TBD (Church celebration on 12/24)
1/1     New Year TBD
1/8     John       John & Siana
1/15   Greg      Greg & Judy
1/22   Daniel    David & Florence

1/29   Wai       Wai & Irene

12/4 Study 11 - You are the Christ!

Study 11 - You are the Christ!
MARK CHAPTER 8:1-30

Steve will lead. Refreshments - Cuong and Julie.

11/20 Study 10 - The Root of All Evil

Study 10 - The Root of All Evil
MARK CHAPTER 7:1-37

Moses leads.

11/13 Study 9 Understanding the Loaves

Study 9 - Understanding the Loaves
MARK CHAPTER 6:30-56

11/6 Study 8 - The Rejection of Jesus

Study 8 - The Rejection of Jesus
MARK CHAPTER 6:1-30

Christian student signs document refusing to renounce his faith

On October 20, 2009, the High School Division of the Huashan Middle School officially expelled Chen for signing a document confirming his identity as a Christian.

Seen at:
http://www.persecutionblog.com/2009/10/christian-minor-expelled-from-xinjiang-high-school-for-his-faith.html

10/30 Study 7 Authority over Death

Study 7 - Authority over Death
MARK CHAPTERS 4:35-5:43

10/23 Lesson 6 The Secret of the Kingdom

MARK CHAPTER 4:1-34
Study 6 - The Secret of the Kingdom

John is leading the study.

MHCCC special event 10/16-10/18

MHCCC special event 10/16-10/18


Speaker: Ed Lin

Theme: The Jesus I Never Knew 

Session 1 – What’s the Problem? – John 6: 66-69, Rev 21:8 (Fri.)

Session 2 – Which Soil Are You? - Mark 4:1~9, 13~20 (Sat.)

Session 3 – The Cost of Discipleship – Luke 9:57~62 (Sat.)

Session 4 – Bearing Fruit - John 15:1~8 (Sun.)

Fasting

It seems that I am the only one who can create a new post. I will find out if I can allow anyone to create a new post/topic for discussion. For now, if you have any topic for the group, please let me know. I will create a new thread.

Moses:

Since we had so much discussion the other day on fasting, I have been listening to these two sermons on it for the last month (again and again, I find that I catch various aspects of the topic each timeI hear it). It provided me with a good understanding of what God looks for in our fasting and the meaning via His Word.... I do agree that not many Christians know the meaning of fasting, and now I know more and will probably fast when troubled with grief, fear, and other situations where I am in despare and need to seek God's mercy with fasting...

 

I attached the link to McArthur's website directing you to the two sermons below..  If you have time, take a listen, it is quite time consuming, but, would we rather spend time watching TV or doing crossword, reading news paper or Listening to God speaking to us? hahahahahaha

 

Pray that this is helpful to you all.....

 

http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/2231  This is Part 1

 

http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/2232  This is Part 2

 

Please note that you can chose to Listen, Download as MP3 or just Read it..

 

Be Blessed.........

Judas

Did Jesus know that Judas would betray him when he appointed Judas to be one of the Twelve?

Steve: check out John 6:60-71.

What do you think?

10/2 Lesson 5

10/2 Lesson 5
The New People of God
Mark 3:7-35

Oct/Nov. Schedule

Date Leader Refreshment
10/2/2009 Steve Steve and Sharon
10/9/2009 No mtg Daniel & PJ away
10/16/2009 Ed Lin, MHCCC special mtg, No cell group mtg
10/23/2009 John John & Siana
10/30/2009 Daniel David & Florence
11/6/2009 Moses Moses & Jyhfen
11/13/2009 Wai Wai & Irene
11/20/2009 Greg Greg & Judy
11/27/2009 Thanksgiving Group Potluck