Life principles quoted from a respectable friend's blog

There are four life principles I quoted from a respectable friend's blog. He is a professor and also a co-founder of my church in Hualien. The original text is in Chinese and I translate it to English.

I will be consistently lead a self-disciplined life to cultivate and improve my character.
I am willing to devote my time, talents and resources to God.
I will treat others with sincerity and compassion and try to help the needy.
I will make efforts to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that others may also share God’s grace.

The boring doctrine may save you

As a christian, how much do you know about what you claim that you believe? As a leader of the youth group in the church, I always need to remind the members to rethink about what we call christianity. In today's church, it becomes obvious that christians are far more focusing on emotion other than the boring doctrine. They enjoy a lot singing some popular christian songs, or listening to some marvelous personal story testifying how God's powerful hand rescure a desperate poor guy. But if you ask them to have some serious Bible study, some of them may lose their passion and begin to nod. This morning one call from my friend once again convinces me that some solid doctrine teaching is still necessary. He told me that he surprisedly found the church he joined for a long time is finally proved as a cult. The pastor teaches that salvation comes from following the good deeds of Jesus, who was just a man but had set a good example for us to follow God's will and if we follow his step we may even surpass him. Members in this cult have great enthusiasm preaching their "gospel" and be very active in colledges. They truely believe that God has given them special revelation and they are persecuted by other churches. I believe that a christian who are very familier with the Bible won't be easily fall into this trap, but it may sounds convincing to those with great fever but of little knowledge of truth. As a leader, it's a great temptation to please the crowd by giving them what they want. But I know that some stuff that make them bored may save them from the danger.

Slow down and Think about your Life Purpose

Last night my sister told me that she was laid off and from next month she won't have job, just like me. She was kinda sad and uncertain. But I thought it's a good opportunity to make her think more about her life purpose. For most people, how do they think about their job. Do they love it? It't kinda sad that when I look people around me, it's obviously that people work for money, not for their dream. Every morning, they have no choice but have to get up for duty. Everyday they need to stay in their office without any enthusiasm for what they are doing. Every evening, after 8 hours suffering and endurance, they eventually step out off their cage and breathe the fresh air of the evening. And next day, they need to follow the cycle. I believe not too many people like this kind of life, but they actually live with it. I cannot imagine there will be any passionate teens who like this kind of routine, but the fact is that lot of them are stepping forward to it. I wan't to tell people "slow down and think about your life." It's definitely not the life purpose God created you for. In Christ you must have a better choice, on which you can pour all your energy and passion on it without any regret. Of course you need to be courageous any may take the risk of failing to satisfy people's expectation. You need to take time to think aout what kind of life you truely want and plan each step to reach it. And you need to withstand all the possible frustration and persevere to the end. And you will fulfill your life purpose. If you just follow the crowd, you may satisfy the expectation of the society, but you will never satisfy the voice deep from your heart: "I am thirsty".

Editing my own blog with excitement

Wow! I can't believe that I am taking my first step to edit my own blog. So thankful that God gave me this opportunity to do something that I thought only for the younger generation. Kinda excited and hope that through this blog I will share God's love with the world.