World Cup: May The Best Team Wins

Quote from Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak The Star Online

“For a football team to succeed, all players in the team, irrespective of their position, need to work together and play as a team. However great the footballers are as individual players, victory can only be achieved as a team".

Praise City Church worship teams comprise of projectionists, sound personnel, singers, worship leader, keyboardists, bassists, drummers as well as support people like key holders and data entry clerk for the Yahoogroup calender. Are we working as a team? Do we uphold or let dowqn our teammembers? Answer the questions below and we'll see if you are a team player!

1. Do I know everyone's name in my team?
2. Do I remember who my two buddies are?
3. Have I called them within the last 2 weeks?
4. Have I prayer for my team and worship leader in the last 2 weeks?
   
5. Do I come for the practice with the songlist memorised?
6. Do I come on time?
   

A "no" answer is room for improvement. More than 3 "no" is baaAADD!

I'm not getting into my ol' grumpy self this time. Gotta go take a nap to be ready for the opening match.

ARMY AND WARFARE

Last weeks's sermon by Pastor Aris had an emphasis on army of the Lord. Interesting reversal of scriptures in Joel. Instead of the locust army devouring, the army of the Lord heals and restores. As per my usual self I'll leave the smart saints to debate about that passage.

I just brought this up to CATCH YOUR ATTENTION! Now that I have, let me state that being the army of the Lord has never been my fancy. By nature, I am a diplomatic kind of guy. I dislike confrontations. When I do get confronted, I have no pride and will usually disagree by agreeing. Go figure that!

However since we are talking about the "army", and some of you guys/gals are the "army type", DID YOU KNOW I ACTUALLY HAVE AN ARMY ARTICLE ADAPTED FROM SUN TZU ART OF WAR? It is a gem that strategists will savour.

So here it is. You are supposed to click on the blue underline to view the article!

My "order" as general of the Creative Ministry of Praise City Church is to use this fantastic system of information dissemination and intelligence gathering. Look at Team A when they don't use it! Only 2 worship soldiers errr.. I mean..... singers on stage last week!

Anyway, what to do? We are all not army trained mah..... Some of you guys/gals are like me..... lovers of tau fu fa (BEANCURD). The moral of the story is the tools and systems are set. Please use them. Armies who DON'T usually get massacred..... now thats the TRUTH! And that's why I am not the army type.... I dislike blood, battles, etc

article written by General Bean brother of Mr. Bean, cousin to Tau Fu Fa aka Beancurd

CHIA YEW/ADD PETROL!

The caption below is taken from The Star Online:

ACCORDING to sociologist Robert Bellah, “we should not underestimate the significance of the small group of people who have a new vision of a just and gentle world. The quality of a culture may be changed when 2% of its people have a new vision.”

The article is about fighting corruption. However the same can be said of any revival. It only takes a spark.... to get the fire going (source: SU scripture in song).

To those who have made it a point to be counted, to be early and prepared for practices/services, to have prayed for the ministry of music, I salute you. For those who made an effort to support the work of the Central Working Committee, I salute you. It may just be a handful, but to Jesus that's not a problem. After all Jesus took only 12(13) apostles to spread Christianity throughout the then known world.

I encourage you to Chia Yew, and again I say to you Chia Yew!
note: Chia Yew is translated as add gas/petrol to the fire