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MYF Alpha Session 1 on 5 March 2006

Like what the brochure already said, we watched the video Christianity: Boring, Untrue & Irrelevant? by Nicky Gumble. It was hilarious but unfortunately, it is very hard to randomly pick a few funny jokes and post them up here, if you get what I mean.

Oh wait, there’s one.
Nicky Gumble was sharing about this lady whose English wasn’t really that good.
Then there was this one time, she was pretty “pumped up” over something and wanted to ask,
“What on earth are you doing?!”
But instead, she asked,
"What are you doing on Earth?!”
So she had indirectly changed the whole phrase into a very good question.

What are you doing on Earth?

Christianity: Boring?
Not really. Think again, which religion in the world is persecuted most?
Being Christians, we tend to have many, or more challenges in life;
- From God: He tests our faith and through trial itself, He matures us.

- From the Devil: Undoubtedly, this fella will ever try failing us so we might lose our faith in God. Stupidly enough, he even tried challenging Jesus. Nice try. But c’mon Mr. Devil, get a life!

- From people around us: you might not experience it yet. But people do give you this “weird” look sometimes when they find that you’re “on fire” for God. They think we are the “Holy maniacs”. Seriously.

- From ourselves. Oh yes, we do struggle a lot in this area. In fact, this is one of the biggest challenge we face everyday.
Say, telling a white lie to get yourself away from troubles.
One part of you says “NO” because God says we cannot lie.
The other part of you says “WHY NOT?” It won’t kill anybody telling a small white lie once in a while, would it?
Now, which of these would you possibly choose to follow, honestly?

- Boring? Our youth group has got lots of crazy, funny and silly games going around throughout the year, haven’t we? We have outings to places then we starting messing up the place. They were fun, weren’t they? Our retreats to various places around Malaysia had been great, hadn’t they?

- Many, many stories in the bible actually left us taken aback and amazed when we read them, didn’t they?

I don’t, not even for a second, think Christianity is boring. In fact, it’s EXCITING in any ways.

Conclusion: Christianity is not boring – it is about living life to the fullest.

Christianity: untrue?
This is a part where only you can tell yourself and only God can show you. Try Him. You can never imagine what He can do. Even at the very moment you feel that He is most absent, He is actually there right next to you but you just can never tell.

Conclusion: Christianity – it is the truth.

Christianity: irrelevant?
Without God, life is like a broken pencil… pointless!
Won't you agree?

You say: I’m young and this is the start of the 21st Century! What on earth does Christianity have to offer me?

Primary source:
’I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.’
Jesus of Nazareth, John 10:10 (The Message)

Conclusion: Christianity is not irrelevant – it transforms the whole of our lives.

The video was really good except for the heavy english accent- it's from the UK. What do you expect? So it might need a little more of your concentration than usual to catch what he's trying to say. We speak Manglish ke mah!

Then we had the PIZZA lunch. They weren't exactly fantastic pizzas from 5 stars restaurants or something. But they are ok-edible and good pizzas. We really did have a LOT of fun, especially the washing up part.
Surprising huh?
The MYFERS having great time during wash-up?

Yes, we definitely did!

Check out pictures on our Multiply!

posted by Vern @ 2:26 PM