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Shepherds’ Qualifications
God’s work can’t be done by one individual. It must be done together as a team called church. In any church, there are leaders and followers who are established and given by God to serve one another to fulfill God’s kingdom work. Leaders serve followers by leading them and followers serve leaders by following them. This is how leaders and followers are to serve one another. If leaders don’t lead and followers don’t follow, God’s work will not get done.
Who, then, are the leaders? A leader is someone who influences others to pursue after the ultimate good. And God is our ultimate good, the ultimate treasure. Therefore, a leader is ...
From the Mag Team Leader’s Desk Nathan Kim
Dear NLF,
Psalm 150:6 proclaims, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!”
I have had the upmost honor and privilege of living out this Scripture by serving on the praise team for the past five years. And I have served, for the past four years, as the Magnification team leader alongside great men of faith, humility, integrity, character, and love for NLF. It truly has been a tremendous blessing in my life as I’ve served alongside dedicated and faithful servant-leaders on the Magnification team. Everyone serving on the team treasures the opportunity we have to lead our fellow NLF brothers and sisters into a time of ...
Pastor Jaemo Will Be Moving On
From the Pastor’s Desk (135)
I have three older sisters and one younger brother. In the culture that I grew up, it is customary for the first son to take the major responsibility of taking care of the aging parents. Knowing this, I had approached my parents several times in the past asking them to come down to Houston to live near us. But, each time they responded to me by saying, “You are in full-time ministry, and we don’t know when God will lead you to another place. And when that happens, we will need to uproot ourselves and move again. We would rather stay where we are with the people and surroundings that ...
Church Discipline on Chris Mystery
From the Pastor’s Desk (134)
Apostle Paul makes a very shocking comment about the members of the Corinthian Church.
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6: 9-11)
God’s church is not for perfect got-it...
An Anonymous Communication Card
In the past two Sundays someone turned in his/her communication card anonymously with the same message to the staff. The content of the person’s message was about his/her description of what he/she thinks he/she is hearing from Sunday messages and his/her desire to hear different kinds of messages.
When I received the card the first time, I was a bit puzzled and wondered who the person might be. However, when I received the card for the second time in a row, I began to worry about the person’s state of mind and his/her spiritual condition. First of all, when we write things anonymously that are not positive or uplifting to others, it shows ...
Going Through Proper Channels
Our God is a God of order not disorder. Everything He has created is orderly and structured. We see this in nature. After a long dreary winter we can count on a warm spring coming because God made it that way. When the night is over the sun will rise and the morning will come because God designed it that way. Our God brings order out of chaos.
We also see this in our personal life. Before we received Jesus into our lives as our Master and King and became His followers, our life was a mess. We didn’t know what to live for. We didn’t have healthy relationships. We didn’t know how to use our time and money properly. We did whatever we ...
Missionary Matching Fund
A typical church generally has about 5-10% of its members who are committed to world missions. They are the ones who pray regularly for missionaries and recruit others to get involved in missions work. Unfortunately they are also often seen as an “elite” group, more “mature and concerned about the Great Commission,” and the rest of the congregation as not quite living out their call and obeying Christ’s last command.
Happily, this is not the case with us. At the present moment, New Life is made up of 35 house churches and all of them, except one that has just recently multiplied, are named after a mission field and are supporting a ...