From the Pastor’s Desk (244) The 15th House Church Seminar for Pastors is coming to an end with today’s Sunday corporate worship service. And I am experiencing various different kinds of emotions. First of all, I feel a sense of relief because I don’t need to speak anymore. I am an introvert and I don’t enjoy speaking in front of people. Now, it’s finally over! J I also feel very small and inadequate. What we are praying for and hoping to do by offering these seminars is to help local church pastors and lay leaders understand the kind of prevailing church that Jesus had in his mind when he said he will build his church. And we want to ...

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We take the Bible very seriously at New Life. If the Bible says it is, then it is. If the Bible says do it, then we do our best to do it. This is the spirit of the New Testament church. Since we teach what tithing is through Class 201 and Living Life Bible Study, I will not go in detail to deal with it. But just briefly, all throughout the Bible, tithing is used to do mainly three things. One, to express our gratitude to God. Two, to demonstrate our faith in God. And three, to protect us from worshipping and idolizing money. Therefore, tithing does all these three for me. As I write the check on every Thursday, which is 15% of my income, and bring ...

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I would like to remind you of the policy we have in regards to Christians trying or wanting to come to New Life. If they are from Houston, we are very strict with them. Unless they have a very legitimate reason such as their church dissolving or their pastor contacting and asking me to take them for a very convincing reason, we don’t welcome or receive them. We do this because we don’t want Christians to hop around from church to church never learning the importance of humbling themselves and working out the interpersonal conflicts they may have with other church members. We also want to teach Christians to stay put in one church to build up the ...

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We insert communication cards in our Sunday bulletin every week for the purpose of communication! J When New Life members and attendees drop their cards in the offering baskets, they are brought to me so that I can follow up on them. Mainly three things are communicated through the card. First one is urgent prayer needs. In addition to using yearly prayer request forms, I use prayer needs that are written in the communication cards to pray for the members each week. Second one is classes or ministries. New Life members can indicate what classes or ministries they are interested in taking or serving in through the card. And third one is message to ...

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Everyone wants to live his life for something that is deeply meaningful and significant. He wants his life to matter and count. Church is not any different. A church that senses that she is fulfilling God’s purpose for her will feel extremely satisfied and fulfilled. On the other hand, a church that feels lost and stuck will be miserable. The purpose of church’s existence is to save the lost and make them Christ’s disciples. It’s clearly spelled out in Matthew 28:18-20 which is known as The Great Commission. Every church, if she is a Bible believing church, knows this. However, not every church knows how to go about fulfilling this Great ...

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We didn’t have Fall Festival both in 2017 and 2018. Last year was the first time in history of New Life we cancelled it due to rain and this year was the second time due to the same reason. It happened two years in a row back to back. Why did it rain on both days? I don’t know. You don’t know. Only God knows. But I want us to approach Fall Festival with a renewed mindset going forward. Fall Festival, along with Crawfish Boil and Late (Game) Night with (at) New Life, is one of the few events that we do as a whole church to reach out to our VIPs. Unlike the other two events, however, Fall Festival is special in that through the event we ...

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