CBC Subang is moving back to a cell church structure. I am most pleased that we are united in where we want to go and in allowing God's hand to move us as a church.
On a smaller scale of things, God has been really good to my cell group. As we prayed for multiplication, we grew in numbers. I look forward to see God move us to greater heights and I am praying for wisdom and strength to ensure that everyone is cared for.
I have learnt these important truths I think we should all know:
On a smaller scale of things, God has been really good to my cell group. As we prayed for multiplication, we grew in numbers. I look forward to see God move us to greater heights and I am praying for wisdom and strength to ensure that everyone is cared for.
I have learnt these important truths I think we should all know:
- Respect and love our cell leaders. They care for us and they availed themselves to God's ministry. They are not obligated to be our leaders, but they choose to anyway.
- Encourage our cell leader. Bless them and pray for them. They are humans too. Just because they are our leader, they are not superhumans and need encouragement just like any other person.
- Be accountable to our cell leader. We need to constantly inform him/her of what we intend to do, how we feel about things, what is happening with us. This helps him/her care for us.
- Cell is about being a family. It's not about what we get from our cell family - it is about what we can give to our cell family.
- The growth of a cell group do not depend on the cell leader. If we want to grow as a family of God, we have to do it together. If a cell grows, it's the effort of all its members, not just the cell leader. The same principle applies if the cell doesn't grow.
- Growth is not measured by numbers. It is measured by how much our cell family have grown together in our relationships with God. It is measured by how our hearts are changed as we align ourselves to God's purposes.
- Rebuke anything that is negative or discouraging, because God is not negative nor discouraging. God's desire is to bless us, so anything that condemns us is not from God. If something is not from God, then there is no point dwelling in it.
My heart goes out to all of you cell leaders (including you to-be cell leaders), especially those in CBC Subang. I am so thankful to God for each one of you, old or young, experienced or not, for allowing God to use you. For sacrificing your time for God's purpose. For loving God's people and having a heart to see their needs. For caring about people tirelessly, even when it's difficult and emotionally draining to care. For having the courage to step up and lead when you are fearful. For fighting the race although its tiring.
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT)
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