Heres some photos:
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| Nicely set table! |
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| Serving food! |
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| Left to right: Our delicious looking dishes (Veggy with salted and century egg, Curry Chicken,Tofu with prawn) |
~Porlin
(edited by Pr Gideon)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Fun Fun Fun FIRST.. then work..
Second day of work... We went to Auntie Shao Zhen (cooking mama)'s house... She brought us to the Shunfu Market to buy the ingredients for the dishes we were going to cook that afternoon.. It was a surprise to us when she knew every single stall uncles and aunties... We learnt many things about meat (Bu Jian Tian! haha) and vegetables... After that we went back to her house and learnt how to cook Curry Chicken, Tofu with prawn and Vegetable with salted and century egg... She taught us how to cook dishes easily by "cheating" (using those pre-made packets).. I am sure we are now able to cook some dishes! Hoped that the food was delicious for the Chuan Daos and Mu Shis... The pilot interns worked together for the very FIRST time, washing the many dishes and drying them.. We had fun while doing those chores and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly at her house.. Beacon (Sausage, Ham, Turkey.. haha) we will miss you! Finally! Its time for our chalet.. Sadly Rachel couldn't join us but im sure she had fun at her prom... We took a taxi to the chalet and got a shock of our life! Wow! The bungalow was FANCY and HUGE! First thing! Arcade! Haha.. it was fun but too little games to play.. Next up.. The guys decided to go bowling while the girls become the cheering squad.. We had dinner at the bowling alley before returning to the bungalow for bible study led by Ji Dian Chuan Dao... We learnt the important concept of ALREADY BUT NOT YET.. In Christ, we are already justified (no longer legally guilty) and continually sanctified (no longer corrupted) BUT not yet proclaimed to be justified and sanctified... Faith is both a VERB and NOUN.. We have faith by believing in Him and it should be followed by actions to show our faith... We ended with the sharing of how we can improve in this area and prayers.. Yay! We get to play a board game, Settlers of Catan... I WON!! haha.. it was fun.. I know all of us will never forget Timothy's words "Think carefully first" to Li Ting.. The bargaining part is really really fun.. haha.. Time to sleep and prepare for the next day of work!
Heres some photos:
Two-fold problem of Sin and the solution in our Union w Christ
~Porlin
(edited by Pr Gideon)
Heres some photos:
~Porlin
(edited by Pr Gideon)
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hahaha hello you guys, great to see you're enjoying your internship! It looks so fun I thought it was a chalet at first :P
ReplyDeleteI don't quite get the idea of us "not yet proclaimed to be justified and sanctified", perhaps you could post a little more? (: If my understanding of sanctification is 'to be separated from sin', and the bible says that "if anyone is in Him (Christ), he is a new creation", then I would go as far to say that Christians who follow Christ can, and if I may assert so, must, proclaim to be justified and sanctified by their faith in Christ.
A couple of questions that you might want to think about: what is God's idea of 'good work' that comes from faith that the scriptures tell us?
Haha anyway Gideon if you're reading this, wouldn't "already but not yet" be more appropriate to bring in as the eschatological framework for kingdom theology? was hoping to read something on that when i saw that term pop up haha! And oh get well soon!
-- daniel
Hi Daniel,
ReplyDeleteJustification and Sanctification are both aspects of Kingdom theology, which is inseparable with doctrines that are related to our faith and soteriology (Theology of salvation) since they are eschatologically driven. That's why our justification and sanctification are both present and promised future events. In other words, there's no contradiction between your assertion of our preset reality of being justified and sanctified in Christ and Porlin's post because I am putting these 2 doctrines into the bigger eschatological framework. =)
In reagards to your question on explaining it a bit more, I will assign it to my interns. Porlin, would you mind explaining more of this with help from the other interns? Thanks!
Hey Daniel,
ReplyDeleteWith regards to the "not yet" part... We are already justified and sanctified like the verse you quoted but to add on, we have not yet been judged by God since Christ has not yet come for the second time so we are not proclaimed to be justified. Quoting D.M. Lloyd-Jones, “We have only been made righteous in the sense that God regards us as righteous, and pronounces us to be righteous”. This means that on one hand, we are already considered as righteous (justified) in Christ, on the other hand, we have not been given the temporal “chop” that we are justified in the Judgement.
Sanctification is mentioned in the bible in two different ways. Firstly, sanctification is something that has taken place when God set us apart for service to Him. This sanctification is ours because we are saved, because we are in Christ (1 Corinthians 1:2). Secondly, the Bible refers to sanctification as a process that involves a moral and spiritual change in us once we are saved. No one attains to complete sanctification in this life (1 John 1:8), hence the “not yet”. The Scriptures tell us that the saints in heaven are completely free from the power of sin (Hebrews 12:23; Revelation 14:5). This means our sanctification is completed either at or immediately after death. As The Shorter Catechism Q37 states ‘The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into their glory…” In other words, we start the process of sanctification the moment we believe.
~ Porlin, Timothy
(edited by Pr. Gideon)