Korean church
the last several weeks I have been attending a Friday night fellowship group with one of my new-found friends, Sally, (introduced to me by Amy A., who just had a baby) she is also a TESOL teacher with Amy at Garden Grove. Sally and her fiance attend this group, so I went the last two weeks, the first week I was too tired to go.Now they are changing the format, and they will not have the Friday night fellowship group anymore, instead they will have "family groups" which I am not even sure exactly what it entails. BUT I was so glad I went the last two weeks because I learned so much.
The first week was lead by an actual M.D., one of the regular attenders of the church and a part of the leadership team there. (I was floored that an m.d. actually has time to lead a Friday night group). We were studying through Exodus, Moses' life, etc.
particularly we discussed Moses' calling: that he ended up being raised in a palace with the best education (raised as a king) that he would be able to use when he lead the Isrealites in the wilderness; he had to know war strategy, etc, and where else would he be able to learn these things. Also, that he would need a formal education to write the Pentatuch.
Last week, we continued studying Exodus, particulary the Isrealites opression from the Eygptians, and the plagues sent by God to show Pharoah to let the Isrealites go. anyway, when we were going through the situation (this study was lead by Sally's fiance--boy, does he love to talk. he was formally a six-grade teacher and I can totally tell) we were talking about idols. And Sally's fiance asked, "what do you think are some idols in the united states?"
the m.d. said, "I think Hollywood." (I think this is so true) and he explained, "It's like we (the masses) give our money to a few, and as a result we are so depressed b/c we see all that we can't have." I thought there was truth to what he was saying. It's like we tithe our money to Tom Cruise!!!!
Ester said, "I think the American dream," and she explained that people are so caught up in achieving it, that they become enslaved by their *time*. whereas when she went to a foreign country, people were hanging out in the middle of day, and she was thinking, in her task-oriented, american way, "what's wrong with them? go plant something!"
posted by the princess @ 11/01/2005 07:12:00 PM
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Its fun to hear what other people are learning in the Word and Bible studies. Thanks for sharing your thoughts...
I get really excited when I think about where God has placed us. He truly takes us places we never would have predicted, and He gives us situations to live through that will eventually lead to bigger and better things that we would never even IMAGINE would happen! Seriously! Do you think Moses ever once thought that He'd meet and speak to God? And that He'd be living with shepherds and guiding sheep? Or that he'd eventually lead hundreds of thousands of people through a sea on dry ground?
It gets me really jazzed up about what God is doing now and what He might have in store for my life. He is powerful. I just want to RUN with Him all the time. He's worth chasing after. But sometimes I think He is the one constantly pursuing me...
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