God is love, holiness, and I met the family

I went to the church, Meadowridge Community Baptist Church, yesterday. We were supposed to meet my wife's classmate, Brook. He is very tall!

During the preach time, the pastor emphasized this sentences: To be holy is to be set apart for His purpose, A winning church represents who God is to everyone.

Church is the body of Christ(Ephesians 1:23), and also, the Apostle Paul explains that believers are the body of Christ and each one of them is a part of it.(1Corinthians 12:27)

If winning church represents who God is to everyone, believers must represent Who God is to people. That's because they are one body of Christ, and their one head is Christ.(Ephesians 1:22)

Brook and Kate represent who God is to us. They are willing to share their life in Christ even though we are strangers in here. I know it is not easy to share even between american people. He does not think we are brother in Christ, he lives and practices with that thought by the Holy Spirit.

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone wholoves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:7-11)"

Who is Christian teacher?
They should represent Who God is to their students and their parents. God is love. Christian teachers should love their students since God love them. If teachers were Christians, they should love their sheep by giving them lives they have like God loved us by giving us His only Son.

Who is a preacher, Who is a teacher?

Who is a real paster? Who is a teacher in earth?

Paul explans his hardships, but he shows the precious value beyond thes hardships in 2 Corinthians 6.

He describes the quality of God's fellow workers in there.

"We put no strumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in everyway: in great endurance; in troubles, hardshps and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understading, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; " (2 Corinthians 6:3-8)

For their ministry, they were faithful to the character of God such as purity, patience, and kindness under serious troubles.

The Apostle Paul continues to disclose the secret of Christians, God's fellow workers.
"genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and you welive on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejocing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing everything" (2 Corinthians 6:8-10)

The explanation of Paul is for Christian teachers.
We are servants of God and His fellow workers who should build these godly character in Christ.
Even though we are poor, we are rich since we make many studnets' lives rich in Christ.


God always says this to His fellow workers, teachers;
"I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people"(2 Corinthians 6:16)

God is the Father of all Christian teachers.

Compliment from human and Commendation from God

Who do you want to receive a great compliment from? Human or God.
Nowadays, my family is looking for a great soccer team for my son, emailing coaches, and joining practices.
After some practices with the teams that we contacted, the coaches complimented my son on his soccer skill and ability. I got the emails from the teams:

It was very nice meeting you last night.  Your son showed great performance in practice. I would like to offer him full scholarship at the Texans for this winter and the coming Spring. I know you are looking for a great team for him and I assure you that the Texans is the biggest club in the area and my team will be one of the best teams in town.
Right now as you saw last night I am giving some players a chance to make the team. The plan for this team from the Texans management is to be one of the top teams in the country. So during the coming period the Texans management will be shifting some of the top quality players to this team.
Offering full scholarship is something very rare to happen especially as this age. I assure you you wont get similar offer anywhere else especially from a big club like the Texans. However since I played 12 years of  professional soccer and for my national team(Egypt)  I can see top quality in your son and be willing to make this offer work for him.
Please let me know your feedback as soon as possible so we can start get his paperwork done.

When I got this email, I was so happy and proud of my son.

In addition, today I got this email.
Hi Byung Hun,
We're very happy that you came to some practices. The coach and I talked and would like to offer your son a full scholarship for the spring season. No fees for training, leagues or tournaments. We think that your son fills a critical need on our team and would play a big role in our continued success. I think we could try to offer some suggestions for alternate driving routes also to make your drive easier.
We understand and respect your decisions to do what is best for your family. So even if you choose to not play with us we would still like to invite you to play some tournaments with us. The first is on February 3-5.
Please consider these offers. It was a pleasure to meet you and your family, and may God bless your family also.

Even though we decided to not join the team due to some reasons, I was so happy when I got this news.
Actually, we visited the best team in this area, and we decided to join this team. The team is the best team I've seen. There are great players who have good skills. While I was watching their practice, I was concerning that the coach likes my son's ability and wants my son to join his team. After finishing the practice, he said my son fits this team and he is a good player. When I heard the compliment from the coach, I was so happy. The fact that my son can join to the great team gives me so pleasure.

We are new creation.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!(2 Cor. 5:17)

What we need is to hear commendation from God.

So we make it our goal to please him(2 Cor. 5:9)

I pray for my son to have a great compliment form God by serving and obeying Him like he got commendation from his coaches.

Free stuff and free Gospel

I just moved into Fort Worth from Virginia. While I am looking for free stuffs through the craigslist, I realize we need free gospel from God like we really want to get free stuffs. How great God is! He gave us fantastic free gospel. That's from His love, mercy, and passion for us.
I have no chairs and no furniture, but I have the gift, Jesus Christ from God. That was free by God's grace. I pray for the people who are looking for free stuffs are eagar to recive the gospel, Jesus Christ.

"The righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and all short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:22-24).

Also, I pray for the opportunity to pass the gospel to North Korean freely. They need free gospel like they need free stuffs such as food.

In addition, another thing that I realize while I am looking for free stuffs is about their warm hearts that the people who share their good stuffs have. Their stuffs is free but their heart is very precious and beautiful.