Week 5 doom and gloom?!!

hey guys, its week 5 already, mid sems and assignments must be starting to pile up or are looming ahead right? oh no doom and gloom!!!

but wait there is something to look forward to... OCF this friday! we going to have our Bible Study 2! It's been a bit hectic these past few weeks with many activities and more, so it'll be good to have a chance to sit down and study God's word again... and of course be able to gather as a cell group and have fun again.

So this week, I'd like to take some time out to just reflect a little on obedience. Our theme for OCF Clayton this year is Truly LOUD, as true worshipers of God. In light of that, the question is what does a true worshiper of God do? Having just come from LTC on Sunday, I'm going to draw inspiration from Aunty Merrilyn, who you would remember came down last week on friday, and talk a little about David. Now I'm going to assume most of us would agree that David was a true worshiper of God, being called a man after God's own heart, so what did David do that God would call him that? It says in Acts 10v22 that David was a man after God's own heart because he would do everything that God wanted him to. In other words, David obeyed God.

So obedience is important in a true worshiper of God, but what exactly is obedience? Obedience is listening to what God wants you to do and then DOing it. The important thing to note here is that obedience isn't doing what you originally wanted to do anyway, that is called acceptance, but being obedient is about doing something even though we really really don't want to do it. The Bible says that Jesus was obedient even unto death, and he certainly didnt want to die on the cross.

Then the next question is, why should we obey? Do we obey out of fear? Fear of punishment and the consequences of our sin? You could do that, but it won't last very long, because since real obedience calls for us to do things we don't like, eventually our desire to do the things we want will outweigh our fear of retribution. Obedience therefore needs to flow from our love of God. We need to love God more than we love ourselves, because only then will we really obey Him and become true worshipers.

So for those that have A.D.D. and just skimmed that whole chunk, here's the important bit, Obedience flows from Love; LOVE---->OBEY (and you guys thought we arbitrarily chose the theme to have a clever acronym...)


Anyways once again for this week

Bible Study 2! This Friday! 7pm @ R3! 630pm prayer also @ R3!

Life.Love; The Night of performances, food and friends @ Dining Hall, Campus center level 1 on 26 Aug (just next week! have you invited your friends?)

Tuesday Prayer 1pm @ piano room 1, under Campus center.

That's all from me, hope to see you guys on Friday!

Kang Wei


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Aunty Merrilyn's Notes: The Lord's Prayer
Notes from last Friday when Aunty Merrilyn spoke. Feel free to pass it around.

NPMM – National Prayer and Missions Month
In this month of focussing on prayer and missions, let's together,
take 5 - 10 mins each week to pray for a country/OCF center as stated in the booklet (attached).

***GREETINGS FROM WINTER CAMP COMMITTEE***
*JO LYNN PUTS WIG ON* Everyone lift your hands up to heaven!! hehe.
For those feeling out of sync with God already, remember what is the first thing to do?!?!?!
RELEASE EVERYTHING TO GOD. Every single hinderance, burden and distraction. So as you follow Jo lynn in lifting up your hands, just say a prayer and release everything to God! :)