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Friday, 1 February 2008

Alfred speaks: "The Parable of the Two sons. (Matthew 21 : 28 - 31)

Alfred is our very cheerful, zealous and fired up brother. He loves children and is always inspiring others with his soft heart towards the word of God.

Hi Campus,
The Parable of the Two Sons

MT 21:28 "What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, `Son, go and work today in the vineyard.'

MT 21:29 " `I will not,' he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

MT 21:30 "Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, `I will, sir,' but he did not go.

MT 21:31 "Which of the two did what his father wanted?"
"The first," they answered.


1) God desire a repentant heart.

In this passage, Jesus wants us to imitate the repentant heart of the first son. In the past when I did my QT on this passage, I misinterpreted it wrongly. I read it and thought that if I don’t fulfilled the promises that I ought to do, God will displease me. I felt very down when I missed my QT or fall into sin and I thought that I was like the second son who was not able to keep promises. However, after reading this passage again, I realize that Jesus didn’t say that he disliked the second son. Rather, he said that God desire the repentant heart of the first son. In the passage, God is not focusing on the unfulfilling promises, but rather focusing on the repentant heart.

2) What I need to repent on?

I will like to thank brothers and sisters in for all of your inputs. They have helped me to be a better brother, a better leader and a better son for my family. I am happy that I am now 7 years as a disciple. Without the Campus brothers and sisters helped, I won’t be able to grow much in my leadership, maturity and sensitivity. I am grateful to be in Campus. However, definitely there are many areas that I can grow in. They are…

3) Discipline with my time

In this semester, God has blessed me with a good timetable. I have many breaks in between lessons and I actually have lots of time to do the things that I always wanted to do. When I looked backed for the past few weeks, I can’t remember what I did with my time. I realized that I am far from the goals that I have set myself. I have goals like spending more time studying bible with people and spending more time reading Christianity books to build my knowledge of the bible and also prepare myself for biathlon. I pray that I can be more discipline with my time and to archive the goals that I have set myself.

4) Be a man of Courage

I pray that I can be bold in my area of evangelism and constantly share my faith in NTU.

Love you deeply,
Alfred

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