Gail: Bring the Church into their lives
受访者是教会pianist
1) 如何称呼你?
gail
2) 你几岁?
21
3) 参与教会(或团契)有多少年了?
around 5 – 6 years
4) 如果要改善青少年事工,你会给教会什么建议或看见呢?
be more people orientated instead of activity orientated. Encourage youth in the ministry to mingle with those outside, actively be part of their friend’s lives and subsequently ask them into the church.
If you can’t bring them from their lives to the church, bring the church into their lives.
and i found it applicable where i am now, well it’s hard to drag ppl to church week by week, you think it’s hard with non-christians, i have to drag my CHRISTIAN friends to church each week, and it’s hard to motivate them to go when they have studies and all. so what we can do as a small group in my hostel is believers BE the church there, and we just ask them about their spiritual conditions, hold up each other and encourage each other to go church. it’s a bit hard even trying to keep the people who are supposed to be in (christians) in, i don’t know why ppl don’t take church seriously here, the christians, and the problem is usually with guys, not girls =p
in my hostel i can identify the issues:
a.) waking up in the morning
this one is the most ’swt’ reason, but students here study/play until VERY late at night, then wake up in the morning want to sleep again
b.) heavy workload in NUS(national university of singapore)
they feel that go to church is a waste of time when they could get other things done
both these 2 reasons add up to one big reason:
they were not educated/taught to take church seriously when they are young
so when they come out for tertiary education away from home, naturally they stray away from church
furthermore they are not ATTACHED to the new churches here yet, being away from home, no sense of belonging, adds up to the lack of motivation, “i’ll go if some one i know goes with me (and that is if I’m awake), if not i wont’ go” this is the kind of mentality.




Daniel Low 6:59 pm on October 21, 2008 Permalink
bravo! 是真的,要把以前来过团契的人吸引回来团契,真的不简单!你的这个概念:
If you can’t bring them from their lives to the church, bring the church into their lives.
赞!值得去反省和发展leh
Gail 2:17 am on October 22, 2008 Permalink
Thanks Daniel.
No idea the supplementary sharing will be publicized too, but it’s alright
Daniel Low 5:13 am on October 23, 2008 Permalink
Welcome!
continue your good work n God bless!
haha i dont think which part of your sharing is supplementary, anyway i found that nothing is supplementary in your sharing