My GANG is My CHURCH too

its snowing outside, and i got a day off from school too. how awesome is that!!! except im kinda bored, being stuck at home, not hanging out with my gang (or crew =P). honestly, i didnt realize how important they are to me until recently. how did i go through the first half of my first semester without them? because it seems like that they are more important than anything to me and i would just want to hang out and spend all my time with them. even its just over the weekend, i would be thinking about them all the time, wondering what they are doing for fun, what jokes are they making.

i was talking to albert about how the relationship between mikey and eric will probably never changed even after they have kids. it was just hilarious that we both think that their kids will pick up the same personalities and have the same kind of relationships. thinking that we are almost half way through college life and soon we will be junior, all these just blows my mind because i know that time will just fly without noticing. but i really think that we will be life-long friends, even when we are old and having troubles walking, i think we will still make fun of each other and laugh together.

last night at kcm, we had a sermon on church, what it really is and how we should we act when we are part of the church. one of the things that the pastor emphasized is that we should commit to our church, even when flaws are appearing, we should still love our church more than anything else. and one of the saddest thing is that we tend to limit ourselves with the physical church. we forgot that the church is a group of people who believe that Jesus had died on the cross and saved us from eternal punishment, which means that technically, there is only one church and Jesus is the head of that church, and whoever trust and placed the faith in Him is part of that church. all of us who believe is a church, and we should commit to our church and love them as Christ loves us.

not only did that reminded me of my own church, but also people around me. we are all imperfect people and thats a fact. what we are called to do is to love them for who they are in the way that Jesus loves us for who we are, even when we are offended, when we are hurt, when are neglected, when we are misunderstood. its not about us, its not about how much we can get and benefit. its about how much we can give, how much we can sacrifice, how much we can pour out, how much we can love the church. im glad that i heard that sermon because i think i forgot that my church is not flawless, nor its for satisfying my needs. my church is there for me to love, for me to serve, for me to experience God's love, for me to practice God's love.