Now at Weizhu's place, watching Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. Stayed over at his place since last night, right after coming back to Singapore from church camp.

=) Haha thanks dearest bro for suggesting the idea of coming over to ur place to watch movie.

Anyway, church camp was much better than the past few years. Because the presence of God was so strong on the first night. Something that we realised is that we can have the perfect location, the perfect worship, the perfect programme and activities... but if we don't have hearts that seek God, then... we're missing out on the key thing about the entire church camp.

I remember my student church camps. Oddly enough, we were poorer, not to mention the not so luxurious facilities. But a lot of sweet memories. And also I remember back in 2001 or 2002. When I was still in the Adults ministry before, we had this church camp in Winsfield School of Residence. Super-hot, and we were all stuffed into a white tent with rather inadequate air-con. LOL.

But the sense of fellowship, the praise and worship, the call to missions and the exhortation...

Comparing now with the hotels, the luxurious shopping trips and so on... Jeannie shared that one of the team leaders shared that perhaps our church camps have now too many distractions around.

Was talking about something similar with Weizhu, while we were having our quiet times this morning. And one quote that struck me: "In the quest to build credibility, sometimes we forget the reason for credibility."

Putting all these together, perhaps we need to be reminded again about the importance of going back to our roots regularly. To recall and refresh the reason for our church's purpose: "To fulfill the Great Commission in our lifetime by building strong and biblical people to plant strong and biblical churches in Singapore and all over the world."

Like what Huaqiang shared with the CG. How many of us, if you were to cut us now, would bleed the Great Commission?