Churchy Baby Hatch

Headline of China Press tonight, 'Male baby thrown from height.'

It caught my attention more than the JPA issue lately. I sent my blessings to these students who had the chance to go to IMU, Monash and many more. But I knew that their hard work were not really paid off. I am sure many know as well, there are lower ranking students who had took their plane and lower ranking brain to overseas. System betrayed itself and exposed injustice which was and is legendary.

Coming back to the R.I.P of the unknown baby with unknown parents and murderer, who can we blame?

According to the report, it is found 287 infant deaths in 6 years in our country. If they were to be alive and raised, they were the mischievous you would see in the playground, kindergarten or even ballet class now. Of course, they must be coming from the poor but they never regretted choosing the parents.

Question is, why would the parents have chosen for such a bad welcoming for the new born? Some died of being torn by the stray dog, that must be hurt, painful and unfair!

To be exact, 287 souls never know what they have done so wrongly to deserve this.

Question again, should we blame, point finger or think of the best solution?

The press reported that 'Orphan Care' had came out with 'Baby Hatch' to protect these babies. Fyi, 'Baby Hatch' is a container with air-conditioner installed and placed outside the orphanage. There is sensor and CCTV inside the container to inform the person-in-charged if a new baby is abandoned. Forms are provided to fill in the date and time of birth and some other details. To ensure that no exposure of identity, CCTV will not be installed around the 'Baby Hatch'.

Thus, parents can give away babies securely on the 'Baby Hatch' instead of throwing them around like trash.

This is the best resolution so far. But for sure, this never uprooted the main problem.

Just like in preventing AIDs and more abandoned babies, we knew that sex education helps no more but to give freely away condoms with the mindset that this is the least we can do.

If this is the least we can do, we can do more.

If people raise their hands and say, 'No use, these kids wouldn't listen. They would feel that sex education is stupid!'

Yea, I agree. Even I feel awkward and stupid when a teacher gets up on stage and talks about sex as we are standing for school assembly. Boy classmates would start to tease each other around and make fun of the girls sometimes. The whole thing is too awkward that we forget the important warning behind the education and still step in the trap in future.

One reason I could provide for sex education not working out (in fact a plenty I could state) is you are feeding the kids two way!

In school, you told them 'We must be careful. We must protect ourselves. It is holy and we must only to do it after marriage.'

But at home, at cinema, in fact everywhere, TV, Hollywood movies, rap songs are telling them, 'Come on, see my boobs and strip my clothes cuz this is awesome!'

Some parents even own adult video collection at home and wait for their teenagers to find out themselves.

The 'RSS Feed' for the negative thing is more than for positive thing. So what do you say? An awkward talking of sex at school or a porn video on internet is more convincing?

Then you ask, 'What can we do? We can't stop the actors and actresses in One Tree Hill, Grey Anatomy and Desperate Housewives from having sex! We can't stop either the Showdown 2011 from dancing for a dirty song. We can't stop Justin Bieber from singing 'Never Say Never'!

It's like a fever out there for people to sleep around. The more you scold your child, the more they get rebellious!

So, if I ask in return, 'WHY?'

A father will say, 'Because they will say, 'You don't get me!'

Yes!!! The point surfaced!

The best quote of the teenager, 'You don't get me!' Sometimes, the world doesn't get him/her either.

But listen here, friends,

God gets the kids. Amen?

God loves these kids. Amen?

The best solution is God! Amen?

'Oh no!!!' you would say. 'I had been preaching so much, sending away so many flyers but no one even appreciate it!'

'I know, I know! Only God can save them. But kids like Justin more than Jesus. They even say, 'DON'T TALK JESUS TO ME!''

Now this is only the main body of my post today. The rest are just an introduction to bring you here.

Imagine a troubled person came into a church and he sees everyone wearing checkered shirt and slack pants, acting in a holy manner, looking at him with a pairs of despising eyes, then the Pastor got on stage, pointed to a troubled teen girl and said, 'Why are you not hooding?!!' People turn and look at the girl being accused and then whispered.

The first thing that came to these troubled teenagers' mind, 'I want to go home! God is just too far away! I will never be loved by God!'

It seemed as if the fish that just came to the net were not even liked by the fishermen.

And the Pastor looks just like the Pharisee who asked the disciples why aren't they washing hands before eating.

I just want to say, God is not just a God behind the platform, the piano and old hymns.

He can be a God who rap, hip hop but the most important is that our God is a God who wants no soul in hell and every soul in Heaven. Amen!

If you are so religion-oriented that you chase away all the sheeps of our Shepherd, you got to prepare yourself for the Judgment Day. See Matthew 18:6-7.

The LORD came to search for the sinners and not for righteous.

And I'm hundred percent sure everyone is sinner even the pastor. Now that we are saved, it doesn't mean we can just go out and judge those who are in sins. It is as if we are the prisoners who had been set free, but never helped other prisoners, instead we laughed at them outside the prison. How wicked are we?

This is why the command of the LORD is to do not judge and make disciples of nations. He wants us to go out and help other, tell them about God.

But if you are trying to tell people about God and yet judging them, what good is it?

'They are just a bunch of holy people.' (God doesn't want people to look at Christian like this.)

We often mistaken that judging is a 'word' for brothers and sisters in Christ. Indeed, if a brother has sinned so obviously and seriously until he ruined the gospel, I tell you, I can even scold and slap him in anger for doing such things in knowing the Truth. (I was a bit exaggerating.)Judging is a 'word' for the non-believer, to be more precise.

To be honest to our own self, how many of us have been judging non-believers, despising their practices and their sharing? But by judging, it does not save them, it does not tell the kids not to have sex.

Instead, if you dressed like a modern people, discussed music with them, invited them to church, hugged them and said 'I love you', these kids actually felt what true love is(after being hugged, recognized and befriended), they learn to surrender.

Obedience comes with surrender, not rules, canning or accusing.

You have to be confidently tell them, 'Hey, I get you!'

If you squeezed yourself in a church building, learning all those churchy language and churchy manner, that wouldn't help!

So, sometimes, there's nothing wrong having disco lights in a praise and worship.

To be honest, churches should be growing together or judging each others?

To be honest, hip hop is only for the world or hip hop can be taken over by Christians?

And most importantly, I came to this point that opposed all my other points......

People are starting to recognize church as 'fun, open-minded, loving, cool, awesome, western thinking' instead of knowing the love of Jesus Christ on cross.

They came for concert, they yelled, they came back to church again for other games but they just didn't believe in the salvation.

How can we really tell them about God?

This is what I learn from a preacher, Ewen Chow, one of the in-charged for 'ASIA FOR JESUS' and the leader of the Joshua Band.

We have to get these people to think, 'Wow, how could they do that?'

'How could they be so selfless in helping people?'

'How could they love us, I am such a sinner?'

'How could they be so successful even tough I work as harder as them?'

'How could they be so excellence?'

EXCELLENCE! Just like Daniel 1:3-4.

Then what you answered, 'No la, it's nothing......'

I will punch you then.

You would say, 'It is all because of God. God has changed my life.'

Christians shouldn't just be good at catching opportunities in studies and career, but good at catching souls for our God by bringing glory to His name. Amen!

Or else, concert is just a concert. Mission trip is just a mission trip. Speak in tongue is just speak in tongue(in terms of being a sign to non-believer).