Amway vs God's Way

NETWORK 21 Conference at PGRM

Last weekend was an extremely long and eventful weekend. It started on Friday and Saturday night at a Network 21 (Amway) conference followed by my (Faith Christian Center) Church camp (in MBS, Rawang), which ended on Wednesday (18 May). Wow! It was definitely an extraordinary weekend as both events challenge me to commit my time and money to improve the quality of life for myself, my family and those around me! So which way is better? Amway or God’s way? I have limited time and money. So which takes priority?

First let’s examine what I have learned from the Network 21 conference! It was indeed a very interesting conference and its guest speaker was Dr Porntip from Thailand. (No! Not the same one that testified in the Teoh Beng Hock case.)

The speaker talk about having passive income and using Amway to gain financial freedom so that we and those we love can be free of the “rat race” and to be free from being a slave to our jobs!

The intention is indeed noble! Financial freedom will enable you to spend more time with your family and to help other people. She stress that this is especially important because we don’t know when we will die or when our love ones will pass away.
If I didn’t know better I thought I was in some Christian Conference! The values, theme and strategy they used are almost exactly identical with the Christian mentality.

Here are some other examples:

1. Network 21 (NW21) talks about sharing 1 (Amway) plan a day to one person.

(Wow! Can I even share the Good News to one person a day? This is better than XEE and Alpha Course put together!)

2. NW21 tells its members to share this wonderful system (which they have discovered) to their love ones so that they can help their love ones too!

(That sounds like U must share Jesus to those you love so that they can go to Heaven)

3. NW21 talks about changing your mindset and the need for your brain to unlearn and relearn things.

(The Bible in Romans talks about renewing your mind too!!)

Perhaps the most telling similarities was the quote I got from the NW21 speaker. She said that “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is the courage to change.”

When I got to my family camp I realize that my Camp Theme was “FREE!” (Freedom). Wow what a coincidence! Not only was the theme similar, but both the Church Camp and Network 21 speakers had a lot of similarities in their talks!!!

Now my camp speaker is a real special person from Vietnam! His name is Dr. Paul Ai. He was a former Buddhist monk turn witch doctor, turn Missionary! He has tattoo all over his body because he had attain the highest rank for witch doctor in Vietnam! He has got to be one of the most interesting person I have ever met! His faith in God is incredible and he comes across as a very humble person!(Check out his book! Incredible stories of faith!)

Paul I talk about financial freedom as well but the difference is the system. Network 21 is base on work. I.e. being discipline, setting goals, strategy and targets. However Paul I talks about faith in God and challenge us to ask about our “treasure’ (there our heart will be also).

The NW21 speaker showed us countless slides of her many travels around the world on holidays and Amway conference (and tells us how success in Amway can leads to these rewards). In camp Paul I too showed us many pictures of his travels around the world. Only that his travels were for mission work and Christian conferences and not for holiday! But both said that what they do does not feel like work to them! So what is my decision!?! I believe this is not a coincidence that I went for both events on the same week. I believe that God is showing me something! What is He showing me?!? I am not sure! However my decision for now is that it doesn't have to be either God's way or Amway. You can do both! In fact I hope this Amway may open doors to share the Gospel with other people! Already I have shared with my upline in Network21.

So I have join Amway/Network 21 because they do have very good products which I have been using since I was young and their system is a good one.

But this will not be my priority!

If God used NW21 to bless me and my family, then so be it! But my trust is in God (to provide all my needs). My investment in time and money goes to God first. Ever since I made the step of faith to come to KL to take the job in Methodist College Kuala Lumpur , He has provided all my needs and more! I can testify to His faithfulness, His generosity and His blessings!!!

I know if I seek first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness, all these things will be added to me. For my God will provide for all my needs according to His riches and glory! My heart only needs to belong to Him!

Thus I will commit my NW21 business to God and not worry about it!
And speaking of His goodness I have a testimony to share! On that Sunday I was suppose to leave for camp, I skip church to play futsal! (Yes I know! I can hear the gasp!! Oh the sinner that I am!)

Well serve me right! I got a very back knock on my big left toe. This is the toe that I broke before and have goult! Well it was bruisng very badly and went to camp all bandage and limping. But the next night during Dr Paul Ai talk, I went up for prayer and asked God for healing. Went I got back to my sit I decided to take a look at my toe. I was amaze! The brusing was nearly gone! Brusing like this usually takes a couple of weeks to heal! But this took less than 48hours! I showed my wife to see if I was imagining it and she was amazed too! This is the first time I have experience immidiate healing like this. Praise God! All honour and glory belong to Him who sits upon the throne!

I must thank Dr Paul Ai for teaching me how to pray with authority and believe! According to him, just read the Bible and shake your head and say Yes! God! Hahahahaha!!

Sometimes God helps us when we slack!

Two weekends ago I went to JB for a marketing trip. It was an Education Fair in JB. I originally wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone and try to visit the JB Wesley Church as well. But unfortunately I had not managed to contact the Pastors earlier.

Because it was too late I resign myself to the fact that I would not be able to visit JB Wesley.

Hah! God had other plans already.

Originally I had a couple of staff that was suppose to come down to JB with me to help me but at the last minute all my staff and helpers could not make it. I was getting worried! I can't go down alone for such a big fair!

Thank God! One of MCKL new staff call Mr Tee Shen Ren whose is an Australian National University (High Distinction) Graduates (in Physic) said he was willing and able to help me!

I was so relieve! Little did I know that it was actually God at work!

You see, Mr Tee Shen Ren has a friend in JB who is also an ANU graduate from the Overseas Christian Fellowship and they decided to meet up on the Fri night that we reach there.

This friend of Mr Tee just happen to be related to one of the JB Wesley church leader. And because of this connection, I managed to get some time during the church service to promote MCKL to JB Wesley! Not only that Mr Tee friend's family was extremely nice and hospitable to us during my JB trip, showing us all the nice place to eat.

I never knew that JB had a lot of nice food! This works well for me because I am going down to JB with my very pregnant wife is a couple of months time.

Sometimes I am amazed at how God works even when I mess up sometimes!

Lightning AttacK!

Yesterday my home was struck by lighting! It fried my TV, Fan, lights, and etc.

Was a bit upset at first. But on reflection I thank God for His protection. It could have been so much worse. Many of my other electrical appliance were not affected.

When I consider the sufferings of people in ChristChurch, Libya, Tunisia and etc. I must learn to be thankful and to praise God in all circumstances.

So this is my testimony that I thank God for His protection on my home!

Anyway I think GOd is trying to tell me not to watch too much TV!

We need more Christian Teachers!

This was taken from Malaysiakini recently!

Vasugi Supramaniam and Richard Loo Wai Hoong
Jul 23, 10

The Education Ministry has been urged to quickly resolve the ban imposed on the formation of non-Muslim religious societies in national schools once and for all.

"This is not an isolated issue. The matter is getting worse. Schools in Penang as well are facing this problem," MCA central committee member Loh Seng Kok told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.

He said the situation was made known to him by various religious society representatives who had received complaints on the matter.

The state Education Department was aware of the matter, he said, adding not only Pakatan Rakyat states were affected but also BN-ruled states.

"Why can't the matter be resolved as quickly, as was done at Klang High School?" he asked.

Loh also called for fairer treatment by including non-Muslim associations in the co-curricular activities listed in the co-curriculum management guidelines issued to schools.

"As for now, only Islamic religious societies are listed in the guidelines," he said.

He also called for a stop to conflicting interpretations and decisions that went against the co-curriculum implementation policy.

The issue was brought to light when an English tabloid earlier this month reported the closure of Klang High School's Buddhist, Hindu and Christian associations.

Content of ministry circular 'misunderstood'

Certain quarters have argued that this was a misunderstanding of the circular Bil.20/2000 issued by the Education Ministry in 2000, which said all school societies must be registered with the state education departments.

On July 13, it was reported that Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong claimed that the Klang High School administration had misinterpreted the content of the circular.

The circular stated that non-Muslim religious societies formed before the year 2000 did not have to be dissolved.

However, Loh (left) argued that all societies, regardless of the year in which they were formed, should be given fair and equal treatment.

"This issue is very serious, to the extent that some teachers have been transferred to other schools because they were active in Christian fellowship activities in their schools," said a now retired teacher who had been in the field for about 30 years.

The teacher, who did not want to be named, claimed that no reason was given for the transfers.

"In 1998, I personally received a directive from my former superior to cease all Christian fellowship activities in the school. When I asked for a reason, I wasn't given one," she added.

Also present were Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia vice-president Loh Yit Phing, Subang Jaya Buddhist Association president Chim Siew Choon, MCA Religious Affairs deputy chief Raymond Low and Christian Federation of Malaysia executive secretary Tan Kong Beng.

I appeal to Christian Parents in Malaysia!
Encourage your children to be teachers!

THE SITUATION IN MALAYSIA IS CRITICAL!!

We need MORE CHRISTIAN TEACHERS!

If you want to be a teacher visit this website!

It's not politics! It's my conviction!

I don't really want to blog about politics here, but my feelings on this issue is so strong that I cannot ignore it.

As a Christian with my roots in the Methodist Church I feel strongly that I have an obligation to highlight this issue to all my friends and family!

So what is the issue?
It was reported in Malaysia Insiders that “special grants” of RM1.75 million were given to four Methodist churches on the eve of polling day.

While some Christian may say that it is ok to take the money as long as you vote for the opposition after that. After all it is our money (from taxes) in the first place.

I strongly believe that we should set an example to show that the Methodist Church cannot be bought or accept any money that may be construe as a bribe.

Whole Malaysia is watching us!

Muslim, Hindu, Buddist and etc are all watching!

Most importantly God is watching!
I would like to have a word with our Bishop on this issue the first opportunity I get!

We must not let the good name of Methodist be tarnish by this issue!

Please take time to read a great article on this issue below!
We don’t take such money — Goh Keat Peng

While I am on this topic, I just want to shoot MCA for saying that DAP played dirty by bring up sensitive issue to the Sibu buy-election (NO! I did not misspelled buy-election)

1. Pot calling the kettle black! MCA, (using their Star newspaper) tried to scare the Chinese votes with the PAS Islamic state agenda!

2. Those "sensitive" issue are really relevant to the Christian community and ignoring this issue only makes it worst! Especially issues on Malay Bible being seized by the Home Ministry!

3. Speaking of playing dirty, I think the dirtiest player here is non-other than our very own Prime Minister! Just watch his speech below and come to a conclusion yourself on who is playing dirty!

If you can't watch You Tube, you can read the script here!

Inspiration! From God?!?

While driving this morning I was in deep thought and had this inspired message that came to me. I believe it is from God. So I want share this!

Let me start by saying that I am one of the most un-Christian like drivers I know. I have very little patience and I can get mad at people on the road.

Perhaps that is why God sent me to stay and work in KL.

Perhaps that is why I have to drive at least 1 hour every day to get to work.

Perhaps that is why I am sent to work in a traffic jam crazy place like Brickfields!

Perhaps God is trying to teach me something.

Hmmm.. Perhaps!

Malaysian are the Nicest People......

Till they get behind the wheel!

Correct?!?!

Malaysian Drivers are rude, inconsiderate, unethical, reckless and etc.

(and I am not much different also lah)

So are Malaysian Christian Drivers any better or different?!?

I have heard even Pastors and Christian confessing that they rather not put Christian Car stickers at the back of their car for fear of being a bad testimony to others!

BUT is that the right attitude to have?

Are we not effectively denying God in our driving lives?

It is like saying that "I am a Christian! But my Car is a Sinner!"

How can we then expect God to protect us in our driving and our cars when we don't even acknowledge Him while we drive?

Just like evangelising and sharing God with other.

One of the reason why we dare not share our faith with others, is because we are afraid that we ourselves are not good Christian example for our non-Christian friends.

But is that a good enough reason not to share Christian with other?

On the contrary, we need to share Christ with everyone and through the sharing of the word, we will have to force ourselves to always keep watch over our own actions!

This should be the same in our driving as well.

We should get lots and lots of Car Stickers and place it all around our Car to tell everybody around us that we are Christians!

This should force us to drive in a more polite and graceful manner because we know that others are watching us and we dare not bring shame to Jesus!

In fact I have an idea for a car sticker that says...

HONK once if I drive like Jesus!

HONK twice if I drive like the Devil!

Just think!

If this becomes a huge movement with all the Christian around Malaysia , this could become the single largest evangelistic movement in Malaysia! People will really know the Jesus makes a difference!

Then if the other religion see this good example and because they not wanting to lose out also follow suit... Soon we could change an entire generation of driving culture in Malaysia!

I have faith this will work... but I dunno where to start....probably by me changing my own driving habits. I can't do it by myself! I pray that the Holy Spirits will help me in that area!

In the mean time I am gonna do is to look for a Christian Car Stickers!

My Trip to Fraser's Hill last weekend

Went to Fraser's Hill last weekend to bring my college's student for an Alpha Course Camp.

YES! I went alone again without my wife. What to do she got work.

I do miss her but it was just 2 days 1 night camp and I got to go take pictures again. This one nice ah?!?

Can you see the butterfly?

Ms Leow (MCKL's future Director of Academic Studies), Ms Moey and I took turns conducting the Alpha Course.

The course can be quite interesting with activities in between to make it more fun and interactive for the students.

Ms Moey and Ms Leow were great in their sessions. With over 30 years of experience teaching, it was a learning experience just watching them in action!

However we still had some blur students! (Kidding!)

Then came my turn! And I was nervous! How do I match these Giants of Faith and Experience in Teaching the word of God?!? .... The Answer!

You can't match them! So don't even try! Just do your own stuff like dressing your students like a clown so that they can relate better with you!! Hahahahaha!!
But serisously this were a really great bunch of students! Some of the rededicated their lives to the Lord and to serve Him!

I got to pray for them in an alter call like session.

(Sorry no pictures for that.)
Its been a long time since I did anything even close to that.

I am happy I had a chance to serve God and to make a difference in the lives of young people.

I know I am committed in so many things and have been travelling every other weekend. So I am very thankful for a very understanding wife that support and understand what I do. Even through some people complain to her that I am always gone over the weekends, she defends what I do.

TO all the Christian guys out there!!

THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO FIND A GOD-FEARING WIFE!!!

All praise and glory and honour to God!

I CANNOT BE NEUTRAL ABOUT ISSUES OF MORALITY

This is an Article by Goh Keat Peng.

This is a challenge to all Christian to read this and act!

As a Christian, I cannot keep to my seat, or shut my mouth and stay neutral over issues of morality.
So I emerge today from my several months of silence and non-involvement to say that what transpired yesterday is immoral, unacceptable and unconscionable.

Why was a witness being held for questioning for ten hours and only released at 3.45am? What kind of case is it and what is the urgency of the case in question that the witness had to be deprived of sleep and forcibly kept awake till 3.45am?

Was the nation deemed to be in grave danger had the witness in question been sent home at a respectable time and asked to report again for questioning the next morning?

The nation could endure long years of waiting over so many other much longer pending cases involving so much more public money and have much greater weight in public interest but this particular case could not wait for the next morning when the witness in question would have been fresher and better rested?

What kind of interrogation was he subjected to on the fateful night without end? Why was it that a witness had to be isolated from his lawyer and forced to be in the sole company of officers with no other neutral person/s present?

Because he was in the sole company of officers who were interrogating him, how would his side of the story be ever told?

And how would, why should the officers in question be trusted when they tell the nation what actually transpired during that fateful night the witness lost his life? T

here were no other witness/es present so how would these officers in question clear their own involvement or clear their own names in this sad story?

Isn’t it true that a medical doctor should carry out the examination of a patient of the opposite sex in the presence of at least one other person?

This is a wise procedure so that should any allegation of wrongful conduct be raised against him or her, the doctor would have some neutral testimony to defend him or her.

There have been too many instances of contravention against natural justice in this country involving the agencies and instruments of state. There have been too many victims. The neutrality of these instruments of state is questionable.

I CANNOT REMAIN NEUTRAL ABOUT ISSUES OF MORALITY.
This is not about partisan politics. I expect my friends from both sides of the parliamentary divide to speak up. I expect to hear from all political parties and all who hold public office at all levels to speak up. I want especially to hear from Maximus Ongkili, Bernard Dompok, Lee Hwa Beng, Loh Seng Kok who publicly profess the Christian Faith to speak up.

I expect the churches and the church leadership to speak up including those I know personally such as Hwa Yung, Ng Moon Hing and many others.

Of course all of the above persons should state their own views and even fault my manner of speaking or reasoning. But silence is not an option. Leaders do not have the option of keeping their opinion to themselves. They must lend their voices to voices which have been silenced.

A young life has been lost on the very eve of his wedding. Siblings, parents, colleagues and a fiance are in inconsolable grief.

WHY SO? WHO WILL BE NEXT?

Our Church

This is Faith Christian Centre.

This is the church where our wedding will be and this is the church we are currently attending and committed to. It is an Anglican Church. I can just hear people saying now. Why are you attending a Anglican Church when you are originally from a Methodist background and Joanne is from a AOG background.

Well the reason is that we are not to particular which denomination we go to as long as..,

1. Their doctrines are sound.

2. Their leaders are spiritually, dynamic, humble and zealous in serving God.

3. The Church is really making a difference in the community.

4. Etc.

But also practicality also plays a role.

This Church is next to where Joanne work and in her line of work, this helps a lot!

Also we have a good relationship with the senior pastor there already.

(went thought marriage counselling course with him...TWICE SOME MORE!)

However to be honest I do miss the fellowship and friends in my previous churches in Trinity Methodist Penang, Ampang Gospel Centre and Rumah Methodist Nilai.

NASA & THE BIBLE

I read this yesterday when a friend of mine sent it to me via e-mail. I thought this was very amazing!

For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible, here's something that shows God's awesome creation, and that He is still in control.

Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called 'myth' in the Bible is true?

Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore , Maryland , and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development.

I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland .

They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now.. We have to know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbits.

We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down.They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong with either the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards.

They called in the service department to check it out, and they said, 'What's wrong?' Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time.

They scratched their heads and tore their hair out.. There was no answer.

Finally a Christian man on the team said, 'You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, 'Show us, '

He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense.'

There they found the Lord saying to Joshua,

'Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before Thee.'

Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy!
And if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right... 'The sun stood still and the moon stayed and lasted not to go down about a whole day!'
(Joshua 10:12-13)

The astronauts and scientists said, There is the missing day! They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes, not a
whole day.

They read the Bible, and there it was about [approximately] a day. These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still
be in trouble 1000 years from now.

Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS.

The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees ?'
Hezekiah said, 'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees.' Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes!

Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe! Isn't it amazing?

References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.

If God could do this then; how much more can he do for us today. If we only believe in his word.