i will bring praise

Hey

So today I decided to not go in the usual scheduled kind of writing. With all the "this happened then this happened" and maybe try...just writing how everything was like. Or just what I feel right now. more feelings. less events?

People are asking me if i'm excited for tomorrow. And to be honest, I'm never quite sure how to answer that. During the deacon interview Freddy asked me what it meant for me to get baptized. And it was basically the same thing that Andy Stanley said in his sermon on baptism. It's a public declaration that I love Jesus and that I want to follow him. Am I excited? I guess I am. A whole bunch of my school friends are coming. And they're watching it. And it's encouraging to know that they'd all step into a church service just to see me baptized =) And i'm thankful for the opportunity to be baptized. There's so much work that's been put behind the whole service and everything that it's just a blessing to be able to have this. A lot of people...well for them baptism is just being dunked in a lake or something publicly. That's it. But at the same time, it's got the same spiritual significance. It was funny because my cousin asked me if I could become a crew leader the second I got baptized =P that's I guess a side bonus =P But then again, i don't mind being crew leader or assistant crew.

I'm thankful also for the fellowship. Last night. We had prayer meeting and as much as it was rushed, i'm still glad we had it. It's a first step. To being consistent. To having a community of believers and even non-believers to pray. There were some non-Christians at the prayer meeting in our group and it was interesting having them there and I kind of felt sad at the end of it because we didn't really have time to go deep. We simply did around the circle, then pray for the person beside you with Korean prayer. But as I said before, I thank God for the opportunity to have prayer meeting in the first place and for our first prayer meeting...it was encouraging to see so many people =)     

And it was amazing to see my cell group and it was fun to go shopping with them. I guess I was thinking alot about missing the program because it was about family and I thought it'd be really great to talk about family with our cell group but I think my real wish is just to spend more time with them and to have both shopping time and deep discussion time.  and I'm amazed and blessed to have a cell group that's so generous. Like seriously they blew my expectations out the water =P It was incredible. They just amaze me every week =) And then I got to spend time talking with C & R and it was really good because even though it wasn't specifically directed, we talked about how he was doing and it turns out...not too well. But I talked to him today and he knows that we're here for him. All the cell group leaders and Chung. And that's something I'm just so encouraged by. And we need to pray about it and just grow as a cell group. Carrying each other's burdens.

I wonder if that was any different from a normal post.
oh well =)
so tomorrow's the "big" day =)
and i guess in a sense it is big
it's like almost all my friends are converging in one place =)
that's pretty epic
ain't it?
thank you God
you are truly amazing
and greater beyond anything I can imagine. Thank you

p.requests:
- my sister's home. so FAM JAM TIME =) no more dumb games. famjam
- praying. that i keep up in prayer. I was so tired last night that i don't think my heart was in my prayer. so i prayed again this morning.
- continuing to thank God.

thanks =)
-Chris