Heart to Heart 心连心

Sunday, 8th July 2007

If the title of today's post looks familiar, it is because it is the theme given to our church's 75th anniversary celebrations.

To start it off, we had a combined Sunday service this morning, where more than 2,500 worshippers gathered together at 3 separate locations within the church premises to commemorate this momentous and joyous occasion.

The 3 locations (namely the Sanctuary, the Fellowship Hall and the Chapel) were linked up (thanks to modern technology), the latter two serving as "overflow rooms".

We had the privilege of having our TRAC President (and immediate past PIC) Rev Wee Boon Hup to be our Guest-of-Honour, and he delivered a truly inspiring and anointed message entitled Continuous based on Eph 5:15-21.

In his sermon, Rev Wee told us that the just like a mobile phone that needs to be switched on so that it can received signals that are always in the air, we also likewise need to be "switched on" so that we are in a receiving mode to be filled by God's Spirit.


When he talked about a mobile phone that had to be switched on, the LORD brought to mind tshirts that I had bought from FunkyB for my wife, daughter and myself entitled "Connected". It shows a series of bars indicating the strength of the signals like what is seen on a mobile phone, but the tallest bar has been replaced with a cross.

But I am digressing here... :-)

Anyway, in order to be "switched on", there are 4 things that we need to do contemporaneously (ie. at the same time)
1. fellowship (speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs);
2. worship (singing and making melody with your heart with your heart to the Lord);
3. gratitude (always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord);
4. submission (be subject to one another in the fear of Christ).

What was an eye-opener to me was his pronouncement that revival has to start with oneself, so we should not go around looking for it.

We also saw a video of how our church had progressed from a congregation of less than 50 in the 1930s to a congregation of almost 2,500 as it stands today.

Here's to PLMC's next 75 years!