Moses Lim Banned by Channel U

Thursday, 29th January 2009

Recently, I mentioned about Jacelyn Tay (郑秀珍) being a fellow believer and reproduced her conversion story which appeared in Impact Magazine on my blog. At about the same time, Blogpastor blogged about celebrities in the Lord and I was pleasantly surprised to read about how Jack Neo (梁智强) has now also embraced Christianity.

I remember watching his earlier movies such as Money No Enough and Just Follow Law and how he and others from Raintree Productions would dedicate them by burning joss sticks and offering food to his previous gods. Now that he is a Christian, I look forward to seeing him saying a prayer and dedicating his movies to Jesus Christ :-D

I am also moved to see so many celebrities rising up to confess their faith publicly. While previously they used to be more secretive about their beliefs, increasingly they are now bolder in declaring their stand.

Besides Jacelyn Tay and Jack Neo, other MediaCorp artistes who are known to be Christians are Aileen Tan (陈丽贞), Jesseca Liu (刘芷绚), Chen Li Ping (陈莉萍), Rayson Tan (陈泰铭), and of course, Chew Chor Meng (周初明).

Speaking of Jack Neo, how many of you remember a weekly comedy series called Comedy Night starring him and Moses Lim (林益民)? Well, it just so happens that Moses Lim is also a Christian and came to speak at my church's Mandarin service on 29th June 08.

In his sharing entitled "This Life's Most Beautiful Blessing" ("这一生最美的祝福"), he talked about how he was banned by Channel U and how God vindicated him several years thereafter. I found his testimony to be simple yet effective because he speaks colloquially in a mixture of Mandarin, English and even the occasional Malay. In fact, there were about 80 persons that went forward to accept Christ as a result of hearing him.

I have been making copies of the "sermon" and distributing them to friends such as Stan, Angie, Geri and Jeff, my PLMC cell members from Goodness, Chinese-speaking colleagues, the BMW sales rep Christina that I bought the X5 from, the 2nd hand car dealer Richard that I sold the Grandis to, and Chinese-educated drivers of taxis that God divinely appoints me to take back home on those days I happen to be working late.

And now dear readers of ROOTSS, here is a Chinese New Year treat for all of you. Thanks to Box.net, you can download and listen to it and be likewise encouraged and ministered to. Feel free also to share it with your circle of pre-believing friends and believe that the seed of the Word of God that is sown in their hearts will not return back to Him void. Amen?