Fishers of Men

Monday, 21st January 2008

Hooked to my HTC TyTN II PDA phone are several "phone accessories".

One of them is an emblem of Aston Villa connected to a soccer ball. This was a gift from my son, and of all places, he bought this from his school bookshop! Seems like they only had Barcelona and Aston Villa left, so this particular one was destined to be given to me :-)

Another one is a fish with the Greek word "ichthus" on it. This is an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter, meaning "Jesus Christ, God's Son and Saviour".

I just added another a third one yesterday. This one is also shaped like a fish but it has two red strokes inside, shaped like a letter "V".

These two red strokes are actually derived and extracted from our church's logo, as shown on the right.

Yesterday during the service, our Senior Pastor launched a church-wide "blessing campaign" initiative, that is targeted to reach 10,000 persons. That works out to about 10 persons per member.

The phone accessory is actually attached to a yellow card, like the one shown below.

We are supposed to approach 10 persons in our oikos, give them the accessory, ask then ask them whether we can bless them in areas as indicated on the card, such as health, protection, inner peace, family harmony, financial freedom, progress in career/business prosperity, progress in studies, etc.

If they want "eternal life", we are to lead them in the sinner's prayer as printed at the back of the card.

There is a perforated section that should be torn off and dropped into the box located at the Contact Point. In this section, we are to write our own name, our cell leader's name and the person that we prayed a blessing over.

Through this blessing campaign, we are effectively being "fishers of men" as how Jesus describes it in Matt 4:19.

The phone accessory is meant to be given out to others, but I decided to keep one for myself as a constant reminder to be a fisher of men :-)