Community Evaluated | Pr Dr Kenneth Chin

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Community evaluated. Community evaluated. And when I.

Saw that, I said to myself that this is really

apt for Acts Church Conference, especially because Acts Church Conference

speaks about missions.

Or the heart of God.

For the lost, the heart of God, for people who

don't go to church, don't know about Christ, don't know

about the love of God. Community Evaluated speaks into that.

And so I thought I'm going to save a lot

of speakers the need to prepare on the message of

Community Evaluated. And I can see Elder Peng Ho blowing

me kisses, saying thank you, thank you, thank you. Now,

I'm not sure because Elder Peng Ho is also a

very good preacher. So he may already have prepared for

Community Evaluated. Those of you who don't think I do

a good job today, just carry on.

Next week, okay?

Because it's not always that I get it right. But

here we go. Community Evaluated. Thank you XTV again for

helping me with the slides. We're going to speak on

this final day of X Church Conference. X Church Conference

used to be called our missions conference and missions just

means remember those outside of your comfort zone, outside of

your skin colour, outside of your tradition, outside of your

language and outside of.

Your influence, okay.

So let's begin to look at the Scripture from Acts

Acts 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2.

By now, those of you who are following the 12

plus 1 values, We'll.

Know that we extracted these 12 plus 1, 13 values

from mainly.

Acts chapter 2.

Acts 2 · chapter mention

So all our values, the values of Acts Church comes

straight from the Bible.

Somebody say Amen. We want that.

We want to be a word faithful church. A church

that's faithful to the Word. We don't just want man's opinions.

We don't just want what's the latest trend.

On the earth.

We want God's Word where the Bible itself says that

heaven and earth will pass away. But my Word will

by no means pass away. God's Word will never grow old.

Somebody say Amen. It will always be fresh and it

will always be relevant. I answered quite a few questions

at my workshop yesterday. I had two workshops. And people

were asking about forgiveness. People were asking about sin. People

were asking about, you know, how to keep themselves pure.

There was even a question about adultery. And this question

was very honest where this person said, I have committed

adultery and I'm being tempted again to do it again. Pastor,

please help. Get me out of this. And you know,

there is a scripture in Psalm 119 verse 11 that.

Psalms 119:11

Says, Your word... I've hidden in my heart that I

might not sin against you.

It is the Word of God that is very, very

powerful and I'm so glad to be able to lead

you into Acts chapter 2, verse 46 to 47, where

Acts 2:46–47

we extract what community evaluated means.

So let's read the Word of God.

So continuing daily with one accord in the temple and

breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food

with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God. and having

favour with all the people. And the Lord added to

the church daily those who were being saved. My next

slide says this. What we want to be as a

church is this. To have favour with all people. You know,

just very quickly, Side note, even meeting in this place,

you know, some people ask us why don't we have

our own building and all that.

You know, other people have their own buildings, beautiful, great,

you know, can do so many more things.

But because of us having to go from one building

to another building, we get to know a lot of

people outside our church. Yesterday, we were working with Calvary Church.

And the pastor is so nice there. He keeps coming

to visit us during our conference just to say hi.

Pastor Stephen Kam is a good friend.

And to say that I have a good friend in

Calvary Church, that is Assemblies of God, is quite unheard

of in.

This day and age.

That an independent church like us would have a good

friend in Assemblies of God.

And why? Because we need to rent their space.

And so in coming out of our comfort zone, we

have to shake other people's hands. And then we get

to know people here in Kwan Ching. Is that the

proper pronunciation? And these people, quite a few of them

are not in the same faith. But they're smiling and

we're shaking hands. And they're getting to know who we are.

When we were doing the Victory Academy production, we were

at where?

Chee Woon, USJ1.

And the lady that took care of Victory Academy's production,

I'm not sure if she's a believer. But she said

to us, you guys are so different. That's what she

told Pastor Sarah. And Pastor Sarah told me, She says,

I meet with a lot of people because Chee Wen

Hall now is very popular with all kinds of people

and also churches. And she said with her own mouth,

I have not seen anyone like you. Because, you know,

we are the salt of the earth and the light

of the world. So can you imagine if we only

had our own building and we never met anyone outside

of that building? Just think about that for a while.

We want to have favour with all people. When we

go to restaurants, I've taught you before, don't treat the

waiter as a waiter. You know, just the other day,

I went to a restaurant and somebody turned around to me.

I think it was Edward.

Edward said, Pastor, everywhere I go with you, to any restaurant,

the waiters seem to treat you like they know you

a long time. It's only because when you treat them

with respect, they're reciprocate. And they smile and they laugh.

And I, especially when you go to restaurants and most

of them are from Myanmar, right?

And then you go, you know, you speak in their language.

And then they look at me and go like, you know,

you know, you always shock them, you know, for the

first 30 seconds. And then when they do something for me,

you know, which is thank you. And then I learn

another word, means I'm hungry. And means I'm full. And

you try to learn other people's language. is what community

evaluated is part of. You care for them and they

show care for you. And it begins to get easier

when you want to invite them to church and to

tell them about Christ.

Now, you say, Pastor, is that all?

Because if it's just having favour with people, I'm a

very friendly man.

I go everywhere.

You know, even non-Christians can have favour with all people.

Is that it? is that full stop, period.

Because if that's it, then I think I should just

stand up and walk out because.

I'm already living it.

I already have a lot of favour with everyone and

sometimes favour can even be bought with money.

You know?

So what is the real goal of having favour with

all people?

Well, it's found in the same verse. And the next

slide will tell you.

It should result as you have favour with all people

and the Lord added to the church daily those who

were being saved.

Somebody say Amen.

It's got to result in a result that's bigger than

just having favour.

It's got to result in a result greater.

It's got to result in a result more eternal in

its purpose. And the Lord, when His church has favour

with people around, the Lord, you and I are making

God's job a little easier for Him to add. And

He doesn't just add weekly, not monthly, not yearly. The

Bible says daily. How many of you can believe for that?

Now listen, next year is evangelism. We have a dream. D-R-E-A-M.

For those of you who are new, D is we

want to be a church of discipleship. R, revival, which

is this year.

E is evangelism. A is action.

We don't just want to speak, talk. We want to act.

We love people around us, okay? Especially the people who

are not inside of the church. Together, we want to

do that. And M is missions. We want to go

outside our comfort zone, outside our own culture and our

own skin colour to care for people who are different

from us.

That's what missions mean. Those of you who think, why

do you spell missions with an S?

The difference between a mission without an S and a

missions with an S, I explained it before but I'll

explain it to you again. A mission is just a goal,

a target, something that you need to do, accomplish, achieve.

I am on a mission.

But when you are on missions with an S, always

speaks about a different culture. something that you are naturally

uncomfortable with. And God is asking us to go outside

of our own comfort zone, of our own family, of

our own language, of our own even food preference and

all kinds of preference. God wants us to go and

cross that boundary, cross sometimes that invisible boundary. God wants

us to cross that. Someone said before, I cross the

seas after I see the cross. It's only when you

see the cross that you can cross the seas. And

sometimes it doesn't have to be the seas because right

here in Malaysia, we have all kinds.

Of culture and all kinds of people. Somebody say amen.

They're all here.

God has brought them here so we can cross that sea.

but you need to first see the cross.

Amen.

So what is the real deal here in community evaluated

is that the Lord wants all to come to know Him.

That none should perish, but all come into everlasting life.

What we don't want to be, says the next slide,

is to be a church like the emperor's new clothes.

Have you heard of the parable before? It's by Hans

Christian Andersen. You can look it up. The short of

the long story is that there was a king who

really likes new clothes. And his people will, you know,

clap for him and shout praises and say,' King, oh king,

there is none arrayed like you. You're looking so good

in your Louis Vuitton.' and Armani, oh, king. And he

loves the praises of his people. He loves new clothes.

And so one day, he thought, you know, the stuff

I have is already boring. Can somebody just make me

something that's just extraordinary? And so they made him invisible clothes.

Remember this story? At first, he was like, are you sure?

And you know, they tricked him. To think that this

is the most beautiful and your people will praise you, right?

He's living in a bubble like some churches. Living thinking

that we look great.

And sometimes some people around us won't dare say anything

to us except that, yeah.

And so when he walked out naked, we all know

the story. He was strict, right?

So he's in a delusion and sometimes churches can be delusional.

Thinking that we are really making an impact but we're not.

And then all the people are praising, oh king! And

of course they're laughing by the side. But no one

wants to tell him the truth until a child, until

a child evaluated him, until a child evaluated him and said,

he's naked! Sometimes when we evaluate ourselves, we are really good. Husbands,

you know, we evaluate ourselves. There's no husband like me.

Right?

That's why when people ask me, Pastor, are you a

good husband? I say, you ask my wife. Somebody has

to evaluate. Pastor Andrew, are you a good wife? You

ask my husband. Are you good parents? Ask my children.

Are you good children? Ask my parents. It's always got

to be somebody else.

And we are not just talking about the church itself,

evaluating itself because, you know, either we go very good

or we go terrible. But we want people who don't

really know us, people who have not followed our Instagram

or Facebook to actually evaluate.

Not just our words but our action. Everybody okay? Okay?

We don't want to be a church that is impressive

on the inside but invisible.

On the outside.

One who blows his own trumpet but the walls of

Jericho do not fall. You know, sometimes we like to

blow our own trumpet. And nothing happens around you. We

don't want to be a church that talks about all

the good that we have done, but none of it

is felt by the community around us. The best kind

of evaluation is done by at least two witnesses, the

Bible says.

Only with two, if not three witnesses, can you make

a judgment. True? Bible.

So the best kind of evaluation is done by at

least two witnesses. One of them could be the church.

The church, yeah, you can if you want to evaluate yourself.

That's okay. That's not too bad. That's not wrong. That's

not sin. But it doesn't end there. It's incomplete.

The other witness to the evaluation must be the community.

The Bible says, so continuing daily with one accord in

the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they

ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God.

I put a pause to that because that first part

that we just read, that's the community within. The community

within has a say. And what did they say about themselves?

They said this, that daily they continue in one accord.

That's the church. In the temple, breaking bread from house,

that's not talking about the people outside. That's talking about

the people inside. They broke bread. They forgave each other.

They love each other. They, you know, step on each

other's toes but they forgave and love each other and

they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart

and they kept praising God. But then, after the church

within has evaluated of itself, it then begins to look

out and say, having favour with all the people. So

it's the two witnesses making the evaluation.

Is not complete without the second.

So let's talk about evaluation now, very quickly, just in

case some of you don't know what the true meaning is.

What is evaluation?

It is a process of carefully assessing something in relation

to its cost and or cause.

Alright?

There must be always something that you measure against. Is

it worth it? I paid a thousand ringgit. Is it

worth it? I came all the way to Kuen Ching.

Is it worth it? I am serving every Sunday. You

are evaluating the worth against a cost or a cause.

It's very important to determine its meaning. Is this meaningful

coming together today? Will you go out from this place

today in 45 minutes time saying it was really worth

every minute. My children loved it. My wife or husband

loved it. My family loved it. My friend loved it.

They really enjoyed it. They really felt it made so

much sense. And so all the effort that we put together,

all those who worked very hard last night and throughout

the whole conference, we get our satisfaction from the meaning

we have produced. But the evaluation is very important. So

we keep asking people, how do you feel? What do

you think? Because it will also determine the value and

the worthwhileness. This worthwhileness is actually a word. I had

to Google it. Is it worthiness or worthwhileness? And then,

you know, it says to me that worthiness and worthwhileness

is two different things.

So the word is, is it worthwhile?

It's worth our time. Determine the quality, the effectiveness, the significance,

impact and success. So that's what evaluation is in relation

to the cost or the cause. And you know, many

times we have a cause that you can't put a

price to.

And so, is it worthy of the cause?

And our cause is is the vision and the mission

and the calling that God has given us.

So that's evaluation.

Now, why is evaluation important?

It helps people understand.

How well they are performing, what they are doing right

and what they can improve.

That's why evaluation is important.

We don't just... for evaluating sake. We want to grow.

We want to develop.

Amen. We want to learn. We want to be better.

To justify the cause and or satisfy the cause. There

was one time, I want to be very honest with you,

Pastor Andrew and I sat down and had to ask

about the justification for some of our ministries. And some

leaders actually were quite disappointed with the way we were

taking it because, you know, they were asking for money

to print stuff or asking for money to do stuff

or asking for money to fulfill a certain idea. And

then we ask after the event, okay, for example, the

person says, I really believe that 200 young people is

going to come. So they ask us for money to

help feed 200 young people.

And then 70 came.

Now when 70 comes and we raise up money that

you guys gave out of love for God, we spend

now 130 more packets of food for only 70 that came.

Do you think or not that we have at least

the right to ask? But you might get upset because

so what?

Our aim was 200.

200. Right? And we had an intention for $ 200, 000. And

we believe for $ 200, 000 and we pray for $ 270, 000. I say, okay, fine,

no problem.

No problem. We also love young people, for example.

And then comes another time, they might aim for.

$ 500, 000. And $ 150, 000 comes. So now there's wastage of $ 350, 000.

So I want you to understand that even here in

this church, we, you know, we do not wantonly use

the money that God gives through you.

He blessed you and you gave to Him. You didn't

give to me.

You didn't give to anyone here. You didn't even give

to the church. You gave to God. And God uses

that money and we are supposed to be good stewards. Now,

of course, after you question third time and fourth time,

it becomes we are against the vision. We don't love

young people as much as you do, kind of thing.

So I want you to understand that evaluation is not

to come against you. It's not to discourage you, disappoint you.

It's not to bring you down. We have to learn

and get better. I want to give you another thought.

663 people signed up for the conference.

663. We only ordered food for 600.

600.

And so Elder Peng Ho came into my office and said, Pastor,

we are thinking of ordering more food because 600 and 663,

that's a big gap. I looked at him for a

while and I was praying in my spirit. I said, God,

he needs an answer now. Give me an answer and

I'll give it to him. And the Lord says, no. Because,

you know when people don't pay for stuff, they also

won't take responsibility.

So the conference was free.

And it's out of our desire to bless our people

that we make it free.

Really. We want more people to come and hear the

Word of God and be blessed and be transformed. That's

our heart.

That's really our heart. So we charge nothing. And so

people will sign up and a hundred people didn't come.

So the Lord already told me it won't even touch 600.

Although 663 people signed up. So I looked at Elder

Beng Ho and I said, Beng Ho, no, we will

not order more food. And Beng Ho says, okay pastor,

but if more come out, I say we will then

deal with it. We will go and grab food or

something like that. But we cannot waste God's money. We

cannot waste God's money. This is offering from young people

here who give of their allowance. People here who give

out their need unto the Lord. And they will be blessed.

No matter how the money is used, everyone will be

blessed because they gave to God. So even if it's

used wrongly also, the people who gave will still be blessed.

And God, of course, will deal with us who deal

with the money wrongly.

Yes? Elder Beng Ho was very quick.

All these years of me and him walking together, he

believes that I have some sort of wisdom from the Lord.

And he says, okay, Pastor, if you say so, good.

But okay, fine, we will.

And sure enough, yesterday he told me, Pastor, 563 or

something like that, people came.

So if we ordered more, it would have been a

hundred … Packs, wasted.

Of course, by then, we have to give another three

more people assignment to go and give to the guards

and to the highways and the byways.

I don't know what we'll do lah.

But you know, thank God that we have hungry people

who ate the remainder.

Praise the Lord. But do you understand what I'm trying

to say?

We want to make sure that we are accountable to God.

It's not just being accountable to you.

That's why people ask me, why don't we put our

accounts more on the screen? I am not, first of all,

accountable to you. I'm accountable to God. Are you still

with me? Very important distinction.

Alright?

If you want to stop giving, that's between you and

the Lord. If you want to continue giving, that's also

between you and the Lord.

Amen?

I didn't even plan to talk about money. This pastor

very seldom talks about money. Have you ever heard the

whole message of money?

Never. Because I don't need to try to conjure and

stir you up.

No. The Lord will touch your heart because this is

His church. And all the plans are His plans. And

all the visions are His visions. And all the missions

are His missions. And all the church plans are His.

He will provide. And if you want to be blessed,

you just obey the Lord. Just obey the Lord.

That's all. I do the same.

I don't get a salary for many years now. But

you know, it's not an excuse.

It's not an excuse because God will give to me

to give to Him. Hallelujah. Praise God.

So we evaluate. We must evaluate. Alright, we must. So

that we can do better. Not just for the church,

but for the Lord.

Amen.

Everybody okay ah? I know sometimes a bit serious. But

it's okay, it's truth. And I pray you receive the truth.

And the truth will continue to set you free. Amen.

Yesterday I had such a good time at the workshop.

Because you know, there were questions right, as I told

you earlier. And I taught the people that everything starts

from desire. But there's something deeper than desire called doctrine.

So the doctrine for Eve was, you cannot eat the fruit,

you cannot touch it lest you die.

That was doctrine.

If you live according to God's doctrine, your desire will follow.

But if your doctrine is wrong, your desire will follow that.

And so that's why Satan attacked the doctrine. You shall

die if you eat the fruit and if you touch it.

Satan says, you shall not surely die. So every day

we are being challenged by Satan to change our doctrine.

Our doctrine of money, our doctrine of love, our doctrine

of service. Eric Liddell had a doctrine that he doesn't

do anything else on Sunday except go to church. That

was his doctrine. And from the doctrine came a testimony.

But I don't know whether it's your doctrine, what you

can do on a Sunday. Maybe your doctrine has changed

and maybe now it's okay, God can meet me on

Wednesday or God can meet me on Tuesday.

It's okay. No, listen, you know, it's.

Very, very important to get from the Word of God

the truth, the doctrine. Doctrine means truth that you and

I believe in. But Satan will always attack, you shall

not surely die. If he can change, if he can

influence the doctrine, he will influence the desire. And everything

starts from desire. And then Eve looks at the fruit

and says, it is desirable for food. So her desire

changed according to her doctrine changed. So I want to

teach the Word of God as often as I can.

And Pastor Sandra helps me do that. And Elder Peng

Hu helps me do that. Elder King has me do that.

And all the elders here and speakers here. Doctrine is really,

really important to get right. Because it will, as I

say again, guide the desires of our people. The desire

for your family comes from the doctrine of what a

family is. Your desire to go for missions comes from

the doctrine of you believing that that's God's heart. Your

desire to give and to give more comes from the

doctrine of what the value of money is in your life. Amen.

We are not slaves to money. Money should be our

slaves and we use it for the glory of God.

Amen?

I pray that one of the greatest gifts that X

Church will have is the gift of generosity. Because that

usually tells us where our heart is. Because where our

treasure is, there our heart will be also. Listen, I

pray that X Church, no matter how small or big,

we will always be generous. A pastor went to speak

to a poor church in Tengah.

East Timor.

And there were two Singaporeans seated to visit because they

wanted to use Singapore money to bless the poor churches.

And the pastor saw the two Singaporeans because the rest

were all different colour and different look. So he said,

are you a foreigner? they waved their hand.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Singapore, they said. From Singapore. So

he said, would you come up, brothers? Would you come up?

And he come.

Why have you come all the way? Oh, we just

want to visit churches. Didn't say how much money they had.

Didn't say what they came here for. What the mission was.

They said, oh, wow, wonderful. You came all the way

to bless us? Yeah, you can say that.

The two guys on the stage said. He said, okay, listen.

Because you came all the way to bless us, we

want to bless you, right? So he says, guys, most

of them, 18, 19, 20, 21, and poor.

Poor.

And they rose up one by one to come to

the front and put money at their feet.

It's crazy. We were told the story by, what's his

name again? Y'all remember? Jim Yost. Yeah, Jim Yost. And

he came. And these two leaders.

From Singapore with a lot of money came to give

money to the church but they didn't say it.

So the pastor thought, let's bless you instead.

And so as the money is being, you know, some

are crumpled, some are, with sweat and dirty. It's just

all they had. They put it there and the two

pastors began to cry. They wept on stage. And the

pastor said, don't worry. Pastor, don't worry. Not pastor, but

don't worry, brothers.

Don't worry. Don't worry, it's okay. It's okay.

We just want to bless you. Then they took the

microphone and said, no, no, no, you don't understand. We

came here to bless you. We are from the richer country.

We are the ones with the mission's money. Millions of

dollars to give away. And you give to us? You know,

and then one of the Singaporeans whispered to the pastor's ear. Pastor,

ask them to stop. Ask them to stop because they're

so poor. And then the pastor whispered back to the

Singaporean ear. They don't know they are poor. I love

a church like that. We don't know we are poor

Who said we are poor? You think poor is just

about pocket or is poor about mentality? You can have

a wallet so thick with thousands of ringgits in notes

and a mind that is so bound by poverty, you

won't believe it. I don't want X Church to be

like that. Let the community evaluate us. Are we really

that good a church? Do we really practice what we preach?

To be a church that's evaluated by the community means

to take a serious look at how we are perceived.

That's right. How do they perceive us? Because perception is everything.

It might not be true, but perception is truth to

the one who has that perception. and experienced by the

people around us. Now, some questions we can ask ourselves.

Number one, are we genuinely serving the community? Number two,

do we really live out our values? Number three, how

are those around us treated? Number four, do we contribute positively,

even generously to our neighbours? Do our neighbours, number five,

want us in or out? Can you imagine if your

neighbours want you out? I don't know when these guys

all will get out.

Nuisance.

Do you want to be a church like that? I'll

be very honest with you. FGAKL, once upon a time,

was a nuisance to their neighbours. And I was part

of that church. I tell you because the story ends well.

I only talk about other people when the story ends well.

When the story doesn't end well, I don't talk about

other people, okay? Story must end well for you to

have the right to talk about other people. Listen, this

is also a doctrine of mine. And the doctrine will

guide my desire. So, I was put in charge after

I gave up my law degree and went to full-time.

The Lord says to me, do something for FGA. Okay?

Do something for FGA.

At that time, I think AYA was just an idea

in my mind. Okay, I was still, you know, faithfully

serving my church, FJKL. And they told me, the neighbours,

quite a few of them, don't like the way our members.

In FJKL park their cars. Because it's very unique.

FJKL, in once upon a time, Taman Goodwood, not sure

how good the wood was, but you know, Right there.

And the church was growing, multiplying. At one time, I

don't know if it was 5,000 people or many years ago.

You're talking about 40 years ago, you know, 35 years ago, okay?

A growing, expanding, exploding church. Alright?

And Christians, because we are going, you see, to church

for the Lord, right?

We forget the lost.

And we park anywhere we want to because God will

forgive us.

You know what I'm saying?

Because we are going to worship Him. So park anywhere

and park everywhere. We forgot there was a community around

the church. Who pi pi what, no? From pi pi,

they want to say bye bye to you. So every day,

pi pi, bye bye, bye bye.

They want to bye bye FJKL.

And so, it was on my lap, the.

Mission. to do something about this. Can you imagine? I

was 24 years old.

And I thought about it, thought about it, thought about it.

Why are they angry with us? Because of parking. Because

people park so long. Because after church, must fellowship some more, right?

And the Lord loves fellowship. Sometimes block other people's car.

Some have even parked in front of people's house, I'm

telling you, seriously. These people need to be born again, again. Christians,

you cannot do this. I'm telling you right now, please.

Stop being worse than an unbeliever, you know. So, I said,

I'm going to go to the supermarket. Come, I've put

a team around me. And we're going to buy all

the goodies. I just need a budget. And they gave

me something like 3,000 ringgit. Talking about 32 years ago.

32 years ago. RM3, 000. I went and we bought all

the goodies and came back and wrapped it into hampers.

Because to buy hampers, very expensive. So we have to

do our own hampers. Own wrapping. We put all the goodies,

stacked up very high. Chinese people like hampers. Do you

know that? We didn't put alcohol, we put ibina. But

never mind.

And then, There were so many hampers. There were probably

about 40 houses around the church. So we put the

hampers into the van, church van. Church had many vans.

So I used one of it. And we stacked it.

And then I got about three or four people to

come with me.

I think there were more.

Maybe seven people, eight people. And we went house to house.

I stood in front of the house. Hello. Hello.

Anyone at home? Some people didn't.

Reply me because they don't understand hello anyone at home.

So I had to speak something else. I'll say, All

the tongues come out. Then Tamil also, I tried.

Hello? Is there anyone at home? They understood me. They

understood me. I could spell banana in Tamil, no? B-A-N-A-N-A. Banana.

Indians have become my friends. I was about to sing

them the Indian song. You know I know Indian song?

Bind us together, Lord.

Bind us together with cords that cannot be broken. Okay,

I don't have time anymore so I won't sing the

full song. Bind us together with love. Okay, so that's

why I went from door to door. Door to door. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.

Huh? 40 hampers.

38 was taken. There are two still hate us. They

knew we are from the church.

Huh, serious?

So angry because maybe those guys really suffered lah. They

suffered big time. One time, I think someone set fire

behind the church. Another time, someone broke the aircon compressor.

So the whole church didn't have aircon. Do you know

we need our neighbours? You know why you feel safe

in your house? Because you got neighbours. Try to live

in a house whereby behind nobody stay, side nobody stay,

front nobody stay. You will think 10,000 times before you

want to stay there. It's our neighbours that cause us

to feel safety.

We need them. Don't just because you're Christian.

Some corner of the building, you think you're isolated and insulated.

No. Everybody okay? Love your neighbour as.

I know you all love yourself. Can you love your

neighbour as yourself? That's the question. Itulah soalan muktamat. 38 people.

Some of them allowed me. Half of them allowed me

to go inside. Aunty, aunty, I'm from church.

Oh, church ah. Beradiful. I don't know. Want to scold me? Yeah,

scold you.

They don't even say beradiful well. They say beradiful. Okay, okay.

I thought he was calling me brotherful. Okay, so I said,

hello auntie. And I talked to them. I said, I

just want to let you know, auntie, uncle, this church

I come from, so sorry.

Sometimes people, they don't know where to park. I know

we have hurt your feelings.

Talk.

Hello. And then they also want to chok chok a bit.

Hello.

Ya lah. So stupid, no? They all like, yeah, I know,

I know, I know. I know, auntie, yeah. There are

also stupid ones among us. I know, auntie, auntie. Not

all Christians are smart. Okay, sorry, sorry. Eh, humble yourself, wey.

Buat bodoh. Make stupid, no? Auntie, uncle, uncle. Wah, some, some. Yeah,

you know.

I tell you, you need a gun. Uncle, uncle, so sorry.

What else can you do? It's not your car, ma.

If it was your car, you'd say, take my car

and burn, you know. Take it for the next sacrifice,

you know, whatever. But no, no, listen, 38. And some said,

thank you. But from that day onwards, FGA had no

more trouble with their neighbours. From that, come on, I

think God deserves a big clap.

You get evaluated by your community.

Let them tell you how good you really are. Let

them tell you how nice you really are. Tell you

another story about our church in Summit. So as we

are growing and growing and growing, thank God no parking issue. Hallelujah,

praise God. And please, if Summit still got parking issue, oh,

I tell you, I want to say good word already

outside of my mouth.

Opposite.

And, and, and, And we were growing. And you remember

those days when we went to Sunway? Because we were

so big, we went to Sunway. And we were probably

the first church to use it every week. Sunway Convention Centre.

SPCC.

Alright, one of the, I think, very first church to

use it every week. For six months to seven months,

we used it every week.

Growing, growing, growing. Wow, the foyer full of people. Oh, great. Then,

I remember going back to Summit. Just walking around.

And the owners of the restaurant will look at me

and say, Pastor, you are a pastor, right?

Oh, I don't want to scold me, you know. Okay,

I said, never mind. I've had experience with FGA already.

I think I can handle anything. I'm ready to call

myself stupid already. I'm ready already. So I go and say, yes, yes, yes.

I'm the pastor. You're pastor, ah. Why nobody in the

church come to eat in our restaurant? I said, that

one also you want to blame me, ah. Boy, everything

gonna blame, no? I said, no, no, no. And the

truth is, I do walk.

Around on Sunday and I find every restaurant is filled

with our people. Even the worst restaurant. And you know

why the worst restaurant get filled? Because the better ones

are all filled. So then I say, I might as

well just eat here, right? And then you pray, oh Lord,

not only bless this food, but make it tasty.

Thank you, in Jesus' name. The Lord answers all our prayers.

He says, what's your name? I said, Kenneth. Pastor Kenneth ah? Yeah.

Pastor Kenneth, do us a favour. Next time your church

doesn't meet here, please tell us in advance.

I said, why?

Because of your church ah, we all, then he's pointing

to all the restaurants because they all talk already. All

the restaurants came together to talk about Acts. Eh, you also,

you also lost money ah? You also lost money ah?

You also, you know what they do? Have you heard

me tell you this story?

You know what they do?

They buy three days worth of food just for Sunday.

You know how many restaurants have prospered because of eggs?

I praise God for that. I haven't gone around asking

for commission. You have to do it. You have to.

Do it.

You have to do it. You have to do it. Call, sorry. Commission, faster, right?

Someone do salary, you know. Restaurant to restaurant.

No, no. We want to bless the community around us.

Their joy is my joy. Their happiness is my happiness.

They thinking the world of ex-church is hallelujah. That's the

kind of church we must be. But they buy three

days of food without the refrigeration to put it in.

because they know Acts Church will finish it before 12

or before 1.

So they put their food up by the side. Don't

have to refrigerate for the night. Do you understand?

They wasted all three days of food. All three days

of food. Every restaurant. Please tell us, Pastor.

That you're not meeting here. But I'm talking about the impact.

That's the real influence of a church.

Amen? To bless... the people around you.

Is there consistency between what the church teaches and what

it does? Please don't say, no, you're from X, if

you're going to be rude to the waiters downstairs.

I'd rather you say, you're from another church. Oi, oi, oi. Ah,

the waiter come to you. Oh, oh yes, yes, yes. Ah, ah,

why you so long? Why you take so long ah?

Then you order. Pastor, I'm hungry. You're from the church upstairs.

Please say no. I can give you some other names

to use. Don't do that also.

God is not pleased.

If our community evaluated us by our actions more than

our words, what would they say about us? Community evaluation,

next slide, is a form of accountability, isn't it? Reminding

us of our calling and purpose to be the salt

of the earth and the light of the world. You

are the salt of the earth but if the salt

loses its flavour, do you know that salt can lose

its flavour?

Hardly, but it can happen. You know what it's then

good for?

Nothing.

Nothing.

So please stop evaluating your church as something when other

people around you say, nothing lah.

We don't benefit from this church at all. The worst

thing is we get people parking in front of our house.

That's all we get. You understand?

So if you're going to be salt that loses its flavour,

the Bible says, we have become nothing better to throw

on the floor, let people.

Trample over you. Yeah.

Not Kenneth Chin's word, God's word. You are the light

of the world. The city that is set on a

hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp

and put it under a basket. But on a lampstand,

and it gives light to all who are in the house.

Let your light so shine.

Amen.

And at the end of the day, I highlighted and

underlined the word, glorify your Father. That's the bottom line

of why we want to be salt and light so

that our Father can be glorified. Can I hear a

good amen? Yeah, that you might see your good works

and glorify your Father. God, get all the glory when

ex-church moves, when ex-church walks the ground, when ex-church blesses

the restaurants. Get all the glory. So these are in

your notes. If you have your booklet, you can take

it down. Number one, true evaluation comes from others besides ourselves.

True evaluation comes from others besides ourselves.

Next slide.

Self-evaluation is good but incomplete. Don't ask me if I'm

a good husband, ask my wife. Don't ask me if

I'm a good dad, ask my children. Don't ask me

if I'm a good boss, ask my staff. And my

staff say, it's about 10%. I'll have a word with

the other 90% on Monday.

No, just kidding.

I love my staff so much to bits because all

of them have been called by God. And without them,

I don't think we can get our job done. Thank

God for the people. I rarely call them staff. I

call them team. They are my team. What a great

team God has blessed us with. I think the rest

of the ex-church should clap for our team.

Really, come.

Really, really, seriously. All right. Many of the people sitting

at the front here, amazing, amazing, amazing.

Amazing.

We have about, we have about maybe 32, 33 staff.

works in the office every day. And then another, maybe

close to 25 staff in Victory Academy. And then another,

I don't know, eight, nine staff in Little Legends.

Altogether, it's about 70 of us staff.

And so yeah, I seem to be a boss of

a small to medium-sized company.

But it's a church, it's not just a company. Amen.

And we're doing, shining the light, trying to be salt

and light every day by the grace of God.

The true impact and.

Influence of a church comes not from what it says

about itself, but what others, especially non-members, have to say

about it. Including other churches within the community. Let me

just speak about that for one minute. In Love Subang,

you know, and Love Subang is a group of pastors

in Subang.

I go … Elder Peng Ho, I know you go now.

But I used to go to the Love Subang Pastors

Fellowship never ever having any sense of insecurity that anyone

would look at me and say, Pastor, you stole our sheep.

I go with a pure heart and clean hands. Because

the community around you that evaluates you is also the

churches around you. And I don't want one day when

I face Jesus that a group of pastors is before

the Lord saying that, You know, this guy took 10%

of our church. This guy took half of our church.

I don't dare stand before Jesus. And have, first of all,

the community evaluated, right? And the community is also the

churches around. Do not ever go and plant a church

and destroy other churches. Until today, I haven't planted any

church around Malaysia because I know that when X Church

goes in, people will come to ours. Because we are

very good young people. But I will destroy the other

churches around us. I cannot afford to do that. I

am not a church breaker. I am a church maker.

Are you all still with me? Very important. Because I

know I am going to stand before Jesus one day.

And what is the community? You know, I went one

time to Australia. I tell you, I won't tell you

the church. But I met with a group of pastors.

Twenty of them. And every one of them had something

bad to say about this new church. Because my youth

pastor left to join that church. Oh, my leader went to,

you know. I tell you, it's the worst thing to

have brothers, churches in the community only have bad things

to say about you. Oh, listen ladies and gentlemen, I

pray ex-church will never get there.

We must be a blessing to the churches around us.

I am very serious about this. Very serious. I rather

new people, somebody say amen. New people or people who

are not going to church come.

Because it's very scary when the community evaluates you and say,

he destroyed us more than built us.

He robbed us more than gave to us. Oh my God.

Let another man praise you and not your own mouth.

A stranger and not your own lips. Do you know

that word? Very good word. I'm drawing to the last lap.

The church is the church where only when it exists

for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said very well.

But there's another good saying by Archbishop William Temple. The

church is the only society that exists for the benefit

of those who are not its members.

Let that sit for a while. Number two, the church

cannot be insulated. That's in your notes.

The church cannot be insulated or protected from the world.

If you believe that, say Amen.

Cannot.

Now I am no longer in the world, Jesus said,

but these are in the world. And I come to you,

Holy Father, keep.

Somebody say keep. Keep means preserve.

Many of us want to preserve what we have, our tradition,

our culture, our church. We don't want to mingle with anybody.

We don't want to serve anybody else. We don't want

to do anything with anybody. We just want to keep

everything to ourselves. And yet Jesus says, you know, the

keeping is done by God.

So keep through your name. Amen.

Those whom you have given me, that they may be

one as we are. While I was with them in

the world, I kept, somebody say kept, them in your name.

So Jesus keeps us. Those whom you gave me, I

have kept.

At least three times in this Scripture, Jesus is talking

about keep, keep, keep. So if you want to keep

Acts Church and preserve Acts Church, the only way is

to serve the Lord and serve others. None of them

is lost. So we only lost one. The son of

perdition who only thought about himself. Judas only thought about

enriching himself, so he stole from the treasury. If you

only think about yourself, you're going to be lost. But

if you want to be kept, you want to keep

your family. You see, I talk to a lot of

family members, especially parents, who are overprotective. The more overprotective

you are in keeping your children, the more you will

lose them. And so I tell parents, please be protective

but not overprotective. Don't be a helicopter parent. Or today

it's not helicopter, it's drone.

Don't.

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it. And

whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Keep it. You really want to keep? Then lose. Give. Give.

Let go of that money in your hand. Let go

of that talent. Let go of that gifting. Serve. Go

for missions. Go out there. Give hampers to your neighbours.

Because if you seek to save your life, you lose

it and you lose your life, you will preserve it.

Can I hear a good amen? He is no fool.

We read this yesterday when Dr Goh Chee Leong shared

with us. He is no fool who gives what he

cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. So you

will never be a fool if you keep giving and

serving the Lord's purpose. God will make sure that you

will be able to keep what you give.

You will never lose.

Number three, and this is the final lap. The church

must not be isolated. There's a difference between insulated. Insulated

is protect. Protect from the heat, you insulate yourself. Protect

from the cold, you insulate yourself.

Preserve, keep. But isolated means you are separated. from the world.

And the church must not be isolated from community. Let's

look at some Scripture before we close. Keep oneself unspotted

from the world, you know. Do not be conformed to

this world. Do not love the world or the things

of the world or in the world.

Come out from among them and be separate.

So Christians are conflicted and confused because they have Scriptures

like these that make them think that you should separate

yourself from the world and not have fellowship with the

world and not give hampers to your neighbours who hate

you and not bless the restaurants in Summit, you.

Know, and cause them to prosper.

You know, if they buy three days of food to

feed us on Sunday, it means that we have blessed

them with three days of profit. At least. At least.

Meaning to say that if they don't work the next

three days, they will still survive. Because we, you know,

paid all their bills for three days in one day. So,

you know, if you have the mentality because of these scriptures, unsported,

I don't.

Want to be sported. So smelly.

I don't want, so dirty. So you isolate. Oh, this

is such a nice place. Nobody here that is different

from me.

Oh, this is nice.

And then we start having our own Christian club. Christian CF,

many times in school, is on the top floor at

the corner. You know, when I first started AYA, I said, Lord,

enough of Christian CF on the top floor, furthest away

in the classroom where we.

Cannot hear them. Enough. Enough.

We should be, that's why we came up with Revo.

Because Revo gave Coca-Cola to the guard. The young guy

will go to the guard house and say, Uncle, very hot, huh?

Uncle say, oh, are you thirsty? Uncle say, yes. And

they give Uncle a.

Drink. Revo wanted to bring the.

Isolated Christian CF down to the world.

Write thank you cards to their teachers. Everybody okay?

So don't be conflicted because it doesn't mean that. It

doesn't mean that. Look at 1 Corinthians 5, 9-10. I

wrote to you in my episode. Oh, sorry, in my episode.

In my epistle.

It does look like time is up.

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep

company with sexually immoral people.

That's right. Don't keep company with them.

Yet, I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral

people of this world or with the covetous or extortioners

or idolaters since you would need to go out of

the world. many times when the Scripture is asking us

not to be unspotted and to separate ourselves, it's actually

from Christians themselves who act worse than the world. My

father-in-law used to tell me, why do you get angry

with the world who doesn't even know that it's a sin?

You get angry with the Christian who knows better and

does not live it. Why do you judge a non-Christian

who doesn't know better himself unless he's taught?

So don't get angry with them. Forgive them for they

know not what they.

So when we separate, we separate from Christians who act worse.

Than unbelievers.

He says, if they are sexually immoral, just cut off.

But I'm not talking about the sexually immoral of the world.

They need Jesus. So go to them. Tell them about

my love.

For God so loved the world. He loved the world.

He doesn't hate it. So you and I must not

hate it. He gave His only begotten Son that whoever

believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

For God did not send His Son into the world

to condemn the world. Amen.

But that the world through Him might be saved. Last

three slides. Last three slides. And He said to them,

Go into all the.

And preach. The world needs Jesus. Our neighbours need Jesus.

The owners of this school need Jesus.

I don't know whether they have come to know the Lord.

But if they haven't, they do. So, sometimes I can

continue meeting here. Leaders, I'm talking to you at the

front now. Sometimes we can continue meeting here so that

we can get to them. So that I can shake

their hands. Dr Go Chi Leong, when he finished Speaking yesterday,

he gave me an offer. He said, Pastor Kenneth, there

are 6,000 students in the Subang campus in University, Help University.

He says, we need a director of student activities. He said,

would you consider? Would you have a staff for me?

And then he gave me two positions. He says, if

you can take these positions, I want to be able

to give you the power to be able to influence 6,000 lives.

So if anyone here wants to work for university, come

and see me. But you've got to have the goods.

Because it's not just about making all the students' lives

there great. Actually, Pastor Ronson is having the exact job

in Taylors. It's a director job of students. 6,000 students.

I prayed about this this morning. I woke up very early.

I woke up, I think already 5.15 in the morning.

I woke up in my quiet time. And in my

quiet time, I said, Lord, I bring before you Dr Goh's.

Request.

6,000 students, a lot. I don't just want to be

a good pastor within the four walls of a church.

You didn't call me to be that. You didn't call us,

any one of us to be that. To be living

in our comfort zone. No, there's a big world out there. Amen. Ah,

I just think about it so I rejoice in my heart.

That there are opportunities everywhere. Opportunities everywhere you look.

Go, go. This is a missions conference. Go.

I do not pray that you should take them out

of the world.

What, what Lord? I do not pray that you should

take them out of the world. Really? But that you

should keep them. Oh, there you go again. Keep them,

preserve them from the evil one. Amen.

They are not of the world. Jesus says, I am

not of the world. Sanctify them by your truth. Your

word is truth. As you send me into the world,

I also send them into the world.

Oh, I see.

So, to actually be pure and sanctified is not to

keep away from the dirty.

And the corrupted.

No, because it is God's Word that keeps me sanctified.

Sanctify them by your truth. Your Word is truth. So

it doesn't mean that when I'm trying to witness to

a friend who has a messed up life and is

committing adultery and is corrupted, it doesn't mean it makes

me corrupted. Are you still with me? Because I'm not

sanctified by him. I'm sanctified by the Word. Sanctify them

by your truth.

Your Word is? Your Word is? Truth. Amen.

As you send me into the world, I also have

sent them into the world. Last slide is a question.

Last slide is a question. Will Summit miss us.

If we are gone? Good question.

Or will they say, good riddance to bad rubbish? Will

our neighbours miss us when we are gone? Will our

company miss us when we change to another company? Will

Malaysia miss us if the church ceases to exist? Or

is the church good for nothing? And all we do

is care for ourselves. And Malaysia burns and even goes

down the drain because we do nothing for the people

around us. Will Malaysia miss us if tomorrow there's no

more church in Malaysia?

I pray not. I pray not. Hallelujah.

Oh, thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. There are two

important days in your life. The day you were born

and the day you realise why you were born. The

day you were born and the day you realise there

is purpose in your life. The day Acts Church realises

there is a plan that God has for us to

become a church.

We are blessed to be a blessing. Come on, stand

to your feet.

And I want the worship team, as you're leading us

in worship, I want a song that gives God glory, okay?

I don't want any other nice sounding song, just a

song that even if you say, I worship you Almighty God,

that's fine. I just want God to be glorified in

our worship. Okay, because missions is all about glorifying God.

Being community evaluated is all about glorifying God. They will

see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

So go ahead, lead us as we worship the Lord.

May our hearts.

Begin to burn with purpose that from today onwards, We

will not just evaluate, I say, to ourselves, but we

will have the people around us, even our families, our

unsaved loved ones. And definitely, wherever we are planted, Klang, Semenye,

Sri Kembangan, come on.

It's not by chance or by accident that the Lord

planted us there. Kota Kemuning. Not by chance, not by accident.

And as we worship the Lord, let it burn in

your heart.

Catch a dream to be the salt of the earth

and the light of the world.

Treat people kindly. Love the people around you. How will

they know Christ if we will not shine? Let's be

community evaluated. That's X Church.

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