A number of weeks back, our Senior Pastor, Rev. Kenny Fam, spoke on the titled topic centred around the following verses:
7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
– 1 Timothy 4:7-8
I finally found the time to download the sermon recording from our church website and reviewed that sermon again.
In the beginning of the sermon, Rev Kenny mentioned an article written by Richard Foster and published in Christianity Today. I was rather intrigued by Rev Kenny asking us to ponder over which category of Christian we were that Richard Foster had described in his article.
Were we:
- well-intentioned Christians who have exhausted ourselves in church work and found that our lives were not substantively changed by our efforts.
- immersing ourselves in multiple social-service projects, outside the church, and realizing after some time, that these efforts left little lasting imprint on our inner life.
- Christians who had a practical theology thus not experiencing any growth in their spiritual lives.
