I've been wanting to go fellowship for so long, and until recently i've just started returning back to fellowship.. and out of the few times that i went, today's one felt like a welcoming message to me...
today, we invited some members from our sister membership to come over to our fellowship to share about the past experience in fellowship.. and so we saw how fellowship grew from a shall one, to 50 over people; and because of that, split into smaller fellowships... and eventually resulted in the 3 youth fellowships that we have in church now...
but one thing that really touched me was when bernice and henry sang this song that they wrote back when there was only one fellowship:
年少时,实在不懂事
常问教会是去来干什么
每个星期天被父母拉去
害到我没得看我的电视
老师口中常常说的那些故事
我不懂听过几百次
约翰福音
三章十六节
背也背到半死
去到大堂老的一大堆
所谓的代沟把我闷死
唱的诗歌全是繁体字
你叫我怎能唱得有意思
说到团契除了康乐茶叙
我对其他节目全都没兴趣
一天有一天
一年又一年
这样地度过童年
过些时候才成熟一些
才了解教会是怎么一回事
天上父不是高高在上
而是要我去积极地认识
开始觉得应该好好珍惜团契
它是我灵里的家庭
就是这样
慢慢地成长
改变了我的生命
亲爱朋友是否问过自己
教会对你的意思
来礼拜堂不是坐坐而已
更不是为了搞好人际关系
团契里的所有兄弟姐妹
都是天父因为爱而赐给你
要学习相爱
互相扶持
以生命来影响生命
and i felt that this song, although very much unique to my church, describes the path that i walked through.. i was blessed to be born in a christian family, so basically i was just following what my parents did... and eventually, society got the better of me; and defiance became the new rule for everyone in my generation... we skipped sunday school, skipped fellowship, went to "crash" the other fellowships, and went to "crash" the youth service... and eventually, we found out that the youth service was great and stayed there forever.. but i never returned to fellowship... then, over time, i realised that fellowship "是我灵里的家庭" (is my spiritual family)... and these are the group of people who are going through the same phase in life as i do, and so they will know some of the solutions to problems that neither we, nor our parents, nor our close friends can solve..