Session 3- Rev Kong Hee

Session 3- Rev Kong Hee

John Wimber – Gobal timber

Led thousands to Christ through one to one personal touch. Work as a entertainment manager and earns up to USD$50k a day before he became a Christ.

The Beatles – brought a change in value of the world from conservation to free sex

John wimber was advised to be the manager of the Beatles and he might have able to led them to Christ and get them saved and change the world, BUT John wimber’s church elder advised against it and advise him to quit his media work and becoming full time

3 mindsets:

#1: Cocooning – Redrawal and isolation

John 17:15, 18

Jesus expects us to live in discernment not disassociation

#2: Combating – fight, resist and oppose

John 3:16-17

#3: Conforming: Compromise

“we are a city set on the hill that cannot be hidden!”

Daniel 1:4

young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

They had 5 requirements:

1. Learn the Culture of the Babylon

2. Learn the Language of the Babylon

3. Learn the Fashion of the Babylon

4. Adopt the Names of the Babylon

5. Excel in Babylonian

Daniel 1:20 “10 times better” than all our colleagues

Proverbs 22:9

Daniel 5:11

Daniel impacted the culture and the people so much that when Jesus was born, they were the 3 wise man that went to worship baby Jesus!

But to impact the culture, means we got to be:

Educated

Speak

Fashion

Take on the names

Work and excel in Babylon

Culturally Savvy Christians:

I. Counter culture like Aliens

II. Communicate in culture like ambassadors

They are people that care and will learn the culture of the country that they are sent to.

III. Create culture like artists

Danzel Wshington won the 2002 academy award and acted as a bad guy in the movie but he wrote “the wages of sin is death” to show to work that the wages of the sin is death.

Daniel 1:8

Daniel is not considered the culture, the language, the fashion, the names and jobs but when it comes to food, that got to do with spiritual things, he drew the line!

The only way you can be successful in your life is to build your life on spiritual discipline:

a. The word of God

b. Prayer

c. Fasting – Self humbling

d. Praise, worship and thanksgiving

e. Solitude – set yourself apart to be with God

f. Confession, Repentance, Forgiveness

g. Church

The only way to build your life successfully in the culture is to build our spiritual discipline.The moment we stop our spiritual discipline, it is when our success in God will decline.

Character deficit à pressure that will soon cause you to crack

Failure of character is the failure to maintain spiritual discipline!

Advise to:

Conservation à Engage the world

Contemporary à Learn spiritual discipline

Savvy in culture but conservation in contemporary.

Conservative à Holiness, anointing, word of God, high sense of standard

Contemporary à Relevance, excitement, motivation,, tolerance and accepting