School of Ministry : SOM kini di Sabah dan Sarawak!

Shalom! Salam damai dalam kasih Kristur Yesus Tuhan kita!

Hari ini merupakan hari terakhir untuk tahun 2012. Detik-detik terakhir tahun 2012 admin gunakan untuk bersama-sama keluarga. Apakah yang anda lakukan pada saat ini?

Anda sudah selesai SPM, STPM, pengajian di Universiti dan tidak membuat apa-apa sepanjang beberapa bulan ini? School of Ministry atau lebih dikenali sebagai SOM akan diadakan di Sabah dan Sarawak!

Berikut merupakan tempat-tempat yang akan diadakan dan butir-butir SOM ini

School of Ministry, Kota Kinabalu!

School of Ministry, Kota Kinabalu!

7 Januari - 4 Februari 2013

Kg Bukit Permai, Menggatal

School of Ministry, Kuching!

School of Ministry, Kuching!

21 Januari - 8 Februari 2013

BEM Padawan, Kuching

School of Ministry, Miri!

School of Ministry, Miri!

14 Januari - 1 Februari 2013

BEM Lutong Baru, Miri

Apakah itu School of Ministry?

School of Ministry ataupun dalam bahasa Melayu di transliterasikan sebagai Sekolah Pelayanan merupakan program anjuran badan-badan Kristian untuk melatih dan memuridkan anak-anak muda di dalam pelayanan. Selain itu, program ini juga bertujuan untuk melahirkan "spiritual leaders" untuk masa hadapan. Program ini dianjurkan khusus kepada anak-anak muda yang sedang menunggu keputusan persekolahan. Program ini biasanya dianjurkan selama sebulan mengikut kemampuan penganjur. Pengajaran dalam School of Ministry mengandungi pembelajaran dan pengkajian Firman Tuhan, pembentukan jati diri dan juga peluang untuk melayani pada hujung minggu.

Info lanjut?

Untuk School of Ministry pada awal Januari sehingga Februari 2013, yuran setiap peserta hanya RM 50 dan tempat tinggal, keperluan makan minum turut disediakan. Daftar sekarang! Sila rujuk poster diatas untuk maklumat lanjut dan pendaftaran!

Admin juga akan bersama-sama dalam SOM Kota Kinabalu dalam beberapa hari pada hujung minggu!

Sekian sahaja entri pada kali ini, admin mengucapkan SELAMAT TAHUN BARU 2013! Semoga tahun 2013 membawa sejuta berkat dan peluang kepada anda untuk terus maju dan membangun dalam Kristus! Haleluyah!

Tarian Gangnam?! Dalam gereja?!

Shalom!

Banyak perkara yang berlaku sepanjang tahun 2012 ini. Perkara utama yang paling admin ingati ialah bagaimana kekangan masa telah menganggu admin untuk menulis beberapa artikel khusus untuk blog ini. Sering menjadi bualan ramai, Oppa Gangnam Style yang melonjak dari segi populariti sejak Julai tahun ini telah menaikkan nama Asia sekurang-kurangnya dan Korea Selatan khususnya.

Anak-anak muda cenderung untuk terikut-ikut dan meminati lagu ini dan juga tarian ala-ala kuda yang ditampilkan dalam klip video lagu ini. Namun, adakah wajar untuk tarian ini turut dibawa di dalam gereja?

Admin tertarik dengan salah satu penyataan rakan Facebook admin yang mengeluh kerana tarian gangnam ini ditarikan di dalam gereja. Rakan admin tersebut menyifatkan bahawa tarian itu tidak wajar untuk ditarikan di dalam gereja kerana menyifatkan bahawa tarian itu tidak "kudus" untuk dipersembahan di dalam gereja mahupun untuk dipersembahkan kepada Tuhan.

Banyak persoalan dan perkara-perkara yang terngiang-ngiang dalam pemikiran admin ketika itu. Adakah tarian-tarian yang dipersembahkan di dalam gereja adalah suci atau kudus kepada Tuhan? Tiba-tiba admin diperingatkan kepada satu tarian tradisional kaum majoriti di Sabah. Tarian sumazau yang asalnya merupakan suatu tarian yang memuja semangat padi yang dikenali sebagai "bambarayon/bambaazon" sering ditarikan di dalam gereja tempatan di Sabah. Persoalannya, adakah tarian itu kudus untuk Tuhan seperti yang disifatkan oleh rakan admin tersebut?

Mari kita selidiki pula tarian gangnam ini. Gangnam ialah sebuah kota yang agak maju dan besar di negara Korea Selatan. Lagu ini berkisar kepada kehidupan generasi muda yang banyak dilihat dalam kota besar ini. Tarian gangnam ini agak catchy dan rancak sehingga generasi muda tertarik dengan tarian ini. Tarian gangnam yang mungkin dikatakan oleh rakan admin ialah tarian "imitation of horse".

Adakah sesuai atau wajar ditarikan di dalam gereja? Admin tiada jawapan untuk hal itu. Tetapi biarlah kita cuba untuk menyesuaikan tarian-tarian yang ada dalam dunia ini untuk satu tujuan, mempersembahkan yang terbaik kepada Tuhan kita! Ada satu lagu yang agak sesuai untuk ditarikan bersama tarian gangnam ini. Lagu ini dalam bahasa Iban dan admin juga kurang memahami maksud lagu ini. Tapi admin percaya bahawa lagu ini adalah untuk memuliakan dan meninggikan Tuhan dalam sukacita yang besar!

Aku gangnam-gangnam
Gangnam Enggau Jesus
Aku udah diada ka baru
Arap ka jaku Iya

Aku ngasuh kita nemu
Pemesai penglantang ati aku
Aku gangnam, gangnam-gangnam
Gangnam 'Nggau Jesus

Haleluyah! Salam damai! Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru 2013!

Perbedaan????

Comparison between Muhammad and Jesus (Isa)

Jesus (Isa)	Muhammad
Jesus is God (John 1, Col. 1) and here. Jesus forgave sins and dispelled demons in His own name.  He said "I and the Father are one".	Muhammad admitted he is only a man (Surah 18:110)
Jesus raised Himself from the dead (Matthew 28:6) and rose into heaven in front of many witnesses.	Muhammad remains dead
His Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection was foretold by numerous prophets. See here Proverbs 30:4 (written 700 B.C./1300 yrs before Muhammad): "...What is His name, and what is His son's name, if thou canst tell?"	Nothing predicted about Muhammad.  The "Comforter" was the Holy Spirit Jesus promised the apostles.
Jesus lived a sinless life (2 Corinthians 5:21).	Allah himself refers to Muhammad as sinful (Surah 40:55, 48:1-2).
Jesus did numerous miracles to prove His divinity, including raising the dead and command over nature  (All Gospel writers and Josephus). While teaching his apostles Jesus said; "Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves" (John 14:11 and Matthew 9:2-7)	On two occasions in the Qur'an Muhammad admitted he could do no miracles to show any sort of divinity or divine calling (Surah 17:90-95; 3:183, also see: 29:50-51)
Jesus cared for His enemies (Matthew 5:43-44). Jesus promised to save those who believe and trust in Him.	Killed his enemies and anyone who disagreed with him (Surah 9:5)
Held a high view of marriage and hated divorce - as God the Father does (Matthew 19:7-8).	Muhammad commanded his adopted son to divorce his wife so that she would become his (Surah 33:36-38)
Accurately prophesied many verifiable events that took place after His time (Matthew 24).	Delivered only one -questionable- guess/prophecy about the Romans winning a future battle.  No date or place given. (Surah 30:1-4)
Jesus gave his disciples authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness (Matthew 10:1; Mark 6:12-13)	Muhammad gave his followers the authority to wage war on unbelievers. Muhammad is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to unbelievers. (Surah 48:29)
Jesus told his disciples not to ask for money, and not to carry money with them. (Matthew 10:8-9, Luke 10:7)	Muhammad instructed his followers on how to divide booty they seized from unbelievers.  He insisted on 20% for himself.
Jesus said to his followers that if anyone will not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. (Matthew 10:14-15, 23)	Muhammad ordered Muslims to attack any city that rejected Islam.
Jesus told his followers to get ready, because unbelievers would flog them, arrest them, and put them on trial (Matthew 10:16-19)	Muhammad told his followers to fight (militarily)  hard against unbelievers. "Kill the Mushrikun (unbelievers) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush..." Surah 9:5. Also see Surah 9:29.
Jesus washed his disciples' feet. He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.  John 13:4-5, 12-17	One day after battle, Muhammad came back home and said to his daughter Fatima, "Wash the blood from this sword and I swear in the name of Allah this sword was obeying me all the time."  Muhammad then took the swords of his friend Ali ibn Abu Talib and washed them for him.
Jesus never took up a sword or encouraged anyone else to do so.  Once a close follower took it upon himself to take up a sword.  Jesus soundly reprimanded him.  Jesus warned; "all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52)	According to Muslim scholar Pickthal, "the number of campaigns (military) he (Muhammad) led in person during the last ten years of his life is twenty-seven, in nine of which there was hard fighting.  The number of expeditions which he planned and sent out under other leaders is thirty-eight" (n.d., pg. xxvi)
Jesus said: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (Matthew 5:44-46)	Surah 9:29:  PICKTHAL: "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture (Christians & Jews) as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low."
Jesus's last message to his followers about himself and his mission: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Luke 24:46-47	Muhammad's last speech to his followers on Mt Arafat: ....."I descended by Allah with the sword in my hand, and my wealth will come from the shadow of my sword.  And the one who will disagree with me will be humiliated and persecuted." Reference: Ibn Hisham (828 A.D., "The Life of Muhammad", 3rd ed., pt. 6, vol. 3 (Beirut, Lebanon: Dar-al-Jil, 1998), p. 8