by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 17, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Authors, Church, Discipleship, Evangelism, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship
Bernice and I were at a meeting with some leaders recently. One of the statements I heard towards the end of the meeting caught my attention. The brother said that the movement they were involved in was searching for new language to guide the Christian enterprise...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Jesus, Jesus' Life, Loving Others, Spiritual Friendship
There is one thing the synoptic gospels agree on — Jesus spent a lot of time eating with “undesirables”, so much so that the religious leaders of the day were upset that He spent so much time with sinners. (For the record, we are all sinners.) The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 5, 2022 | 2022, Evangelism, Loving Others, Relationships
Here’s a question to my brothers and sisters, and to myself: “Do you have any friends who are not followers of Jesus? Good friends?” This may be a question we have to take seriously because it appears that this was the main way people were brought to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 4, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Evangelism
I first heard about the three Cs of being human from R. Paul Stevens. From the creation accounts, he pointed out that humanity was defined by three “calls”. First was communion, the call to relate to God. (Gen 2:7; 3:8) Second was community,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 14, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Generations Project, God, Young Adult Ministry
In our last ecommentary we looked at some of the challenges to evangelism that the church faces today, especially for our young. I am particularly indebted to an article by James Chambers that points out how our usual pitch for the gospel may sound to...
by Wei-Hao Ho | Jan 7, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Generations Project, Young Adult Ministry
The Generations Project is an initiative by Graceworks that seeks to improve the health of the churches in Singapore by increasing the empathy that the different generations have for one another. After researching four different generations, we realised that the...
