by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 23, 2024 | 2024, Community, Corporate Worship, Small Groups, Spiritual Friendship
Did you know there are three kinds of loneliness? I didn’t until I read the first chapter of Together (1). (Dr Vivek Murthy is the 19th surgeon general of the United States.) Here is what he wrote: Researchers have identified three...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 7, 2023 | 2023, Christian Living, Community, Small Groups, Spiritual Friendship
Many in our churches are hungry for God. This should not surprise us. We live in a lonely world where many are hungry for relationships with man and God. It is not helped that many churches reduce the faith to either head knowledge of Scripture and/or activism, and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 9, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Community, Spiritual Friendship
Conversation: talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information is exchanged (Cambridge Dictionary) I first met him about two decades ago. I can’t say we were close...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 5, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Community, Following Jesus, Spiritual Friendship
On the evening of 3 April 2023, I had a great time with a pastor and his camp planning committee. They are a great bunch of people and I rejoiced in making some new friends. Apparently, this was the first time they had met up with a camp speaker to connect before a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 10, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Community, Generations Project, Graceworks, Loving Others, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship
When churches began to lose their young people, they started to take seriously the fact that we are living in a unique point in history. We now have many generations living and working together; generations which are culturally different because they have been shaped...
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,...
