by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 15, 2024 | 2024, Community, Spiritual Friendship
I am in the Malaysia Theological Seminary (STM) for a few days, to teach an intensive course on spiritual friendship and it made me think of old friends. STM was a school that made me feel welcomed and allowed me to work with them at a very difficult point in...
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 | Feb 9, 2024 | 2024, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
They were the dynamic duo of Bible teaching. OMF missionary Dr Lucille Ramish had a PhD and brought big-picture, academic rigour to the teaching. Another OMF missionary, Mrs June Lane who hadn't had the privilege of graduate studies, brought home the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024, Discipleship, Mentoring
“Spiritual mentoring is an intentional, relational process for helping people grow in Christlikeness by which one person becomes a spiritual guide for one or several others.” Two Saturdays ago I did a three-hour seminar on spiritual mentoring for a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 26, 2024 | 2024, Preaching & Teaching
In the early days of my preaching, I would write out my notes on note cards and bring my note cards to the pulpit. I rarely wrote out my sermons in full nor did I try to memorise them. I wanted more eye contact with my audience. But I was nervous about...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 12, 2024 | 2024, Articles, Growth, Leadership, Obedience & Faithfulness, Soo-Inn Tan
Recently I was chatting with a Gen X (born 1965–1980) Christian leader. He said that his leadership board was made up of people in their 60s and 70s. He also said that it was time to introduce some younger leaders into the board. For that to happen, however, some of...
