Message by Ps Ng Kok Moi on 19 Jan 2016, continuing on Sermon on same topic shared in 2015

1. SSMC
SUNGAI WAY-SUBANG
METHODIST
C H U R C H
PS DR NG KOK MOI | 17 JAN 2016
CHINESE CULTURE + CHRIST
PART 2

4. ~ 2016 ~Mark 3:14-15
“… that they might
be with Him and
that He might send
them out to preach
and to have
authority to drive
out demons."

5. a new beginning-
Being With Jesus Mk 3:14
God had only PLAN A;
 Success or Failure rested on the ‘12’
 God had NO PLAN B.
Jan 3

6. 1. Salvation ONLY in Jesus.
2. … and we are His instruments /
agents / partners
a new beginning-
Being With Jesus Mk 3:14

7. 3. Our relatives / loved ones /
schoolmates / colleagues /
neighbours etc…
 Understanding the culture
 Relating to them
 Presenting the gospel
a new beginning-
Being With Jesus Mk 3:14

8. 1. Chinese New Year
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. QingMing Festival
5. Winter Solstice Festival

10. - Religious & Demonic
- Cultural & beneficial
- Neutral

11. 1. Chinese New Year
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. QingMing Festival
5. Winter Solstice Festival
2010

12. Chinese New Year

13. • Reunion Dinner
1. Retain – cultural & beneficial

14. • Reunion Dinner
• New Year visitation
1. Retain – cultural & beneficial

15. • Reunion Dinner
• New Year visitation
• Ang Pow
1. Retain – cultural & beneficial

16. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – religious & demonic
• All forms of idol-worship
• Superstitious beliefs &
practices
• Sweeping floor
• Opening business
• Inverted “Fú”
• Lucky dragon bamboo

17. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
3. Redeem – Neutral
• Couplets
• Yee Sang

18. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
3. Redeem – Neutral
• Couplets
• Yee Sang
• Lion Dance
• “Shou Shui”
• Family Tradition

19. 1. Chinese New Year
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. QingMing Festival
5. Winter Solstice Festival
2011

20. QingMing
Festival

21. • Family gathering
• Memory of ancestors
• Cleaning of graves
1. Retain – Cultural & Beneficial
• Repair of
tomb-stone

22. 1. Retain – Cultural & Beneficial
• Ancestral worship – at
home and at grave-site.
2. Reject – Religious & Demonic

23. 1. Retain – Cultural & Beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & Demonic
• Food offered
@ ancestral
worship.
• Ancestral worship – at
home and at grave-site.

24. 1. Retain – Cultural & Beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & Demonic
3. Redeem – Neutral
• Filial piety

25. 1. Chinese New Year
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. QingMing Festival
5. Winter Solstice Festival
2015

26. Dumpling Festival

27. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
• Eating rice dumpling
• Promote values of
patriotism and
hatred towards
corruption
• Family time

28. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
• Dragon boat race
• Ancestral worship
• Perfume pouch &
5-colour silk thread

29. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
3. Redeem – Neutral
• Non-dragon boat
race???

30. 1. Chinese New Year
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Dragon Boat Festival
4. QingMing Festival
5. Winter Solstice Festival

32. FactsonFestival
• 2nd most important festival – Harvest
Festival – on the 15th day of the eighth
month in the Lunar calendar
(Autumn full moon) – Sept 15, 2016;
Thursday
• Moon cake Festival
• Lantern Festival

33. MeaningoftheFestival
3 Fundamental Concepts:
1. Gathering / Reunion
2. Thanksgiving
3. Praying / seeking / asking for
blessings:
• Babies / spouse
• Beauty / longevity
• Good future

34. OriginoftheFestival
3 Interesting Stories/Legends:
1.Chang’e & Hou Yi
2.Wu Gang and the Cherry Bay
3.The Jade Rabbit

36. Custom&Practices
1. Family
Gathering
ling jiao Baby Taro

38. Custom&Practices
1. Family Gathering
 Lighting of lantern
 Lantern Riddle 燈謎
 Gazing at the moon

39. Custom&Practices
1. Family Gathering
2. Worship of the Moon

40. - Religious & Demonic
- Cultural & beneficial
- Neutral
ChristianResponse

41. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
1. Family Gathering
2. Eating of
Mooncakes

42. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
1. Family Gathering
2. Eating of Mooncakes
3. Lighting up lanterns
SS2 - 2013
SS2 - 2013
Bukit Bintang -- 2015

43. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
1. Moon Worship
2. Associated Ancestral Worship

44. 1. Retain – cultural & beneficial
2. Reject – Religious & demonic
3. Redeem – Neutral
1. Re-telling the legends… bring in &
relating to spiritual truths
2. Praying / seeking / asking for blessings:
• Babies / spouse
• Beauty / longevity
• Good future

46. Parable of the Sower:
(Mt 13:1-23; Mk 4:1-20; Lk 8:5-15)
•4 types of soil
•75% attrition rates
Conclusion: Sow More Seeds!

47. 1. Preach the word…. in season & out of
season…. (2 Tim 4:2)
Share about your faith… in season & out of
season!
2. Always be prepared to give an answer to
everyone who asks you to give the reason for
the hope that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect… (1 Pet 3:15-16)

48. Jakarta ISIS Attack
Jan 13, 2016
At least 8 dead…
Star Headline
Jan 16, 2016

49. 1. Preach the word…. in season & out of
season…. (2 Tim 4:2)
Share about your faith… in season & out of
season!
2. Always be prepared to give an answer to
everyone who asks you to give the reason for
the hope that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect… (1 Pet 3:15-16)