April 1st Livingstones 288 Meeting

1 Corinthians 13: 13 (New Living Translation)
“There are three things that will endure -- faith, hope and love -- and the greatest of these is love.”

Our network’s 288 meeting was held at the TOUCH Centre Chapel on 1st April. Besides being April Fools’ Day, it was a platform opportunity for the ladies in Livingstones to rise up! The band was an all-girls band, well, except for our drummer (“Miss” Arun?); and our speaker for the night was our very own Pastor Fei Fei who is also affectionately called our Livingstones’ spiritual “ma ma”.

That night, Pastor Fei Fei shared about love and unity; and her message was titled “Love: A Responsible Attitude”. We were taught that love is an attitude in which we will want what’s best for the person we are showing love to. In order to get this right attitude, we have to first understand how our Heavenly Father defines love.

Matthew 22:37-39
"Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind” This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself."

John 15:12-13
"I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you. And here is how to measure it -- the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends."

Pastor Fei Fei brought up the term ‘agape love', something that I’ve heard several times since the days of Sunday school and continuously learning to put it into practice. To me, it means that we have to do something for someone and even if I don’t like this person I will still do it willingly. Please do not forget God’s commandments for us, especially the one which tells us that if we love our Father, we will love His people.

When we’ve achieved the right knowledge which will lead to the right attitude being instilled in us, we will naturally be aware of the right actions that will lead us to do the best thing (that we know is good) for the people whom we love and even feeling uplifted about it!

To end off, I would like to give to each one of us a reminder from 1 John 3:18 “Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.”

Will you do something for a friend today and show some love?

Written by:
Pamelia Soh
Pastor Fei Fei’s 12