{"id":9349,"date":"2022-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/sermon-reflection-what-does-the-church-do-for-me\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:56:29","slug":"sermon-reflection-what-does-the-church-do-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/sermon-reflection-what-does-the-church-do-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Reflection &#8211; What Does the Church Do for Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Posted by Adeliyn Lim \u2022 May 23, 2022<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_10 vc_sep_border_width_5 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_separator_no_text vc_custom_1653980010483\" ><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l\"><span  style=\"border-color:#b11f24;\" class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r\"><span  style=\"border-color:#b11f24;\" class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up as a military kid with Christian parents meant that we moved from one church to another with every relocation. When the time came for university and the need to find a new church for myself arose,&nbsp; I went &ldquo;church shopping&rdquo; for the first time. I tried out churches of different denominations. Eventually I went to a Pentecostal church where some of my university mates attended. I continued attending the church even though I did not feel comfortable at times, as I have yet to speak in tongues. When my family moved near my university, I chose to leave that church and joined my family&rsquo;s church of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I went to Singapore for a semester and had to find a church again. I tried a few churches recommended by my friends. One day, I did a Google search and found Aldersgate Methodist Church during semester break. I remembered walking into the church and had this feeling of extreme familiarity even though I did not know a single person there. It was as though I was being welcomed home in the spirit. I never had that feeling walking into any church before that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming back to Malaysia, I went back to the church which my family attended, but I was not able to get comfortable for many reasons. After some time, even my family decided to change churches. That was when I decided to find a church for myself, and the main criterion was that it should feel similar to how I felt the first time I stepped into Aldersgate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When my friend asked me to join her at Dream Centre back in June 2012, I was a bit skeptical as I never liked big churches in Singapore. But when I walked into the auditorium, that happy feeling of being welcomed home returned. And I stayed ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up as a military kid with Christian parents meant that we moved from one church to another with every<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dumc.my\/tm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}