Month: September 2012

  • Teachings of How and Why to Love Upon/Minister to a Black Hole

    FIREWORKS vs. BLACK HOLES
    Whenever I run about(Patrick lingo for ministering/gospelizing/loving upon) there are the lovable, the harder to love, and the unlovable. I see it like this, some people are like FIREWORKS because when you love upon boom sha ka la ka instant joy in the sky and to continue loving upon them is almost effortless. Then there are those who are like digging for treasure in a range between soft soil and hard cement, it takes more work, some blood, sweat, and tears, but at the end of it all there is still that joy and satisfaction. But then there are some people and oh how I pray God blesses my brethren with the right amount of these type of people that are like BLACK HOLES, they are this endless void of nothingness that just sucks everything up; all of your love, vitality, energy, time, joy, and strength is just sucked right up with nothing returned and the moment you STOP going to God for those necessary things you're left dry and whorrebly sucked up.

    [Chris Pang] was one of the first black holes I encountered when I started seeing myself as a true man of God. I printed out all the long conversations we would have on Facebook in order to pray, re-read, and analyze them later. I also remember meeting up with him at Dennys and it was then I started to coin the rant/term of "fireworks and black holes" in my running about. But now I say this with my joy complete to exhort my brethren who find themselves by God's sovereign will in the midst of a black hole or several of them. I grace drivenly implore this: DONT LOSE HEART, STAY FOCUSED ON THE GOSPEL, and LOVE UPON the black holes that God has placed sovereignly in your life for you to gospelize because it is NOT in vain! The following is taken from his blog after several years from our first encounter and many God glorifying dominoes that fell: 

    Teachings of a Black Hole (aka Chris Pang as he struggles with this)

    Lesson 1 - self condemn yourself every time
    Lesson 2 - every time someone shows you love suck in all that love and show no love back
    Lesson 3 - every time someone encourages you, you say in your heart, "Whateva...."
    Lesson 4 - when the going gets tough in the christian life stop fighting
    Lesson 5 - carry a thousand worries and burdens at one time and rarely share them with others
    Lesson 6 - watch sermon jams every day so you can have some passion because it won't last anyways
    Lesson 7 - every time someone answers a question, instead of being satisfied say after, 'well what bout this?'
    Lesson 8 - struggle with whether or not you truly are saved, in fact believe you aren't saved
    Lesson 9 - tell others that you rarely believe in grace and that God's promises aren't working
    Lesson 10 - feel discouraged every day for falling short, and you anticipate that the next day be the same
    Lesson 11 - remember things aren't going to get better in the future
    Lesson 12 - label yourself as a failure sometimes because you truly think you are sometimes
    Lesson 13 - keep reminded yourself Romans 8:1, but it doesn't seem to stir you up at all
    Lesson 14 - have all this knowledge in your mind but never seems to transfer to your heart

    Most importantly just because one is a black hole or not, Christ still loves you and has already justified you in Christ if you are indeed saved.

    Credits to Whale King (Patrick Fisher) for coining the term, and Kevin Wu for helping come up with some of the ideas, as well as my other friends that have helped me through this condition and continually help with encouraging words and actions.

     
     
    This is my response to his blog: 
     
    Teachings of How and Why to Love Upon/Minister to a Black Hole.
     
    Lesson 1 - Lovingly slap them in the face and/or punch them in the gut(the spiritual and/or physical ones, use Godly wisdom) with Gospel centered truths like, "In Christ there in valid condemnation upon you, ever from yourself!"
    Lesson 2 - Be loved and satisfied infinitely by God and keep loving them from the overflow of God's infinite love upon your own finite being.
    Lesson 3 - Don't give up or lose heart even if all your efforts feel in vain, remember God is sovereign and keep ministering.
    Lesson 4 - When the going gets tough and the running about gets weary and messy, embrace your sweet disposition and fight for your joy as the justified fighter you are in Christ.
    Lesson 5 - Be transparent and let the Christ shine through you, listen with love and ask the right questions to the right soul at the right time in order to be God's means of grace in destroying worries, purging lies, and to help carry heavy burdens of the black hole.
    Lesson 6 - Be accountable and intentional with them in ways that a sermon jam can't in order to sustain a passion for God because His glory is good enough to satisfy every soul forever.
    Lesson 7 - Always have an answer - Point it back to Christ!
    Lesson 8 - Gospelize! Gospelize! Gospelize! And if they still struggle, point them to the evidence of God's grace and the gospel working in their lives. For Example: If they weren't a Christian, why would they struggle and even care? And the truth that God has placed you in their lives with a heart to gospelize them is more proof of God pursuing and wooing.
    Lesson 9 - First make sure you know God's promises personally for yourself and then tell them with truth and love that they are whorrebly wrong and falling for stupid lies.
    Lesson 10 - Don't be a spineless sugar coating jellyfish; exhort, rebuke, and reprove with truth like, "Get over yourself! Why are you being so whorrebly stupid? Its NOT about you! Its about Jesus Christ! Remember the Gospel!"
    Lesson 11 - Saturate yourself in the Gospel and God's Word in order filter and demolish the beautifully eloquent lies that destroy from the truth.
    Lesson 12 - Love them as Christ loves you and label/proclaim him a FELLOW failure amazingly saved by grace!
    Lesson 13 - Don't ever ever ever be discouraged by the discord between the mind and the heart, the lack of feeling how we "ought" to feel, or the lack of being stirred up; keep preaching, pleading, and pushing.
    Lesson 14 - Love them with Christ's love and therefore spend serious amount of prayer, pleading that the kindle in their mind would be set ablaze by the Holy Spirit with a passion that reaches to their heart because you cannot do that for them, only God can.
     
    Lesson A - God is sovereign and all your loving upon and ministering to is not in vain, but it is all design! Vigorously take part in the final salvation of the many and glorify God even if it means beconstifusingly running about with black holes. Love THEM because you and them are loved by God infinitely more!
     
    Lesson B - Black holes are God's design to sanctify His people in ways that fireworks and the different soils can't. Therefore, don't run away from them, but embrace them as Christ has embraced you!
     
    Selah
     
     

    P.S. I truebdetrueb fancy this band as they stir my affection for God. I love Gangstar Korean Indie Folk Christian for the glory of God and the final salvation of the many!