Queen's Road Cell

Chan says that the world focuses on our affluence/acquisitions (what we have) our associations (who we know), our appearance (how we look) our abilities (what we can do) and our accomplishments (what we have done).   We can orientate life around the external (the red bar) or the internal (the blue bar). The red bar is the default way of the world; the blue bar 'is the discipleship way of God'. We need both so that the stature and substance of a person can reflect their true status in life.   Red focuses on externals . Blue focuses on the inner-life . Red values accomplishments . Blue values authenticity . Red values performance results . Blue values growth and learning . Red – competence first. Blue – character first. Red – doing good with the aim of looking good . Blue – doing good flows out of being good . Red – display : outward show. Blue – depth : inward security. Red esteems status . Blue esteems substance . Red – competitive and boastful. Blue – genuinely cele...

 Paradigm 1 The substructure of life is "who we are, what we do when no one sees". It involves "a life of worship, lived before God in fear of him and held together by humility and perseverance." We are to be "firmly anchored in God through the practice of the spiritual disciplines. It is "the work of a lifetime."   The structures of life are areas we need to guard in our personal life. "Time with family...kindred-spirit friends...in the community of God's people." It also involves sleep, diet and exercise.    The superstructure represents the outward accomplisments of our life and ministry. It is built by competence and skill...by working excellently as unto the Lord, in obedience and faithfulness."    Read 1 Samuel 13:1-14. What substructures and structures were lacking in Saul's life? What effect did this have on the superstructure of his life? He disobeyed God's law (either the commandment of Samuel (13:8, cf. 10:9) of t...

Our inaugural study of our post-Omega series. In this reflection Edmund Chan defines the layers that make up our lives: 1. The substructure is "who we are, what we do when no one sees". The Christian looks for "a life of worship lived before God in the fear of Him, held together by humility, wisdom and perseverance". This "is the work of a lifetime" 2. The structure , he defines as the areas we need to guard us in our pesronal life. This means the time we spend with family, spiritual friends and the community of God's people. 3. The superstructure is the outward accomplishments of our life and ministry, built by competence and skill... established by working excellently. It is noteworthy that this is not wrong in and of itself, but that our superstructure should be fully supported by the strength of the substructure and structure. I asked: is this categorization Biblical? These are not terms found in Scripture! Yet the Bible indeed makes referen...