Juz imagine this story.
Once upon a time, there was a factory which produced a sophisticated tool that can fix anything. This factory was located in a very secret place, which anyone didn’t know. The factory is owned by a man who is veeery rich and he wants to make the world a better place.

So he created these sophisticated tools, and he gives these tools free for everyone. He placed some big box contained these tools (and its manual book, because it’s very sophisticated, so people will need the manuals) in every place, so everyone can just pick the tool and use it. He wrote “Free All-fix Tool for Everyone by JC Factory”.

Some of the people -because of their experience of being cheated- don’t believe the tool, and they didn’t take it.

Some of the people -being so greedy- take the tools so many.

Some of the people, juz wanna try this tool, take one of them.

Some of the people, who knows the owner, take the tools delightedly.

And time passes by. The factory is still unseen, but most of the people have seen the product of the factory.

Some of the people who didn’t believe the tools changed their mind. They try the tool.

Some of the users, who don’t read the manuals carefully,use the tool wrongly, and they break it, they can’t use the tool anymore, so they just throw it away.

Some of the users, who read the manuals carefully, make a good use of the tools. Do they have problems in using the tools? Of course, but, everytime they read the manuals again, thay find the answer of their problem.

Some of the greedy people, who took so many tools, become confused because they want to use the tools altogether, but they can’t, the tools are broken if they used altogether. Some of them even sell the broken tools they took, and changed the name of the tools with their name.

And a lot more of different experience of using the tools.

Many debates come up, arguing the exsistence of the factory which produces the tool. Some of the people, who know the owner well, said that the factory is exist, and they told people the goodness of the owner. But some of the people who don’t believe said, they can’t believe the owner. Because : (1) They can’t see him and(2)Some people still suffered thogh they use the tools. It means the tools are really useless.

And the group of people who knows the owner well can’t answer the first argument, because it’s the owner’s will that he can’t be seen. Maybe sometimes he shows himself to a person, at his will, of course.

For the second argument, they (those who know the owner) answered, maybe people don’t read the manuals well, so they can’t make a good use of the tool. Or they’re being so greedy, so they break the tools.

But the unbelievers juz said, we can’t believe the manuals because the owner is unbelieveable, and so do the manuals.

The debate will be never end. But one thing for sure, the owner of the factory will keep producing those tools..it is up to the people, whether they want to believe and make a good use with the tool, or don’t believe and get nothing except endless debates.

Nice story, isn’t it? It is about God, world, and the people. The owner of the factory is God. He created the world, and gave people blessings (the tools) and commandments (the manuals). People can’t make a good use of the blessing unless they read and obey the manuals. Maybe you argue my statement by saying, you can see there are a lot of people who don’t believe in God but still very rich. I just can say, they are like the people in my story, who just use the tools, but don’t read the manuals (par 10).

Then, the suffering thingy. Why did God create the world with these suffering? Why didn’t He create a peaceeeeeefullll world? (as in heaven) From the start, God wanted humans to grow ‘spiritually’, the placement of the tree in the midst of the garden is the evidence. He can created the Garden of Eden without that tree, rite? But He did create the tree, to test humans. The same like this world’s suffering. Why does He put suffering in this world? To test their believe, their love to God, maybe He even wants to test YOU, yeah, you. Your love to others, your compassion, that’s why He created suffering. But..BUT..God doesn’t make suffering without end, for He will make a way.

I have suffered a bad illness 10 years ago, it is started when I was born. It is caused by er.. i don’t know what the scientific name for that illness, but it is caused by uncompleted parts of my body. So I have a little hole near my right ear, and it often bleed. It was painful. For acknowledgement, I was born in a Christian family, so reading Bible is my daily life. When I was 8 years old, I read a verse from my Bible that speaks a lot in my heart. It is said, “No temptation is overtaken you except such in common to man; but God is faithful. Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape, that you maybe able to bear it.” And I believe that verse, I believe that God is responsible to my suffering, but He won’t juz leave me alone with this suffering, He will help me to face this suffering. And the story goes, the next year, I became healthy. The hole was closed. The doctor couldn’t say a thing. He was as surprised as I was (haha). I believe that was a miracle. Science can’t explain miracle. Science can’t explain God.

So..what will you choose? Will you take the tools that can fix anything in your life? or..make this debate longer? Erm..for a suggestion, to those who don’t believe God, why don’t you try to read Bible? Maybe The Owner will show Himself to you. As He did in my life. Are you brave enough to try?

God Bless You all.

Ya itu yang taktulis di cynicpad..kalo isa kalian juga liak n kasi komen yah.. hahah walaupun kata bang yuzuv “percuma” ^^ kalo tanganmu gatel tulis aja..hihi

hi..hi.. ni saya lagi..
cuman mau nanggepin lage.. buat si noet2 yang lagi gak jelas, bingung2..
whoever si x tuh, yang pasti dia bukan aku.. hehehe.. (self protection)

so.. kalo kamu tanya Yesus kaya apa dulu.. that’s will not be answered(exactly) till the end of time.. coz orang jama sekarang gak pernah ada yang tahu si BIG BOSS dulu kaya apa.. tapi yang jelas, HE did good things. that’s the only answer.. hehehe.. jadi sekarang, apa yang DIA buat?

1. HE was always having a good relationship w/ HIS BIG GOD, THE HEAVENLY FATHER.

2. HE did things that is acceptable to FATHER GOD only.. So what such things are acceptable?? All that is taught in the bible (was known as Moses’ pentataukh? whatever lah.. HIHI)

3. HE was a good boy. HE was always obeying HIS “humanly” daddy and mommy.

4. HE loved everyone.. (maksudnya mengasihi.. bukan yang “love” arti indo -> mesti dianggep love between male and female.. huaah..)

5. HE just did a normal life..

6. HIS hair was normally long, like the other man in that time, gak dibuat cepak kaya ABRI, biar keliatan suci.. ato biar keliatan kaya kopyah? hihihi..

7. maybe HE also had tatoo? or coloured HIS hair? maybe that were kinds of their culutre? who knows? as long as it was not contradictive with GOD’s favourite (kesukaan TUHAN ->males cari kata2 yang pas.hehe)

8. maybe HE was fallin in love with Ms. Siti?? or Ms. Victoria? or Ms. Chin Yen? (that’s just names guys, dun mikir aneh2)hehe..

kesimpulan e.. HE lived as a normal man.. a human being.. real human.. human ceeerrrr lah pokoe. tapi kenapa DIA bisa disukai orang? Aku rasa DIA gak sok suci.. biasa aja.. mungkin juga suka goda2in orang, kaya kita2 godain noet2 gitu.. hihi.. Buktinya.. waktu DIA ketinggalan di bait suci. Kalo DIA sok suci, or in other word sok alim.. DIA pasti bakal bareng ortunya terus.. kuper gitu.. gak mungkin bakal ketinggalan begitu.. Kalo DIA bisa sampe ketinggalan gitu, aku rasa DIA abis main2 dulu gitu kale, kejar2an ma temen2nya dulu.. main kelereng.. ato main sepak bola dulu di halaman bait sucinya tuh.. (hihii) or kemungkinan yang (adu agak sungkan si ngmgnya.. tapi DIA gak mungkin marah la), mungkin DIA abis kesengsem.. di pinggir tiang gitu, ada cewek lewat.. ce ile.. cakep juga tu cewe.. siapa ya namanya.. (tapi karena waktu itu masih umur 12, masih cupu, jadi ya, masi malu2 gitu, mau deketin juga malu, ngajak kenalan malu, ngajak omong2 apa lagi.. jadi cuman terkagum2 gitu, terkesima ngeliat tu cewe.. hehehe, i just wondering.. hehe) eh, udah lama, baru sadar, euiy, bait suci udah sepi.. wadu, uda pada pulang ne.. gawaat.. DIA cepet2 lari sambil teriak2.. BABEEEEE… EEMBOOOOOKKK… BEEEE….MBOOOOOKKK…

Gedebux… gubrax.. gubrax… jedukk.. toeengg.. toeengg… bruukk.. aoouuuwwww…

“waduu.. sorry2 nyo… om gak keliatan, nyo, sorry2 yah..” (eh ternyata tu para ahli taurat tu..) eh, si om.. gpp om, sorry emang saya yang salah kog,lari2 gak liat2.. maaf ya om.. lagian kata Firman TUHAN kan, kita jatuh tidak akan sampai tergeletak, jadi jatuh tadi gak kerasa kog, hehe.. (Widiiih.. ni anak keren banget, kecil2 ngmgnya alkitabiah bgt gitu) Wadu nyo, kmu kog pinter bgt gitu.. Sini2 duduk dulu ngmg2 ama om2 yah.. emang kamu anaknya siapa siii.. bla..bla..bla.. (sambil tangan si little Jesus tuh dipegangin gitu).. (Ciah.. ni om.. gak tau gua lagi buru2 apa, ni diajak ngmg2 lage.. waduu.. ya uda la.. ngmg2 bntr aja asik juga kale.. hihihi.. ->heart’s words, tu nakal kan, gak sok suci.. hehehehe, that’s what on my mind)..

n singkat cerita yang kita semua tau.. DIA “keasikan ngmg” sampe lupa pulang..

Dari sini kesimpulannya udah jelas.. DIA emang limpah FT, n bukan cuma bisa ngmg, HE did it !!! bukan dengan cara2 yang sok suci2 gitu.. tapi DIA melakukan semua dengan cara yang benar.. DIA pasti anak yang sopan. DIA anak yang baik.. n yang paling puokok.. DIA selalu taat Firman Tuhan ! that’s the main point.. Pokoe harus gitu, nti yang lainnya pasti mengikuti.. Contohnya.. Kalo orang itu cinta TUHAN, cinta Firman Tuhan,  deket ama TUHAN, pasti TUHAN atur yang terbaik.. kalo oran itu gak asik ya misalnya, trus dia deket ma TUHAN, trus dia minta TUHAN.. “TUHAN tolong donk, aku ini kurang gini.. kurang gini.. jadinya gak asik gitu.. tolong biar aku bisa berubah ya..” guess what, TUHAN pasti concern bout that.. bisa aja, DIA kirimin temen, yang asik bgt, trus, mereka berteman, n si anak yang doa tadi jadi ketularan enak.. bisa kan??

Emang ada, orang yang keliatannya asik bgt, tapi dia rusak abiz gitu.. yah jangan cuma diambil asiknya aja, tiru2 gitu.. weleh.. we must back to the bible, pokoe mesti cinta TUHAN. ya gitu la.. dari tadi aku tulis panjang2.. intinya ya cuma itu tok lah.. kalo bisa ya kita juga mesti usaha la, berusaha asik.. tapi itu yang kedua ok? yang utama is…. (*people answering*)

Kalo Jesus lives in this now time.. Jamin, DIA bakal biasa aja.. Kaya anak2 masa kini.. funky mennn.. hehehe.. Mungkin DIA bakal jadi drummer, saingan ambek aku.. (^^ Hihihi).. Kita main bal2an bareng.. (Wew, keren bgt..) etc.. Yang pasti gak model seng kacamata tebel, reference book 3000 pages di tangan selalu, gitu2.. mmm.. sorry, bukannya aku membatasi cara TUHAN, ato sekelompok model orang, tapi kayaknya, stylenya DIA ngga gitu2 amat de.. Cerdik seperti ular, tapi tulus kaya merpati..  hehehe.. tapi mokong2 soro ya gak lah, yo kaya kita2 gini la.. DIA ndak meso2.. (Harammm..) dll.. n DIA juga ikut nggudo2i noet2.. HIHIHIHI…  Tapi DIA tetep baik bgt.. Waktu main bola, kalo ada temen yang tackling DIA ngawur, or main kasar, dorong2, dll, DIA will just give a huge smile.. cling.. cling.. (Golden teeth.. ^^ hehe, kidding BOSS.. ^^ hehe) waktu di kelas, ada temen yang gak disukai, DIA gak akan segan2 untuk ndeketin!! Apalagi ikut2an benci.. beh, gak bakal.. kecuali kalo orang itu such as “ular beludak” gitu, kaya orang farizi yang munafik, DIA bakal jadi keras.. so, that’s our BIG MODERN STYLISH GOD ^^n DIA bakal ogah sama sekali ama dosa.. selama itu gak dosa, n gak menyebabkan orang lain berdosa, DIA pasti fun2 aja.. cengengas-cengenges bareng.. ngga yang “Sorry ya, gak ada waktu buat itu..” dll.. pasti jadi temen yang asik punya.. (as we feel in our daily life with HIM, don’t you?)

 ya uda la..

I think so.. so that’s my opinion guys.. jadi kalian simpulin sendiri yah, if JESUS live today, how will he look alike? you know.. if YOU really know HIM..

19/10/2006 – 10.48 p.m

/ Youww_3 / -Perth, Western Australia-

Apakah Dia jadi kaya orang nerd gtu? Kutu buku, kemana-mana jalan membawa Alkitab di tangan?

Apakah Dia pergi ke kantin bawa Alkitab, ke lab biologi bawa Alkitab, ke lab komputer bawa Alkitab.?

Apakah Dia bakal maen sepakbola waktu olahraga?

Apakah Dia bakal maen game komputer di rumah? (Apakah Dia kadang maen Dota? )

Apakah Yesus bakal jalan-jalan ke mall?

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What would Jesus do?

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Pikiran ini bergema di kepalaku beberapa saat ini. Bukan aku pengen mengira2 n mau mbuat ajaran baru..tapi karena..aku pengen membayangkan, gmn caranya hidup yang bener sebagai orang Kristen di saat-saat ini. Dan satu-satunya cara supaya tahu, ya dengan membayangkan Yesus tinggal di zaman ini kan..kita harus hidup sama seperti Yesus. Ya nga?

Mengapa aku pengen tahu cara hidup Yesus kayak apa? Karena…baru aja aku dikirimi email dari beberapa temenku di Indo, mereka cerita kalo salah satu temenku yang mayan deket, kasi inisial X aja, buat masalah di universitasnya di Indo. Masalah ama cewe..gtu..dan ceritanya tu dah menyebar ke satu jurusan katanya.. (parah banget). Kalo soal itu sih mnurut aku dah biasa, emg X ini kadang suka buat masalah (hehe), tapi sedihnya, temenku yang kirim email ini bilang lagi, si X tu ga disukai di kelas. Dari 18 prang yang ada di kelas, yang ga benci ma dia cuma 2!!! Omg..dan alasannya..kenapa? Karena dia SOK SUCI.. (untuk diketahui, si X tu Kristen, pernah ikut PD kita dan aku tahu dia sekarang rajin sate, doa , de es te)

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Aku ga abiz pikir..gmn tho si X ini..tauk lah.. Karena itu, aku coba imagine, apakah kalo Yesus di posisi si X ini, apakah Dia juga bakal dibenci ama kelasnya karena SOK SUCI? Kalo dibenci karena masalah cewe ga mungkin lah..tapi apakah Dia bakal di cap SOK SUCI ama temen2 sekelasNya? I’m wondering..pliz kasi aku comment..bingung nih..

NB : Alkitab ga pernah ngomong secara jelas gimana Yesus waktu remaja, tapi ada satu hal yang pasti. Di antara cerita Yesus waktu 12 tahun dan cerita Yesus 30 tahun, ada kalimat, “Dan Dia tumbuh semakin besar, dan semakin DISUKAI oleh Allah dan MANUSIA” So..how? Aku butuh masukan, soalnya aku maw kasi comment ke si X..

18/10/2006 [NoetZ]™

btw, pa kabar kalian? miz u all so much guys!! andre, ame, william, udah lama gak ketemu.. Joshi juga pa kbr? keep in holiness yah.. tetep rendah hati, n cari kehendak TUHAN..

ok2?

bener2 gak tau mau ngmg apa si, cuman pengen  ngisi aja..

ntar de, kpn2 isi lagi yah…

bye.. see ya guys..

GOD bless ya !

~ Youww_3@yahoo.com.au ~

Beberapa hari ini jujur aja aku sering bolong sate.. Alesannya si cuma satu. Terlalu sibuk. Tugas menumpuk, bikin essay 1500 words, bikin paintings, bikin storyboard, latian musik di gereja, latian musik buat band, maen game (><), dst. Aku tau benernya ni gak boleh.. Tapi aku selalu ngomong ma Tuhan, “Tuhan, satenya ntar aja yah.. Ni lagi sibuk banget.. Ga sempet nih..” Tuhan ga bilang apa2 sih, tapi aku baru sadar kalo Dia jawab doaku. Hari Minggu yang lalu ini Dia jawab doaku lewat seorang supir Taxi.

Hari Minggu ini aku bangun telat (gara2 malemnya tidur jam 2), 45 menit sebelum kebaktian mulai, padahal aku maen musik di gereja, dan jarak gereja dari asramaku tu 1 jam kalo naek MRT. Akirnya aku mutusin buat naek Taxi deh. Aku nyegat Taxi yang lagi lewat di depan kompleks asramaku. And the story goes..

Setelah beberapa menit duduk, aku dikagetin ma supir Taxinya. Coz dia tiba-tiba ngomong, (aku langsung translate ke indo aja yah) “Kamu mau ke gereja ya?” Aku jawab singkat aja, masi ngantuk nih. “Iya.” Eh, si dianya lanjut lagi. “Kamu berdoa ama Yesus Kristus?” Aku jawab, “Iya lah..” Terus aku iseng nanya aja, maksudku basa-basi, takpikir ni orang pasti Kristen juga, tanya gitu2.. Aku tanya, “Kamu ke gereja juga?” Dia jawab, “Ndak. Saya gak ke gereja. Aku berdoa di kuil (lupa namanya) dan diberkati banyak. Barusan saya dapet untung besar gara2 berdoa di kuil itu.” Aku cuma jawab singkat, “Oh..” ni orang lagi seneng banget nih. Dan, (Oh My God) orang ini nyerocos lagi, “Kamu ndak bilang kalo saya nyembah setan?” Aku masi gak nyambung, aku bilang, “Ha?” Dia njelasin, “Bagi orang Kristen kan semua tuhan selain Yesus kan dari setan. Berarti saya menyembah setan ya?” Aku jawab, “Iya, untuk orang Kristen Tuhan tu cuma Yesus. Selain itu bukan Tuhan, tapi tuhan (waktu itu aku pake istilah man-made god). ” Aku jawabnya pake cara halus, bukan “Iya, semua tuhan palsu tu dari setan. Anda menyembah setan.” Isa2 aku diturunin di jalan saat itu juga, pikirku ^^ Gak jadi ke gereja dunk. Lalu dia lanjut lagi, “Berarti dari setan?” >< Duh ni orang, pikirku. “Iya”, aku jawab singkat.

Ah, udah terlanjur masuk ke hal2 yang gituan pikirku. Sekalian diinjili aja.. Akirnya aku tanya, “Kalo kamu mati, kamu masuk mana? Percaya masuk surga ga?” (kata2 pembuka yang khas banget buat nginjili orang.. hehe) Tapi dia jawab, “Aku gak peduli, mau masuk mana aja boleh.” Mak, shock. Baru PERTAMA kalinya aku ketemu orang kaya gini. Aku tanya2 lagi, dan dia jawab sambil cerita tentang apa yang dia percaya gtu. Setiap kali aku masuk ke daerah tentang percaya ama Tuhan Yesus, dia selalu nentang dengan kelemahan2 orang Kristen – yang aku ga isa lawan, karena itu fakta- misalnya, dia cerita tentang temennya yang Kristen tu punya selingkuhan. Lalu aku jawab dia, “Kalau seseorang bener-bener Kristen, dia gak mungkin melakukan hal2 kayak gituan.” Nah, dia mbales, “Nah kamu sendiri gimana? Pernah bohong ga?” “Pernah, tapi tentu aja setelah aku sadar, aku minta maaf.” “Nah, berarti sama saja donk. Masa setiap kali orang berbuat salah, terus minta ampun, berbuat salah lagi, lalu minta ampun lagi. Nonsense tu namanya.” Lalu dia kasi contoh, “Misalnya ada orang yang seumur hidupnya jahat, membunuh, memerkosa, selingkuh sana sini, trus dia dihukum mati. Nah, pas detik terakhir dia mau mati, dia berdoa ama Tuhan, Tuhan ampuni aku. Berarti dia masuk surga donk?” Aku jawab, “Iya, pasti masuk surga, kalo dia bener-bener percaya” “Gak bisa diterima itu. Dia udah merugikan banyak orang, masa masi masuk surga?” Dan terus gitu, aku kasi dia penjelasan tentang kekristenan, selalu ditentang dengan fakta-faktanya sendiri. Kayaknya kepahitan gtu. Aku ga isa ngomong apa-apa sampek an.

Akirnya percakapan kita diakhiri, karena dah deket hotel tempat kebaktian gerejaku. Dan kesimpulan akirnya, kita tetep bertahan ama argumen masing-masing. Dan aku pun turun dari Taxi dengan perasaan gak enak banget.

Aku sadar juga, mungkin ni cara Tuhan negur aku gara-gara ga sate.. Karena di percakapan tadi aku gak inget satu ayat sama skali.. Tiba-tiba blank banget.. gatau mana yang harus dikluarin..payah deh.. Tapi aku juga liat dari sisi lain, yaitu tentang kesempatan yang hilang. Di blogku aku tulis kalo kita harus MENYADARI kalo suatu kesempatan adalah suatu kesempatan YANG BERHARGA. Nah disini, aku mau ngomong, kalo kita tu jangan cuma menyadari kesempatan. Tapi harus bersiap-siap menanti kesempatan. Soalnya kita bener-bener gatau kapan kesempatan itu dateng. Kayak contoh peristiwaku tadi. Gara-gara aku gak siap-siap buat kesempatan itu, aku gak isa kasi penjelasan yang terbaik tentang keselamatan ke supir Taxi tadi. Seandainya, abiz dia nganterin aku ke gereja, dia tiba-tiba kecelakaan n meninggal, n gak masuk surga..itu salahku..gak isa membuat dia percaya, ya kan? Pernah kebayang yang gituan?

Duh, jadi bete banget..aku berharap isa ketemu dia sekali lagi, tapi kali ini aku pengen nyiapin diri sebaik-baiknya dulu. Jadi, pren, apapun yang kamu lakukan, selalu siap sedia buat kesempatan yang dateng yah. Yang paling terpenting dari sisi rohani, biar kita isa milih decision yang bener, kalo sesuatu dateng. Oke?

Jadilah kayak produk yang diiklanin di teve tu..yang mottonya “Sedia Setiap Saat!” hehe

GBU..

10/10/2006 [NoetZ]™

Gn ceritae, kemaren itu aku mari cellgroup. Ws kira2 4 minggu ini, d cellgroup itu skrg ada program dr gembalaku. Tujuan e beno kita lbh maju gt, lbh ngerti. Jadi tiap minggu dikasi tema2 dasar, ttg gereja, pelayanan, dll Pokoe sg klasik2 gt. N ntar aker taon kayak e, bakal diadano kompetisi ttg alkitab. Soal2 e ya ttg sg ws difirmano itu. Jadi cellgroup satu lawan cellgroup laen. Sg juara nti dapet gelar Cellgroup Idol. Maka e temen2 satu cellgroup pada bingung nyateti khotbah e gt. Anyway… aku ngrasa gak sreg. That’s not the point that God wants us to do. Apalagi, baru2 ini ae, gerejaku suibuk ngadano acara konser Kerispatih sg notabene pasti bukan konser rohani. Menurut ku ya gak salah si tp ya itu, gak ada tujuan sama sekali. Ada sg bilang nek konser ini tujuan e buat kita2 lebih disiplin, isa ngerti cara e berorganisasi trus ditambah lagi, nek konser ini untung, dana e bakal dipake buat pelayanan misi. Yah pokoe rasane mekso pol gt. Sekarang nek dipikir scr akal logika, benere kan gak ada hubungane blas. Nek dipekso2 yo sek isa masuk si. Basically, pertanyaane ka n gn, buat apa gereja ngadano konser musik duniawi? tau ndk ya apa repot e ngurus konser itu trus lagi dana e. Sampe montang manting nyari sponsor. Dana e kan ya gedhe, mrgt bingung promosi beno tiket e laku… Emang si kita doa, berserah b Tuhan, minta Tuhan tolong. Tapi, sg kita lakuno itu bukan sg Tuhan harepno bt kita. Apalagi sg ngadano ni sebuah gereja, dg tujuan2 yg dipaksa gt menurut ku beno ketokan e bener. Tapi bener e konser ini kan bt having fun gt. Oh iya, sebelom e konser ini, kita smp ngadano bazaar brg. Aku ngrasa, itu cuma buang2 waktu, tenaga, n duit. Kita dipekso2 gt bt korban uang, beli tiket sg akeh trus kita dsrh jual. Harga tiket e yo gak murah. Tau dewe kan, aku kan d OZ skrg. Iya nek d indo gak pa2. Initine, aku ngrasa kegiatan2 sg dilakuno itu gak penting n gak jelas tujuan e. Maka e aku dw gak mau terlalu ambil bagian. Aku ndk ada hati bt ikut kyk begituan, aku ndk ada beban sama sekali.

 Jujur, selama d Perth ini, aku kurang buka suara gt. Ndk kayak d sby, nek ada apa sg gak nggenah titik, aku ws pasti angkat suara n ngomong to the point. Aku d sini ngerasa, aku kan sek baru, bok terlalu aneh2, kan ndk enak. Aku mending diem sek ae n belajar sek liat sikon, dll … Tp d ati ini g tenang blas. Aku td doa pun, Tuhan ya ngmg beberapa hal pribadi ke aku. Aku sedih ngeliat betapa bobrok e rohani anak2 Tuhan d sini. Mereka belom siap sama sekali bt ikut pengangkatan. Mereka sek suka having fun dlm gereja n memang si mereka rajin2 pergi gereja tp apa buah e dr apa sg mereka lakuno. Paling cuma satu, setia … itu tok. Aku ngmng gn bukan berarti kabeh org kyk gt, tp aku ngmng scr general. Aneh2 la poko e. Aku pribadi punya pendapat kyk gn, pertumbuhan rohani itu bukan diukur dr kita menang kompetisi n jadi cellgorup idol. Bukan diukur dari jago2an ttg alkitab. Podo ae b org farisi nek gt. Meskipun, kita mmg hrs ngerti n haus akan firman Tuhan. Tapi point e bukan d situ… Sg traker, d cellgroup itu dibahas ttg pelayanan. Dasar bgt, intine kita hrs rendah hati, kasih, berdoa, dll sg klasik2 gt la pokoe. D gerejaku sini ya ditekeno ttg masuk surga, hidup suci, mengapa ke gereja… Aku terus terang bilang, itu sama sekali ndak salah. Itu bener 100% tp nek dibalekno b kita, trus so what? trus kita harus gimana? Apa sg hrs kita lakuno?

Dr pengalaman ku ikut Tuhan selama 5 tahon ini, hal sg paling utama n dasar dr kekristenan ini itu sg disebut nama e HUBUNGAN. Christian is not a religion but it is a relationship. Kristen itu bukan suatu agama. Contoh gampang e ya ahli2 taurat itu b org farisi itu. Maka e kenapa kekristenan d dunia barat itu loyo, banyak gereja tutup padahal kita tau, kekristenan itu kan dulu disebarno dr eropa. Mereka discovery gt b bawa misi gospel, mberitano injil tp ternyata mereka skrg sg malah mundur. Itu akibat e nek kita njadino kristen cuma agama bukan hubungan. Aku pribadi punya pendapat, kekristenan seseorang itu ndk akan maju tanpa ada hubungan yg baik dg Tuhan n sesama. Banyak org khotbah e gembar gembor ttg masuk surga, ttg neraka, ttg sg serem2, ada lg sg khotbah e ttg rendah hati, mengasihi, jadi orang baek, dll tp mereka lupa bahwa yang harus ditekankan pada jemaat itu adalah HUBUNGAN. Firman itu yg disampaikan bakal cuma jadi sebatas pengetahuan. Mereka ndk pernah ngalami suatu hubungan pribadi dg Tuhan, mereka ndk pernah denger suara e Tuhan. Banyak org mikir bhw dgr suara Tuhan itu rasa e kok something sg impossible. Padahal, itu basic soro. Kita anak2 Tuhan hrs bisa dgr suara Bapa kita. Kita bukan anak yg tuli n kita nggak punya Bapa yg bisu. Nama e hubungan, komunikasi itu kan berarti ada at least 2 oknum sg berbicara, mereka isa slg denger. Maka e aku ngrasa d OZ ini, gereja ku ws kehilangan arah, kehilangan apa sg jd kehendak e Tuhan. 

 Kalo kita mau ngukur pertumbuhan rohani kita, gampang e kyk gn, tanya b dirimu dw, seberapa rindu kamu b Tuhan? Gmn jam2 doano? Seberapa haus kamu akan firman Tuhan? Sudah saksi ttg Tuhan ke berapa org? Sudah berapa jiwa yang kamu menangkan? 

Pertanyaan2 basic kyk gt, coba tanyano b dirimu dw n jwb dgn jujur, percuma membohongi diri sendiri. Tuhan tau apa sg ada d hatimu plg dalem. Seumur hidup, jujur, aku ngrasano pekerjaan Tuhan sg luar biasa itu ya wkt smp kelas 2- 3 itu. Dahsyat soro Roh Kudus, ndk ada sg isa mbatesi nek Roh Kudus mbuat Revival, pemulihan hubungan kita b Tuhan. Itu sg smp skrg ada d pikiranku, aku bener2  merindukan hal itu isa terjadi lagi d OZ ini. D saat teduh ku, Tuhan mst taruh hal ini n aku tanya b Tuhan, Tuhan kapan? Tuhan blg, tunggu waktuKU. Nanti akan tiba waktu e Tuhan bt revival. Aku kemaren share b 2 temenku, aku blg, eh menurut ku, ntar pasti ada something sg terjadi sg bakal menggoncangkan australia. Liaten ae, org2 australi skrg ini di nina bobok an dg kenyamanan, kemakmuran, n keamanan. Tambah lama mereka tambah jahat. Hal2 sg nyakiti ati e Tuhan, mereka lakuno kabeh. Pasti la, nti nek ws ngelewati bates, Tuhan murka n disikat. Kayak sg kita tau terjadi d beberapa kota sg skrg ini ato sg d alkitab, kyk sodom n gomora.

Dalem ati, aku ngerasa, ini saat e aku bt angkat suara. Aku ws ndk tahan liat semua ini. Muangkel rasa e. Aku doa, Tuhan, ndk usa cari org laen lagi, ni aku ada d sini, pakeen. Aku siap. Brsn sate ini, Tuhan ya inget no bt anak2 rohani ku sg d sby, Tuhan taruh beban bt aku untuk doano mereka. Susah memang mau follow up mereka, tp at least dg doak, Tuhan isa buat something bt mereka. Aku doa.. Tuhan, aku rindu REVIVAL …

Pengalaman ku dulu smp itu, itu merupakan suatu Revival. Ndk usa mikir sg muluk2 kayak benny hinn, rehard bonkey, dll Diawali dr hal2 sg kecil2 dulu ae. Ntar nek kita isa dipercaya akan hal2 kecil, ntar Tuhan pst ks perkara sg lebih gedhe. Aku mst berusaha nyetop pikiranku mikiri hal2 sg berhubungan b aku d dunia ini. Aku ndk mau diperhamba b kedagingan. Harus disetop, diserahno b Tuhan kbh. Nek lg doa, aku bener2 mau fokusno pikiranku. Kadang susah si, tp nek mau y pst isa. Aku bener2 rindu ada Revival d sini. Nek diliat dr arti kata e, Revival ini something yg jadi aktif n populer lg. Jadi sebelom e itu mati, ato pudar, tp dibangkitno, diaktifno, dipopulerno lagi. Gampangane, arti e itu mirip b pemulihan… Memang ini sg bakal Tuhan lakuno sblm Tuhan dtg, PEMULIHAN, istimewa berkaitan dg Pemulihan Kasih ato Hubungan… Semua e itu selalu diawali dr hal sg plg kecil. Maka e itu, prenz, d mana kamu berada, mimpino ttg revival itu, d keluargamu, d temen2 mu, d gerjamu… Banyak org bth pemuliahan hubungan ini. Ada org sg blg, jangan pernah berhenti bermimpi. Mimpino ttg revival itu, doa b Tuhan, kasi tau Tuhan, nek kamu punya kerinduan akan hal itu. Itu kerinduan yg sama spt yg Tuhan juga rindukan. Minta Tuhan spy kamu dipakai, jadi seseorang sg membuat sejarah. Mungkin dunia ndk kenal kamu, tp d sorga, ada suatu catatan, ada suatu kitab ttg hidup mu, apa yg kamu lakukan d dunia ini. Jok smp pikiran kita berubah fokus, ngejar hal2 sg d dunia ini. Ingeto, kita ni cm sebentar d dunia ini. Ayo semangat lagi, sg mulai lesu, bangkit lg yuk. Perbaiki hubungan mu b Tuhan. Aku dw pny suatu target d taon ini. Aku ndk bakal nunggu d cm diem2 gt. Aku hrs kejar n nglakuno apa sg Tuhan taruh d hatiku… doano aku jg ya. Acts_29 … kita ni org2 sg nerusno sejarah itu. Sejarah ada d tangan kita skrg … okay?

C u ya, mau bo2k ni, lanjut kpn lg ya. God blesses you all

Yusuf Susanto Gunawan

These are the members of Acts_29.. Start from left..

Noetz – keyboard (tapi lagi pegang gitar tuh..haha)

Yuzuv – bass (lagi pegang gitar juga)

Joshi – guitar (nah, kali ini bener pegangannya..)

Amelia – vocal (gak pegang apa-apa..)

William – guitar (lagi bergaya tu..)

Andre – vocal (lagi mikir..)

Yoha – drum (pegangannya bner lagi..)

Those are the members of Acts_29.. Btw I used Paint in making of the picture.. Later after I have installed Photoshop in my computer, I will make a better version.. Okey?

GBU then..

29/09/2006 [NoetZ]™

Well.. I would like to tell you the dream of my friend, Andre which totally changed his life. He dreamt that he was on stairs and he climbed up. On the top of the stairs, there was heaven and hell was on the bottom of the stairs. In addition, when he looked down, he saw some beautiful and sexy girls who invited him to go down and come in. Andre refused it and he tried to go up to reach the heaven. However, he felt that his body was too heavy to get to the heaven and slightly, beyond his control, his body went down to the hell. He gazed that the door of the heaven was steadily closed. He suddenly woke up and he was really afraid …

On the next day, he told me and Johanes about his dream. He said that it was a signal for him to repent now. He commited to leave his bad habits and wanted to believe in Jesus. We were really happy to hear that and we supported him to walk in a new life with the Holy Spirit. He also did not want to listen to the wordly music and changed his collection of cassettes to the christian songs.

We got a quite funny experience when we had a bible camp outside of our city. We stayed in there for 3 days and 2 nights. At the first night, in our room which was occupied by 7 people, I, Noet, Andre, Joshi, William, Hendri, and Yoha, we prayed together. Because we had no guitar with us, we just started by worshipping Him using our tongue language. We were really serious to look for His face and invite His presence to come in but what happened was Andre who was actually from Protestan background, which is not familiar to speak in tongue, he then laughed and even he could not stop it. Ehm … hahaha can you guess what happened next? We could not preserve ourselves not to laugh so we were laughing together. It was really funny. We commited to do it again and ask Andre not to laugh but what we could do. When we worshipped again, he then laughed. Hm… Therefore, we just finished ….

Anyway, we started to form a band. We had complete personell to make a band. In short time, that would be a bazaar in our school and there might have some bands to perform. We registered our band using our name Acts_29 Band. Some people got confused. We had explained the meaning from the beginning to the end to the people who asking including our teacher and you know that it was not a short explanation. Some people who were curious asked the same questions again. Fiuh… never mind… we started practicing and we were all new. We did not have experience before so we were very excited. We chose a rock song which the title is ‘Karna Kau Setia’ (Because You are Faithful) but we changed our minds and we decided to perform the other two songs. The first one is ‘Tempat Pertama’ (The First Place) and the second one is ‘KasihMu Tiada Duanya’ (Your Love is Nothing to Compare). We did very well to be honest and we performed one more song which was ‘Allahku Dahsyat’ (My God is Awesome). Andre gave a rap in the middle of the song and it was extremely wonderful and our drummer played very energetic. Our guitarists used distortion to bring the feeling of rock in our intro for our song, The First Place. Noet demonstrated his skills in playing amazing melodies for the intro of Your Love is Nothing to Compare using progressive chords followed by the beautiful voice of our vocalist, Amelia. How was the bassist? hahaha I will not tell you how my performance was … It is not polite. I want to be nice in this part … hehehe Overall, it was really unbelieveable !!

In our history … There was one of our tragedies that occured between us and surely we can not forget it. It was called ‘Swan Tragedy’ ehm… I apologize that I can not tell you exactly how it was because we agree that it was a really bad experience. In short, we did something that offended one of our friends, Andre when we had Indonesian Language class. He became angry and he broke Stephanus’ pen and book. We were all in trouble but we have forgiven each other. By this case, we learnt how beautiful a friendship is …

I think that it is enough for this section and I will definitely continue this and tell you some more interesting stories…

Wait for the fourth one … God bless you. Yusuf Susanto Gunawan 28/09/2006

That was how we experienced at the first time and we did it regularly every Saturday until around the fifth week, some people started getting busy and they could not be present at the PD. There were some various reasons why they were not able to come. Therefore, there were only a few people who could conduct the PD, which was only 3 – 4 people.  Because we thought that there was no point to have a prayer community if it was like that, we cancelled it and thought that we could delay it until next week and expected that there would be more people coming. The following week, something the same happened and it was even worse that only 2 people were available. It has happened for 4 weeks and we realized that might not do that. I  talked to my friends and we had a commitment that even if there were only 2 people, we would still conduct the PD. As it is written in Matthew 18:20 ‘For where 2 or 3 come together in My name, there am I with them’ We had to rise up from this situation. We tried to believe what the Bible says and it was proven. We might not put out the Spirit’s fire.

We felt that there was something burning our hearts. It was something that motivated us to save our friends from the hell. It encouraged us to share His love and tell about repentance. Our friends, Andre; he was bound by adultery and besides, he was influenced by negative impact of wordly music. We tried to tell and advice Him but nothing was changed. He could not leave his sins until someday …. He got a dream and it was like an illustration or a vision of his life … What was that? I will be telling you in the third part … be patient, to be continued …

Yusuf Susanto Gunawan 28/09/2006

In this post, I would like to tell you the details how the Acts_29 was formed. We were classmates when we were in the second grade and the third grade as well of junior high school. We were not close each other before until someday, when our mathematic teacher was absent and another teacher replaced him, I had a chat with 3 of my friends; Amelia, Hendri, and Aditya. Both Amelia and Hendri were born in christian families but They did not believe in Jesus. Aditya was a Moslem at that time. Firstly, Amelia and Hendri were talking about the Holy Spirit and also a tongue language. They did not understand at all and then, they invited me to join the chat. I was asked some questions concerning to that and I who was a new believer at that time, tried to explain it to them. After a while, our chat was getting interested and I asked Yoha to join. We kept talking and sharing and I did not realize that there have been some friends taking part. Tottaly, there were 10 people. We talked about the last days as well. Amelia shared that she really wanted to be a believer. She wanted to love Jesus but she felt hard. She said that she has tried many times to live in holyness but she failed. She used to ask for forgiveness for the sins she made and she became frustated. she was unable to be free from sins. Aftwerwards, I told her an illustration how to repent and follow Him. The key is that we have to have desire to surrender our lives wholly to Him and obey His commands. Meanwhile, Aditya who was just listening to our conversation, asked some questions and eventually he wanted to believe in Him. It was awesome. Shortly, Amelia came up with the idea to build a prayer community every Saturday after the school finished. We agreed and we commited to start it in the following week.

To be continued on the chapter 2 …

27/09/2006 Yusuf Susanto Gunawan