church camp

So I'm back from church camp! It was great. I had a lot of fun, and learnt quite a bit too. It was different from other camps too, maybe cuz we were all older haha.

In the past camps, we used to hang out till 1 or 2am before going to bed, but this time, everyone (or at least I did) went to bed around 12 midnight cuz we had to get up early every morning. Well, except for the last night when we stayed up till 4am.

Speaking of age, I think the aunties and uncles had more fun than us. It was really funny to see a bunch of 50-something year-old ladies letting their hair down, and playing 'Blow Wind Blow', albeit with lots of screaming and slower reactions. And they really knew how to enjoy life lor. Like my aunt skipped the telematch to go for a massage and foot reflexology. Shiok hor. And the youths only knew how to sleep haha. Ok well, a few of us drove out to explore the surrounding area (our camp was in JB). It was really exciting cuz we had no idea where we were going, and only started panicking when we got on the main highway and saw signs like "To Singapore/JB", and "To Kuala Lumpur". I think we made like 5 or 6 U-turns in our bid to find our way back haha. Adventurous right.

The camp speaker was really good too. Basically the theme for camp was "Freed to Serve" from the Book of Galatians. I learnt that it's important not to accept perversions of the gospel, for example those preaching a "vending machine" God, where what you get from God depends on the amount you put in, which is really not how God works. The gospel is about God's grace, and nothing we do can change or add anything to it, and that's something really wonderful. I also learnt that because Christ died for us on the cross, He became the curse so that we can be blessed. Therefore we are freed from the Law, because we can never gain righteousness from our deeds alone because we would ultimately fail. So because of His death, we can attain righteousness by faith, and this makes us all members of the same family in Christ, which means that we are not to judge others just cuz they're different. Freedom from the Law doesn't mean we can go around sinning and be ok, because indulging in the sinful nature is just being bonded to sin, and it's not true freedom. True freedom is the freedom to realise what God intends us to be, and that is to love one another. By living in the Spirit, it transforms us and brings about the Fruit of the Spirit. From there, we should share the gifts of God. Therefore we are "Freed to Serve". I'm writing all this down not to bore anyone, but so that I can remember it better myself haha.

So yeah, camp was meaningful :)

Yesterday was also the WWF-failed-KTV-session cuz there weren't any available rooms at Teo Heng haha. But we managed to turn it into another WWF-watches-another-funnyfunny-movie session. Ok la, "The Orphanage" (it's a Spanish horror movie) was quite good. And I can truly say that my friends are the only people who will actually bother to hide behind a shower curtain to scare me haha. If not for the fact that I could see their shapes behind the curtain, I think I would have been scared to death. So great job guys hahha. I'm really looking forward to our Great Escape next week!! Hopefully we'd be able to meet Janice in KL too :))

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