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Perpuluhan: Alkitabiah Tapi Bukan Kekristenan

TITHES AND CLERGY SALARIES (PERPULUHAN DAN GAJI KEPENDETAAN)


Sebab kami tidak sama dengan banyak orang lain yang mencari keuntungan dari firman Allah. Sebaliknya dalam Kristus kami berbicara sebagaimana mestinya dengan maksud-maksud murni atas perintah Allah dan di hadapan-Nya.
2 Korintus 2:17

Bolehkah manusia menipu Allah? Namun kamu menipu Aku. Tetapi kamu berkata: "Dengan cara bagaimanakah kami menipu Engkau?" mengenai persembahan persepuluhan dan persembahan khusus! Kamu telah kena kutuk, tetapi kamu masih menipu Aku, ya kamu seluruh bangsa! Bawalah seluruh persembahan persepuluhan itu ke dalam rumah perbendaharaan, supaya ada persediaan makanan di rumah-Ku dan ujilah Aku, firman TUHAN semesta alam, apakah Aku tidak membukakan bagimu tingkap-tingkap langit dan mencurahkan berkat kepadamu sampai berkelimpahan.
Maleakhi 3:8-10

Bagian dari kitab Maleakhi tersebut menjadi teks favorit bagi banyak pendeta, khususnya ketika persembahan dan pemberian di gereja berkurang. Jika kita punya waktu untuk memperhatikan gereja modern maka kita akan mendengar bagian dari kitab Maleakhi tadi sering "bergemuruh" dari mimbar. Pertimbangkan retorika yang sering kita dengar ini: "Allah memerintahkanmu membayar perpuluhan dengan setia. Jika kamu tidak memberi perpuluhan maka kamu sedang merampok Allah dan menempatkanmu di bawah kutuk. Akankah kita ulangi bersama mengucapkan "doktrin perpuluhan?" Perpuluhan milik Tuhan. Di dalam kebenaran kita pelajari, di dalam iman kita percaya, dan di dalam sukacita kita memberikannya. Perpuluhan! Dan persembahanmu diperlukan jika pekerjaan Tuhan ingin jalan terus ("pekerjaan Tuhan di sini tentu artinya adalah gaji staf kependetaan dan pembayaran listrik bulanan gedung gereja"). Apa akibat dari tekanan ini?

Stop trying To Fix People

You know what our monstrous mistake is?
We try to fix the people in our life.
Oh, I see it everywhere.
Everywhere I go, I see people complain about the people in their life.

Wives complain about their husbands.
“Bo, please talk to my husband. He eats too much.”
“Bo, can you help me? My husband watches too much TV.”
One frustrated wife told me, “Bo, please advice my husband. He doesn’t have a one romantic bone in his body. Last year, he gave me a bar of soap for Valentines Day. The brand? Mr. Clean.”

But husbands complain about their wives too.
“Bo, please talk to my wife. She’s gastadora.”
“Bo, help me with my wife. My wife is always hysterical and historical. She remembers all my past mistakes, including date, time, and place.”
One husband told me, “My wife is so talkative. If the universe paid 1 centavo for every word she said, I’ll be the richest man in the world today.”
Another man said, “My wife is always angry. When she’s angry, she causes global warming and the melting of the ice caps in the North Pole.”

Are You Malnourished for Love?

        
Today, I start a new 7-week series entitled Relationships Reborn.
Here’s why you need to take this series with me: I believe that if you change your relationships, you change your life.
Because if you squeeze out the essence of life, you realize that life is all about relationships. Your happiness, your success, your health, and your dreams depend on relationships. Give me a person with very happy relationships and I’ll show you a very happy person. Give me a person with miserable, dysfunctional relationships and I’ll show you a very miserable person.
I’m going to spill the beans here and tell you the central message of the next seven weeks: Relationships need renewal or they die.
In fact, not only the relationship will die, but a part of us will die. Why? Because you have a Heart Wound that can only be healed by love—a love that can only be found in relationships.
So you want to change your life, keep reading.

Are You Malnourished For Love?
      
Have you ever seen a malnourished child?
I believe you have—you just didn’t know.
Here’s the problem: When you hear the word “malnourished,” you automatically think of the starving kids in Africa you see in pictures. A child living in a famine-stricken dessert that has absolutely nothing to eat.
But there’s a second type.
The person could be your next door neighbor. He doesn’t look malnourished. He could even be fat. And yet, amazingly, he is malnourished.
Because he’s eating the wrong type of food.

Let me stoke your imagination...

Economic Gap in The Community

I'm not going to talk about global economy gap, but economy gap specifically among church communities.  


Tadi pagi tiba-tiba aja kelintas topik ini 'n jadi inget pengalamanku di masa lalu. Beberapa tahun yang lalu pas aku masih kerja di Lippo Cikarang, Jawa Barat, aku kan ikut komunitas salah satu gereja di Jakarta. Gereja ini memang udah keliatan kalo mayoritas (walopun ga semua) jemaat-nya memang kalangan menengah ke atas, banget :p Keliatan dari penampilan pastinya...  


Tapi karna emang pengajarannya bagus 'n seimbang, aku tetep ikut berjemaat di sana 'n juga ikut komunitas selnya. Sebenernya siy ga ada masalah yang gimana gitu... cuman lama-lama aku ngerasa aku ga bisa ngikutin lifestyle mereka.  


Kadang-kadang tu (walo ga sering juga siy) abis dari gereja hari Minggu tu kita jalan-jalan ke mall, lunch di sana. Nah tau sendiri kan harga lunch-nya brapa hehehe... Blom lagi pernah juga sekali nongkrong di cafe semacem Starbucks yang harganya harga langit itu... 


Pernah siy pas makan siang aku ga ikutan makan tapi beli Breadtalk buat aku jadiin lunch, alasanku siy waktu ditanyain bilangnya masih ga seberapa laper jadi makan roti aja, padahal mah ga rela hihihi... abis makanan resto-nya mahal amir hehehe...  


Lama-lama yah mungkin

The Essence of Life

Searching For Something Exciting

Yap, you heard right... 
I'm searching for something new, something exciting to do... 
I'm not looking for 100% new challenges though... 
I just want new and exciting experiences  


It's not a secret anymore that I can get easily bored lately... 
Not because I'm not grateful... 
I'm grateful for everything... for better changes that happens... 
I just want to expand my "horizon"  


That's one reason why I took vocal lesson and I guess I still want more :p 
More exciting new things to learn and to enjoy...  


I guess I'm already tired to make my own limits 
It's time to be free...

New Post Editor

Last night I have just found that blogger has a new post editor, an updated one.
Now we can insert jump break when we make a blog post, and a "read more" link will be appear in the published blog post, with a few of modification on the HTML if we use the third party's theme for our blog.

This is great, cause I always love blogger for its simplicity.
But one month ago I start using Wordpress because it has interesting feature like the "read more", while at that time Blogger had not had it yet. So I updated my Wordpress blog more often.
It's just too bad Wordpress doesn't allow us to put any advertising in its blogs...
I thought it would be perfect if Blogger has the "read more" feature... plus "Pages" like Wordpress...

But now I'm so happy with the new post editor on Blogger ^.^
Yea at least I have the "read more" feature to use on my long blog posts...
Although it would be very super duper cool if Blogger has the pages too
Hahaha... ^.^

Ada Kemajuannn ^.^

Barusan kelar les vokal...
Kali ini ga frustasi kayak waktu les pertama kali minggu lalu hahahaha...
soalnya udah bisa nafas diafragma...

Ya udah tau nafas diafragma itu kayak gimana hehehe...
Tinggal harus sering latian biar terbiasa.

Trus tadi diajarin juga pake suara falset, ini juga kudu sering dilatih.
Trus diajarin vokal-nya supaya ga fals pake "aeieaeieaeiea..." dari nada rendah sampe makin tinggi.

Jadi semangat!!! ^o^

Abis ini tiap pulang kantor mau latian ah dari jam 5 sampe jam 6, pas anak-anak kos laen blom pulang ke kos 'n pas karyawan-karyawan kantornya cik Landri udah pulang dari sini hehehe...

Way to go to myself! Hihihihi...

Naksir Nokia E72

Kalo liat spesifikasinya, siapa yang ga ngiler??? Kalo baca semua review tentang Nokia E72 siy oke-oke aja, banyak yang ngincer juga. Tapi harganya masih 5 juta bok... (-_-") Ya iyalah ada barang bagus uangnya juga bagus hehehe...

Ini masuk wishlist deh... Nokia E72...
Kalopun ga dapet free, palingan kalo mau beli paling cepet baru bisa taun depan, kalo harganya udah turun... :p
Gapapa nunggu asal dapet hihihihi...

Asli keren... pengen yang warna coklat aja... Topaz brown...
Kalo item udah bosen, warna silver juga ga gitu suka...
Coba ada warna ijo muda lucu tuh hihihi...

It Will Have Been 6 Years...

It will have been 6 years this December...

Aku dah kerja buat orang lain selama 6 tahun pas nyampe akhir tahun ini. Aku kan pertama kali kerja di CBN Lippo Cikarang mulai Januari 2005, waktu itu beberapa bulan awal masih magang plus juga abis itu sempet status kontrak sebelum akhirnya jadi karyawan tetap.

Di Perjanjian Lama kan ada tuh aturan kalo setelah 6 tahun budak harus dibebaskan dari kewajibannya, menjadi orang bebas bukan budak atau hamba orang lain lagi. Ni obrolan pas aku 'n Melisa maen ke rumah ce Iin Minggu lalu. Jadi termotivasi and mikir juga siy...

Sebenernya keinginan buat ga kerja karyawan lagi tu udah ada belakangan, kayaknya mulai tahun ini deh... Pengen kerja sendiri atau joinan bikin usaha apa gitu ama siapa gitu... 'Coz aku ngerasa kayaknya waktu kerja buat orang lain-nya udah cukup...

It's time I learn something new, time to step ahead... walo masih blom tau pasti detailnya bakal kayak gimana. Aku masih doain ini. Yang jelas I want to be a better person, with better character and also skills. I guess I also need new routines....

But until the time has come for those things, I will keep walking forward, trying to do my best in my current position right now and keep a hopeful + grateful heart.

Holy Spirit, guide me along the way...

Les Vokal Perdana

Haizzz... Akhirnya tadi les vokal privat perdana ama mbak Fe (ternyata dia masih 22 tahun loh hehehe...). Tadi dia dateng jam 5 sesuai janji sampe jam 6 lebih. Latiannya di ruang TV sebelah kamarku. Untungnya kan jam segitu anak-anak kos laen blom pada pulang.