Illusion of Words

Sunday Sermon

Today’s Sunday worship service we had this guest speaker called Pastor Pax Tan. He was weird, and mostly funny.

I had to listen to him preaching in two services. The first time I heard him begin the sermon, I sighed and thought it was going to be an ‘err’ sermon because he erred, like every two sentences. But just five minutes later all the ‘errs’ vanished and were replaced by ‘hellos’. As in, ‘Hello?’ which was really weird and somewhat annoying after one too many times.

During the Youth Worship Service he preached on the passage of sheep and goats. In the beginning of the sermon he had all the acknowledgements: Thanks to all the auntie and uncles from the bottom of my liver…

Which he explained that his heart had been taken by his wife so only can the liver. Everybody was laughing so hard but I don’t think most caught the joke. ‘Hati’ in Malay is usually used for heart, but technically and biologically, it means liver. So literally when you’re thanking someone in Malay from the bottom of your ‘hati’, you’re thanking them from the bottom of your liver.

So much for that.

There were funny stuff sprinkled throughout, but came one part when he actually burst out singing the first line of ‘I Feel Good’. Yeah, that silly song, which so happens to be the theme song of NTV7. In fact, he sang quite well. If only he sang the whole song.

Really, sermons aren’t all about laughter. There are also serious stuff, and I gathered that the main point was doing good works, because it is our duty after being saved by grace. At the end, one of the advisors asked whether we would like him back to preach. As expected, everyone shouted ‘Yes!’, except for some, including me. Have you ever heard people shouting ‘No!’ when asked such a question? It’ll break the pastor’s heart, or rather, liver. The problem was that he sidetracked a little too much. Sidetracked in a way he was still talking about the correct stuff, but it’s still called sidetracking.

Anyways, I did learn quite some. You’re saved by grace to do good works. Well, you say you don’t wanna do good works? Then you probably didn’t have a genuine heart in accepting Christ. After all, a genuine heart means you’ll definitely do good works as it’s your duty.

Sometimes it’s a little confusing. If I type anymore about that, I’m really going to get more and more confused.

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