FIREWORKS
Many people will throng to the best places to see the 5 mins or so fireworks display celebrating National Day. After the event, they will throng back to their homes. This was evident by the jam packed MRT trains immediately after the event. People do like the spectacular to stir some good feelings in them from time to time, but somehow life just get back to normal after that. A spectacular event is a means to an end, and not an end to itself. The former is much truer than latter.
There are "fireworks" display in the Christian community today. It could be the annual "Festival of Praise", the week-end mega church services with good music and good speakers or a national missions conference like Go4th which is coming up in 2005.
Fireworks go as quickly as they come. A bond fire can be kept burning as long as wood is fed continually. Today’s kind of Christianity is much more like a firework display, it just fizzle out after awhile.
There was a spectacular event that took place in the upper-room in Acts 2. It was a firework display of a divine kind. It took a few minutes also and that fire lasted till the end of the believers lives living a spectacular lifestyle - death by martyrdom. They did not go home after the event but they went out to the nations.
