Kairos Christian Fellowship (Gracepoint – Berkeley)

On Friday 10/30,  Kairos had its mid-semester event where many new friends joined us on Friday night for the first time. It started with more than enough Chinese food to go around. After eating our fill we headed inside for a time of praise, a testimony from Josh Linville, and a message from Andy Tung. After that, we had an incredible session of games.

Josh’s testimony was about how he had held a relativistic point on his morals. As long as there was someone about whom he could say “at least I’m not as bad as that guy”. He lived a shallow life with a shallow understanding of who God was – relegating God to a cosmic vending machine. When he hit rock bottom and saw himself as a wretched sinner, he was met with the grace of God which filled him with a peace and joy that lasts him to this very day.

Andy segued from that testimony to talk about how God does not treat us with fairness, nor would we want him to. If it were the case, then we would be constantly stressing and find ourselves swinging between pride when we do well and insecurity when we don’t. This kind of relationship is rather contractual. But going through the parable of the 11th hour worker (Matthew 20:1-16), Andy shared that God wants to relate with us in a personal way and the Gospel is about His love for us so that we could relate to him through grace. And just when we think that we can’t go to God because we’re so horrible, we might be closer to the Gospel than we think.

Will led us in Human Scavenger hunt where we divided up into teams and tried to get the most number of points by finding out oddities in our group. Some  categories we got points for were “never ordered anything off of amazon.com,” “got into Stanford but came to Cal instead,” “anyone who has been to Africa,” and many more. We had a talent portion where people demonstrated their talent that “could make the crowd go ‘oooh’ instead of ’sick!’” People came out to solve Rubik’s cubes (in 19 secs), move foreheads, walk on their bent toes (it was so crazy I don’t know how to describe it). In the end, team 7 won, but before they did we had a little audit where Peter Yoon (a freshman!) recited one whole  CHAPTER of text from the new testament (Romans 12 nonetheless).

Here’s some pictures from the night to share the fun with you all!

nancy’s special talent of holding a coin with her finger..

The winning team

The team that wished they won…just kidding..the runner-up!