CERC is my first church! I have had lots of questions about who God is in my heart since I was young. Coming from a non-Christian family, we asked to perform rituals without questioning the purpose of the ritual. Unlike Qoheleth (the author of Ecclesiastes), instead of keeping searching for answers, these questions just slipped off my mind as life gets busy. During my university time, I joined CF and people introduced God to me through the gospel. I started to learn who God is, and his plan for the cosmos. God has elected me to be his kingdom citizen, transferred me from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son, I belong to the Lord and He wants me to live a life in service to Him. I'm his people and together with others, we walk in obedience, waiting for Jesus's final consummation. As time goes, I learn to see things in my life in God's perspective. I learn to submit to my parents (no longer blind submission), seeing family as how God created order in this world and parents being the first authority God placed in life for me to learn about my relationship with Him. From a non-Christian family, I learned to be patient, to live out Christian life before my family while waiting for my parents' approval for my baptism, and sharing the gospel with them to know this majesty God. My priority/center of life changed. Instead of going back to JB and working in Singapore, I switched my career path so that I could free up my weekend to worship God together with others in church. I see the beauty of CERC in how we strive to be faithful to God in our meekness. Every week we strive to serve God better in our weekly gathering. We have pastor teachers who never underestimate the sinfulness of man, and they preach faithfully the word of God (though not perfect) to the congregation. Church life is not working with all capable/likeable/like-minded people, we argue, we disappoint and are disappointed, we fight, but all members learn to embody the character of Christ and learn to exhort, rebuke each other. We are all imperfect, undeserved sinners saved by God. But we have the same goal, to persevere to live out God's word and allow the word to rule over us.