What is real success in the New Year?

1. What is real success in the New Year? COM Friendship Dinner, January 2012 Aaron Tsai

4. Chinese New Year!

7. Longevity Noodles

8. Jiao zi

10. Pink eye

11. Subconjunctival Hemorrhage

12. SCH

13. Vitreous Hemorrhage

14. Normal Retina

15. Central Retinal Vein Occlusion

16. Hong Bao

17. Success = Money

20. Success = Selfishness

22. Consequences of success • Success doesn’t mean satisfaction • $75,000

23. 恭喜發財,利是逗來,伍毫嫌少,壹蚊唔愛 “Congratulations and be prosperous, now give me a red envelope, fifty cents is too little, don’t want a dollar, either.”

24. Matthew 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust will destroy.”

25. Consequences of success • Success doesn’t mean satisfaction • Success is often temporary

26. Consequences of success • Success doesn’t mean satisfaction • Success is often temporary • False sense of entitlement

27. Consequences of success • Success doesn’t mean satisfaction • Success is often temporary • False sense of entitlement • Compromised values

28. Consequences of success • Success doesn’t mean satisfaction • Success is often temporary • False sense of entitlement • Compromised values • Damaged relationships

29. 1 Timothy 6:1 “The love of money is the root of all evil” • Without a greater purpose, success is temporary and unsatisfactory

30. What is real success? • Not about the money! • Society: Me first! • Christianity: Others first!

31. Real success is selfless • Mark 10:43-45 “Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whomever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

32. Jesus is the model of real success • 1 John 3:16-17 “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid his life down for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”

33. Serving others

34. Using your gifts • Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”

35. How do you serve? • Place of Grace

37. The Apple Farmer

40. The Rake

41. I John 3:16-18 “This how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”

42. Qin’an

49. Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.”