Bulletin Announcements – 13 March 2016

11 March 2016
  • The Inner West Scripture Team is working to give high school students quality teaching on Christian beliefs through SRE. Come along to find out about this exciting work and enjoy a nice afternoon tea at our ‘Tea with the teachers’ event: Today 2pm-3pm, Burwood Presbyterian Church (46-48 Belmore St, Burwood).
  • Baptism service: Our first Baptism Service this year is on the 22nd of May. If you want to get baptised or even thinking about it please hurry and talk with, ring, or email pastor Andrew Bardsley THIS week! This is because our baptism classes start next Sunday. He can be contacted on andrew.bardsley@gmail.com, or on 0434 968 551, or even face to face. Remember, if you’ve made a commitment to follow Jesus then you should be baptised.
  • To celebrate Senior’s Week, this year, Salt and Pepper Fellowship invites all who are “growing young” (the NSW theme for 2016) to an Afternoon Tea with Rev David Tsai on Saturday, 9 April, at 3.30pm in the upper hall.  Rev Tsai, the minister of Chinese Presbyterian Church, Surry Hills, will speak about: Keeping Faith with God and man. Discussion and questions will be on independence and integrity.
  • Easter in the Park 2016: Come join the celebrations at Burwood Park this Saturday March 19th. Starting at 11.30am with a parade down Burwood Road, this local mission ministry aims to share the Easter message with people in the local community. Invite your friends and family for a fun day of live performances, kids drama, activities and a free BBQ. Also looking for volunteers to help out on the day. Please see Jonathan Abednego (jabednego@gmail.com) for more information.

 

 

 

Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,… (2 Timothy 3:12 NIV)

Here in lies one measure of godliness – persecution. It is not secondary, it is not peripheral, and it is not optional to one’s faith. If you believe and follow the Lord Jesus Christ then you will stick out like a sore thumb! There is no two ways about it. Therefore, the question is now as obvious as it is uncomfortable. Have you been persecuted as a Christian? If not, then are you truly living a godly life? Before you start making excuses imagine what the persecuted church in Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Iraq, Laos, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Yemen would think of those excuses? Yes, compared to noticeably and unswervingly obeying Jesus with joy those excuses would sound quite lame, wouldn’t they? Of course, the spiritual landscape in those countries is different to ours, persecution here is not rife but nevertheless if you are living a godly life you will one day come across it. Therefore, let me ask you again, have you been persecuted as a Christian?

from pastor Ariel