Bulletin Announcements – 8 March 2015

6 March 2015
  • A Pinch Of Salt: CP10’s next Salt event will be an fun-filled outreach evening on Saturday 14 March. A tasty meal will be served at 6:30pm, with the main event following at 7:30pm. The theme for this event is, ‘Talking About Our Generations’. Invite a friend to come and enjoy the fun as people from different generations discuss, compete, debate and interact on questions of culture, church, lifestyle, values and beliefs’.
  • Europe: the rediscovered mission field.  Your opportunity to hear EMF (UK) leader, Martin Leech at Grace Chinese Christian Church, Corner Kensington and Premier Street, Kogarah.  7:30 PM Saturday 14 March.  Special deal for S9!!
  • The Diaconate has called an Extraordinary General Meeting at 12:30pm, Sunday March 15 (at the Strathfield chapel) for church members to vote to accept Kian Holik as a local missionary of the WSCCC. His term will be two years and renewable. Please prayerfully consider this proposal. Proxy forms will be available from deacons, and must be returned to the church by 12:30pm, March 13.
  • Chinese Christian Church (CCC) is celebrating their 50th Anniversary on the 16th August 2015 (Sunday) 2:00 pm at the Concourse, Chatswood. They are planning to have a combined choir singing The Lord’s Prayer and Hallelujah (from Handel’s Messiah). CCC is now inviting members of WSCCC to join this combined choir. If you are interested to join, please contact Ley Wan Tio (Mandarin Deacon) directly.
  • Public profession of faith: If you have you become a Christian through repentance of your sins and trusting faith in the Lord Jesus, there will be an opportunity for you to publicly declare that faith by baptism or confirmation on the 24 May. A preparation group will commence meeting very soon. Please indicate your interest to Rev Ariel Kurilowicz today.
  • Our church will be joining the other local churches for the annual Easter in Burwood Park outreach on Saturday March 28 (12:30-4:30pm). It will be a great opportunity to share the true meaning of Easter through this festive event. The team needs volunteers to help with running the BBQ, kids’ activities or the evangelistic stall. If you can spare an hour or two, please contact Louis Wong (chubby_chocho2@hotmail.com).

 

Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5 NIV)

“You will not certainly die,”. It’s hard to know how much the serpent knew. Did he know God would be gracious to them and so told a half-truth or did he think God would kill them and so outright lied? Either way he was there to trick the woman and he knew exactly what would tempt her – “and you will be like God,…!” And yet there is nothing wrong with this temptation, is there? Don’t you want to be more like God? In fact, aren’t we commanded to be so in scripture; 1 Peter 1:15-16? Yes, we are! So what was the problem? It was the way Eve was tricked to go about it – to break God’s command. Sometimes we can do the same. Talk up our own godliness by lying, desire someone else’s spiritual gift with envy, place church attendance above our character and so create an idol. So what should Eve have done? She should have trusted God’s love in the command and so should we.

from Pastor Ariel