Bulletin Announcements – 31 January 2016
- Sunday school starts today! Welcome back! Remember to submit enrollment form for your children. Ask Liza or our Sunday school leaders for it. Play Group will start on 2 February 2016. All children under 5 years and their parents/carers are invited to join the fun.
- INVITE INVITE INVITE February Friends – please invite your friends and family early to join us in February as Sam Chan speaks on some of the big questions in life.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why are religious people jerks?
Why doesn’t God make himself more obvious?
Why is there only one way to God?
Pray that your friends and family who do not know Jesus will respond to your invitation to come.
- Announcement from the Diaconate: The Diaconate unanimously decided in the meeting on 15th January 2016 to increase Rev. Andrew Choy’s work hours from 60% to 80% effective from 1st February 2016.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. (1 Corinthians 1:4 NIV)
To whom are these words written? To humble, peaceable, pure, loving and godly Christians? Certainly not! The Corinthian church was full of proud, divisive, debaucherous, immature, and promiscuous Christians. Therefore, on what grounds does Paul thank God for this bunch of wild and wicked believers? On the grounds of their character? I don’t think so! On the grounds of their obedience? You have to be joking! On the grounds of their works? Never! Paul thanks God for them solely on the grounds of God’s grace given them in Christ Jesus. That is why when you stand there a sinner, sometimes even a hypocrite, on a Sunday morning singing songs of praise that you can still be thanked for in Jesus’ grace. It is also why when your pastor all puffed up with knowledge, sometimes even pride, writes devotions for you to read that he can still be thanked for in Jesus’ grace. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to be found and thanked for in Jesus’ grace!
from pastor Ariel