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Preached Wednesday, October 22nd at the Revival Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Paul Washer delivers a urgent appeal to the Christians and Churches in North America (and, in my opinion, even in churches all over the world and especially in Singapore which adopts much of American Evangelicalism) that many have been believing a false gospel and have false assurance of their salvation. He lists 10 indictments against the modern Church (118:47 minutes):
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The recent debate on gender roles, from the Christian perspective, in response to Sarah Palin’s election as the running mate to John McCain gave me much food for thought, especially that of the role of men today.
For awhile now, I have been observing and bemoaning the fact that much of Christendom has been feminized to such an extent that there aren’t many Christian men today whom we can certainly call true leaders both at home and in church.
My point is this: that if Christian women are to be godly women, then it follows that we must have godly men who will fulfill the roles that God has ordained them to be in. As the ones ordained to be the leaders both at home and in church, if we men are not godly, it will follow that the women we lead, no matter if we like or admit it, will more than likely not fulfill their godly responsibilities.
I’ve yet to put much of my thoughts on this down, but as a start I am sharing this video on the issue, taken from the TV show Wretched.
I have been busy cleaning and sprucing up the house in preparation for a valuation that a real estate agent will be doing Friday. In light of that, I apologize for the lack of posts that come from personal study for the time being, instead counting on re-posting what notable teachers have written (and which I agree with) on subjects that I had wanted to address such as the following.
Since Sarah Palin was picked by John McCain to be his running mate for the American presidency, there’s been quite a debate on whether a Christian woman who’s also a mother should run for public office. I’m not going to be drawn into that debate, but I’ll simply say that I’m unmoved by the pro-feminist elements in the Church and their agenda.
Many of us today believe that women are equal to men, i.e. women should have the same liberties as men do. I don’t disagree with that — the Bible does teach that men and women are equal before God, but stresses that men and women have different roles as ordained by God.
The problem is that most folks mix up equality and roles in such a way that both are indistinguishable. Popular culture today teaches that it’s “unfair” that women have to give birth to children and be mothers. In fact, in most developed countries, women see domestic responsibilities as being of lesser importance or prestige than wearing a suit wheeling and dealing in the boardroom.
In light of my debates with fellow Christians who have no doubt been much influenced by the feminist agenda even to the point of insisting that women can be pastors in church and that Paul’s divinely-inspired instruction to the contrary is dated, here’s a good, Biblical look at the issue from Pulpit Magazine, adapted from the Grace Church elders’ distinctive on “The Role of Women.”:
Thank God for preachers like brother Paul Washer, and brothers like Lane Chaplin who make these sermons available on YouTube!
This is one of the first of many Paul Washer’s sermons that I heard a good time ago, and I can’t even begin to tell you how much it has affected me and my Christian walk. If you’ve read my testimony you’d know that I was one of many who said that ‘miracle prayer’ and became a (carnal) Christian for many years after.
Knowing how dangerous that belief is, I beseech you — that If you haven’t heard this sermon before and truly examined to see if you are saved (2 Corinthians 13:5), please take the time to today! I pray that it has an impact on you as it had on me.
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Matthew 7:13-14 NASB
Total run-time: 70:05 minutes.
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This edition of Crosstalk looked at the ramped up persecution in the West when it comes to biblical Christianity from within evangelicalism. Rick Warren’s chief apologist online, Richard Abanes, has publicly likened Ingrid and several colleagues to David Koresh and other cult leaders and claims that they are all marked by:
- A deep seated ‘us vs. them’ mentality
- Feelings of persecution
- Paranoia
- A kind of xenophobic response to any and all attempts to have a more tolerant/civil approach to various issues.
Ingrid Schlueter and Sarah Leslie (a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and a member of the Discernment Research Group) discuss how and why this attitude has entered the church, others that are promoting it, and how a rejection of biblical eschatology within evangelicalism is helping New Age teachings and Christianity to merge.
Over at Slice of Laodicea, Ingrid Schlueter writes (emphasis mine):
I would like to authoritatively state at the front of this post that God’s design for procreation and sex within marriage is a beautiful, holy thing. It is precisely because it is beautiful and holy that we shouldn’t be treating the matter lightly, flippantly, or in a fashion that makes it tawdry and cheap as the world does … I submit to you that what we are seeing today is the next phase of the explosion of sensuality in the church today. The article I will be addressing today is further proof of that and much more … More dangerous still, this kind of erotic mysticism entering the church once again (it was around with the medieval mystics, as well) is leading Christians into a spiritual realm where they are open to deception.
This issue is something that seems to have reared its ugly head in recent times, starting with “relevant” churches talking about sex, sex, and more sex (including even sex “challenges” to couples and singles) from the pulpit. In fact, I even came across an article in Time magazine that looks at this “phenomenon” from the world’s perspective.
Click here to read Ingrid’s post on the issue.
WARNING: The post and article might be offensive to some readers, so I am advising caution and a good dose of discernment.
In light of the recent revelations and discussions in the past few days, I thought this a very apt reminder from A.W. Tozer:
The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, bold men. The talk is that we need revival, that we need a new [movement] of the Spirit–and God knows we must have both; but God will not revive mice. He will not fill rabbits with the Holy Ghost.
We languish for men who feel themselves expendable in the warfare of the soul, who cannot be frightened by threats of death because they have already died to the allurements of this world. Such men will be free from the compulsions that control weaker men. They will not be forced to do things by the squeeze of circumstances; their only compulsion will come from within–or from above.
This kind of freedom is necessary if we are to have [powerful preachers] in our pulpits again instead of mascots. These free men will serve God and mankind from motives too high to be understood by the rank and file of religious retainers who today shuttle in and out of the sanctuary. They will make no decisions out of fear, take no course out of a desire to please, accept no service for financial considerations, perform no religious act out of mere custom; nor will they allow themselves to be influenced by the love of publicity or the desire for reputation.
Just last year, I was convicted by the Lord that I should stop listening to the filth that is secular music. Consequently, I began building up a library of Christian music, most of it contemporary, with the likes of Casting Crowns, Mercy Me, Paul Baloche, Paul Wilbur, and even Hillsong.
What I then noticed was that much of the songs from some, not all, of these artistes weren’t that Christian, to the point where it was more about “me” rather than the Lord Jesus Christ, or even if there was a reference to God, He was referred to as “He”, “Him”, or even the generic “You” and not specifically.
Worse yet, there were songs which seemed to suggest that the Lord Jesus Christ is our “homeboy”, “boyfriend” and even some needy, lonely man who needs our companionship.
Notice the non-existence of God in the modern church compared to the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation:
1. Sola Cultura - let culture define church life
2. Sola Successa - let numerical success legitimize activities
3. Sola Entertaina - let entertainment be the guiding principle
4. Sola Edificia - let the edifice be the center of church life
5. Sola Programma - let programs dominate the peoples time
6. Sola Thralldoma – let the people be enslaved by whatever thrills them
7. Sola Processa – let the church be managed by business philosophies and processes
HT: Scott Brown via Slice of Laodicea.
This video of a church experiencing the “fire” literally gave me the creeps… the hairs on my neck and back were standing on end!
Please guard yourself against demonic influence before watching it. Not recommended for minors.
If your church pastor constantly preaches such fire and even “anoints” the congregation with such “blessings”, please discern that this is not of God and get out of there!
The Church and the World walked far apart
On the changing shores of time,
The World was singing a giddy song,
And the Church a hymn sublime.
“Come, give me your hand,” said the merry World,
“And walk with me this way!”
But the faithful Church hid her gentle hands
And solemnly answered “Nay!
I will not give you my hand at all,
And I will not walk with you;
Your way is the way that leads to death;
Your words are all untrue.”
“Nay, walk with me but a little space,”
Said the World with a kindly air;
“The road I walk is a pleasant road,
And the sun shines always there.
Your path is thorny and rough and rude,
But mine is broad and plain;
My way is paved with flowers and dews,
And yours with tears and pain.
The sky to me is always blue,
No want, no toil I know;
The sky above you is always dark,
Your lot is a lot of woe.
There’s room enough for you and me
To travel side by side.”
Half shyly the Church approached the World
And gave him her hand of snow;
And the old World grasped it and walked along,
Saying, in accents low:
“Your dress is too simple to please my taste;
I will give you pearls to wear,
Rich velvets and silks for your graceful form,
And diamonds to deck your hair.”
The Church looked down at her plain white robes,
And then at the dazzling World,
And blushed as she saw his handsome lip
With a smile contemptuous curled.
“I will change my dress for a costlier one,”
Said the Church, with a smile of grace;
Then her pure white garments drifted away,
And the World gave, in their place,
Beautiful satins and shining silks,
Roses and gems and costly pearls;
While over her forehead her bright hair fell
Crisped in a thousand curls.
“Your house is too plain,” said the proud old World,
“I’ll build you one like mine;
With walls of marble and towers of gold,
And furniture ever so fine.”
So he built her a costly and beautiful house;
Most splendid it was to behold;
Her sons and her beautiful daughters dwelt there
Gleaming in purple and gold.
Rich fairs and shows in the halls were held,
And the World and his children were there.
Laughter and music and feasts were heard
In the place that was meant for prayer.
There were cushioned seats for the rich and the gay,
To sit in their pomp and pride;
But the poor who were clad in shabby array,
Sat meekly down outside.
“You give too much to the poor,” said the World.
“Far more than you ought to do;
If they are in need of shelter and food,
Why need it trouble you?
Go, take your money and buy rich robes,
Buy horses and carriages fine;
Buy pearls and jewels and dainty food,
Buy the rarest and costliest wine.
My children, they dote on all these things,
And if you their love would win
You must do as they do, and walk in the ways
That they are walking in.”
So the poor were turned from her door in scorn,
And she heard not the orphan’s cry;
But she drew her beautiful robes aside,
As the widows went weeping by.
Then the sons of the World and the Sons of the Church
Walked closely hand and heart,
And only the Master, who knoweth all,
Could tell the two apart.
Then the Church sat down at her ease, and said,
“I am rich and my goods increase;
I have need of nothing, or aught to do,
But to laugh, and dance, and feast.”
The sly World heard, and he laughed in his sleeve,
And mockingly said, aside:
“The Church is fallen, the beautiful Church;
And her shame is her boast and her pride.”
The angel drew near to the mercy seat,
And whispered in sighs her name;
Then the loud anthems of rapture were hushed,
And heads were covered with shame.
And a voice was heard at last by the Church
From Him who sat on the throne:
“I know thy works, and how thou hast said,
‘I am rich, and hast not known
That thou art naked, poor and blind,
And wretched before my face;’
Therefore from my presence cast I thee out,
And blot thy name from its place.”
by Matilda C. Edwards
Best Loved Poems (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1936), pages 345-347
HT: Finishing Well.
I received an email from a dear brother, Nick, who is currently on a mission trip in China, coveting our prayers. Here’s a quick update that he gave me in his email:
Hubei - where we’ve been doing all his work for the past 10-20 years and where we are this week. The main people we’ve been working with is the head of the Hubei Christian City Council (in charge of all the govt churches in the Hubei Province) and they’ve been the one opening all the doors for us, including outdoor crusades every week in one of the smaller towns, booking a stadium for our band, etc. Sadly, last night, these leaders we’ve been working with just got ousted out of the council and kinda forced into retirement. Not only that, their church has been taken away from them. It’s still early to tell the impact as we liaise with the new leaders and teach them the ways of God so please keep this in prayer. But apparently there’s some politics going on in the church already, people turning people in to the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) and apparently we were turned in too! The RAB didn’t wanna care about us but because somebody reported us, they had to come on Sunday to film our services (we actually praised God for that - that they can hear the word of God, ha ha ha)
Hunan - Mao Ze Dong’s hometown. Apparently more than 2000+ govt churches changed their worship styles after my last trip there (think you remember the last testimony I sent out on this one where even the govt officials were touched in our worship sessions) and the Hunan Christian City Council (head of all the govt churches in Hunan) kinda want me back there to teach for 1 year *gulps* (I’m trying to see if I can arrange anybody else to go)
Personally I’ve been doing back to back leading worship and teaching Praise and worship to the church, to their bible training centre, their Christian School (called ‘the Ark’) and to their seminary (all in Hubei) for the past 2 days from dawn to dusk literally (6am to 10pm everyday). The pollution here is not good for my voice I remember last time I came I fell really sick by the end of the week (which was also spiritual warfare) so covet your prayers there.
Please pray for the missionaries, and the Church in China.
Nick, here’s an encouragement for you that I hope you’ll be able to see all the way in Wuhan.
The LORD bless and keep you safe.
My recent posts on how Christians should not take their pastors’ words as they are but to search the Scripture for themselves had some people misunderstand that I don’t advocate supporting and loving our pastors.
I don’t see how such a misunderstanding can arise, as I personally see these two issues as unrelated.
The point is: while our pastors deserve our support and love, it does not mean that they won’t be in error sometimes as they are mere men. When errant teachings are preached from the pulpit, we have a responsibility to both ourselves and our fellow church members to search the Scriptures and point them out.
Ultimately, we answer to God, not to the pastor and he, too, is answerable to God for what he teaches from the pulpit.
My response to Lee in the previous post reminded me that I had wanted to share this piece on how widespread the phenomenon of many Christians leaving the thinking to their pastors is, not only in the United States of America which this article addresses, but also here in Singapore.
The ‘Pastorization’ Of Christians
by Van Robison
In her quite revealing book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, Charlotte reveals an astonishing documented trail, proving that “education” in America is a tool of deliberate dysfunction. She worked in the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan Administration. Educational abuse is massive and while many see through it, many others do not.
Among the world of Christians, there is a “Christian Dumbing Down” because millions have been “pastorized” by professional clergy. Pastorization causes church goers to be unable to think for themselves, and they are told what to believe by the clergy. Virtually, every day of the week, “Christian” television stations broadcast programs in which men and women are standing on platforms, often with their fingers pointed in your face, telling you what to believe. There is a great difference in taking the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to the unconverted and those who are not yet born-again, and the “professional clergy” system of the church world.
I have never really studied the warnings given to the seven churches in Revelation in depth. Neither have I held strongly to a view whether these warnings were meant to just be given to the seven churches that were present during that time, or if that they also point to warnings to future churches.
Some believe that, under the light of Biblical prophecy, these warnings are to each of the different spiritual conditions throughout the Church Age, while others believe that they indicate actual periods of time when each church had a particular spiritual condition.
It was on this last theory — the period-condition view — that I began my study and research in the past few days.
This is an ad-hoc weekly column where I share some of the best blog posts I’ve come across in the previous week. Some are notable for their content, while others are calling you to action to help pray about an issue or for fellow bloggers.
Twenty-Three Great Sins Of American Evangelism — Why We Must Pray For A Reformation Again
While reading a great blog Theology Today, I came across a mention of the above post over at Al Tosap Al Davaraiv which lists the 23 reasons why the author feels a reformation is needed in this day and age.
I don’t know much about the American church, but I think it’s apt to say that the author’s observations are true for the Visible Church as a whole.
I’m not one of those stiff-necked folks who insist that only hymns are proper worship songs, but given the fact that there’s actually a plethora of bad Christian music out there nowadays, I still prefer hymns to contemporary Christian music (CCM).
There’s just something majestic and magnifying of the Lord in hymns, unlike bad CCM that harp about “what I want from God” or worse, not mentioning God at all in the lyrics.
As you can probably guess by now, lately I’ve been harking back to hymns after having listened to CCM for awhile. Perhaps it’s a ‘grass is greener on the other side’ phenomenon, but for most of my time in a church it was in one that only sings hymns, and not CCM.
The only reason I started listening to CCM was that I was younger then and needed a beat. I mean, if you’re a teenager who’s listening to Run D.M.C. and Bon Jovi on normal days and had to go with the slow solemn hymns on Sunday, you would not have any interest in the latter.
So, perhaps it’s also because I’m older now and (hopefully) more matured as a Christian, I have a new-found appreciation for hymns, especially those sung by a good church choir.
Here’s one I found recently that I particularly like titled Worthy of Praise — it’s from the church choir of a church that I plan on visiting on Sunday.
Of late, I’ve also thought much about going back to my Bible-Presbyterian roots, hence the planned visit. Sure, I don’t agree with infant baptism, and the KJV-only stance, but it’s a Biblical church and teaches sound doctrine.
Not to mention a great choir and mmm… hymns!
If you liked Worthy of Praise, take a listen to the hymn Trusting Jesus too.
Soli deo Gloria!
Source: All hymns linked in this post are sung by the Calvary Pandan Church Choir. Photograph of the Calvary Pandan Church Choir taken from the Calvary Pandan Church web site.
Daniel pointed to this report (with video) at The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which is an insightful and interesting look at Christianity in Singapore.
I don’t know about you, but after watching it, I thought that they seemed to shine this light on Christianity in Singapore more as a response of a well-educated and prosperous populace to a “Jesus-shaped hole in their hearts” (ugh, I cringed writing that!).
Sorry, but this is too humorously true to pass up not posting.
20. You only curse around fundamentalists.
19. You leave your church because the sermon was not obscure enough.
18. You refer to your local assembly as “church,” “synagogue,” or “mosque” depending on who you are talking to.
17. Your blog is a rant about how everyone else rants too much.
16. You brag that you have never been pinned down theologically on any issue.
15. The only thing you are sure of is that others cannot be sure of anything.
14. You bring your own wine to communion.
13. You are offended when someone says they are going to “Preach the Gospel” or “Teach the truth” believing they should just “Tell a story.”
12. Instead of a tract, you carry a can of Play-doh in your back pocket.
11. Your web site links to Green Peace and the Democratic National Convention just because conservatives are against it.
This had me in stitches, and I think it’s just plain genius how the producers have captured the essence of the nonsense spewing from leaders of the Emergent movement, even managing to include the “sex and church” preachers.
All in all, absolutely hilarious, totally disgusting, but unquestionably sad and thoroughly worrying.
Florida Pastor Issues 30-Day Sex Challenge for Congregation
A Florida church has issued a challenge to all singles and married couples in the congregation — that singles go without sex for 30 days while married couples go at it everyday for the same period.
I don’t know about you but I think somehow there’s an implication that the church doesn’t bat an eyelid about singles having sex after those 30 days.
“Our married people are far more fearful than our single people,” said Paul Wirth, the pastor.
As well they should be! Run, Forrest, run!
In other news, this is interesting to me because of my own take on Biblical prophecy:
Rome’s Mayor: UN and Pope For ‘United Religion’
Walter Veltroni today resigned as mayor of Rome to focus exclusively on his campaign to become Italy’s prime minister in the April national election. In his goodbye to the press, Veltroni talked about “a place where religions can meet and talk”.
No prizes for guessing correctly where that might be: Rome.
“I have discussed the idea to make Rome a place where a building could be constructed that would be called ‘United Religion’ with the secretary-general of the UN and the Pope; it would be a place for all religions in the world. I would like to see this idea carried out and to see this place of exchange between several religions”.
HT: Watcher’s Lamp.
Photo “This Kiss” by Rachel Sian.
Ripping Off the Poor in Uganda — The Creflo Dollar Half a Million Dollar Africa Meeting
Ooh, reading this just made me boil with anger!
If not for the fact that I don’t believe in violence against another human being (and assuming that I can actually locate him while he’s zooming around in his private jet), I’ll be right up to Creflo Dollar’s face and just do something bad to him.
Uganda is one of the most impoverished countries in the world where people make less than a US dollar a day if they do make anything at all. And here comes Word of Faith ‘Christian’ preachers like Creflo Dollar who are bringing the gospel that claims Christ wants to make everyone who believes in Him rich.
Well, of course, there’s a condition — you first need to give till it hurts to the ministries of such “anointed men” like Creflo Dollar before you get financial blessings that are “pressed down, shaken together, running over”!
This is worse than simply ripping off the poor.
This is rape.
HT: Yesumulungi — African Christian Perspectives.
Get Out Before They Suck You Dry!
In my interaction with some folks following my post on the prosperity gospel teachings of a particular church in Singapore, I’ve come to hear from some who have expressed concern that they have loved ones still caught up in the Word of Faith (WoF) movement.
They wonder how best to tell their loved ones to get out.
Perhaps this testimony published at Pulpit Pimps will help — it comes from a man who has left the WoF “cult” after being involved in the movement for 30 years giving and giving to Joyce Meyer’s ministry.
I’ll share my favorite quote from the post here, something which I have expounded on again and again but few seldom listen:
The salvation of Jesus Christ is NOT about all the things that the Lord gives to His people! And people who seek the Lord for what He can give them are seeking Him for all the WRONG reasons! A person cannot receive the salvation of Christ unless first he realizes that he is a wretched sinner who deserves HELL, not all of the worldly stuff you WoF people clamor after! It’s not about getting all the STUFF. It’s about giving up their lives for HIM and becoming His slaves. Somehow you Word of Faith people have gotten that all backwards. You think salvation is about getting, and getting more It’s just STUFF, material worldly stuff, it’s CARNAL and ungodly! You think that all your STUFF is proof that you are blessed. There is one thing that is promised for sure to all true followers of Christ and that is PERSECUTION!
You Word of Faithers only think of earthly “blessings”. But God does not promise us the things of this world. Think about it What would it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own SOUL? Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Paula White, all of those hellish creatures on TBN - I can’t even name all of the pulpit pimps on TV (and maybe even your pastor too by the way) all of them have their reward. They have their “Best Life Now”. But they can’t take any of it with them where they go!
You may want to print out and show the article to your loved ones whom you are concerned about, and may God open their eyes to see and ears to hear!
Does your church support and invite the likes of Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn et al to speak at Sunday services, and perhaps even sell their publications by the dozens at the church bookstore? If it does, it is about time you reflect on what you are actually learning at church.
I’ll leave you with what the Apostle Peter wrote regarding these WoF teachers.
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 Peter 2:1-3
HT: Real Christianity.
Shalom Aleichem.
Unfortunately, I don’t have much time today to actually write the post that I had planned to, it being the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year so there’s visiting to be done.
In light of that, I thought I’d leave you with some interesting bits that I’ve come across in the past 24 hours.
Secular TV Series Reveals Emergent/Post-Modern Deathbed Evangelism
This is really funny, but very sad at the same time. Whatever happened to telling people the truth in the Bible as it is where it pertains to their eternal state?!
I just love the dying man’s retort!
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Alright, I need to catch this movie when it’s released, and I do hope that it makes its way to Singapore.
The film is by Ben Stein who “…realizes that he has been ‘Expelled’, and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired for the ‘crime’ of merely believing that there might be evidence of ‘design’ in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.”
You can find out more about the movie at its official website.
It made me think — if I were a science teacher and had to teach whatever is mandated in the textbooks knowing that it is wrong, i.e. evolution, what should my position be?
Hmm… I think I shall try finding out from some Christian friends of mine who are themselves teachers in public schools here.
P-P-Pastor’s Wife?!
I have never paid much attention to the singer Ho Yeow Sun (Ho is her surname, Chinese names are written last name, first name), who is also the wife of pastor Kong Hee, and ‘was the music pastor’ at City Harvest Church.
Until some days ago when I took a look at a forum post that linked to what I wrote on teachings at the church and saw this video which left me flabbergasted.
I am not going to link to the official video of the song which I think is quite risque, but you can do a search for ‘China Wine’ on YouTube if you’re interested.
From what I understand, she used to teach young people at the church against listening to secular music and dressing up to titillate. I wonder what happened to all that, or do those lessons not apply to her good self?
I also wonder if she is aware of, or concerned with, the fact that she’s the wife of a pastor with a flock of 23,000 or more, and probably a role model of said congregation, a majority of whom are young impressionable people?
Before anyone accuses me of being legalistic, let me just say that I believe that those in leadership capacities or were in leadership capacities should be careful to not do anything that might cause others to stumble.
Would you want to see your children’s teacher smoking in front of them, or a respected ex-teacher suddenly featured as a centerfold in an adult-only publication?
Shabbat Shalom.
It has been a really busy week at work and I do apologize for the lack of updates to the blog. And I must also apologize if I haven’t visited some of your blogs till recently because of the hectic schedule.
Being quite occupied with work doesn’t mean I haven’t got things whirling in my head on what the Christian life is and one of the things that spoke most to me this week was God’s plan for the family, which I shall share with you today.
Do you ever wonder why God made man and woman and ordained the institution of marriage, along with the commission to be fruitful and multiply, i.e. have children?
I finally managed to get a glimpse of the name of the church that supposedly had the Saturday service on the Law of Moses this evening, and it turned out that…
Casey once told me to get off my ass to find a new church to attend and fellowship, and I think I have managed to get both of that done just this morning.
There was only standing room inside the cabin of the train I was riding to work — which meant that I was off my ass — and saw a large yellow banner between, I think, Queenstown and Commonwealth stations, that advertised a church service at 3 pm Saturday on the Law of Moses.
(I board the train at Lakeside train station and alight at Tanjong Pagar every morning.)
That looks good! Now, I cannot tell for sure if they have services only on Saturdays or if it’s a one-off, but I have rarely seen churches advertising services on Saturday so that’s one positive sign.
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Thoughts on faith and the Christian life of a Calvinist addicted to coffee and who loves to cook on his days off. This blog is rated “R” for REFORMED.
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