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I Corinthians 13

The month of Love is approaching, love is in the air, and valentine’s cards sold everywhere, flowers being sent to the love one and the word I love you being said by everyone. Whether during valentine or not, who among us that doesn’t love?

Everyone has loved someone else; let it be their spouse, children, parents, friends, and so on. Even the Bible said “Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love” – I John 4:8. But what is the kind of love that our God want us to express?

Paul wrote in his letter to Corinthians, that with everything that he has or can do, without love he is nothing (I Corinthians 13:1-3).

 

That is our topic this week; we will start our series on Corinthians from I Corinthian ch 13, about Love. In this chapter Paul explained about the concept of Love, and how it is being the greatest of them all.

Please join our discussion this week for I Corinthians 13, Friday 25th at 7pm

The Cost of Discipleship

Last week we talk about how important it is for being a F.A.T (Faithful, Available, and Teachable) disciple. It is God’s will for us to be a student, most of the time we focused more on learning, learning, and learning; Even though there is nothing wrong with that, He want us to be more than learning for ourselves, as commanded by Jesus on “” – “” It is clearly stated that we must go out there, spread and teach others, which in turns will do the same.

So what is the cost of all this? What does God expect from us? Our spare time? Our weekend? Or more? What is the cost of discipleship and is it worth doing it?

Please join our discussion this week for “The cost of discipleship”, Friday January 18 at 7pm

Fruits of the Holy Spirit (Longsuffering, Kindness and Goodness)

This week we are continuing our study on the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, Longsuffering, Kindness and Goodness.

Please join us this Friday, November 2nd at 7pm

Fruits of the Holy Spirit (Love, Joy, Peace)

I’ve heard many questions from Christian, as well as non-christians where they want to know how can you tell if someone is a real follower of Jesus? Many people claim that they belief in Jesus, and claim themselves as Christians, how can we tell which ones are real? I suppose it can be answered easily with a simple question “What is the easiest way to know that this tree is a lemon tree?” The answer is of course by its fruit! (well unless you’re an expert on trees, then you would know just buy looking at it)

 

The same ideas can be applied to Christians, how do we know that a person really is filled with the Holy Spirit? He/she will produce the fruit of Holy Spirit! What is the fruit of Holy Spirit? Paul wrote in Galatians 5:22-23, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

 

This week we will start our discussion about fruits of Holy Spirits, we will discuss the meaning for each of them and how can we practice it in our life if we haven’t done so. This week specifically we will be talking about the fruit of Love, Joy and Peace.

Please join our discussion this week November 2nd at 7:00pm.

Halloween

The time has come again, where people dress up as witch, devil, pirates basically anything that is scary. Children goes around houses trick-or-treating while dressing as cute little devil and people handing out candies to them. Places decorated with carved pumpkins, orange color, scary ornaments and the whole celebrate Halloween.

But what is Halloween exactly? What is Christian view on this event? Is it simply an occasion for kids with no meaning behind it? Or is it more than that? How does Halloween get connected with witches, devils, ghosts, etc? Does this mean we Christians are not allowed to celebrate Halloween?

Please join our discussion this Friday, 10/26 at 7pm with the topic of Halloween.