The Disciple & his Glorification (29 May 2010)

1. What is the meaning of “Glory” and to be “glorified”?

2. Read Romans 8:18-25. What does is the hope that Paul is talking about?

(Col 1:27)

3. Compare Romans 8:18-23 with Romans 8:14-17. What is the correlation between these two passages? What is the significance of this?

4. What is Justification?

(Romans 5:12-21) (Romans 3:22)

What is Sanctification?

(Heb 10:14)  

How do Justification, Sanctification and Glorification relate to one another?

(refer 1 Cor 13:12, 1 Cor 15:52-53, 2 Cor 5:2-4)

The Disciple & his Sanctification (22 May 2010)

Read Romans 6

1. What is sanctification?

2. Read Romans 5: 18-21 with Romans 6:1. Why would anyone think that continuing to sin would make grace abound?

3. Read Romans 6:3-10. What does it mean to be baptized in Christ’s death? What does it mean to be buried with him?

4. Is the idea of being a slave to sin in Romans 6: 12-23 talking about sin determining our destiny or controlling our behavior?

5. What are your motivations for not sinning? How might you go about not allowing sin to reign in you? Can you think of any sin that God has turned you away from since you became a believer?

The Life Chapel Assembly Retreat 2010 - Promo Video

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The Disciple and his Salvation (15 May 2010)

1. How are you saved?
2. Read Romans 3:21-26. What is righteousness? How is it obtained?
3. What is grace? (Read Titus 2:11, Romans 6)
4. Read Romans 4:16. What is the relationship between grace and faith?
5. What is your salvation to you?

10 Ways NOT to Share Your Faith

1. Stand on the corner and scream “REPENT!” at others. If it didn’t work for Jeremiah the prophet, it won’t work for you.

2. Break into a public high school and shove gospel tracts into the lockers. Trust me on this. I’ve done it…seriously.

3. Wear a “Ready to die…ask me why” T-Shirt. I’ve done this too. It’s not effective, but it did scare people.

4. Go into a bookstore and secretly slip gospel tracts into all of the New Age/Witchcraft books. Have I done this? Maybe…okay, yes.

5. Put gospel tracts in the hands of the manequins at J.C. Pennys. While it looks like the fashion dummy is offering the gospel tract it’s the real dummy that gets thrown out of the mall. Suffice it to say that I’ve met many security guards this way and they are nothing like the guy in “Mall Cop.”

6. Use fake $100 dollar bills with “the gospel” on them to get people excited that they found a $100 dollar bill and then get them ticked off when they realize that they didn’t.

7. Go on Christian television and offer the gospel as a way to get rich on earth. Does anybody have a barf bag?

8. Sky dive from 3,000 feet into an outdoor Atheist’s convention with “John 3:16″ painted on your parachute.

9. Yell out “I love Jesus how ’bout you?” in the middle of class.

10. Any kind of Christian bumper sticker (especially if you’re a bad driver!)

So, if this is how you should NOT share your faith, how should you? How about this? Talk to people! Love them, listen to them, engage them and share the gospel with them. It’s only taken me about 30 years of sharing my faith to figure this out. I guess I’m a slow learner. It’s a good thing I love the book of Colossians. I finally got the message after reading this passage in chapter four, verses four through six,

“Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”

I love Jesus how ’bout you?

Taken from http://www.christiantoday.com/article/10.ways.not.to.share.your.faith/25868.htm

NEWS: Nigeria Swears in New Christian President

Nigeria swore in its new president, a Christian, this week after months of leadership confusion while its elected president was receiving medical treatment.

Goodluck Jonathan, who has been Nigeria’s acting president since February, officially became president of Nigeria on Thursday. His Muslim predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua, died on Wednesday despite extensive treatment, including a medical stay in Saudi Arabia.

The peaceful power shift provides stability to the oil-rich country, avoiding Nigeria’s history of military coups whenever there was a leadership vacuum.

It is unclear at the moment if Jonathan will run for the office of president during the next election.

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is about evenly split between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. There is an agreement that the office of president would be alternated between Christians and Muslims.

While the presidency problem is, for now, settled, Nigeria is facing the problem of increased sectarian violence.

Just last month, Islamic extremists allegedly kidnapped and killed Pastor Ishaku Kadah of the Church of Christ in Nigeria and his wife.

In March, ethnic Fulani Muslims attacked predominantly Christian villages in the central Jos area where somewhere between 100 to 500 people were killed, depending on reports. The attack occurred at night and many of the victims were defenseless women and children.

Then acting president Goodluck Jonathan ordered security forces in Plateau State and neighboring states to be on high alert to keep the violence from spreading.

The attack had come just months after a large-scale clash around the Jos area. Nearly 500 people were killed in January. The Plateau state police said the violence was sparked by an unprovoked attack on worshipers at a local church.

Jos has a well-known history of conflict between the Muslim and Christian communities. The central city lies between Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.

Beyond religious differences, many sectarian conflicts are also sparked by poverty and competition over access to resources.

Taken from http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100508/nigeria-swears-in-new-christian-president/index.html

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Hello wonderful youths !

Just a tiny reminder that this week, 8th of May 2010,
YF will be on as usual.
YAAAAYYYY !

So, so.
Please please please make it this week.
We have on something special (:
Adrene Wong will be coming to speak to us and I think it's going to be awesome.
She'll be speaking on the topic of MUSIC.
So if you love music, do come !
And even if you don't like music, please come.
Maybe you'll like music after this talk.
heh.


See you all this week !