Month: June 2020

Return to the Sacraments

Dear BPCWAians, Since we returned to church physically, we have quickly been able to partake of the Holy Communion and also witnessed infant baptisms. It is very important that the church observes and administers these sacraments. In our church’s constitution, it states “We believe that Christ instituted the Sacrament of baptism for believers and their children and the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, which sacraments shall be observed by His Church till He comes”. Our basic Bible knowledge book rightly affirms that “keeping the sacraments must be a regular feature of any sound church. The sacraments must be held in the highest regard”. It is hence important that worshipers understand what Sacraments are in the church, and why there are

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Treasuring the privilege of our return

Dear BPCWAians, We  have returned to church for more than 2 weeks now. It is a privilege that Western Australia has before many other states, and in a way that enables us to come back in full attendance. Since then, have you given thought about how easy it is to lose the opportunity to worship and pray together to God in His house? And how quickly we can also lose all these again? What should we learn about being able to attend church physically and what we ought to do after what we have gone through? Treasure the privilege. It is always a privilege to be invited to someone’s house. Do you consider coming to church a privilege? Our Living God

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What we return to church to do

Dear BPCWAians, “A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD” (Ps 122:1). With great joy and thankfulness in our hearts, the whole church resounded with His people’s voices once again through the hymns of praise last Lord’s Day. After close to 3 months of being away, it was a blessed homecoming for the BPCWA family as we met one another – many of whom we had not seen since the lockdown. Little ones seemed to have grown up so much. There was much to catch up on. But the most blessed thing of all was that we could worship together again! While we delight in

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All things work together for good (Part 2)

Dear BPCWAians, “A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. (2) Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. (3) The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad”. (Psa 126:1-3 ) Last week, I reflected on how the pandemic could have been good for us spiritually. God has seen fit that we should live through such an event in the history of the world. It was unexpected, and when the pandemic started, the Session had to have long phone calls late into the night to discuss and

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