Dear BPCWA worshipper, Worshippers will find together with the bulletin today a booklet with the details of the candidates who have been nominated by the Board of Elders to be put up for election into the Session at the upcoming ACM next month. All members should ensure that they have a copy of this booklet before they leave the church today. This is a long pastoral because there is much to explain, and it is needful for us to understand in detail the assessment process and evaluation criteria that led us to these final candidates for elections.  As members and worshippers in BPCWA, you must be interested to read through these. The process before final nominations. Although we are only

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, The office of deacon may vary depending upon the understanding between churches since the duties and roles of deacons are different in different denominations. To bring everyone to the same page, I will explain our practice and the qualifications for deacons in BPCWA i.e., in a Bible-Presbyterian denomination. This will help everyone view these offices properly. Moreover, understanding the Biblical qualifications will also enable members to vote correctly. What is not expected of deacons. Deacons are not “elders in waiting” i.e., they will definitely be an elder in a matter of time. Neither are they “miniature elders”, functioning almost like elders. Some have the mistaken idea that deacons must be good teachers of the Word. But God,

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, We will have our Annual Congregational Meeting in September. This also marks the year when our Triennial Elections to Session will be held. Though the BP government may be familiar to many, new people joining us and even some existing members may not be very clear about this subject. For this purpose, I conducted a church study series last year on “The Bible-Presbyterian Church Government”. The videos for this series are available online on our YouTube channel at bpcwa.org.au/youtube. However, as we have our elections this year, I will briefly summarise relevant points in today’s pastoral as a refresher to everyone, as well as explain a little more about BPCWA’s Session. Requirements for every Session member. Every

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, In this final pastoral of the series, I will summarise the last 2 sermons of our camp thematic message based on our theme verse from Eph 6:18 “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints”. The Determination in Prayer.  God instructs us to pray “with all perseverance”. This means that we must continue in persistence without discouragement or disheartenment. We need to persevere in watching and persist in both praying and supplication. We have an example of such importunate prayer in Lk 18:1-8. The widow tires the judge out. She displayed urgency and was undoubtedly passionate about her request. Cold prayers have no place

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