Dear BPCWA worshipper, The thematic messages at the camp were based on our church’s theme, “Walk as Christ Walked” (1Jn 2:6). In the first Epistle of John, the Apostle spends time to talk about fellowship with God and knowing Him in truth because we are in Christ (1Jo 1:5, 2:5,6,8 etc.). The Christian life is one of abiding in Christ (1Jo 2:6,27,28 etc.). Hence, the thematic messages were preached over 8 messages, using the acronym “In Christ” for each message. In this pastoral, we will cover the first 2, namely “The Impetus” and “The Need”. In future pastorals, we will cover the other 6 – “Consecration”, “Humility”, “In Relationships”, “In Increasing”, “In Sanctification”, and “In Temptations”. The Impetus. God saved us to

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, In today’s pastoral, we will finish with the remaining morning devotion sermons on the topic “Unity in the Church”.  I hope everyone revises the important lessons carefully. Cost of Unity. There is a price to unity because painful choices often must be made for unity. We see that physically, where at times certain parts of the body may need to bear sacrifices for the health of the rest of the body to be preserved. Unity of the body must be based upon the truth. We cannot just seek unity no matter what it takes, tolerating sin or disagreement of doctrines. The right understanding of doctrines unites, but sin is the wrong or wilful misinterpretation of the Word.

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, It is with much thanksgiving in our hearts that we were once again able to meet in person for our Family Camp. Over the next few weeks, I will summarise the sermons preached at the camp as an important recapturing of key lessons we should not forget, as well as for the benefit of all worshippers. BPCWA is, by God’s mercies, enjoying doctrinal unity and we must continue to stress on such unity. However, we must not underestimate Satan’s wiles to weaken our testimony by sowing seeds of internal disunity and strife. Hence, I invited Rev Ko Lingkang to record the morning devotion messages on the theme “Unity in the Church”, with 4 messages on “The Basis

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, We continue looking at God’s command, “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you” (Ho 10:12). Last week, we saw the importance of having prepared hearts as we come before God and listen to His Word. When we continue the same way regardless of whatever we hear, the easy excuse can be that “I’ve heard that before, it’s nothing new to me”. While the messenger of God’s Word must be faithful to what He proclaims, the hearer of His Word also has a responsibility to prepare their hearts to be ready for His Word. Let us

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