Dear BPCWA worshipper, Having covered the past 6 messages of the camp, I will be covering sermon 7 today. The cautions to God’s house. Timothy had “professed a good profession” of faith (1Ti 6:12), but Paul charged him to pursue a higher standard. He had to bear witness like Christ Jesus (1Ti 6:13) so that the church would learn from him and do likewise. This is also what we must do today, to protect BPCWA. Because it is the church of the living God, we must be very conscious not to taint it with worldliness, especially in worship. The church’s music must not pander to parents’ or members’ desire to showcase skills. Church is not about performing music pieces to

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, we will recapture messages 5 and 6 this week. I pray that these reviews will help all remember the key aspects of the messages and rekindle our resolutions that we made at camp during our private reflection times. The collective witness – the Achan effect. Each individual’s life affects the church’s witness. The “collective witness” of the church refers to its shared responsibility to reflect Christ’s teachings. Because the church is considered one “body” (1 Corinthians 12), individual sins impact the entire community. They can delay, detract from, and even destroy the church’s mission, let alone its witness. They can also weaken its spiritual vitality. This notion of personal sin and its consequences on the community is

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, As we saw last week, God’s house is the church of the living God. Today, we will focus on the 3rd and 4th messages. The commitment to God’s house. Once we truly feel that God’s house is family, we won’t need to be reminded and pushed to think of God’s house and work for its betterment. The instruction to the pastor was, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee” (1Ti 4:16). The pastor’s commitment is the example for the flock to follow. There ought to be a commitment to live it out and “save” or protect God’s sheep in

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, After having summarised the camp’s morning devotion messages, I will now recap God’s lessons for us from the thematic messages, centred around our theme verse, “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” (1Ti 3:15). This Epistle was written by Paul to Timothy, who was left in Ephesus to care for the church and correct errors. Paul was aware that Timothy would face an uphill task. Hence, Timothy must handle things seriously. For BPCWA, it is apt to understand what we should do as a church in times of peace,

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, By the time of this pastoral, I believe most of you would have noticed that the walls of the new sanctuary building are up, with most of the tilt panels having been raised on 22 July. This is another milestone in the church extension, made even more significant with the Camp and Retreat theme song echoing in my mind, “I love Thy church, O God! Her walls before Thee stand, Dear as the apple of Thine eye, And graven on Thy hand.” The protection. This is common knowledge about walls. While we love the great outdoors, few, if any, would consider building a church without walls, which protect those within from the elements outside. Walls were significant

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