Activities from August 21-26, 2012

August 21, in our preachers bible study, brother Denis Yuson shared to us a good lesson about “Right Attitudes to Become an Effective preacher”. It is a good lesson that teaches us to continue on preaching the gospel of God. We should not be ashamed to share it because it is the power of God unto salvation. We also need to have long-suffering, learn to endure hardships of life and learn to serve others. Finally, as a preacher I learned in this lesson that we should become a good example to our family, to our fellow preachers, to the Christians and also to the unbelievers.

August 22, in our midweek service, brother Jerome explained to us the lesson we could learn on Proverbs 4. He gave the title “Security in Wisdom” because that writer calls his pupils and tells him how he was educated and specifies the teachings he received. He also exhorts his pupil to persevere in well-doing and to avoid evil.

August 23, I answered a text questioning “Does Baptism Save You, or just accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?” The bible not only says that we must believe on Him and we will be save but it is plainly teaches that we also need baptism for us to be save (1 Peter 3:21). We must understand that the scripture is telling us that in order to be saved from sins by the blood of Jesus, we must be willing to obey His commandments to be baptized in water (Mk. 16:16; Acts 2:38).

August 25, I went to Palca to visit the family of sister Maria Andrada. She is a very faithful sister but her husband is no longer active in the church. They were baptized before I became their preacher. I didn’t saw her husband in the house because he is in the field planting crops. I shared to her together with her granddaughter, who is also active and always attending in the children class, about spiritual growth. It is a burden to her that her husband became unfaithful but we all joined together in prayer that someday, he will realize that it is better to be with the Lord than to focus on worldly things. I pray that I can continually do the visitation to the brethren at Palca every Saturday if the Lord's will and if I have the financial capacity to do so, so that I can give them encouragements coming from the bible. I already made the whole schedule from September to January.

August 26, in our Lord’s day here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun taught in our bible study about “Marriage and Divorce”. And in the sermon, he preached to us about “How many shall be saved?”

In the afternoon, at Palca, brother Abraham joined me and he taught in our bible study about “Things we must avoid?” We didn’t talk on the lessons that we will preached but it is just a coincidence that we almost have the same lesson. I preached to them about “How can we escape sin?” Hope and pray that the lessons we preached is a good way to remind them that God hated sin and we must have a change of heart through repentance when we are still doing it.