At the Laurel fellowship, we have been studying the lives of the Apostles after the death of the Lord. Our intention was to:
At the Laurel fellowship, we are still studying the book of Acts, and as indicated in the last edition of this newsletter where we shared what we learned from chapters 1 to 11.
Our goal still remains the same as listed below;
At the Laurel fellowship, we are still studying the book of Acts, and as indicated in the last edition of this newsletter where we shared what we learned from chapters 12 to 14.
Our goal still remains the same as listed below;
During the last quarter, we studied from the book of the Acts of the Apostles from chapters 15-19 and some of the lessons learned were about:
After completing the study of the book of the Acts of the Apostles, which took several years, we decided as a group to pick the book by John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress.
According to the publishers of this book, with the exception of the bible, this book has been read by more people than any other book in the English language.
This story is about the adventures that a devout Christian might meet in trying to save his soul by setting out on a pilgrimage to Heaven.
Christian is the name of the character in this allegory, who embarked on a journey from his hometown, the “city of destruction”, that represents this world, to the “Celestial city”, that represents Heaven. He was weighed down by the burden of sin after he read “the book” (the bible). Read more →
Voltaire I believe it was who once counseled that we must never allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. However, Voltaire was a deist, not a Christian. In Christianity we aim for perfection. Period!
Unfortunately it appears that we are inclined to take Voltaire’s advice to heart a little too much in the present age. The radical transformation that scriptures speak so loudly about is found to be too difficult to attain, so we aim a little lower. Where the cross of Jesus targets sin at its root cause, we nip at the symptoms. We must be careful not to embrace advocacies that have more to do with morality, patriotism, culture and denominationalism.
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