Living Praise Presbyterian Church Order of Service 2014
12 OCTOBER 2014 BULLETIN! Address: 10 Bishan Street 13 Singapore 579795 Tel: 6259-1943 Fax: 6259-4279 admin@livingpraise.org.sg www.livingpraise.org.sg Living Praise Presbyterian Church Order of Service THE GATHERING 2014 Meeting Time ! Call to Worship! Deacon Wilson Tay ! ! ! Songs of Praise ! ! How Deep The Father’s Love For Us ! ! Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ! Prayer of Adoration and Confession ! Songs of Praise Sunday School ! ! My heart Is Filled With Thankfulness 10.30am to 12pm ! ! When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (every 1st Sunday - combined Family Communion Service) 1 John 4:7-12 Youth & Young Adults 9am to 10.15am English Service & OUR WELCOME, PRAYERS & GIVING ! Welcome & Announcements ! Prayer of Intercession ! Offertory ! ! ! Doxology ! ! ! Mandarin Service Elder Wang Kim Meng 10.30am to 12pm (every 1st Sunday Holy Communion Service) This Life I Live Join us for Lunch Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow Every Sunday! 12pm to 2pm THE WORD ! Scripture Reading ! Tabitha Lee Revelation 2:1-7 Sermon! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Michael Yong The Church That Loses Its First Love THE SENDING ! Closing Song ! ! ! Benediction ! ! • Get to know someone new. • Talk to someone about the message. Pray with someone. • • Speak with a pastor, elder, deacon or a friend. The Church’s One FoundationT Three-fold Amen Please carry our conversations about God over to lunch and minister to one another. Our Mission in Living Praise Presbyterian Church is to know, love and enjoy God forever – and lead others to do the same. Our 10 Year Vision by end 2022 is to have 100 (+ existing in 2012) families, to know, love and enjoy God forever and lead others to do the same. Published and Printed by Living Praise Presbyterian Church MICA (P) 031/05/2013 Welcome to Living Praise! Dear friends, On behalf of the leaders and members of Living Praise Presbyterian Church we warmly welcome you to our church. We hope that you'll be blessed by your visit this morning as you find out more about Jesus and meet some of His people. Do stay back after the service, join us for lunch fellowship and speak to us. We would love to get to know you. We warmly invite you for our regular Sunday services from 10.30am - 12pm. If you would like to find out more about our church activities do contact me at 91821644. Pastor Yuk Yee, on behalf of the leaders and members of Living Praise. CONTACT OFFICE EXT Acting Senior Pastor 9182-1644 105 yukyee@livingpraise.org.sg Reverend Tan Hoo Sun Daniel Associate Minister, Mandarin Ministry 98331984 108 danieltan@livingpraise.org.sg Preacher Stanley Soh Pastor, Youth & Young Adults Ministry 9695-9286 104 stan@livingpraise.org.sg Pastoral Associate (Chaplain & Sunday School Ministry) 9698-6051 carolng@livingpraise.org.sg Pastoral Associate (Church and School Ministry) 9770-9539 gerard@livingpraise.org.sg STAFF Reverend Foo Yuk Yee Carol Ng Gerard Su EMAIL Roy Chang (Study Leave @ Singapore Bible College from July 2014- June 2017) Tan Lip Teng Senior Church Manager, Administration & Facility Management Evelyn Tan 9622-4659 Admin Executive 101 tlteng@livingpraise.org.sg 0 admin@livingpraise.org.sg MINISTRY TEAM (ELDERS) Richard Ong Elders & Deacons Court Clerk, Chairman Personnel 9297-9680 kk_ong@live.com Hospitality Ministry 9824-5105 yeongnamtan@gmail.com Wang Kim Meng Family Ministry 9630-3096 kimmeng@livingpraise.org.sg Chan Siew Heng Cell Groups Ministry 9754-5689 chansiewheng@gmail.com Sunday School Ministry & Assistant Treasurer 9651-1442 jessie@livingpraise.org.sg 9179-7029 d_loke@hotmail.com Treasurer & Young Adults Ministry 9144-3480 wilsontaysk@gmail.com Missions Ministry 9824-4536 dechen@singnet.com.sg Tan Yeong Nam MINISTRY TEAM (DEACONS) Jessie Wong Sow Har Daniel Loke Kwong Yan Wilson Tay Swee Kiat Church and Worship Ministry Martin Chen Wee Bang MINISTERS Congregation of Living Praise 12 October 2014 Name RESPONSE SLIP (Please tear off) (Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms./Mdm.) Address Email Mobile Age Group Please tick where applicable Home 18 & below 19-30 Office 31-40 I would like to join a Discovery Class to find out more about Christianity. I would like to know how to be a Christian. 41-50 50 & above I would like to join the New Members’ Class and be Baptised / Confirmed / Transferred (Kindly circle your response) I would like to join a Cell Group. I would like to join a Foundation Class. Others: I would like to know more about church activities. I heard about Living Praise from __________________________________ (Family / Friend / Came On My Own) 2 SERMON OUTLINE! 12 OCTOBER 2014 Scripture: Revelation 2:1-7 Title: The Church That Loses Its First Love - Ephesus Preacher: Michael Yong Introduction 1. The Lord Jesus watches the church His authority His evaluation 2. The Lord Jesus evaluates the church Commending her for guarding the gospel Warning her for not proclaiming the gospel 3. The Lord Jesus promises His presence to the church Who listens and obeys Who conquers Conclusion Reflection Do stay back to pause, reflect and pray about what God has spoken to you during the service. Please be mindful of others who may be praying. Do share with others over lunch fellowship to encourage them. Sermons are available on our church’s website at www.livingpraise.org.sg or on your Android ph ones! Download LPPC App from https://play.google.com/store. Search using the keyword: "LPPC" or "Living Praise Presbyterian Church" 3 Praiselines by Elder John Seah 12 OCTOBER 2014 From The Pastoral Leadership Team RESTORE OUR FIRST LOVE (REV 2:1-7) It is possible to restore/recapture the first love. With much prayer and study, the former love for God and His truths can be rekindled. What is first love? First love is not the humanistic “eros” love. First love is pure and sincere. First love is to love God not only with our lips, but with our hearts. When we sin, we must repent with contrite hearts and tears like King David. First love is to love God with all our soul and with all our strength (Mark 12:29-31). When we love God, we should not spare our soul and our strength, not even our lives. Maybe we can love God once, but it is not easy for us to love God with all our soul continually for our lifetime. We have to make a daily decision to do so. The Greek word for ‘first’ is protos, which points less to the chronological as to the quality of love. From this Greek word the words also derive for ‘place of honour’ or ‘leader; or ‘the first’ or ‘take first place’. The Lord wants us to live directly before Him and with Him and that He has first place in our hearts. What does it mean that they (Ephesians) have forsaken their first love? First, the Ephesians have forsaken their first love for God. The Ephesian Christian experienced greater love of Christ through the Apostle Paul’s sincere Bible study and they became men and women of God. They had kept this great love of Jesus in their hearts. It was their first love. How did we experience our first love? 1 John 3:16 says, “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” When we know and experience Jesus Christ who laid down his life for us on the cross, we can have his burning love in us. How can we express our first love to Jesus? We also should lay down our lives for our brothers. (1 Jn 3:16b). Second, to forsake one’s first love means to forsake God’s commandments. To love God is the first commandment. To love one’s neighbor as one’s self is the second commandment. (Mark 1 2 : 3 1 ) . J e s u s t a u g h t u s t h a t t h e fi r s t commandment demands a love relationship with God and the second demands a love relationship with our neighbors “Love your neighbor as yourself”. How did Jesus teach us to love our neighbors? “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 7:12). The Ephesians lost their first love because the love between brothers grew cold in the course of exposing and punishing false teachers in the church. In the beginning, the church in Ephesus had a burning love toward God. (Acts 20:36-37). However, this love grew cold when arguments and division grew among Christians. The Ephesians lost their first love because they did not renew it everyday. Rev 2:5a says, “Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.” It is not easy to remember continually. We should renew everyday to remember always. It is just like the saying: “Out of sight, out of mind.” As we feed a fire charcoal in order to maintain the fire, our love can cool down unless we fan it into fire everyday. Likewise, we should renew our burning love for Jesus everyday through God’s word. Otherwise, our love for him will gradually cool down and become cold. In order for us to recover our first love, we should realize how and why we had fallen from it. How can seasoned/matured Christians restore/recapture our first love? How can we have the kind of love Jesus had and not let it grow cold? 4 When we first became a Christian, we typically experienced a "first love" for the truth, eagerly studying God's Word. What we were learning was so exciting, we would burn the midnight oil to learn more. We also zealously went about sharing the gospel with others. Christ says the Ephesians had begun with an excitement and love for truth, but internal betrayal and spiritual battles had eroded much of their enthusiasm. So Christ told them, "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works" (Revelation:2:5). Jesus also warned Christians in the end time, "Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold" (Matthew:24:12). This is in stark contrast to the true love Christ said would characterize His Church: "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John:13:35). There was a time when David found he had drifted away from God. He no longer felt that former joy he had had. He repented and fervently prayed, "Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit" (Psalm:51:12). David was reconciled with God, stirred up God's Spirit and went on to serve Him faithfully and zealously for the rest of his life. If we return to a diligent study of the Scriptures and ask God to restore a spiritual hunger for His wonderful truths, God will hear and answer us (Matthew:7:7-8). Then as we study it will be like God is speaking directly to us, and we will be uplifted by the hope that has motivated the faithful down through the centuries. This love for the truth can help us not fall for the "lawlessness" that abounds in the end time (Matthew:24:12). In 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Apostle Paul said that we persevere because of hope. The reason we can persevere in spite of many temptations and hardships is because of our hope in Jesus’ second coming. The secret of overcoming this atmosphere is to hold on to the hope of Jesus’ second coming. Jesus commended the church in Ephesus for not tolerating false apostles (Rev 2:2d, 3, 6). Our community must be a community of love. At the same time, we must guard against bad influence from false apostles who hinder and destroy the Christian community. We should not follow evil trends of the time. At that time, false apostles (Nicolaitans) spread gnosticism and hedonism. This hindered gospel faith. However, the church in Ephesus exposed them and warned against their false teachings. In conclusion, we have to repent and restore our first love everyday. We have to meditate on the love of Jesus on the cross and restore our burning love for Jesus. And we must love our neighbors as ourselves. Our best, our first, love for Jesus must come before everything else! If we let anything else come before our first love, then it is no longer the first love, but the second, or the third. Let us ponder: Does our love belong to the Lord Jesus first? Has He absolute priority in our lives? Does everything else in our lives come after Him? Do we really try to listen carefully when He wants to speak to us through His Word in the Bible, and have true fellowship with Him in this way? Do we love the Lord Jesus above all else, even if we have lost everything that was dear to us, when for some reason we can no longer work or cannot move? Have we learned to love Him before all else? And have we heard the admonition of Jesus to the Christians in the church at Ephesus and adjusted our lives accordingly? May God help us! Staying close to God and stirring up His Spirit will also help us avoid allowing the lawlessness of others to drag us down. God wants us to continue assembling together and considering "one another in order to stir up love and good works" (Hebrews:10:24-25). Fellowshipping with God and our fellow Christians can help us keep our love from growing cold. 5 THANKSGIVING, PRAYERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Cell Group Ministry 12 OCTOBER 2014 We give thanks to God as we embark on a new study series on the book of Revelation. Pray with us as we learn about the early churches - their works of love and of the gospel, as well as areas that needed repentance and changes. Pray that our cell group leaders will continue to learn and teach with humility. May our cell group members continue to place priority in coming for cell group meetings, and find joy in doing so. We also thank God for our current group of trainees who are in our Leadership Training Programme. They will be completing their training in November. We thank God for enabling them to come together regularly to learn since April 2013. Pray for them in their preparation of writing a short evangelistic talk. May the Holy Spirit grant them understanding of God's Word so that they in turn can share the gospel clearly and faithfully through the bible passages. Pray alongside Pastor Yuk Yee, Michael Yong and Siew Heng as they review the bible study materials for next year. May God protect their time and grant them wisdom. 6 THANKSGIVING, PRAYERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Our sincere condolences to John Seah & Fancy on the passing of Fancy’s mother, Madam Lam Wai Kwan on 4 October 2014 in Hong Kong. May the Holy Spirit draw near to them and their families in their time of grief. May they experience the deep love, peace and comfort that our God gives. Ladies Prayer fellowship LPPC move to New Chapel Update The update on the move back to Ladies Prayer Fellowship the new chapel is rescheduled to next Sunday, 19 October after the worship service as the Sunday School teachers will be present in the service. Date:! 19 October 2014 (next Sunday) Time:! 9 am Venue:! Classroom #02-06. We invite you to join us for a time of sharing and prayer. CHURCH SCHEDULE OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2014 Week (Mon - Sun) 6 Oct - 12 Oct Sunday Sermon The Church that Loses It’s First Love - Ephesus Scripture Text Weekly Cell Group Study The Church that Suffers - Smyrna Revelation 2:8-11 20 Oct - 26 Oct The Church that Compromises Pergamum Revelation 2:12-17 27 Oct - 2 Nov The Church that Tolerates Immorality Thyatira Revelation 2:18-27 3 Nov - 9 Nov The Church that Lives Like The Walking Dead - Sardis Revelation 3:1-6 10 Nov - 16 Nov 17 Nov - 23 Nov The Church That Is Indifferent - Laodicea 24 Nov - 30 Nov Seven Church of Revelation - LPPC New Member’ s Service Event Revelation 2:1-7 13 Oct - 19 Oct The Church that Endures - Philadelphia The Church that Endures - Philadelphia Cell Leaders Meeting Revelation 3:7-13 The Church that Compromises - Pergamum The Church that Tolerates Immorality - Thyatira The Church that Lives Like The Walking Dead - Sardis The Church that Endures Philadelphia The Church That Is Indifferent - Laodicea Seven Church of Revelation - LPPC Revelation 3:14-22 28 Nov-3 Dec - Changrai, Thailand Mission Trip 7 MINISTRY INFORMATION OUR FAITHFULNESS 5 October Attendance @ Service 242 (English Service) 45 (Mandarin Service) Sunday School 200 Children 224 Adults Roster 12 October 19 October Duty Pastor/ Elder/Staff Elder Wang Kim Meng Pastor Carol Ng Service Leader Deacon Wilson Tay Elder Chan Siew Heng Annabelle Wang, Musicians & Singers Jeanette Choong Phoon Kwong Mun, Ruth Chen & Tabitha Lee Tithes & Offerings! $18,749.50 Our 10 Year Vision By end 2022 to have 100 (+ existing in 2012) families, to know, love and enjoy God forever and lead others to do the same. Scripture Reader Tabitha Lee Kho Yee Lin Visual Team Edwin Chua Kelvin Tan Audio Team Welcome Team Phillip Hoh & Joshua Lee & Keefe Quek See Yoong Hwee Elder Tan Yeong Nam Elder Jimmy Tan Susan Chin, Bryan Ardian, Building Up, Reaching Out, Passing Down CELL GROUPS Benjamin Ho, Daniel Lee, Ushers Desmond Hwang, Celine Hong & Hong Suan Heng Susan Chin, Elvira Tan, Isaac Lee, Ryan Tan & Ariel Christian If you are interested to join a Cell Group, please fill in the response slip on page 2. Thursday, 8pm, Bishan Elder Wang Kim Meng 9630-3096 Thursday, 2pm, Bishan Elder Sue Kim Lee 9695-5395 Friday, 8pm, Marymount/ Toa Payoh Friday, 8pm, Yio Chu Kang/ Thomson Friday, 8pm, Bishan Saturday, 3pm, Bishan Saturday, 3pm, KCPSS (01-01) Saturday, 3.30pm, KCPSS (01-03) Sunday, 8.45am, KCPSS (Tamil Language Room 1) Elder Jimmy Tan 9626-6068 Tan Nguan Sen 6457-4754 Elder David Lim 9620-2953 Elder Chan Siew Heng 9754-5689 Steven Tan 9686-1906, Loh Pui Wah 9630-7618 Elder Tan Yeong Nam 9824-5105 Chew Siew Chin 9618-2745 Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (01-01) Elder Kok Siew Hoong 9622-6087, Chew Wing Kee 9111-0114 Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (01-02) Felix Lim 9826-9750 , Wilie Wu 9652-1180 Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (01-07) Elder John Seah, Tay Swee Kiat 9144-3480 Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (01-08) Priscilla Lam 9754-5182 Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (Tamil Language Room 2) Sunday, 9am, KCPSS (02-05) Pr Stanley Soh 9695-9286, Tan Nguan Sen 6457-4754 Elder Richard Ong 9297-9680 ARRANGEMENT OF CHAIRS Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The chairs that we use for our Service have been kindly arranged by our brothers and sisters in Christ from Zion BP. Please help to keep the chairs arranged orderly after our Services. Thank you for your loving consideration.
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