(Please refer to our website for more updates.) Alpha: How can I resist evil? Venue: YMCA Orchard Dates: 29 Oct (Wed) Time: 7pm - 9.30pm Dinner is included. Registration is free! Register at the venue on the date itself or pre-register online at http://mhub.cc/s/2959 . For enquiries email alpha@cefc.org.sg. Recruitment for Volunteer Management This role is responsible for the overall aspects of Volunteer Management from developing policies and framework, assessing manpower capacity and capability to recruitment, selection, induction, training and managing of all volunteers. You are also required to do the following: - Develop job descriptions and produce the Volunteers’ Manual - Design the Volunteer Management System for tracking, trending, and documentation capability - Serve as the overall coordinator of various ministries and project teams’ volunteer needs Applicants should either be a church or CG member. For enquiries and submission of resume, email hr@cefc.org.sg by 9 Nov 2014. Flower Offering Today’s flower offering is sponsored by Joshua Lee and Alice Tok in celebration and thanksgiving for their 25th Wedding Anniversary. Thank You Children’s Fest Volunteers! Praise God for the passion and commitment of 403 Covenant EFC volunteers who served at the New Life Children’s Fest! An estimated total of 5,330 participants (including 500 volunteers) came together to celebrate Children’s Day in Bukit Panjang and Woodlands. Thank you for demonstrating God’s love in the community and for being the face and hands of Covenant EFC! KidzCamp Registration Calling all Pr 1 – Pr 6 children! Register with a pre-believing friend to enjoy a three-day funfilled event in character development activities, team building games, creative crafts, and prizes. Volunteers are needed too. Sign up at the foyer today! Event Dates: 27 – 29 Nov (Thu - Sat) Time: 8.30am – 5pm Venue: WDL Centre Free transport from BPJ Centre will be provided. Camp Fee: S$20.00 Children’s registration ends on 2 Nov. Prayer & Praise To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of this world.- Karl Barth God wants to change our world and He often does it in answer to our prayers! Get your CGs ready and hear the testimonies of those who shine for the Lord in their workplace. Bring your children ages 7-12 along so they can also learn to pray at the concurrent children’s segment. Date: 31 Oct (Fri) Time: 8pm Venue: WDL Centre See you there! ACKCentre: 2 Kallang Avenue, #10-26, CT HUB, Singapore 339407 WOODLANDS 26 October 2014 SERVICE LEADER Ps Ivan Ho • worship low Wei Shing and Mavis Low October Memory Verse No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:12 (ESV) Deepening Your Life Ps Adrian Chan, Director of Equipping Two thousand years ago, Jesus told everyone, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?” (Luke 9:23-25). soar. We have seen how God has graciously strengthened Covenanters to brave through storms and trials as they cultivate their inner lives and ground themselves in lifetransforming personal disciplines through IDT. God wants to strengthen you too! IDT aims to provide a learning support environment conducive for both younger and older adults. For the younger adults (many having grown up in Singapore’s Jesus is still telling us the same thing today. modern educational regimes), there will be As you read these verses, do you sense a more cooperative-based and practice-based longing within you to follow Him to a deeper learning to grow a heart anchored discipleship life? If you do, know deep in the Lord, grounded that this longing within you is in Biblical thinking and in a gift from the Lord. Your Do you sense a longing compassion as they live in right response to this within you to follow Him to a deeper discipleship life? an increasingly complicated longing is your gift to Him. If you do, know that this world. For the older adults longing within you is a gift In Covenant EFC, who would like to keep from the Lord. Your right Intentional Discipleship response to this longing is maturing and multiplying Training (IDT) is a way to your gift to Him. spiritually, and to say as support you in discipleship. Apostle Paul did, “I have run the It is more than just a race, I have fought the good fight, I programme. Just like Breakthrough have kept the faith”, there will be learning Weekends, IDT is a “God-thing”. It is approaches that recognise their longer and a blessed life-transforming pilgrimage wider experiences and life journeys. amongst Covenanters who want to keep We look forward to the time when Covenant growing in spiritual maturity. EFC will have a large alumni base of For the upcoming intake of IDT Level 2, IDT-experienced Christ-mastered men and we have a training team comprised of our women across the generations who are senior pastors, pastoral and ministry staff, distinct as salt and influencing as light and lay leaders who want to cheer you on in in this dark world, bearing the Gospel, the your faith journey. Through the training, we Hope of the world, to Singapore and beyond. aim to help you grow stronger as a KingdomJesus says, “Follow Me.” Will you train oriented, Word-centred, Spirit-empowered yourself in discipleship and follow Him? disciple with deep roots and strong wings to This Week’s Sermon Outline Last Week’s Sermon Summary Scripture: Scripture: Scripture: 12JOHN JOHN 1 JOHN 4:17-21• 7-13 5:1-5• • Sermon: Sermon: Sermon: rev REV REV tan edmund tony kay yeo kiong chan Scripture: 3 John 1-4 • Sermon: Ps Edmund Wong Eternal Investment Introduction Deception Introduction We live in an age of massive deception and darkness. Day by day, we are bombarded by millions of lies. Deception is the devil’s number one weapon against us. Satan is the Father of lies. He is the accuser of the brethren day and night. If he can get us to believe in a lie, then he is in full control of us. We are enslaved to that What Gives Discipling Others Its Proper Focus 1. That the prosperity of their souls must be our greatest concern (vv. 1-2). “…..as it goes well with your soul.” – v. 2 deception. We then become our own greatest demon. Main Points Two Critical Actions: A. Be Spiritually Alert (vv. 7-8) Two words stand out in v. 8 to fight against the power of deception: “WATCH YOURSELVES!” It carries the idea of intense prudence, care, and watchfulness. Two aspects to watch out for: 1. V. 8 That you may not lose what we have worked for: In principle, we are to be careful not to lose what have been gained previously. Application: Think about your spiritual life, career, marriage. 2. V. 8 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a FULL REWARD: The emphasis here is not just the potential of rewards but the potential of a FULL REWARD. There is an eternal 2. That the testimony of their walk will be our greatest joy (vv 3-4). “I have no greater joy….” – v. 4 prize-giving ceremony that awaits the faithful servants of God. See 2Co 5:10; Rev 11:18; 22:12; 1Co 3:13. B. Be Steadfastly Abiding (vv. 9-13) To counter deception and falsehood, we have to be steadfastly abide in two aspects: 1. Abide in the Teaching of Christ: John warns us that it is easy to run ahead and deviate from the fundamentals that has been taught by Christ or about Christ. Application: How certain are you of your salvation? Our discipleship vehicles: Breakthrough Weekends and Intentional Discipleship Training 2. Abide in the Community of Christ : Stay away from false teachers and bad company. Application: Join a Covenant Group. Conclusion Conclusion What lies have you bought in your life? SEE REVERSE PAGE FOR DECEPTION CHECKLIST Next Week’s Sermon Speakers 2 November - Rev Tan Kay Kiong (BPJ) and Rev Dr Chua Chung Kai (WDL) For more details, please go to www.cefc.org.sg. 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