Good morning brothers and sisters,

Please find attached the Bible Study Outline for Sunday, November 17 on the topic “Serving God with our Resources.  This is the next study in our Quarter Series on Living a Life of Sacrifice and Service.  The main text is Genesis 18:1-8 and the key learning points are as follows:

1.      Showing hospitality to strangers, as Abraham did in Genesis 18, is an important way of serving God by meeting the needs of others who may not be able to pay us back (Gen 18:3-5)
2.      Believers are commanded to share their resources with those who have need and intentionally practice hospitality, giving of their best in so doing (Gen 18:6-7; Ro 12:12-13)
3.      As with all other service to God, we must show hospitality without grumbling and not let activity displace fellowship with Jesus (Gen 18:8, Lk 10:41-42, 1Pt 4:9)

Yours in His love and mine

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Good evening Brothers and Sisters,

Please find attached the Bible Study Outline for Sunday 10 November on the topic: Serving each other as One Body in Christ.  This is the next topic in our Quarter’s theme on Living a life of sacrifice and service.  The main text is 1 Corinthians 12:4-26 and the key learning points are as follows:

1.      Our individual spiritual gifts and talents were given to us to serve each other in the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12:7)
2.      We are individuals, and our gifts vary (as do our personalities) but we are created to function as one Body in Christ ( 1Cor 12:12-20)
3.      Every believer has a spiritual gift from the Holy Spirit, and every gift, like everyone, matters.  Their gift is significant and needed for the Body to function. Discovering and using our gift to serve others is an act of love and a path to growth. (1Cor 12:21 -26; Romans 12:3-8)

Yours in His Service

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Good day Brothers and Sisters,

I attache the Bible Study Outline for Sunday 27 October 2024 on the topic “Demonstrating Sacrificial Love”.  This is the next in our current Quarter Series on Living a Life of Sacrifice and Service.  The main texts are John 3:16, 15:9-17, and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.  The key learning points are as follows:

1.    God who is divine demonstrated His love by sending His Son Jesus Christ. We too must make the love of God in our hearts visible by practical acts of love for others.
2.    God who is the source of love, loved us and gave his son to us. So, if we want to demonstrate sacrificial love the way God did, we must abide in Him which means walking in obedience.
3.    Sacrificial love is a fruit produced by the Holy Spirit when we yield to God in a desire to love like Christ loved.

Yours in his service

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please find attached the VFC Bible Study on the topic “Embracing the Christlike Character of Humility.  This is the next study in our Quarter Series on Living a Life of Sacrifice and Service.  The main text is Philippians 2:1-8 and the main learning points are as follows:

1.    Jesus Christ is the model of Christ-like humility.
2.    To embrace humility is a choice that God invites and expects each of us to make.
3.    Humility fosters healthy relationships and promotes personal growth.

Yours in His Service

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please find attached Bible  s‬‬‬‬tudy outline for 13 October on the topic “Jesus, Our Ultimate Example of Sacrifice and Service.  This is the second in our Quarter’s series on the theme “ Living a Life of Sacrifice and Service”.  The main text is Mathew 20:20-28 and the key learning points are as follows:

1.    Christians are to “do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit” (Phil 2:7) because it blinds, sow’s division, distracts and is opposite to the “mind that was in Christ”.  Mathew 20:21,24; Phil2:5-8
2.    Jesus calls us to servant leadership which He modelled for us by submitting to the authority of the Father in all things and giving up His rights in order to serve. Mathew 20:23, Luke 22:27; John 13:14
3.    Jesus is our ultimate example of sacrificial service having “given His life a ransom for many” by going beyond physical death to enduring the “full cup of God’s wrath” on our behalf knowing what it would cost Him.  Mathew 20:28; 26:38-39

Yours in His Service,

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We are at the start of a new quarter – the “embers” of 2024!  Attached is the first Bible Study in our new Quarter Series “Living A Life Of Sacrifice And Service”.  Our first topic is “Sacrificial Service: An Act Of Worship”.  The main texts are Romans 12:1-2 and Mark 10:42 – 45.  The key learning points are:

1.    Sacrificial service is impactful service conveyed through us by God’s Holy Spirit to His church and others, because we have come to know, and are bringing our original sinful self and nature to the cross daily, in exchange for the nature of Christ. Sacrificial service adds eternal value.
2.    Jesus Christ emptied Himself and fully obeyed the first commandment to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength” (Deut6:5, Mt22:37). He completely denied His own life as an act of total obedience to the will of the Father.  Self denial, in obedience to Christ, is true worship, the kind acceptable to God (Rom 12:1)
3.    Assuming a transformed lifestyle in line with Rom 12:2 shows the world that we unapologetically and unashamedly belong to Jesus and live for Him and the advancement of His kingdom here on earth.  It is a must for a follower of Christ!

May the Lord grant us hearing ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to His church, the “tongue of disciples”

Yours in Christ

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please see attached the final study in our Quarter Series on Living out our faith_A study of the life of Daniel.  The topic is entitled “Is your name in the Book of Life?” and the main text is Daniel 12:1-13.  The key learning points are:

1.    In the last days there will be a period of fearful persecution such as there has never been, but God will not leave us comfortless, and His people shall be delivered through it.  Daniel 12:1, Mathew 24:21-22
2.    All are destined to rise again into a body that will endure for all time.  The most important question in life is: where will we spend that eternity? Daniel 12:2, Hebrews 9:27
3.    Knowing the certainty of judgment, we should walk with wisdom in obedience to God striving to “turn many to righteousness” through our words and our walk. Daniel 12:3, Ephesians 5:15-16

Yours in His service

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please find attached the Bible study outline on Living with an understanding of Bible Prophecies which is the next study in our Quarter Series: Living out our faith – a study of the life of Daniel. The main text is Daniel 11:1-45 and the key learning points are as follows:

1. The events described in Daniel Chapter 11 and indeed most Bible prophecies are spiritual/foreshadowing events and not merely literal. The Spirit of God helps us to discern them. Dan 2:20,22
2. Bible Prophecies all point to God’s desire to recover Man for Himself. Dan 12:1
3. We should endeavor to discover The Life of Christ in Bible Prophecy and live in Christ to overcome the calamities often portrayed in prophecy and appropriate the blessings also contained therein.

Yours in His service

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I attach the Bible Study Outline for 15 September on the topic Seeking God Through Prayer and Fasting”.  This is the next in our Quarter series on Living Out Our Faith – A Study of the Life of Daniel.  The main text is Daniel 10:1-21 and the key learning points are as follows:

1. As Christians, we are in a spiritual war whether we know it or not.  Fasting and prayer are two of the most powerful weapons God has given us to win this war. Daniel 1:2; Eph 6:10-12, 2 Cor 10:3-5
2. It is up to us to engage in battle, disciplining ourselves like good soldiers.  Jesus expected His disciples to fast just as He expected them to pray. Daniel 10:12; Mathew 6:16
3. We are to fast unto God, according to His purpose, in line with His character and in step with the Holy Spirit.  This is the “fasting that the Lord chooses”.  Isaiah 58:1-14

Yours in His service

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