I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ His only Son...

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I believe in God the Father Almighty,maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord:who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,

خداي , , به دارم ايمان من زمين و آسمان خالقمطلق قادر پدر

, به كه مسيح عیسی ما خداوند او یگانه پسر وبه , و گرفت قرار رحم در القدس روح واسطه

, پنطيوس حكومت در و شد متولد باكره ازمريمكشيد رنج ,پيالطس

was crucified, dead, and buried;the third day He rose from the dead;He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

, به , و گرديد مدفون و بمرد شده مصلوب و , از سوم روز در و كرد نزول ارواح عالم

, , و نموده صعود آسمان به برخاست مردگانمطلق قادر پدر خدای راست دست به , , تا آمد خواهد آنجا از و است نشسته

نمايد داوری را مردگان و .زندگان

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

, به و القدس روح به دارم ايمان من وشركت به و جامع مقدس كليسای

به, و گناهان آمرزش به و مقدسين , جاودان , حيات به و قيامت روز

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ANNOUNCEMEN

TS اعالمیه

Lay Academy of mission and ministry will be offering a course on Methodism on 6-8 June. Our guest lecturer is Emeritus Bishop Rev. Dr.

Robert Solomon. It’s a rare opportunity to have him to come and teach. Please do enrol as audit $100 (23hrs of

Lectures) or as student to attend the course of lay preachers.

Today is the last day to register with Rev. Elijah

Chew.

Church Family Camp

Will be held from 29-31st December 2014. Further detail to be followed.

Please reserve these dates for our combined family camp.

Winter Youth Camp: Please continue to pray for Youth Winter Camp (4th

July – 7th July) to be a blessing, fruitful and renewing the youth. Today is our last day for

registration. So please join us! We don’t want you to miss out on this opportunity!

Please pray for this coming Single retreat from 5th to 9th June that God will bless all participants and

to experience His provision, protection, and promises in their lives.

Pray for Rev. Elijah Chew, both speakers: Rev. Milton Nee and Rev. Gloria Ling, coordinator: Sieu Nang Puang and the committee to provide a safe

environment to share, to learn and to have fellowship in the Lord.

Hymn #266 – “Must Jesus Bear the Cross alone?”

PREPARATION FOROFFERING

کمک برای شدن آمادهمردمی های

Must Jesus bear the cross aloneAnd all the world go free

No there’s a cross for ev’ry oneAnd there’s a cross for me

The consecrated cross I’ll bearTill death set me free

And then go home my crown to wearFor there’s a crown for me

Upon the crystal pavement downAt Jesus’ pierced feet

Joyful I’ll cast my golden crownAnd His dear name repeat

PRAYEROFFERTORY

های کمک دعایمردمی

ANTHEMCHOIR

گروهی سرود

COMMUNION

HOLY

عشای ربانی

The Order For the Holy Communion

Christ our Lord invites to His table all who love Him

Who earnestly repent of their sinAnd seek to live in peace with one

anotherTherefore, let us confess our sin before

God and one another

Merciful God,We confess that we havesinned against You in thought,word, and deed.We have not loved You with ourwhole heart. We have not loved our neighboursas ourselves.We not heard the cry of the needy.

We repent, and are sorry for all our sins.Father, for the sake of Your son Jesus Christ, forgive us, we pray,Forgive our past, strengthen our present,guide our future, to love andto obey You in newness of Lifethrough Christ our Lord. Amen

Hear the good news:Christ died for us while we were yet sinners;that proves God’s love toward us.

In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!

In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!

Glory to God. AMEN.

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

The Lord be with You.And also with you.Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord.Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.It is right to give our thanks and praise.It is right, and a good and joyful thing,always and everywhere to give thanks to You,Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

And also,with Your people on earth and all thecompany of heaven we praise Your name andjoin their unending hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, Heaven and earth are full of Your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is He who comes in the name of

the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Holy are You, and blessed is Your son Jesus Christ.By the baptism of His suffering, deathand resurrection You gave birth to Yourchurch, delivered us from slavery to sinand death, and made with us a newcovenant by water and the Spirit.

On the night in which He gave himself upfor us He took bread, gave thanks to You,broke the bread, gave it to His disciples,and said: “Take, eat; this is My body which is given

for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

When the supper was over, He took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to His disciples, and said:

“Drink from this, all of you; this is My blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it,in remembrance of Me.”

And so,in remembrance of these Your mightyacts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise andthanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice. In union with Christ’s offering for us,as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ had died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,and on these gifts of bread and wine.

Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the

body of Christ redeemed by His blood. By Your Spirit make us one with Christ, one

with each other and one in ministry to all theworld.

Until Christ comes in final victory, and wefeast at His heavenly banquet.

Through your Son Jesus Christ,with the Holy Spirit in Your holy church,

all honour and glory is Yours, almighty Father,now and forever.

AMEN.

And now, with the confidence of children of God, let us pray:

The Lords PrayerOur Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.Your kingdom come,Your will be done on earthas it is in heaven.Give us today our daily bread.

' . باد مقد\س تو نام ما، آسمانی پدر ای . در كه همان طور تو اراده^ بیاید تو پادشاهی

. شود اجرا نیز زمین در می شود، اجرا آسمانبده ما به امروز را ما روزان̂ه .نان

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.And lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.For Yours is the kingdom, and thepower, and the glory forever.AMEN

نیز ما چنانکه ببخش، را ما خطاهای . در را وما می بخشیم را خود خطاکاران

رهایی شریر از را ما بلکه میاور وسوسه هاابداآلباد تا جالل و قدرت و پادشاهی زیرا ده،

. آمین توست آن .از

COMMUNION

HOLY

عشای ربانی

SHARINGMISSION

بازگویی Rev. Scott and & Sarah Ngiengماموریت

SCRIPTUREREADING

Joshua 24:19-28

خواندن کتاب مقدس

19 Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.

: شما است ممکن ا »ام\ گفت مردم به یوشعمقد\س خدای او کنید، پرستش را خداوند نتوانید

. نمی بخشد را شما گناهان او است غیور .و20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.”

را بیگانه خدایان و کنید ترک را خداوند اگررا شما و می گرداند رو شما از او بپرستید،

در که خوبی هایی هم̂ه وجود با و می کند مجازاتبین از را شما بازهم است، کرده شما حق

«.می برد

21 But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the LORD.”

: را خداوند ما »خیر، گفتند یوشع به مردمکرد خواهیم «.پرستش

22 Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.”

: شاهد »خودتان گفت آنها به یوشع آنگاهاختیار پرستش برای را خداوند که باشید : شاهد. ما »بلی، دادند جواب آنها » کردید

«.هستیم“Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.” : خود با که را بیگانه خدایان »پس گفت یوشع

خداوند به را دلهایتان و کنید ترک دارید،بسپارید اسرائیل «.خدای

24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.” : خود خدای خداوند »ما گفتند یوشع به مردم

اطاعت او اوامر از و کرد خواهیم پرستش راکرد «.خواهیم

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.

مردم با شکیم، در روز همان در یوشع پسایشان برای قوانینی و احکام و بست پیمان

کرد .وضع

26 And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD. . نوشت خدا دستورات کتاب در را آنها هم̂ه یوشعبلوط، درخت زیر در و برداشت بزرگی سنگ بعد

داد قرار خداوند مقد\س جایگاه .در

27 “See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.”

: سنگ »این گفت مردم به یوشع سپسکه را سخنانی هم̂ه زیرا ماست، شاهد

. سنگ این بنابراین، شنید گفت ما به خداوندکنید، سرپیچی خدا از شما اگر و است شاهد

داد خواهد شهادت شما برضد سنگ «.این28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.به هرکس و نمود مرخ\ص را مردم یوشع آنگاه

بازگشت خود .سرزمین

MESSAGE

“ Covenant Family #2 ”Rev. Elijah Chew

پیام

Covenant Family 1Joshua 24:

Wikipedia

In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption (see Nurture kinship). 

Beauty and Disappointment about Family

A model of Covenant Family

(Intimacy) Degree of

Commitment-Beginning of Commitment

(Empowering) (Grace)

Mature Covenant

#1 Covenant Relationship Joshua 24

Reality check- they are not able to keep their promise.

They must renew and take sole responsibility of their decision.

They must put away any idols among them and incline their hearts to God.

They stood before God and Joshua to make promise.

A model of Covenant Family

(Intimacy) Degree of

Commitment-Beginning of Commitment

(Empowering) (Grace)

Mature Covenant

2 third element: empowerment

Empowering is the attempt to establish power in another person. (Owning the power)

Empowering is the active, intentional process of enabling another person to acquire power through encouragement.

Empowering is the process of helping another to recognize strengths and potentials within, development of inner qualities, even dreams.

When in the process of empowering, empowerer may need to step back, and to allow the empowered to learn by doing and not by depending on them.

Empowering is the action of God in people’s lives.

#2 A model of Covenant Family

(

Intimacy)

Degree of Commitment-Beginning of Commitment

(Empowering)

(

Grace)

Mature Covenant

#3 The fourth element: intimacy Our triune God We communicate with each other through

language Intimacy is a deliberate choice Adam and Eve were completely oppen and

transparent before God. Shame is born out of the fear of being known

intimately. To become know and to know others require us to

exert effort in terms of listening, understanding and wanting the best for the other. Goal: accept differences and respect uniqueness

#3 The fourth element: intimacy

To be known and to know we need to nurture this intimacy by giving up something of our own needs and desires.

Result of intimacy: we become fearless, bold and courageous, ask for forgiveness and reconciliation. (goal)

Leading and growing as a family

A theological model of Covenant Family

(

Intimacy)To know and to be known

Degree of Commitment-Beginning of Commitment To love and to be love

(Empowering)To serve and to be served

(

Grace)To forgive and to be forgiven

Mature Covenant

How is your family?

CLOSING HYMN

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BENEDICTION اختتام دعای

THREEFOLDAMEN

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