LIFE BIBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Bible describes the church as God’s Building (1 Cor. 3:9), the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:27), and the Bride of Christ (Rev. 21:9). God is pleased to give Life Bible-Presbyterian Church both 9/9A and 10 Gilstead Road for His people to gather for worship and fellowship. So, the Beulah project is more than a physical building project, it is a spiritual building project as well. As we witness the progress of the building process each week, let us be mindful that we are also building each other up in the Lord’s vineyard.

The Corinthian Christians were blessed by God with many spiritual gifts. The manifestation of spiritual gifts is "for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ" (Eph. 4:12). God empowers His people to build the church in the way that He has designed it to be. The Corinthian Christians were also blessed with much biblical knowledge. However, there was apparent abuse and pride over the possession of knowledge. Hence, the apostle Paul had to warn them that "knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth" (1 Cor. 8:1). The inappropriate application of knowledge, and worse still, the wrongful application of biblical knowledge can cause divisions in the Church of God. God knows that His people need to be equipped with knowledge to serve Him well and to do His holy will. The prophet Hosea warns, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." (Hosea 4:6) The lack of knowledge or the abuse of it is not God-honouring! What shall we do then? How then can we build the spiritual building? We can learn several lessons from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 3.

In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul had to deal with the problem of schism (divisions) in the church. Paul highlighted three specific sins in the church, namely, envying, strife and divisions. There was a lack of spiritual maturity in the Corinthian Church. In summary, there was a party spirit. At the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he said, "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement." (1 Cor. 1:10) Any form of church in-fighting is of the devil. It is never God’s will for brethren to engage in bitter contentions. The Corinthians actually had one group who identified themselves as Paul’s party, another with Apollos, another with Cephas (Peter), and yet another with Christ! Are we like that today? God forbids. Within Life Bible-Presbyterian Church, we hold to the same constitution and the same historical fundamental reformed doctrines. We believe in Verbal Plenary Inspiration (VPI) of the Word of God, and we believe in the Providential Preservation of the Bible.

¨ Thank God for the much awaited completion of the piling works despite the unfavorable weather condition in the past few months and the challenging underground resistance due to unexpected boulder discovery.

¨ Thank God for the good progress with the roofing work of existing 2-storey Beulah House nearing completion, internal refurbishing works and the new 5-storey Annex Building under construction.

¨ Pray for the smooth progress of the construction of 5-storey annex building.

¨ Pray that the Lord will guide our Main Contractor as the delicate and intricate phase of internal refurbishing and external restoration works will be taking shape for the next few months.

¨ Pray that the Lord will grant wisdom to the Beulah Steering Committee and Beulah Project Committee as the members continue to labour together in making critical decisions pertaining to project development.

1st Progress Payment Nov 07 $275,198
2nd Progress Payment Dec 07 $226,795

3rd Progress Payment Jan 08 $186,088

4th Progress Payment Feb 08 $119,771

5th Progress Payment Mar 08 $216,620

SP Services (Connection Fee) $ 36,808

Professional fees $ 44,180

Deomoliton cost $ 27,489

3-container classrooms $ 26,943

Fees for submission of plans $ 18,122

Pest control $ 2,710

Miscellaneous fees $ 3,020

Rev Charles Seet

Eld Khoo Peng Kiat

Eld Dr Lim Teck Chye

Eld Dr Sherman Ong

Eld Dr Sherman Ong

Mr Pang Leong Siang

Mr Seow Cheong Kiong

Dn Stephen Tan

Mr Joseph Tern

Editorial Team
Dn Stephen Tan

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