Our church is having Men’s and Women’s Bible studies on 20 September and 27 September

We have reopened the church for in-person Sunday services and small groups are starting up 23 September.

A true Christian lives his life in reliance upon God. He prays to God to meet his needs. He has assurance that God will both hear his prayer and answer them in accordance to His will. Confidence in our prayers to God is an indication that we have true saving faith.

The true believer continues to grow in Christ and pursue righteous behaviour. The way you know you have been saved is through the process of sanctification (becoming like Jesus). Jesus exemplified the obedient life and Christian’s are to imitate that obedience. A person who says he is a Christian cannot make this claim if he is not seeking to live as Christ lived.

Every true believer has a hunger for God's Word. Jesus says in John 15:7, 8, ‘If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you . . . you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.’ All who have been born of God, long to know and obey His Word.

As Paul says in Romans 6:1-14, the Christian has a new way of life. They are now dead to sin and alive to God. The one who is truly converted begins to hate the things he once loved and to love the things he once hated. 1 John 3 provides evidence that true Christians will not habitually practice sin.

The Christian in pursuit of personal holiness will run head on into the world. The light of the believer's life exposes the wickedness of the sinful world, which then creates tremendous tension. A Christian will set his eyes on God, ground his deeds in the Word, and his life on the righteous path.

Over the past year we have been pleased to have Mark, Andrea, Eliana, and Theo as part of our Welling Church family. Since Easter 2019 they have been attending our church, and starting in August of last year, they began faithfully serving at our church. We have appreciated Mark’s help with the day-to-day ministry of Welling Church. Sadly, their time in the UK is coming to an end.

As a Christian our sins have been completely forgiven, however we still commit sins. A true believer is greatly aware of his or her sin and will acknowledge that sin to God. Confessing our sins to God allows us to enjoy proper fellowship with Him. Do you confess your sin on a regular basis?

As a Christian our sins have been completely forgiven, however we still commit sins. A true believer is greatly aware of his or her sin and will acknowledge that sin to God. Confessing our sins to God allows us to enjoy proper fellowship with Him. Do you confess your sin on a regular basis?

An authentic child of God will enjoy fellowship with Christ. Religion is an external activity and outward ritual, but Christianity is intensely personal and internal. The one who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ truly knows Him and will walk in holiness.Part of having authentic faith is choosing to embrace the truth that God is our good and perfect Father.

While we can be confident in our faith there are things that can happen in life that can derail our faith and cause us to doubt if it is real. Sometime when we encounter poor choices, an unexplainable tragedy, or depression the result can bring with it doubts about our faith. When doubts begin to happen in our life we need to know what to do. Thankfully, Jesus gives us the perfect answer about what to do when we begin to doubt: remember what He has done.

Part of having authentic faith is choosing to embrace the truth that God is our good and perfect Father.

A key aspect to having authentic faith is to make sure our faith is based on the correct truth. We have defined faith as "confidence that God is who he says he is and that he will do all he has promised to do,” as followers of Christ we base our faith on the Bible. Using God’s Word as our foundation for our faith is crucial to having authentic faith, we must always approach our faith based on what God says.

Part of having authentic faith is choosing to embrace the truth that God is our good and perfect Father.

Our faith can never be based on the moment or the circumstances that are happening around us. The foundation we should have instead for our faith is Jesus Christ. If Christ is who he saw he is, then we don’t need to worry when bad things happen. If Jesus really died for the sins of the world, then we have no reason to doubt his love. If he has promised to comeback for us, then we have to know that he has our best interests in mind.

Self-control. As a Christian, we still fight against our sin nature and as the famous preacher John Owen once said, “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” The Holy Spirit offers us help in this fight. He provides a supernatural ability to win the daily battle against temptation. Sin does not cause a Believer to loose his salvation, but it will damage the fellowship he has with the Father.

Philippians 2:3–4 “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

We hope you are enjoying your half term break and getting a chance to spend some time with friends and family. Just a reminder, we will not be having any discipleship meetings or Zoom Bible studies this week.

Gentleness. Individuals who embody gentleness are kind, mild-mannered and tender. A gentle person seeks to be a peacemaker and not a fighter. Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, tells us, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matt. 5:5).

God the Father has not only saved us, but He has also called us to be faithful to the task He has given. God gives us the opportunity to serve Him and to make use of all the gifts He has granted. We are to be faithful to share the Gospel with the world around us.

If the unbelieving world can show kindness, how much more should we who know Christ show the world around us. Let’s show everyone that we are children of God by practicing Spirit-led kindness.