Queen's Road Cell

I began by asking who in church we felt had the marks of a Spirit-filled life. All agreed on Siew Leong!  :) We agreed that spiritual fruit was more indicative of the Spirit's filling than spiritual gifting, but we noted that, had Siew Leong's gifts been less public, we might have found it harder to identify him as being filled with the Spirit. I noted that there are many other people in church who exhibit the fruit of the Spirit and who live lives of surrendered devotion to Christ but who remain relatively unknown. Although all are commanded to be filled with the Spirit (Eph 6:18), not all are obedient to this command. We would expect that the life of one marked by the Spirit's filling would demonstrate a great extent of the purifying, unifying, revealing and empowering ("P-U-R-E") work of the Spirit. The Scripture references before us, espeically of Ephesians 5:18ff give specific pointers of the Spirit's filling. These include a life of worship 'from t

Selwyn, Joshua and Winnie each shared different aspects of discipleship at work. Selwyn mentioned how he felt that having an attitude of working "as to the Lord" and not people had eventually led to blessing at his workplace. Joshua shared how he had been challenged to be fervent at the workplace by a fellow teacher and had been asked to do BS with BB boys, and Winnie shared how the Lord had perhaps been placing Christian educators in Singapore schools to witness. We asked how it was that each one of us could be born with a fallen nature (i.e. have "original sin") if in fact it was Adam who fell. I mentioned that the orthodox view of how this occurs is called the "Federal/Representative" view of the Fall. In Romans 5:12ff and 1 Cor 15:21-22 we learn that humanity is represented by two Adams, the second Adam being Christ. We who believe receive the imputed righteousness of the second Adam, just as all men receive the imputed sin of the first Adam. He was