Queen's Road Cell

I was sharing about my realization that God really, really loves us (For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him - Ps 103:11). He cannot love us any more than he does, and His electing love for us does not change when we are foolish and sinful. And I thought of how we are meant to love one another as Jesus loves us (Jn 11:35). I feel ashamed to think of how my love for people around is conditional on how they behave. We are to live a life shaped by the grace of the gospel - the grace we ourselves have received. We talked about the pastoral issue of Christians who have depression and anxiety. I was asking how we resolve the issue of the Bible commanding us "Do not fear" or "be anxious for nothing" (Phil 4:6) or  "My grace is sufficient" (2 Cor 12:9). My thought is that some of us do not have perfect mental health from genetic or environmental factors, and that we sometimes need not only prayer, Scriptural en...

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 ...