We start an exciting new series this month in church, LOVE DIFFERENT. To kick off our series, Pastor Steve Murrell, president of Every Nation Ministries and best selling author of WikiChurch: Making discipleship engaging, empowering, and viral
would be preaching in our 2pm and 4pm service.

See you in all of our Worship Services in Victory Greenhills, 4th floor VMALL Greenhills Shopping Center.

Schedule of Services:

Sundays: 10am, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. ( Kid’s church is not available on our 6pm service)

Wednesdays: 7pm

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship.

An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

The Cost of Discipleship, 1937, (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 59, paragraphing added.

Here is a blog written by John Piper on what it means to be in Christ. After preaching yesterday about our justification IN CHRIST, this blog furthers the truth about our sufficiency in Christ.

Being “in Christ Jesus” is a stupendous reality. It is breathtaking what it means to be in Christ. United to Christ. Bound to Christ. If you are “in Christ” listen to what it means for you:

1. In Christ Jesus you were given grace before the world was created. 2 Timothy 1:9, “He gave us grace in Christ Jesus before the ages began.”
2. In Christ Jesus you were chosen by God before creation. Ephesians 1:4, “God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.”
3. In Christ Jesus you are loved by God with an inseparable love. Romans 8:38–39, “I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
4. In Christ Jesus you were redeemed and forgiven for all your sins. Ephesians 1:7, “In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses.”
5. In Christ Jesus you are justified before God and the righteousness of God in Christ is imputed to you. 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For our sake God made Christ to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
6. In Christ Jesus you have become a new creation and a son of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Galatians 3:26, “In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.”
7. In Christ Jesus you have been seated in the heavenly places even while he lived on earth. Ephesians 2:6, “God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
8. In Christ Jesus all the promises of God are Yes for you. 2 Corinthians 1:20, “All the promises of God find their Yes in Christ.”
9. In Christ Jesus you are being sanctified and made holy. 1 Corinthians 1:2, “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus.”
10. In Christ Jesus everything you really needed will be supplied. Philippians 4:19, “My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
11. In Christ Jesus the peace of God will guard your heart and mind. Philippians 4:7, “The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
12. In Christ Jesus you have eternal life. Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
13. And in Christ Jesus you will be raised from the dead at the coming of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:22, “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” All those united to Adam in the first humanity die. All those united to Christ in the new humanity rise to live again

How do we get into Christ?

At the unconscious and decisive level it is God’s sovereign work: “From God are you in Christ Jesus” (1 Corinthians 1:30).

But at the conscious level of our own action, it is through faith. Christ dwells in our hearts “through faith” (Ephesians 3:17). The life we live in union with his death and life “we live by faith in the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20). We are united in his death and resurrection “through faith” (Colossians 2:12).

This is a wonderful truth. Union with Christ is the ground of everlasting joy, and it is free.

Psalms 1 ¹ Blessed is the manwho walks not inthe counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; ² but his delight is in the law of the LORD,  and on his law he meditates day and night.

Our new pastor BB shared to us how we could succumb to SIN.

1. Don’t walk in the area of sin and weakness. Here BB is enticed from the look of the kare-kare.

2.Don’t stand in the area where you would most likely be tempted. RUN AWAY BB!!!

3. Once you come near, you tend to walk, stand and lastly sit in and succumb to the temptation.

BB’s three steps to avoid temptation is great but we must also remember that the power to overcome the temptation and sin is through the power of Christ. We are already made victorious over sin through Christ’s death and resurrection and God gave us His grace the Holy Spirit to empower us to say NO to ungodliness.

Romans 8^:3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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This week we added a new member in our team that has increased our productivity. He has been a big help and what is nice about him is that he always gives us the BEARHUG. Welcome BB to our team and to Victory Greenhills.

Here, BB is helping upgrade our computer system.

BB has also helped Charles bring our worship team to the next level. I even heard the band saying that he is BEARY good in his craft.

BB has also been busy making disciples. He knows his priority according to our discipleship pastor Jayson Lo, “Even if he is busy, he takes time to BEAR the burden of the church to make disciples.”

Since our launch of our KID’S Ministry in Greenhills, we have seen an explosive growth in our kid’s church. Why are kids telling their parents that they can’t miss kid’s church. Let me give you 5 reasons:

1. In Kid’s church, we point your kids to Jesus. The goal of our Kid’s ministry is for your kids to learn how to dependent on Jesus for everything. Starting them young would help them as they grow older to depend on God more.

2. We offer one of the best kid’s church services ever! I am not exaggerating but when I visited our kids ministry facility, I thought I was at gymboree. We have state of the art technology in our kid’s ministry hall.

3. Kids worship!!!

We have some of the best worshipers and musicians imparting what real worship is to our kids. Every 5th sunday of the month, our kid’s church team leads worship in our adult service.You can never underestimate pure and authentic worship when you see the kids lead in worship.

4. We have some of the best and dedicated volunteers in the world! With 200+ kid’s ministry volunteers serving every month, we see to it they are equipped in handling kids week in and week out.

5. The best KIDS CHURCH PASTOR Larry is leading the pack.

Whoever believes will be saved! So I don’t know if there is such a thing as backsliding.

How do you read/study the Word of God? Do you reflect on it? or interpret it? How does it struck you? How do you apply it in your life? I don’t want to just “read” the bible Pastor. You know what I mean, right?

I think the most important thing to do is to first have a habit of reading your Bible daily. The more you read it, the more it gets into you.

Secondly, get a translation that would fit you. I am now using ESV since I would like a really good translation for studying.

Thirdly, get supplemental study guides. I am using ESV study Bible and Warren Weirsbe’s Commentaries. The internet is also full of helpful guides. Just learn how to sift through the reliable ones and the dangerous ones.

Lastly, pray for revelation. This is I think the most crucial of all. When God shows His word to us, it hits us.

Hope you enjoy reading the Scripture.

Matthew 5:3
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

If you read Psalms you will be amazed at the prayers. There are so many times David would just pray, Help me God, save me God. It wasn’t the longevity of prayer but the spirit of dependency to the Father that makes prayer powerful.

Being poor in spirit means that I cannot live this life without God. I don’t even want to experience a day without God’s grace and guidance. The reason people have a vibrant praying life is because they are poor in spirit and totally dependent on God.

How your spirit depends on God is how your prayer life would look like.

Romans 6:17-18 ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

A drastic change happens in A Christian life when he lives out the gospel. Most of us tend to be so-sin focused that we forget that Christ has died for our sin therefore SIN and its effect has no power over me. Paul says that we are no longer slaves to sin. Sin is no longer our master. We now have a new master. We have become slaves of righteousness.

What that means is that as a child of God I am convicted not of my sin but of my righteousness. I am convicted because if who I am in Christ. Through Christ’s death on the cross, I was made righteous thus my nature is to live holy and not to sin. Only the grace of God empowers me to live that way.

So when temptation comes, I am no longer convicted of sin. I am convicted of my righteousness. The reason I can overcome sin is not because I have a to do list but because I am a child of God. His grace has transformed my nature. My sinful nature is dead. I am dead to sin and alive to God. What a wonderful truth to live by.