A Sunday service at PJ EFC grounds hope for a broken world in the gospel.
Hope rests in God, not in this worldThe leader calls suffering real and points to the gospel and resurrection power of Jesus as the only answer.
Renovation enters its final seven weeksKen reports 71% of work done against 75% of time, completion targeted 30 September and worship resuming 18 October.
Creation care flows out of the gospelStephen Fung argues salvation reverses every effect of sin, including the harm humans have done to God's world.
Executive SummaryAI
The service opens with a call to quiet hearts before God and a prayer asking him to speak about how to care for our world.
The leader turns to present suffering and future glory, naming the imperfection, brokenness and death around us and answering that hope is found in the resurrection power of Jesus and in God alone.
The congregation prays for four groups: the nation of Malaysia and its leaders ahead of Merdeka, refugees from Myanmar, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia and Afghanistan, international students, and peoples who have not heard the gospel.
Ken gives a reimagining project update: physical completion is targeted for 30 September, full handover from the contractor on 9 October, the final service in this hall on 11 or 12 October and worship back in the main sanctuary on 18 October, with time elapsed at 75% against 71% work done and pledges still $234,000 short of the 3 million target.
Guest speaker Stephen Fung preaches 'Heaven Meets Earth: Caring for God's World in Light of Gospel Hope', arguing from Genesis 1-2 and Romans 8 that humans were made as priests of God's temple of heaven and earth to turn chaos into order, and that sin reversed the job so the gardener became the polluter.
Key Quote
“The answer to suffering is the gospel of Jesus Christ.”