Since the start of our Church,
constantly there are Christians from different places coming to join us to
worship God. Many of them have
decided to stay with us to serve the Lord together. These members in the Lord, along with
our growing new generations, are searching for the direction of serving the
Lord in the Church. At the same time, in a heavily self-centered generation, the tide of
the world is pushing many churches to follow the man-pleasing paths, and reject
the God-pleasing narrow way.
Therefore, for the need of our members, and for the safeguard of our
Church, we feel the obligation, by God’s grace, to declare to everyone
regarding our goal, our commission and our direction of pursuit.
This booklet is a collection
of five articles previously published in our church magazines, supplemented
with three new articles. It is a
presentation to our church members on topics concerning the principles on which
our church first started, our faith, our organization
and structure, our mission and direction.
We hope that these articles will help
our members to establish a firm understanding of the service and pursuit of God
in our Church, and to have a basic knowledge of our organization and administration.
Through such understanding and knowledge, we will be joined together
like living stones, and be built to become God’s dwelling place.
It is our expectation that
brothers and sisters will read through these messages sober-mindedly and with a
solemn attitude. We should apply
Biblical teachings to discern the contents, and let the Holy Spirit guide us to
extract their implications, so that these messages may truly help us to
establish our attitude towards service, and to ascertain our direction of
pursuit, to the effect that the pattern of our Church, our manner in service,
and our direction of pursuit will all converge into His will.
The Executive Committee (Note 1)
August 1999
Note 1: As from 2003, our church had
established the Board of Deacons to replace the executive committee.