Sunday, November 9, 2008

November 9: Nine (9) Souls Baptized Into Christ

We give thanks to the Lord our God for this wonderful and fruitful day that we had. We had our morning worship at Metro Tuguegarao church wherein I prepared a lesson entitled "Work Out Your Own Salvation With Fear And Trembling (Philippians 2:12)" for our bible study and brother Rody Gumpad delivered a sermon about a lesson entitled "By Faith (Hebrews 11:3)". After the sermon we extended the invitation through an invitation song and nine (9) souls came forward; they heard the gospel, believed in Christ; repented of their sins; confessed Christ as the Son of God and our Savior, and they desired to be baptized for the remission of their sins and their salvation (Romans 10:17; John 14:1; Acts 2:38; Romans 10:9-10; Mark 16:16). After the worship service we immediately baptized our new brethren in the church's baptistry. Our new brethren that were added by the Lord to His church (Acts 2:47) this day are 1) Jemmer Delos Santos (11), 2) Sheryl Murillo (13), 3) Jamae Villafuerte (12), 4) Rizalyn Joy Ignacio (11), 5) Muriel Arca (13), 6) Glenda Darauay (18), 7) Adrian Almaria (13), 8) Alyzza Almaria (16), and 9) Aladdin Bilanggo (33). After lunch I met our brethren at Alibago church for our service and preached to them the same lesson that I taught in the morning.