English Service on Sunday at 8.30 am

Chinese Service on Sunday at 8.30 am

04/1	Devotion / Prayer meeting	William Kwan
11/1	Testimonial	Stephen Goh
18/1	Introduction to Acts	Cephas Liu
25/1	In Recess – CNY

Other Meetings

Tuesdays	8.30 pm	Assembly Bible Study	CGC
11/1, Sun	4.00pm	Tamil Christmas/Prize Giving Day	CGC
19/1, Mon	8.30 pm	Workers' Meeting	CGC
27/1, Tue	8.30 pm	Corporate Prayer	CGC

Sunday Duties   (28/12)	Sunday Duties   (04/1 & 11/1)	Sunday Duties   (18/1 & 25/1)
Table Assistants Leader:    Thomas Yap *Asst 1:    Ronnie Yap *Asst 2:   Andrew Jason Asst 3:     Lim Seok Hoay Announce. Lim Seok Hoay Ushers Lim Seok Hoay & Siew Peng Andrew Jason,Alice Lee,ShirleyChin	Table Assistants Leader:     Chan Woon Sun *Asst 1:    Eugene Ng *Asst 2:    Yon Soon Guan Asst 3:     Aaron Mah Announce  Aaron Mah Ushers Chan Woon Sun & Catherine Chan Kevin Long, Chin Mi, Chin Pei	Table Assistants Leader:    Ronnie Yap *Asst 1:    Lim Seok Hoay *Asst 2:   Oon Meng Kar Asst 3:     Vincent Ng Announce. Vincent Ng Ushers Chin Peng Kit & Sook Yuen Kevin Long, Chin Mi, Chin Pei
* Asst 1 & Asst 2 in charge of the Offering Bags

	Floral Offering	Pianist		Care Group On Duty
04/1 11/1 18/1 25/1	Kwan Yoke Lin Marie Lam Lim Siang Siang Low Choi Kam	Rachel King Joanna Mah Susie Mah Rachel King		Lee Kwok Meng's Care Group

January   2009   Personal Bible Study

28/12/08  –  03/1/09 04/1 – 10/1 11/1 – 17/1

Acts 1 Acts 2 Acts 3 – 4:31

18/1 – 24/1 25/1 – 31/2 01/2 – 07/2

Acts 4:32 – 5:11 Acts 4:32 – 5:11 Acts 5:12 - 42

Introduction: The problem with New Year's Resolutions is they tend to “go in one year and out the next.” Well, today I'd like us to consider adopting a Bible verse as a resolution. Some people choose a Bible verse at the beginning of January to set the theme for the coming year. If you could have one verse scripted and framed to hang in your living room for the next 12 months, which would you choose? I'd like to suggest Galatians 2:20

This verse presents three configurations to the Christian life.

1. The Relinquished Life: Galatians 2:20 tells us the Christian life is a relinquished life: “I have been crucified with Christ.” In receiving Christ, we come to the old rugged cross and gaze upon the dying form of one who suffered there for us. We see his hands nailed fast to the wood. We see the spike in his ankles. We see the blood flowing in streaks down his body, and, deeply moved, we turn aside from the kind of life we once lived and take our stand beneath the cross of Jesus. We die to ourselves and to our sin. We die to the world, the flesh, and the devil, and we identify with the cross of Christ. When James Calvert went as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands , the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages,” he cried. Calvert only replied, “We died before we came here.”

2. The Exchanged Life: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” Missionary Hudson Taylor called this the “Exchanged Life.” None of us can live the Christian life in our own strength or resist temptation solely by our own will power. Only Christ can successfully live the genuine victorious Christian life—it is, after all, His life—and when we come to Him in full surrender, He begins living His life through us. This involves two levels:

a) Christian Living: Christ lives His life through us, producing the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:20 ), which represents the character qualities of Christ Himself.

b) Christian Service: Christ does His work through us. In Romans 15:18, Paul said: “I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me” ( nrsv). In 2 Corinthians 5:20: “We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us.” In 2 Timothy 4:17, the apostle said: “But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me.”