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Music Clinic In OLCM

May 6-8, some of the young adults from Cainta Baptist Church and a young pastor from Tagbilaran came to Ormoc Lighthouse Christian ministry to teach and share valuable things concerning music ministry in our churches.

Ptr. Gumps Beltran taught voice lesson, playing guitar and playing drums along with bro. Luke Barromeo a young people from Cainta Baptist Church.

Ptr. Emer Cables and bro. Allan Ingeniero taught things about worship leading. They covered the who, when, where, what, how, and why of worhip leading; how to be an effective worship leader; recruiting worship team members, and living a life of worship.

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Ptr. Rudy Laag Receives A Bike

With the on-going project of Paglaum Baptist Mission / PIEI-Philippines, another pastor from the outreach ministries of Ormoc receives a bike.

Ptr. Rudy Laag has been in the ministry for quite sometime. He is pastoring one of the first established baranggay church under the Lighthouse Ministries wave back in 1990′s, Milagro Baptist Church. This church has been started with the joint efforts of Rev. Tom Smith and Rev. Vir Olaer

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Organic Church Movement Is Not A New Paradigm

I have read some blogs that are very cautious towards organic church movement. Of course everybody can always express their opinions. However, when I started to read these blogs, I think that it just seems that they were not able to grasp the main idea of Organic Church Movement.

First and foremost, Organic Church Movement is not another paradigm shift but it is a shift of going back towards the Biblical practices of worship, going back to the New Testament church ways. It is not “another new thing”, but going back to the Bible. This is similar to reformation though the big difference is, we are now living in a non violent world towards reformation.

Secondly, Organic Church Movement is not intended nor confined to merely house churches. Yes, we promote house churches, we promote simple worship that are Biblical, but it does not mean that true worship should be confined only in house churches. For starting churches, yes, we are to meet in the houses. But as these group grows continuously, time will come that a house will not be enough. So it will again have to move to another step which is to really to have a place of gathering where they fit.

After this, it is expected that the organic church will multiply itself. This is when the church is able to send out workers to start another church and even churches. The idea is, within an organic church, all the members are involve in evangelism, sharing the gospel to others and to other ministries. Thus, not only that the organic church movement is confined towards quantity focus, but especially to the quality.

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Disciples’ Developing Deep Divine Devotion (Part 1)

Thirsty hearts are those whose longings have been wakened by the touch of God within them.

A.W. Tozer

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 42:1

INTRODUCTION

One of the great sins of any disciple of Christ is neglecting the discipline of developing deep divine devotion to his Divine Deliverer!! This is basically a violation of the first part of His Great Commandment that summarized the whole Law and the Prophets, as God said in

Deuteronomy 6:5,6

5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

which our Lord and Savior re-echoed in

Matthew 22:37-40

37Jesus said unto him,

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment.

39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

and other parts of the gospels, as well as re-echoed in the epistles of Apostles.

To be good disciples of Christ, we have to undergo self discipline to develop deep devotion to his Divine Deliverer. Implicit in the disciples’ discipline with diligence (take note that the words “disciple” and “discipline” have the same root word) is the process of learning and teaching, where disciples learn how to be, to believe, to behave, and to develop doctrines and deeds that would define their identity in relation to their Master who courted, pursued, and wooed them to have an intimate fellowship of love with Him. In His Great Commission, our Divine Master commanded His disciples to go and multiply the process of learning and teaching that He had started, He being the First Fruit with Him as the Seed to be sown to the world in darkness of their ignorance, iniquities, inequities, and idolatries with the end to reap other new birthed disciples with new natures who themselves shall continue the process of discipling others.

Before we continue our discussion, let’s have some basic definitions of terms to make our discourse here clearer:

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