Gospel News — Sep-Dec 2013

NEWS FROM BROTHERS & SISTERS

MBAISE

Thank you for the books, Bibles, Bible Basics and study leaflets, Introducing Bible Basics books, The Real Christ, James and other studies. I am going to start to read them tomorrow, then on Wednesday I will send some to our Ecclesia for library reading and storing.

Our preaching will continue after we return from our CYC gathering, by next month. For the small leaflets you advise me to reproduce myself, adding my name and address on `Basic Bible Truths,' which is on both sides of an A4 piece of paper I will try to produce these.

We have been moving our preaching area all around since April till this time, but we don't have materials to give to others. Please, I need more Bibles, Old and New Testaments, to give to my brethren and sisters who don't have them.

OBORO

Thank you very much for your hope-raising letter to me which I received recently.

It is my belief that as our expectation for Jesus' return increases rapidly because of the unlimited signs of the times, the office of the Christadelphian Advancement Trust is being inundated with requests for material about salvation from the time of trouble encompassing the world.

I will be 83 on 30th September and I am becoming weaker and weaker every day.

It might interest you to know that the only way to salvation is when we are working together for good in this life. If only we would trust God, we would live to see it so. All things are ours if we are Christ's. All things serve us.

Even those things which are most difficult and trying, are really moving our best interest forward! If we knew as much about them as God knows, we would go down on our bended

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knees and thank Him with streaming eyes for the most difficult of circumstances. Even if some of these may cut us to the bone, if we believe that the infinite love of God is working in them, and through them, we may sing like Paul and Silas in the prison (Acts 16), even though our feet are fast in the stocks! Let us grow the habit of looking at the bright side of things. If there are dangers looming in our way, don't complain that it is all cast over with danger. We really must be sure that God has a purpose in all our sorrows.

OWERRINTA

The news of the successful treatment of your cancer kept me very happy. I am full of thanks to God Almighty for helping you to recover from such a deadly disease that is tormenting humanity.

I lack words with which to express my heart's feeling about the books you have sent to me – the Bible Basics and this very beautiful one I received yesterday – The Real Christ – are pointers to full understanding of God and His Son Jesus Christ.

The introduction to The Real Christ X-rays the position of the modern world. It is more- so nagging in Africa, where extreme neglect and insensibility to the plight of the majority poor has left everyone exasperated. However, for the Brethren in Christ it is a sure warning that the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is at hand. My reading through the direction of "Brethren in Christ" has opened my inner eye to strive to look towards Christ.

The Personality of God, which you included in the opening chapter of The Real Christ, for me emphasises the importance of understanding the personality of God.

Bible reading, following the Bible Reading Planner is very rewarding spiritually. I request that I be remembered in your daily prayers, to give me the Divine wisdom to understand and ACT as required by God. I thank God for His divine guidance towards the Word.