Gospel News · September - December 2014

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Do We Celebrate Natural
or Spiritual Births?
| Bro Bua Moses (Cameroon)
S
etting our eyes once more on John 3:5, we
noticed Nicodemus; a master of Israel, did
not know the obligations needed by God from
his forefathers Abraham and the prophets
etc, to come to Him in humility.
When we are baptized we show that our old
sinful life is put off and that we then put on
the new man in Christ. The question is
whether we should consider and celebrate
natural births or spiritial births? Do we take
the idea, ‘except a man be born again’ as
serious. Hardly ever we hear that a bro/sis. is
celebrating a spiritual birthday. Most do
celebrate the natural. My opinion is, we do
both if need be. We may use both as a form
of preaching the Gospel, especially on
natural birthdays where, on most occasions,
nothing is mentioned of the importance of
one’s spiritual birth which is eternal. We
should tell our friends and relatives that our
spiritual birth is more important than our
natural birth.
Comment: In my own Ecclesia we have an
arrangement whereby a nice card is sent to
each of us on our baptismal birthday. This
helps us to consider the honour we have in
being born into God’s family. MH
A spiritual birth: Bro Kum Cifford is baptised in Cameroon
A natural birth: Bro Zuwed Norbert of Tole (Buea) Ecclesia
with recently born baby Priscilla
I started to receive the Bible’s teachings
from 1992 until the time I was baptized on
28/07/1998 by Bre David Smith and Tony
Davis. I thank God because I continue well
in faith and up to now I continue to read
certain books, such as Bible Basics, to
progress and to grow nicely in faith. God
bless strongly Bro Duncan as he continues
to send many books and the New NEV
Bibles. It will please me if I continue with
different brothers to exchange ideas and
to remind one another of the word of God
which is the pillar of our life.
My Testimony
| Bro Shadruck Ngambi (Dzaleka, Malawi))