RECOMMENDATION:

A monthly spiritual cultivation for church council members continues in 2022. The church council would coordinate with the full-time minister to decide the topics and content in order to meet the spiritual needs of the council members. In order to synchronize the cultivation with the 2022 theme ("Grow As One Body"), below is a list of suggestions to consider for spiritual cultivation. The topics are based on the book of Ephesians in order to understand in-depth the meaning of growing as one body.

SUGGESTION OF TOPICS:

1. Spiritual blessings in Christ (Eph 1:1-14)

   • The status of being faithful saints in Christ

   • The grace of being chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world

   • The grace of being gathered together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth

   • The glory of being redeemed to possess the inheritance of the heavenly kingdom

2. The thanksgivings and prayers in Christ (Eph 1:15-23)

   • To give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God

   • To make the eyes of understanding being enlightened to know how precious the salvation of Christ is

   • To make Christ to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. 

3. A new identity in Christ (Eph 2:1-10)

   • Died in sins and trespasses in the past

   • Now being raised up together with Christ and sit together in the heavenly places

   • God's expectation of those resurrected in Christ

4. A new relationship in Christ (Eph 2:11-22)

   • In the past, being aliens from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

   • Now in Christ both two who were far off have been brought in one body by the blood of Christ.

   • Now being fellow citizens with the saints to be built together into the holy temple of God

5. Revelation in Christ (Eph 3:1-13)

   • The dispensation of the grace of God which was given to the minister of gospel

   • God made known to us the mystery of Christ through revelation by the Holy Spirit

   • The church reveals the dispensation of salvation which was hidden in Christ before the creation of the world

6. Strength gained in Christ (Eph 3:14-21)

   • We bow our knees to the heavenly Father

   • We were strengthened with might through the fullness of the Holy Spirit in the inner man,

   • Christ dwell in our hearts through faith that we are rooted and grounded in love

   • To be able to comprehend with all the saints the love of Christ which passes knowledge; so that God can be glorified in the church by Christ. 

7. Unity and cooperation in Christ (Eph 4:1-16)

   • To walk worthy of the calling with which we were called

   • The essence of the unity in Christ

   • Each one fulfills his works and come in to the unity of the faith

   • Grow in Christ in everything to increase the body in love into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

8. A new image and a new life in Christ (Eph 4:17-32)

   • The sincere exhortation in the Lord

   • Put off the old man and put on the new man

   • What the new man in Christ shall put away

9. Conduct in Christ worthily of the gospel (Eph 5:1-21)

   • Be imitators of God as dear children

   • Now we are light in the Lord, walk as children of light 

   • Walk carefully as wise because the days are evil

10. Marriage life in Christ (Eph 5:22-33)

    • What the wife supposed to do

    • What the husband supposed to do

    • The mystery of marriage

11. Testimonies in Christ from fulfilling what we are bound to do (Eph 6:1-9)

    • Parent-child relationship in the family

    • Master-servant relationship in the world

    • The true servitude in Christ

12. Spiritual warfare in Christ (Eph 6:10-24)

    • Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

    • Put on the full armor of God to fight against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

    • Praying always in the Holy Spirit and watching with perseverance.