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ELI Asia Newsletter Yearend 2023
Dr. Hans F. Bayer, Professor of New Testament at Thirdmill talked about how the Holy Spirit empowered the ministry of the Gospel. He said: “As the apostles advanced the mission of the church, their work on the frontiers of the kingdom was consistently confirmed by dramatic outpourings of the Holy Spirit. Through the Spirit’s power, the Gospel spread unhindered from Jerusalem to Judea, and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. Even today, the power of the Holy Spirit is the only means by which the church can be transformed and effectively spread the Gospel, we too must seek to depend on the Spirit’s power if we are to…
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ELI Asia Newsletter 2023
God is good. God is faithful even when we’re not. God is sovereign in good and in bad. ELI Asia as a teaching organization is never immune to trials and testing. The truth is that because of its desire to equip and teach local pastors and leaders to become biblically sound, its leaders and teaching faculty are often tested for their faithfulness to do the work entrusted to them by no less than God. God gives the desire to teach and this gives ELI Asia, a faculty composed of learned pastors who strive to endure and persevere to be able to teach the local church and various campuses. As God…
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Ang Importansiya ng Creeds at Confessions
Mahal ko si Hesus Person 1: Mahal ko si Hesus! Person 2: Mahal ko rin si Hesus! Person 1: So, kung mahal mo si Hesus at mahal ko rin si Hesus, eh di malamang tayo ay Kristiyano! Person 2: Oo nga! Ngunit sila nga ba ay mga tunay na Kristiyano? Sa loob ng maraming taon ang mga Kristiyano ay nakikila ang isa’t isa kapag kanilang ipinoproklama ang kanilang pagmamahal kay Hesus. Sinasabi nila na dahil mahal ko si Hesus, siguradong ako ay isang Kristiyano. Sa kasalukuyan, napakadali lamang sabihin at i-deklara na ang isang tao ay isang Kristiyano. Basta ang isang tao ay sambitin ang pangalan ni Hesus iniisip agad…
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The Importance of Confessions and Creeds
I Love Jesus Person 1: I love Jesus! Person 2: I love Jesus too! Person 1: Well, if you love Jesus and I love Jesus, then we must be Christians Person 2: Yes, yes, we must be! But are they really? For years, Christians connected along the lines of “I love Jesus, so I am a Christian.” Nowadays it’s so easy to claim Christianity. Christians connected with anyone who utters the name of Jesus. Embraced churches, materials, people, and resources that bear the name of Jesus. But do we really believe and love the same Jesus? The Jesus of the Bible? Let’s Look at a Little Church History We are…
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ELI Asia | Year in Review
2022 has been a busy year for ELI Asia. God has enabled us to continue His work of teaching pastors and lay leaders. You see, the purpose of ELI Asia is to develop biblical leaders for the local churches, our priority are those in the provinces. To bring biblical and affordable theological studies to Pastors who are already on the field but do not have the means, the resources, and the time to send themselves to seminary. But God in His goodness has blessed us this year with two more campuses in Metro Manila. We pray that the Lord will help us grow numerically but more important than that, we…
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Campus Highlights June 2022
Our ministry of providing affordable ministerial and theological training to pastors and lay leaders are made possible by the financial support of individuals and churches. Every seed that is sown is used to fulfill our mission of equipping leaders for effective church ministry. FOR LOCAL DONORS Donors in the Philippines may deposit their financial gifts to the Triune Biblical Asia, BPI Family Savings Bank, Better Living Branch, SA 6253-1824-05. FOR USA DONORS Donors in the US may send their checks to World Ministries P.O. Box 491656 Leesburg, FL 34749-1656. Please write the designation for your gift on the memo of your check (i.e. ELI ASIA) You may also choose to…
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ELI Asia Newsletter | Jan-Apr 2022 | Issue 01
Just like that! We have breezed through the first quarter of 2022 with so much work to do in the coming months ahead of us. We are in awe of how God continually sustains and provides for ELI Asia and its campuses. He has been gracious to us in so many ways and it’s only April! For the past three and a half months ELI Asia campuses have begun facilitating more than 1 subject in the various campuses. God has raised up men, teachers in training to help Pastor Nicky provide biblical instruction to students, pastors, and lay leaders. Our campus in Sta. Rosa, the Ezra Institute of Theology, has…
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A Biblical Pastor
It’s Pastor’s Appreciation Month so I thought I should write something about it before the month ends. I also thought it would be good to ask a handful of my friends what a biblical pastor is so I sent them messages and my question went like this: What is a biblical pastor? Please do not research. I want to see what comes to mind right off the bat. And these are the answers I got: “Biblical Pastor: Apostle Paul..cause I’m currently studying Philippians” “A biblical pastor lives by and preaches the word of God.” “He (not a woman ) must feed & tend the flock of God. He must teach…
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The Necessity of Hermeneutics
“Hermeneutics? You want to teach Hermeneutics? Why? Even those in seminary have a hard time understanding that! No, that is not for the church, let’s just focus on practical lessons.” Have you ever heard a Pastor or an Elder of a church say something along those lines? Maybe you are a pastor who had the same mindset or maybe still have this kind of thinking? Or maybe, just maybe, you are a member of a church who doesn’t see the necessity of proper biblical interpretation? What Is Hermeneutics? According to Elliot Johnson, author of Expository Hermeneutics: An Introduction, Hermeneutics is the “science and art of textual interpretation. It uses principles…
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How Eli Asia Operates
Have you ever experienced a point in your bible study time when the words seem to be jumping out of the book? When you say to yourself, “I’ve read this passage countless times but it is only now that I understand what it’s saying!” I was at this point in my life when I met Pastor Nicky Joya and ELI Asia. I was that professing christian who was living an unbiblical life for so many years, raised in an unbiblical church I was high in works salvation. So coming out of that kind of christianity, fresh with renewed mind, eyes, and heart, I naturally scrutinized every word he teaches. I…
