Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
ON Oct. 16, 2024, I was invited to be guest speaker by the Quezon Pastors Association during their Pastors Appreciation event in Tagaytay City. The event was attended by more than a hundred Christian pastors and leaders hailing from the second district of the great province of Quezon.
Because it was an event in line with the monthlong Pastors Appreciation Month, I had the urge to share on the topic, "The work of filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions." This phrase alludes to the verse in Colossians chapter 1, specifically verse 24, which, in the English Standard Version, says, "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church."
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