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Next Worship Service

Sunday, October 18, 2026
7F Chapel, 11AM
21st Sunday after Pentecost

Scriptures: Matthew 5:17-20, 2 Corinthians 5:21
Message: Righteousness Through Christ
Preacher: Pastor Michael Lu

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Announcements

*** Announcements for the Week of October 18th ***

  • DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING (DBR)
    Join us tonight at 8pm for our weekly Sunday Devotional Bible Reading.
  • OFFERTORY RECORDS VERIFICATION
    SLPC encourages its congregation to verify his/her offertory records through SLPC’s Line OA member service. Contact James for help on access.
  • OFFERING ENVELOPES
    Please use the dedicated envelopes for different kinds of offerings: tithe, building fund, thanksgiving, seasonal, special occasions, and etc.
  • THE ELECTRONIC CONNECT CARD
    The electronic version of the Connect Card can now be accessed by scanning the new QR Code below.
    eConnectCard
    Or by clicking this link: https://forms.gle/AJqmNU2HkizjJXNH6
  • SCAN OR CLICK TO SIGN-IN EVERY SERVICE
    Please scan the service QR Code around the Chapel entrance or on the bulletin, or click the Sign-In link that will be posted in the EM Family Line group chat each Sunday morning for attendance.

***Special Notice***

Hello brothers and sisters in Christ! May the peace of Christ be with you!

The Taiwan CDC has loosened its policies on the COVID-19 restrictions. However, it’s an enclosed space inside the church. As a result, please observe the following guidelines when inside the church premises:

1. Please make sure you have your masks properly worn when entering and inside the church. Disinfect your hands with alcohol if necessary. Maintain social distancing whenever possible.

2. If you don’t feel well, exhibit symptoms of cold, or have been in close contact with people who are contracting COVID-19, please consider to stay at home and participate the online service instead.

3. Food and drinks are conditionally allowed inside the church compound.

Thank you and let’s worship God together on Sundays!

Electronic Sunday Bulletin
EM encourages its congregation to use the electronic version of the Sunday bulletin to save paper.  Please click the following link to access the eBulletin:

https://shorturl.at/R1UBt

Or scan the following QR code.

If you have any suggestion regarding the eBulletin, please let us know.  Thank you!

SERVE IN EM

Come and serve in EM!  You can join the Liturgy, the Audio/Video team, the Praise team, the EM Choir, the Homeless Ministry team, or the Kids Club.  Email: emcaresforyou@gmail.com for more info.

Bible Verse of the Week


Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.


WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL

MY NAME
(REFLECTIONS ON MALACHI 1:1-14)

Pastor Michael Lu

2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob.”

Jacob, that is Israel, was chosen over Esau, not because of human merit or status, but according to God’s sovereign purpose. Despite Esau being the eldest son, God choice Jacob before their birth.

This is how the Lord loved Israel. They were His chosen people, and He was their God. How then could they turn back around and ask God, “How have You loved us?”

The question for us, if we have ever asked this of our Lord before? Because of certain circumstances in our life, have we ever said to God, “How have You loved me?”

That He is our God, and we are His sons and daughters, is in it of itself grace beyond measure. His grace is our salvation through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. That His love for us, greater and more meaningful than any other love, and reminds us to consider our hearts in questioning His love for us.

Love doesn’t mean I’ll give you whatever you want, do whatever you want Me to do, but that I am willing to sacrifice it all, even My Son, to bring you into a relationship with Me.

However, how have we responded to the Lord’s love? For Israel the Lord said,

6 “‘A son honors his father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?‘

The priests of the Lord were chosen to minister before God on behalf of His people, yet rather than offering what was acceptable to God, they tried to keep the best for themselves, and give to God their leftovers. Yet in doing so, how could then ask Him, “How have we despised Your name?”

Again, for us that have been loved by God, do we then give to the Lord the best of what we have? Why do we have to give the Lord the best? And why do we have to give to the Lord at all? Because in order to save us, Christ purchased us by His blood. We are His, our lives and all that we have are His, and we are no longer our own.

How could we then, like the priests, like Israelites, give the Lord anything less of our everything? We like grace, we like love, but do we realize the sacrifice it took for us to be called sons and daughters of God?

11 “For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.

14 “But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King,” says the Lord of hosts, “and My name is feared among the nations.”

From God choosing Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to purchasing us as the Church with the blood of Jesus Christ, this was all done to bring back to order the Creator—creature relationship. The Lord is reminding us that His name is not something to be treated casually. He is the great King, the I AM, the One from whom all things come and to whom all things belong.

I AM means that God is the beginning and the end, doesn’t come or depend on anything else to exist, is the origin, and is from where all of creation comes.

It is for His name, His glory, His purposes that Israel existed, and why the Church exists today. The Lord is reminding us today, that My name is I AM, and all of existence is for Him, under Him, and because of Him.