Sermon

Christmas Eve 2017. Lead pastor on Luke 1:79 — ‘to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ Christmas is a homecoming: the Light has come into our darkness, calling us back to belonging in God. Wherever we have wandered, the road home is open.

A combined service from December 2017: Lead pastor’s sermon on Luke 1:79 (‘Christmas Coming Home’), followed by the ordination of Jason Ho as BMCC’s missionary, and Jason Ho’s own sharing on his journey into BMCC ministry.

Rev. Tobias Brandner on Philippians 2:1-13 — the Incarnation of Christ as the pattern of the believer’s rebirth. The kenotic Christ who ’emptied himself’ invites us into the same humility, the same self-giving life. Christmas is not only a birthday, but a calling.

Pastor Salom Bok on Matthew 25:31-46. God’s love is poured out especially toward the least among us. The judgment of nations turns on how we treated the hungry, the stranger, the imprisoned. To love the ‘little ones’ is to find Christ already there.

Lead pastor on Acts 1:8. The Spirit who empowers us to witness also forms us through the witnessing. As LGBTQ+ Christians speak truthfully about faith and identity, the act of giving witness becomes a source of healing and growth — to ourselves no less than to those we tell.

Eric Sin on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, where Paul compares his pastoral care to a nursing mother gently caring for her children. To pastor is to nurture — patient, tender, present. It is not easy work; but it is the shape of Christ-like love among us.

Jason Ho on Mark 10:14-16 — ‘let the little children come to me.’ A queer reading: the Kingdom belongs to those society marginalises and dismisses. Children, queer folk, the displaced — Jesus draws them close. To enter the Kingdom is to receive it like one of these.

Lead pastor on Galatians 3:28 — ‘no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female.’ In Christ, every social binary that divides us is undone. The unity of the body of Christ is not the erasure of difference but its reconciliation in love.

Lead pastor on Galatians 2:15-21. Justification by faith — not by works of the law — births a new life and a new people. In Christ the old categories of belonging are crucified; a new community arises whose citizenship is in the Kingdom of God.

Rev. Po Kam-cheong on 1 Corinthians 1:10-31 and Ephesians 4:1-13. The early church wrestled with division and faction; today’s church faces the same. From conflict to communion is not the absence of difference but the discipline of love — bearing one another, walking toward unity together.