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KINGDOM ADVENTURES BY GILDA PINEDA DIONELA

I discovered the place accidentally. Occasionally there or outward mark of a believer) he cannot be saved. Peter
is a church conference in Westminster Chapel. A chapel and Paul believed it is by the grace of God alone that we
with a sitting capacity of 2,500. Yes, that big. Te chapels can be saved, not by works such as circumcision. It was
in the Philippines have seating capacities from 150 to James who concluded to settle the matter that the Gentile
200. Tis one is diferent. It only shows how God loving believer need not be circumcised physically, but that they
and God fearing British people were in the past. Going abstain from idolatry, fornication, duly let out the blood of
to Westminster Chapel I always get the tube to Saint an animal (remember when our grandmas killed chickens
James Park, but I always get lost on my way out, not sure for food? they let all the blood out for healthy reasons)
whether to turn lef or right. My sense of direction is not and forbid eating of blood (but it could also mean
at its best. Not that I have any impediment, it is just that manslaughter, murder and cruelty).
I prefer to stay in one place. And going from one place to Blood should be considered sacred from the time of
another is an adventure in itself. the frst disciples up to now because physical life is in it.
During one of the conferences, I decided to take a bus Even during the time of Cain and Abel. It is the blood of
and used Google maps. It led me to Buckingham Palace Abel that cried out to God seeking justice. How can blood
and to my surprise to a beautiful Saint James Park. On the talk to God? Whether it is a metaphor or not God created
south side is Wellington Barracks (the Guards Museum), man that He knows even the tiniest cell about everyone. If
to the east, Horse Guards that has the Household Cavalry blood seeks justice how much more the author of Justice
Museum. When you are in Buckingham just continue to not demand one to show who He is? It is His nature
walk straight and there you will see the park. to exercise justice and for eternal justifcation there is
only one blood that will satisfy, the blood of His Son
The True Bishop of Jerusalem Jesus Christ. We fall short of deeply understanding the
Let us dedicate the park this time to Saint James, the application of these four basic rules of the frst Christian
real Bishop of frst the Christian Church in Jerusalem. church.
Just like the park, the relevance of Saint James the Just
was ofen taken for granted for millennia until the veil
was uncovered by recent discoveries. I remembered a
preaching of one of the most learned theologian who
walked on earth, the late Dr. Michael Eaton, if I remember
right he said, “Tere are not so many written books about
the historicity of Jesus other than the Holy Bible. Luke the
physician, the author of one of the gospels of the New
Testament and the Acts of the Apostles is one of the
greatest historians that ever lived. History proved his
writings are accurate especially about the Roman ofcers
and is reliable source of historicity of Jesus Christ”. Now
the artifacts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and James
Ossuary have made the Holy Bible and historicity of Jesus
grander than ever before. Te long-debated doctrine of
ancient belief of institutionalized religion has now been
shaken to the core.
Let us know James even more. Peter preached the
frst sermon on the day of Pentecost and Paul wrote
two thirds of the New Testament, but it was James, the
brother of Jesus who stayed in the Church of Jerusalem
(mother church) to serve as the Bishop. Peter, Paul and
rest of the disciples preached in diferent locations. At
the Council of Jerusalem a certain group of people from
Judea said that unless a believer be circumcised (a physical

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