to God be the glory .!

Today is July 27 , 2008 . And for those who belong to the Iglesia Ni Cristo / Church Of Christ , this is a very important and memorable day . July 27 , 1914 , when our religion, Iglesia Ni Cristo / INC was first registered as an official religion in the Republic of the Philippines . It was when the first world war broke out . I'm not going to tell you the whole detail of the conception of our religion because if you're really curious and you really want to know the history of our religion , you should attend our bible studies at the locales near you . Haha ! Promote ! So , back to the topic . To commemorate this great day , we held one of our bible studies at our locale . It's for everyone . Well , those who are willing to join . Haha .! It's for us who are already in the Church Of Christ , those who will be in the Church Of Christ soon , and those who wants or is willing to be in the Church Of Christ . So that means , everyone . Even you ! If you want . Haha ! The one who led the whole massive bible study is one of the ministers of our locale . So many people came . And for us , the people who are already in the Church Of Christ , we were uber happy too . Our locale was filled with people that even the spare chairs outside were occupied ! Our efforts wasn't disregarded ! Whew ! Happy . Happy . Happy . I guess you won't feel the same feeling we feel unless you're already in the Chuch Of Christ . During the bible study , the first , of course , was the opening prayer . Then the reading of the words of God . We had a projector inside and outside so that we all could see and read the words of God taken directly from the Bible and encoded in the computer . After a number of Bible readings , there was a video shown . If I was not mistaken , it was about the beginnings of the Church Of Christ . Where it started here in the Philippines , where it went from then on , the achievements of our religion , and etc . etc . And after that , Bible readings again . I love it ! Interactive Bible study ! Then , another vid was shown . Yipee ! This time , it was some kind of a music video . Featuring the different locales of the Church Of Christ and the lyrics to the songs of our church . Of course , it was accompanied by a choir singing . The video was hair-raising . It was very , very , blessed !! I tried to stop myself from letting out tears . ( I'm not gonna tell you if I cried or not ! :P Haha !) After the vid was the closing prayer .It was also very blessed ! And I could hear my friends crying . (Oopsies ! Pretend you didn't read this part ! Haha !) Before it was time to go home , there was a last vid . Now , it shown a locale that was first visited by our last messenger/the chosen one , Ka Felix Y . Manalo . The people there was very , very , very lucky that they got to see him . Because , me , personally , I wanted to see him . But destiny forbidden me . He died before I was born . Too bad . But still , his son was his successor . Ka Erano Manalo is now the head minister of the Church Of Christ . And he's doing a good job . Btw , back to the topic . After the messages from the selected brethrens from the specific locale , the video then showed different locales . Here && abroad . Wow ! I didn't know that so many locales already existed ! They all gave their "Happy Anniversary" messages to all other brethrens all over the world ! And for the finale , our locale was featured . Aw ! Too bad ! I wasn't in the vid ! Regrets do always come in the end ! But anyways , I was happy for my friends who were included in the vid . (Industrious much .?) And the Bible study ended . And the rest is history . By this blog post , I would also like to send out a message to all my brethrens out there from all over the world . "HapPy 94th (for those locales in the Philippines) and 40th (for those international locales) anNivErsAry !! to us all . May the Lord continue to bless us always and may our religion continue to prosper . And congratulations for making it this long and we are all still rooted to our faith . Continue in serving God and we will see Him soon ." PS : For those locales who belong to the sub-district of Bacoor , Cavite , PH , break a leg to us all later . See you all ! .