Liaoning Church Celebrates Palm Sunday to Enter Holy Week

中国东北的辽宁省的一个教会举行棕枝主日礼拜。

2023年4月2日，辽宁省海城市腾鳌基督教会举行了圣枝主日感恩聚会。

今天，腾鳌教会的弟兄姊妹们跟随诗班赞美恩主耶稣基督的荣入圣城耶路撒冷，记念这特殊的日子。

今天，是圣枝主日，最神圣、最高峰的圣周正式开始，

海城市基督教三自爱国运动委员会主席王润涛牧师读完路加福音23章33至49节的经文，以《十字架上的救赎》为题，为主证道。他传讲了五个方面的福音：一、神救恩的第一步就是要解决人的罪；二、主甘愿背负世人的罪，付出高昂的代价；三、耶稣胜过死亡的权势，使我们不再作罪的奴仆；四、魔鬼没有资格控告神的儿女，有神称我们为义了；五、归属基督，活出新生命，让神的名得荣耀。

下个主日是我们信仰中最重要的节日——复活节。腾鳌教会除了继续邀请牧师来教会证道，还会举行复活节的演出。

（福音时报特约撰稿人于辽宁报道。）

A church in northeast China’s Liaoning Province held a service for Palm Sunday to start the Holy Week.

At Teng'ao Church in Haicheng City on April 2, together with choir members, worshippers celebrated Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

After reading Luke 23:33–49, Rev. Wang Runtao, chairman of the Haicheng Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), delivered a sermon titled "Redemption by the Cross." He said as God’s solution to our sins, Jesus was offered to bear the sins and paid the supreme price to set people from sin by conquering death. The pastor added that Christians who were justified before God and belonged to Christ lived a new life to glorify Him so that the devil couldn’t bring any charges against them.

In addition to continuing to invite pastors to preach, the church will also hold a performance on Easter Sunday, the most important Christian holiday.

(The article was originally published by the Gospel Times and the author reported it in Liaoning.)

- Translated by Abigail Wu