Community of The Way Church

Community of The Way Church 12 Fight the good fight of the faith.

Located at the heart of the city of Iligan, we are a Biblical Counseling Church, existing to glorify Christ, serve Him and grow in knowledge and likeness of Him in His Word. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. -- 1 Timothy 6:12

As a Biblical Counseling Church and Ministry, Community of the Way Church - Iligan

City, exists to magnify God and spread a passion for His glory by preaching the Gospel, making disciples and shepherding them to value Jesus Christ and His Word, above all else.

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“We don’t need to make the Bible relevant.
It already is. We need to understand and submit to it”

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So they followed him, but the road began to turn by the smallest of degrees from the City that they desired. So slight were the changes that they hardly noticed. Before they knew it, the man led them into a net where they were both entangled. The robe fell from the man and they saw an unkind appearance. They lay there crying for they could not get themselves out.

The Payout for Patience“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many pe...
28/05/2026

The Payout for Patience

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive.” (Genesis 50:20)

The story of Joseph in Genesis 37–50 is a great lesson in why we should have faith in the sovereign, future grace of God.

Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers, which must have tested his patience tremendously. But he is given a good job in Potiphar’s house in Egypt. Then, when he is acting uprightly in the unplanned place of obedience, Potiphar’s wife lies about his integrity and has him thrown into prison — another great trial to his patience.

But again things turn for the better, and the prison keeper gives him responsibility and respect. But just when he thinks he is about to get a reprieve from Pharaoh’s cupbearer, whose dream he interpreted, the cupbearer forgets him for two more years. Another painful trial to his patience.

Finally, the meaning of all these detours and delays becomes clear. Joseph is raised up to be the leader of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh. He ends up saving from starvation the very brothers who sold him into slavery. Joseph says to his long-estranged brothers, “God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. . . . As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive” (Genesis 45:7; 50:20).

What would have been the key to patience for Joseph during all those long years of exile and abuse? The answer is: faith in God’s sovereign, future grace — the sovereign grace of God to turn the unplanned place and the unplanned pace into the happiest ending imaginable.

That’s the key to our patience as well. Do we believe that God is working for us in the strangest and most painful turns of our lives?

From Future Grace, pages 174–75

John Piper

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3rd Flr, Preface Bldg. , Corner Burgos-de Leon Sts.
Iligan City
9200

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Tuesday 7:30pm - 10pm
Wednesday 7:25pm - 9:30pm
Thursday 7:30pm - 10pm
Friday 7:30pm - 10pm
Sunday 10:30am - 12:30pm

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