Green Pastures Community Church - San Pablo

08/01/2026

Hello 2026!

13/04/2025

○ April Celebrants ○

Happy Birthday to all!
Wishing you a month filled with love, growth, and beautiful new beginnings. May this year bring you joy. God bless you always!

18/02/2025

Tatoo is sin?

One pastor posted in his FB that having a tattoos is a sin, quoting leviticus 19:28 "You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord."

is it really a sin for having a tatoo? Is this what really it says?

What about a person having a tatoos and then converted and become a followers of Christ would we consider him as a sinners in sin? What about having a tattoos prior to his conversation?

The Backgroud:
Lets see the context...Let’s keep in mind the first half of the verse, “You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead.”

This prohibition against body-cutting and the prohibition in the latter half of the verse should be read as a unit.

What is cutting all about?
In his Leviticus commentary, Old Testament scholar, John Kleinig, notes, “The practice of self-mutilation was common in mourning rites” (Jer. 16:6; 41:5; 47:5; 48:37).”

Some ancient people expressed their grief outwardly, in shaving their heads or beards, wearing sackcloth, and gashing their bodies.

Here, the Lord of Israel is saying to his people, “When you mourn, you shall not make gashes on your body like the peoples around you.”

The preceding verse appears to speak to this same kind of mourning situation, “You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mark the edges of your beard” (Lev. 19:27).

Hair was often cut during periods of mourning. Deuteronomy 14:1 also addresses this, “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead” (cf. Jer. 16:6).

The Context:
The context, therefore, is about pagan bodily practices that most likely were thought to bond the living with the dead.

If indeed “tattoo” is the right translation of the Hebrew word we discussed above, then the tattooing in question was a mourning ritual.

To all such cutting and marring and disfigurement of the body and God doesn't want us to do that.

But concerning the post or statement i considered it dangerous and fallacious because it may give the impression that having a tatoo is already condemned.

It makes me think that even the people in the prisons that having a tatoos even they already believe in Christ are condemned by having such markings.

09/02/2025

● FEBRUARY 09, 2025 ● Sunday Service ●

06/02/2025

This video contains people who are processing “O Come, All You Unfaithful,” most of them for the first time, in light of their own experiences. A stillborn child. A strained marriage. Feelings of shame. Legalism. Loss. Loneliness. Or simply having a heart that weeps with those who weep.

Jesus wasn’t born for people who have it all together. He was born for those who have nothing.

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”” (Matthew 11.28–30, ESV)

“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1.21, ESV)

So come.

Official Music Video | Sovereign Grace Music Written by Lisa Clow and Bob KauflinFrom the album Heaven Has ComeThis video contains people who are processing ...

02/02/2025

02/02/2025

Looking back at memories from previous years!

02/02/2025

● FEBRUARY 02, 2025 ● First Sunday Service of the month ●

27/01/2025

Galatians 1:8-9

8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

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27/01/2025