Worship Schedule for 2/1/04
Announce – Brian
Witty
Sing A.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Read – Maurice
Powell
Pray – Larry
Powell
Table – Brady
Bogle
Joey
Ferrell
Nathan
George
Stephen
Powell
Dismiss – Jerry
Powell
Sing P.M. – Larry
Powell
Pray P.M. – Erik
Burke
* If unable to serve, please call Joey Ferrell @
615-765-7620 or Doris Hibdon @ 931-939-2689.
Wed. Night Schedule for 1/28/04
Sing – Maurice Powell
Read – Doris Hibdon
Prepare Communion for February
Larry
Powell
Last Week’s Numbers
Attendance – 81
Contribution -
$1182.53
Visit the Shut-ins Today
Jerry
Powell, Joey Ferrell
Visit the Shut-ins Next Sunday
Jerry
Gilley, Stephen Powell
4th Sunday Speakers for January
A.M. – Brian
Witty
P.M. – Stephen
Powell
Pray for the Sick
Christine
Ash, Margaret Smith, Lucille Grizzle, Molly Parton,
Maggie
Wimberley, Alvin Wade, Carlene Rains, Burton Moulder,
Alberta
Cook, Nelma Chilton, Sherry Wynne
Remember the Shut-ins
Alta Jones,
J.D. Lorance, Mayne Youngblood, Ima Lusk
Dovie
Wood, Ona Prater, William Condra, Glenn Foster,
Pearl
Fults, Sarah Mayo, Alberta Cook
* Those in bold are currently on the visitation route.
Sorry for the Deaths of…
Mary Florene Gunter Daniel, Robert
Carl Todd, Pauline Lee Tate
Last Week’s Bible Question
Q:
Joshua encountered an angel who was captain of the host of the Lord. What was the angel’s purpose in appearing to
Joshua?
A:
To give him instructions on conquering Jericho (Joshua 5:13-15)
This Week’s Bible Question
Q:
What did Isaiah see filling the temple when he beheld God sitting on his
throne?
Current
Events
School of Bible Emphasis
Mt. Leo Church of Christ
McMinnville, TN
Every 2nd and 4th
Monday night @ 7:00 P.M.
Next Class: January 26th
Finger Foods
Pleasant View Church of
Christ
Sun., Feb. 22nd
Immediately following the morning
service.
Birthdays & Anniversaries This Week
Wed.,
Jan. 28th – Linda Hibdon
Sat.,
Jan. 31st – Clara Basham
LEFTWING / RIGHTWING
Jim
E. Waldron
(Continued from last week…)
Yet, it is not just those on the left who
trouble the church in our time but there are the forbidding brethren on the
right. Such have been around for generations. They, as noted, make it a matter
of doctrine to bind where God has not bound or to forbid what God has not
forbidden. In the latter part of the 19th century they were forbidding churches
to have divided Bible classes. This they did in spite of the fact that Paul not
only taught the brethren in public meetings but conducted house to house
studies (Acts 20:20).
Paul plainly says, “I do not permit a woman
to teach or have authority over a man, but to be in silence” (I Tim. 2:12).
Going beyond this, forbidding brethren said a woman cannot even teach children,
so men were teaching toddlers in Bible classes. Paul was located in Ephesus
for three years (Acts 20:31), but forbidding brethren cried out against located
preachers.
Forbidding brethren were around even in Jesus’
time. For when little children were brought to Him that he might bless them,
the disciples rebuked those who brought them,
“But Jesus said, let the little children come to me and do not forbid
them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:14). Today we have
those who forbid the church, the bride of Christ, to receive little children.
Their cry is that God authorizes the church to do benevolence for "saints
only," and little orphans are not saints, They insist that helping
homeless waifs is individual responsibility only. This they do in spite of the fact
that Paul commended the church at Corinth "For (their) liberal
distribution
unto them (saints - II Cor, 9:1) and to all men " (II
Cor. 9:13; Compare I Thess. 3:12). The doctrine of "saints only" was
generated in the same place as “faith only,” that is, in the hearts of men (cf.
James 2:24).
Again, we have brethren
that forbid Christians to eat in the meeting house. They misuse I Cor. 11:34,
saving that God forbids us to eat in the church house. That text says, "Let
him eat at home." Does that mean that God forbids us to eat in
restaurants or only in the meeting house? If the church meets in a home as many
churches did in the first century (Rom. 16:5; Col. 4:15) and many do today in
third world countries, does that mean a congregation cannot have a fellowship
meal in that house? The apostle Paul ordered that faithful evangelists train "faithful
men who will be able to teach others also" (II Tim. 2:2). If the
church where you are wakes up and realizes that such men must be trained, will
you teach them in the meeting house but tell them they must go to their homes
to eat lunch? The truth of the matter is that our buildings should be plants in
which we worship and train soldiers to win souls and not just
sanctuaries that are used five or six hours a week.
Where I work in Asia we
have a dozen schools of preaching meeting in "church buildings," and
students eat their breakfast and lunch in them. The fact is that the Holy
Spirit acknowledged that the saints of the first century held "feasts
of charity (love)" (Jude 12). There are religious people around the
world who strictly forbid putting a toilet in their meeting halls or even in a
house where they eat, but forbidding brethren will put a toilet in the church
building and forbid putting in a table on which to have a potluck supper. Note
clearly, that the recognition that the saints of the first century held "feasts
of charity" does not authorize the church going into the entertainment
or recreation business.
--via Bulletin
Briefs, December 2003
Crossville Church
of Christ
A young minister was
helping his wife with the dishes meanwhile complaining: “This is not a man’s
job!” “Oh, yes, it is!” she said, as
she quoted from II Kings 21:13, “I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish, wiping it and turning it upside down!”
