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Worship
Schedule For 11/28/04
Announce – Maurice Powell Sing A.M. – Stephen Powell Read – Larry Powell Pray – Oscar Parton Table – Brady Bogle Jerry Powell James
Neeley Johnny Powel Dismiss – Brian Witty Sing
P.M.
– Jerry Gilley Pray P.M. – Joey Ferrell Wed. Night Schedule For 11/24/04Sing – Brian Witty Read – Larry Powell Prepare Communion For NovemberMaurice Powell Last Sunday’sAttendance – 78 Contribution – $1199.00 Visitation
Team This Week
Oscar Parton, Jerry Powell Visitation
Team Next Week Larry Powell, Maurice Powell 4th Sunday Speakers For November A.M. – Jerry Gilley P.M. - Larry Powell
Prayer
List
Sick
Mollie Parton, Wilma Powell, James Neeley, Charlene Bogle, Brittany Powell, Anita Bowman, Annette Paine, Gladys Morgan, Junior Todd, Doris Graham, Kenneth Foster, Lorene Byford, Linda Lance, Brownie Lance's grandson Shut-Ins J.D. Lorance, Alta Jones, Ona Prater, Dovie Wood, William Condra, Sarah Mayo, Alberta Cook Military
Duty Seth Powell Deaths Garland Keaton
Current Events Collection
of Tennessee Children’s Home Coin Cans Sun.,
Nov. 28th Bring
the cans back so that we can collect them and get them to the Tennessee
Children’s Home.
Christmas Fruit Basket Making & Fellowship Meal Pleasant View Church of Christ Sun.,
Dec. 19th Immediately
following the morning service in the old school building.
Birthdays
and Anniversaries This Week
Tues.,
Nov. 23rd – Bob
& Betty Hayes Wed.,
Nov. 24th – Austin
Powell Thurs.,
Nov. 25th – Linda
Haley
Last
Week’s Bible Question
Q:
Who
said: “What I have written, I have written.” A: Pilate (John 19:22) This
Week’s Bible Question
Who
said: “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from
heaven.”
Dignity
is the capacity to hold back on the tongue what should never have been
in the mind in the first place.
WHICH
CHURCH IS RIGHT? Luther
Blackman Suppose
that some eligible bachelor should announce that tonight he is getting
married, and that tomorrow he is going to start looking for a wife; and
that furthermore, it doesn't make any difference which one he chooses,
since one wife is as good as another. You
would either laugh at his joke, consider him really stupid, or you would
think that somebody ought to call the men in white coats with the net
and put him away. Yet that sort of reasoning is right up to date in
religion. You are "saved," then you pick out the church you
want to join, and "one church is as good as another." Everyone
understands that when you are "married" you have a wife, right
then and there, and you'd better not look further. The ceremony which
marries a man to a woman makes that woman his wife. Whatever it takes to
get married, that is what it takes to get a wife. It is impossible to
get married and not have a wife - if you are a married man, of course.
And he is not married to just any woman. He is married to one woman, his
wife. In the
same way, it is impossible to be scripturally saved and not be in God's
church. Because the same thing that "saves" a man puts him
into the church. And he is not a member of just any church; he is a
member of the Lord's one church! The
church of Jesus Christ (Mt. 16:18) is the family of God, "...the
House (household, family) of God which is the church of the
living God" (I Tim. 3:14-15). In writing the Ephesian letter
Paul makes the church, Christ and the church, the theme of the letter
(Eph. 3:14-15) The Church is the kingdom of heaven on this earth (Mt.
16:18; Mk. 9:1; Jn. 18:36; Col. 1:13; Heb. 12:28). When one is born of
God, "born again," he is born into the kingdom of God.
Therefore, when one is born again - SAVED - he is by that very act a
member of God's family, the church. You cannot be saved and not be a
member of the church any more than a man can be married and not have a
wife, or any more than one born physically can not be a natural child of
his natural parents. The
whole denominational concept of the church is wrong. This is not to be
unkind. It is a scriptural fact. Even many members of the Lord's church
misunderstand and mistake the very fundamental nature of the church.
--via
Bulletin Briefs – November 2004 Crossville
Church of Christ
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