Worship Schedule For 10/17/04

Announce – Jerry Gilley

Sing A.M. – Stephen Powell

Read – Joey Ferrell

Pray – Oscar Parton

Table – Jerry Powell

Maurice Powell

James Neeley

Johnny Powell

Dismiss – Larry Powell

 

Sing P.M. – Larry Powell

Pray P.M. – Joey Ferrell

 

Wed. Night Schedule For 10/13/03

Sing – Jerry Gilley

Read – Stephen Powell

 

Prepare Communion For October

Doris Hibdon

 

Last Sunday’s

Attendance – 78

Contribution – $1018.00

 

Visitation Team This Week

Odell Powell, Doris Hibdon

 

Visitation Team Next Week

Oscar Parton, Jerry Powell

 

4^th Sunday Speakers For October

A.M. – Brian Witty

P.M. - Stephen Powell

 

Prayer List

Sick

Mollie Parton, Anita Bowman, Christine Ash, Malia Witty,

Rodney Cain, Jerry Barrett, Brownie Lance’s grandson

 

Shut-Ins

J.D. Lorance, Alta Jones, Ona Prater, Dovie Wood,

William Condra, Sarah Mayo, Alberta Cook, Clarence Mears

Military Duty

Seth Powell

Current Events

Area Wide Singing

West Riverside Church of Christ

(McMinnville)

Sun., October 10^th

2:30-3:30 P.M.

Gospel Meeting

New Hope Church of Christ

Sun., Oct. 10^th – Wed., Oct. 13^th

Speaker: Gary Colley

Sunday Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.

Weeknight Services: 7:00 P.M.

Great Smoky Mountain Lectures

Gatlinburg Church of Christ

Fri., Oct. 22^nd – Sun., Oct. 24^th

Speaker: Various

Theme: Great Bible Truth

Fri. & Sat. Evening Services: 7:30 P.M.

Sat. Morning Service: 9:30 A.M.

Sun. Morning Services: 9:30 A.M., 10:30 A.M.

Sun. Evening Service: 6:00 P.M.

Birthdays and Anniversaries This Week

Mon., Oct. 11^th – Chelsey Payne

Wed., Oct. 13^th – Johnny Powell

Thurs., Oct. 14^th – Oscar Parton

Sat., Oct. 16^th – Larry Powell

 

Last Week’s Bible Question

Q: Here is a passage from the New Testament that is a quotation from the Old Testament.  Name the Old Testament book, chapter, and verse where the passage appears.

“And [he] hath put all things under his feet”  (Eph. 1:22)

A: Psalm 8:6

 

This Week’s Bible Question

Name the person who said the following as their last words.

“There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; they they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.”

 

MENTAL DIVORCE

 It was June 1955 at Old Charlotte Road near Nashville that I preached my first regular sermon. During this almost 50 years I have lived to see at least six different doctrines put forth among us to get around the truth of Matthew 5:32; 19:3-9; Mark 10:2-12; and Luke 16:18. The one that is now most popular is a renovation of an idea that has been around for a while. By renovation I mean the revamping of "The Waiting Game."  

Those who believe the new version seek to avoid the stigma of the term "the waiting game"' by defining it as being based on divorce where the husband and wife "mutually agree" to divorce and then seek to out wait the other until he or she is married.

The proponents of the revised version say that if a man decides arbitrarily to put away (divorce) his wife (or vice versa) and she opposes it, then when he does divorce her and later remarries, she can claim freedom to marry another without sin. In other words, she claims in her mind freedom to remarry based on a divorce unto adultery not because of.

Such does violence to the words of our Lord: "But I say unto you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except for sexual immorality (Gk. porneia, fornication) causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery" (Mt. 5:32).

If the objections of a person to being divorced can change the consequences stated in Christ's law then His words become redundant. In other words, she claims in her mind freedom to remarry based on ex-post facto adultery. It is a "neo­waiting game" for the put-away mate has to wait - days, months or years - for the spouse to marry or otherwise commit adultery.

--Jim E. Waldron

Bulletin Briefs – May 2004

Crossville Church of Christ