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Worship Schedule For 10/3/04 Announce – Brian
Witty Sing A.M. – Maurice
Powell Read – Oscar
Parton Pray – Keith
Bowman Table – Larry
Powell Jerry
Powell Nathan
George Stephen
Powell Dismiss – Jerry
Gilley Sing P.M. – Stephen
Powell Pray P.M. – Maurice
Powell * If unable to serve, please call Joey Ferrell
or Doris Hibdon. Wed. Night Schedule For 9/29/04 Sing – Stephen
Powell Read –
Brian
Witty Prepare Communion For October Doris
Hibdon Last Week’s Attendance - 89 Contribution -
$1108.00 Visit The Shut-ins Today Joey Ferrell, Jerry Gilley Visit The Shut-ins Next Sunday Stephen Powell, Brian Witty 4th Sunday Speakers For September A.M. –
Jerry Gilley P.M. –
Larry Powell Pray For… …The
Sick Mildred Powell, Christine Ash, Mollie Parton, Rodney Cain, Jerry Barrett …The
Shut-ins J.D. Lorance, Alta
Jones, Ona Prater, Dovie Wood, William
Condra, Sarah Mayo, Alberta Cook, Clarence Mears ·
Those in BOLD are currently
on the visitation route. …Those
Serving Our Country Seth Powell …The
Families Of Those Bereaving Over The Loses Of Zola Haley Sullins Last Week’s Bible Question Q:
Who received a letter from David, telling him to put Uriah in the heat of
battle? A: Joab (2 Sam.
11:4, 15) This Week’s Bible Question 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. "Cursed in every one that hangeth on a tree." (Gal. 3:13) Birthdays & Anniversaries
This Week
Tues., Sept. 28th - Maurice & Wilma Powell Tues., Sept. 28th - Jeff & Christy Wimberley Sat., Oct. 2nd - Jewelene Cooper
Current EventsGospel
Meeting Elkins
Church of Christ Fri.,
Sept. 24th – Sun., Sept. 26th Speaker:
Keith Young Sunday Evening Worship: 5:00 P.M.
Friends
& Family Day West
Riverside Church of Christ (McMinnville) Sun.,
October 3rd Speaker:
G. Duke Gregory Sermon Topic: God’s Family
Homecoming East
End Church of Christ (McMinnville) Sun.,
October 3rd Speaker:
Garland Robinson Sunday
Bible Study: 9:00 A.M. Sunday
Morning Worship: 10:00 A.M. Sunday
Evening Worship: 6:00 P.M.
Gospel
Meeting Wood
Church of Christ Sun.,
Oct. 3rd – Tues., Oct. 5th Speaker:
Roy Burgess, Jr. Sunday
Bible Study: 10:00 A.M. Sunday
Morning Worship: 11:00 A.M. Evening
Services: 7:00 P.M.
Area
Wide Singing West
Riverside Church of Christ (McMinnville) Sun.,
October 10th 2:30-3:30 P.M.
A
NEEDED WARNING TO CHURCHES MAJORITY
RULE in a congregation is wrong. The church is not a democracy. Things are not
to be settled in church affairs by another vote. Such a procedure is both
unscriptural and without sense. Many scriptural objections may be raised
against majority rule in the church. We mention a few of these: 1)
MAJORITY RULE makes the elders subject to the church. This is just the
opposite of what God has taught along this line. Instead of the elders being in
subjection to the church, the church is told to "obey them that have the
rule of you" (Heb. 13:17). When a godly group of elders are functioning
in their divine capacity and in harmony with the word of God, the church that
does not obey such an eldership is sinning against God. 2)
MAJORITY RULE stirs up political strife in the church. The young and
inexperienced vote on matters they know little or nothing about. They vote in
harmony with the wishes of the side they are on. Majority rule usually results
in a Corinthian affair (I Cor. 1:10-12). 3)
MAJORITY RULE is usually demanded by the unruly and the untaught (I Pet.
5:5). 4)
MAJORITY RULE often encourages preachers to disregard the elders and
cater to the majority in the congregation. Even
though you may be able to point to some peaceable, majority-rule congregation,
still the system is wholly unscriptural. But the majority of congregations who
try majority rule are torn with strife and dissension. --C.
D. Plum Gospel
Advocate - June 10, 1943 Via
Bulletin Briefs – June 2004 Crossville
Church of Christ
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