Worship
Schedule For 2/3/08
Announce
Brian Witty
Sing
A.M. Maurice
Powell
Read
Stephen Powell
Pray
Larry Powell
Table
Oscar Parton
Doris Hibdon
Danny Powell
Bob Hayes
Dismiss
Stephen Powell
Sing
P.M. Stephen
Powell
Pray
P.M. Jerry
Gilley
Wed.
Night Schedule For 1/30/08
Sing
Stephen Powell
Read
Maurice Powell
Prepare
Communion For February
Doris Hibdon
Last
Lord's Day
Attendance
- 43
Contribution
-
$875.80
Visitation
Team Next Week
Maurice
Powell, Jerry Gilley
Prayer
List
Sick
Jerry
Powell (continuing treatments), Odell & Doris Powell,
Brady Bogle
(rehab in HCA - McMinnville), Doris Hibdon (teeth),
Wilma
Powell (knee replacement surgery, home, improving),
Diane
Wimberley (home, treatments), Jamie Powell (sinus surgery, home),
Winford Gannon, Carol Bennett
Shut-Ins
Ona Prater,
Josephine Ferrell, Jimmie
Johnston,
Everett Witty, Maggie
Wimberley, Lucille Parton
Deaths
Carl D. Barnes
Birthdays
and Anniversaries This Week
Mon.,
Jan. 28th Linda Hibdon
Last
Weeks Test Your Bible Knowledge
O death, where is they sting? O
grave, where is they victory?, asks Paul and
replies to the first question that it is [I
Cor. 15:55-56]
a. annihilation
b. uncertainty
c. loss of love
d. sin
This
Week's Test
Your Bible Knowledge
We learn from Pauls second letter
to the Corinthians that in Asia he experienced
[II
Cor. 1:8]
a. exultation
b. apprehension
c. remorse
d. despair
Current
Events
School of Biblical Emphasis
Mt. Leo Church of Christ
(McMinnville)
Mon., Jan. 28th @ 7:00 P.M. in
the Education Bldg.
Baptized Into Christ
By Ron Boatwright
The denominational world says that baptism has
nothing to do with our salvation, but lets see what the Bible says.
Notice that it is baptism that puts us into
Christ so that we can be saved.
Galatians 3:27 says, "For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
Baptism is the only way a person can get into Christ. The
preposition into indicates a change of relationship.
You can search from the front to the back of your Bible, and you
will find no other way to get into Christ except by being baptized into
Christ. What is the
advantage of being baptized into Christ?
Ephesians 1:3 says, "Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ." This
verse tells us that every spiritual blessing is located in Christ.
Only those who are in Christ can enjoy these spiritual blessings.
We read in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore
if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all things have
become new." If
one is in Christ, he has become a new creation.
This is how we are born again.
The Apostle Paul says in 2 Timothy 2:10, "Therefore
I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain
the salvation which is in Christ
Jesus, with eternal glory."
Here we see that salvation is located in Christ, and for one to
be eligible for salvation, he must be in Christ. It will be a horrible
thing for a person, who thinks he is saved, when he stands before the
Lord on the Day of Judgment, if he is still outside of Christ.
He will have no salvation. He
will be lost eternally in Hell.
In 1 John 5:11 we read, "And this is the
testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son."
Only those who have been baptized to be saved are in Christ and
have the promise of eternal life. Those
who are outside of Christ have no promise of eternal life but are lost.
