Prayer
List
Mary Jean
Turner is recovering from hip surgery.
A.C. Quinn
is home.
Shirley
Quinn is in Texoma Health Center room 113.
Dan LeDane
needs our prayers.
A friend of
Kerry King, son was involved in a serious auto accident and will be
in the hospital for some time.
Ben Harrington was taken to the Hospital (Baylor McKinney) Late Saturday Night.
Jerry
Foster, Nell Hall, James and Florene Griffin, Don Hickerson, Andy
LeDane, Lester and Billie Phillips, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty
Clark, Richard Doan, Debbie Kluge, Sonny and Doris James, Beryl
Miller, Wanda Peterson, Dean and Della Price, and Terry Turner .
Serving in
the military: Travis Counts Faith Balzen Cody
Blomstedt Dakota Smitherman
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
First
Sunday Singing is today at Savoy church of Christ from 2:30pm
– 3:30pm.
Pantry
Item: Olive Oil
February
14th Prayers Morning: Butch Balzen – Barry Cox
Evening: Don Harrington - Charles Counts
Scriptures: Robert Embry
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THE CHURCH
IS NOT A DENOMINATION
By J. K.
Gossett
The church of which we
read in the New Testament is not a denomination. It is not a part of
anything. It is neither Jewish, Protestant nor Catholic (Ephesians
2:23-26; Hebrews 8:6:13).
Roman Catholicism and
Protestantism both started too late to be identified with the New
Testament or the church found revealed therein. The church was
established in Jerusalem, not in Rome. Luther, Calvin, Wesley,
Williams, and others were courageous men but their works, and works
of those who followed them, resulted in the establishment of
religious organizations unknown to the New Testament.
Modern man now lives in a
world of religious confusion. Why? Some say because the Bible is in
the hands of the masses. This, however, is not the answer. Religious
divisions exist, not because men have the Bible, but because they
refuse to believe and obey the teaching therein. Knowing this to be
so, our plea is for men to forsake party names and creeds, turn away
from human traditions and to be directed solely by the word of God.
Men should speak when and as the Bible speaks and remain silent when
the Bible is silent. Also, they should call things of scripture by
scriptural names, and act in all matters of a religious or spiritual
nature as the word of God will not produce a denomination, nor will
it direct an individual to become a member of one. The Gospel makes
Christians only. Groups of Christians are called “Churches of
Christ (Romans 16:16).
If the church is not a
denomination, what is it? The church is the bride of Christ (the Lord
has only one bride), the family of God, the Kingdom of Christ; the
temple of God. The church is comprised of the saved. Those who have
believed, repented, confessed Christ, and been baptized for the
remission of sins, are members of the church, members because the
Lord added them. The church is a body of people who have been saved
from sin. (Read Acts 2:36-47). Only
in the Lord’s church can one be saved. Read it from your Bible. 1.
The Lord adds the saved to the church (Acts
2:47). 2. Jesus is the savior of the body,
the church (Ephesians 5:23). 3.
The church was purchased with the blood of Christ (Acts
20:28).
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Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh
unto unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)