Prayer
List
Nell Hall is
recovering from surgery on her feet.
Betty and
Jerry Harris, James and Florene Griffin, Don Hickerson, Andy LeDane,
Lester and Billie Phillips, Mary Jean Turner, Michael Armando, Jack
and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark, Debbie Kluge, Doris James, Dan LeDane,
Gary Hickerson, Beryl Miller, Dean and Della Price, Terry Turner, and
Wanda Peterson.
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…
Our sympathy
and prayers go to Jeff Loftice and family in the loss of his aunt
Lucy Wheeler.
The next
Workday is April 2 at 8:30am prior to our Spring meeting April 3rd.
Our Spring
Meeting begins Sunday April 3rd and goes thru Wednesday
April 6th.. Services will be a 7:30pm each night. Sunday
morning services will be at regular time.
March
Fellowship has been moved to Sunday April 3rd after
morning worship services.
Pantry
Item Canned Tomatoes
April
Announcements: Greg Counts
Lord Supper:
Barry Cox, Don Harrington, and Kerry King
April 3rd
Prayers Morning: Butch Balzen – Jack Cawthon
Evening: Don Harrington – Robert Courtney
Scriptures: Greg Counts
Why
Doesn’t Somebody Speak Up?
It was
the summer of 1939 when a young man attended a street service in
which a Holiness preacher was mocking and jeering at churches of
Christ and the teaching of baptism for the forgiveness of sins. The
crowd was joining in with hallelujahs and laughter; these meetings
occurred each Saturday. As the preacher continued his tirade one
Saturday afternoon, the young man thought, “Why doesn’t
somebody speak up?” Then suddenly it dawned on him, “You
are somebody; why don’t you speak up? Well, sure, but I’m only a
teenager; who’s going to teach me?” The young man asked the
preacher to explain Mark 16:16 and Acts 2:38, but the preacher
did not know what these scriptures said so the teenager quoted them
for him. The preacher laughed at the young man and humiliated him in
front of everybody. The following week this young man went to his
preacher and they studied so that the young man would be prepared on
the following Saturday. The young man thought, “This time he
will not make a fool of me.” When Saturday arrived the young
man with his New Testament in his pocket was ready, but the Holi ness
preacher did not show up. In fact, he never returned.
The name
of the young man is not important. He did nothing spectacular. He
only cited two scriptures that we’re all familiar with, Acts
2:38 and Mark 16:16. However, the key to evangelism is letting
the Scriptures speak. Although, many people place a lot of stock in
men who can speak eloquently and sound good, the power to save men
from their sins is in the gospel, not in man (Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor.
1:18ff; 2:2). In 1 Peter 4:11, we are told, “if
any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God.”
So, the
next time someone is ridiculing the church, mocking the Holy
Scriptures, and making fun of your faith and you are wondering, “Why
doesn’t someone speak up?” remember that someone who needs to
speak up is you! You don’t have to be as articulate as a
lawyer; you don’t need credentials of a doctor, and you don’t
have to possess the eloquence of the TV evangelist. All you need is
the Word of God, which is able to save men from their sins
(James 1:21).
By the
way, in case your curiosity has gotten the best of you, the young man
was Mack Lyon who was the evangelist of the TV program, “In Search
of the Lord’s Way.” (Selected)