Prayer
List
Florene
Griffin is home recovering from back surgery.
James
Griffin mother and brother need our prayers.
Kerry and
Carla King’s niece’s father, Larry Lee is recovering from heart
surgery. He is schedule for pancreas surgery in about 3 weeks.
Lynn Low is
the hospital with a mild heart attack and kidney problems.
Robert
Embry’s uncle, Glenn Durham has been diagnosed with cancer.
Jerry and
Betty Harris, Nell Hall, Don Hickerson, Lester and Billie Phillips,
Mary Jean Turner, Michael Armanda, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty
Clark, Doris James, Dan LeDane, Gary Hickerson, Debbie Kluge, Beryl
Miller, Wanda Peterson, Dean and Della Price, Stacy Rogers, 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…
There is a
Basket in the foyer for Marly Cox and baby.
The next
Teacher’s Meeting is next Sunday May 22 at 5:00 pm. All Teachers
are encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Paper Towels
May 22nd
Prayers Morning: Robert Embry – Butch Balzen
Evening: Don Harrington – Charles Counts
Scriptures: Robert Courtney
Authorized
Instruments
By
David Weimar
Lord
Jesus Christ holds all authority in the universe (Matthew 28:18).
All people, Christians or unbeliever, are amenable to His laws (John
12:48). What he commands we must do; where He sends we must go.
Everything we do, say and even think must be according to Gods Word
(Colossians 3:17).
Expediency
is that which expedites; it is an essential means by which an
obligation is carried out. When God has specified a duty but has not
defined by which the duty is to be carried out, expediency is
authorized. That is, human judgment may be aids, all exercised to
formulate how to accomplish the duty. For example, the Lord has
obligated us to “go.” We may take a bus, ride a train, paddle a
canoe or walk. Shoes, trains, automobiles, and boats are definite
and distinct expedients to going. Chairs and beds are not aids for
going, but for staying. The point is that while all expedients are
optional aids, all optional aids are not expedient to a given
obligation.
In the
case of man-made musical instruments, some would have us believe they
are an expedient to evangelism. Such is not the case, because
biblical expediency pertains to that which expedites a means by which
something is directly carried out. The piano is an expedient to
making music, but not to speaking. Musical instrumentals are
instrumental to making music, not to evangelizing.
When God
specifies how an obligation is to be carried out, we do not have the
option of deciding expediency to fulfill the duty. The instrument to
making music in New Testament worship is specified in Ephesians 5:19,
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” The
heart is the instrument and verbal, vocal spiritual music is the
direct command.
“Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16).