Prayer
List
We
need to keep Charles and Helen Counts in our prayers.
We
need to keep Kathy Hill in our prayers.
A
friend of Kerry and Carla King Brian Scott is recovering from burns.
Tabitha Griffin is recovering from surgery.
Floss
Hunter may require surgery on her back.
AC Quinn is staying home with flue symptoms.
Eddie
Griffin, Florene and Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and Betty Harris, Billie
Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Gary Counts, Carl Hall, Jim
Hallman, Eddie Hickerson, Gary Hickerson, Dorothy Hodges, Ron Hunter,
Bobbi King, Audrey McKin, Beryl Miller, Kylie Painter, Ryan Patti,
Della Price, and Eddie Rollins.
Serving
in the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody Blomstedt,
Travis Counts,
Tyler
Davies, and
Josh Van Deren, all are in the U.S...
Chris Johnson has
been deployed to Kuwait.
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…
Men’s
Business Meeting is today after evening worship services. All men
are invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item:
Spaghettio’s
January
21: Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Don Baker
Evening:
Robert Courtney – Kerry King
Scriptures:
Don Harrington
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Blinded by the Bible
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In August 1984, a Christian was
invited to appear on the nationwide Phil Donahue television show for
the purpose of clarifying why a church in Oklahoma had implemented
disciplinary procedures against a wayward member. The Christian
presented the Bible directives pertaining to the point by quoting
scripture after scripture substantiating that, in fact, the church
had conscientiously followed biblical protocol. His persistent appeal
to the Bible seemed to antagonize and irritate many members of the
studio audience. Their sentiments were summarized in the words of one
woman who stood and, as Mr. Donahue held the microphone for her,
stated with apparent frustration and exasperation: “From being here
today I just feel that you people are blinded by the Bible. They
don’t see anything else but the Bible” (Donahue Transcript, 1984,
p. 20).
Unwittingly, this individual
paid a tremendous tribute to Christians. It was apparent to the
audience that genuine Christians are so obsessed with God’s Word,
and so preoccupied with ascertaining biblical authority for every
action, that they simply cannot see anything else. They are
blinded—not by erroneous human reasoning, legal/judicial
consequences, or current societal consensus—but by the Bible.
There was a time when it could
be said fairly accurately that American civilization was similarly
blinded. Unfortunately, during the last fifty years, society seems to
have largely regained its sight. The biblical values and moral
principles upon which this country was founded, and which have
provided the social framework out of which the majority of Americans
have operated, are being systematically jettisoned and replaced by
pluralism. A variety of philosophies, religions, and values are being
gradually incorporated into an American civilization that was never
envisioned by the Founders. The biblical approach, in which God’s
words are set forth as preeminent, has largely been abandoned. Public
education is now thoroughly dominated by modern psychology,
humanistic sociology, and evolutionary values. The average American
understood right from wrong, and recognized an absolute standard of
morality. Now, however, the “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” attitude
of “political correctness” permeates the population. The
alienation of the average citizen from the God of the Bible is
profound.
With people no longer “blinded
by the Bible,” this state of affairs has resulted in the very
social scenario described by Jesus when, referring to His earthly
contemporaries, He said:
“seeing they do not see,
and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.… For the
heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their
heart and turn, so that I should heal them” (Matthew 13:13,15).
If
only civilization would return to a healthy preoccupation with the
Word of God—sustained intimacy with Scripture. If only society
would once again become blinded
by the Bible.
(Apologetics Press)