December 5, 2021
209 South Brown Street
Tom Bean, Tx 75489
Phone: (903) 546-6620
Email: tombeancoc@gmail.com
MONTH
December
ANOUNCEMENTS
Kerry King
SERVING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Greg Counts Jerry Harris
PRAYERS TODAY
MORNING EVENING
Jerry Harris Kerry King
Walter
McMillen AC
Quinn
SCRIPTURE READING
Kerry King
PRAYER LIST
Don
Baker – is recovering from heart surgery at home. He is doing better and will then start rehab
in Sherman on December 7th.
Charlie
Counts was taken to a hospital in Dallas Wednesday with bleeding in the
incision of his recent procedure. He was
hoping to come home Friday.
Charlie & Helen’s friend, Sue, has been diagnosed with
cancer
Kerry’s surgery scheduled for December 7th.
Brenda
Williams (AC’s daughter) is being evaluated for a pacemaker.
James
Campbell (Frank’s son-in-law) is having severe back problems.
Bill
& Anna Lois Farris have both been ill.
Sympathy for lost loved
ones:
Lavona
Clinton passed away Tuesday afternoon.
Services were Saturday.
Robert
Harris (Jerry Harris’ nephew) passed away Nov 27th.
Wally
Scales (Jerry Harris’ brother-in-law) passed away Nov 28th.
Remember in Daily Prayer:
Cancer: Frank Roden, Betty Clark,
Ruth Stone (Greg’s boss’ wife), Debbie Brown (Jan’s cousin).
Macular Degeneration: AC Quinn, Beryl Miller
Others:
Florene Griffin (back & hip), Beverly Roberts (MS), Dannie Baker (severe
allergies), Steve Dupuis (heart, AC’s son in law), Jennifer Campbell (Frank’s
daughter - MS), Anna Lois Farris (heart), Lisa Courtney (hole in her lung),
Steven Wilkerson (Lexy’s great grandfather) is on Liver Transplant list, Carol
Moore, Billy Clinton, Daniel White (Jan’s nephew – seizures).
Serving Our Country:
Cody Blomstedt (Korea), Kirklynn
Hance, Tyler Davies, Jesse Thetford
Police & First Responders, Medical Staff &
Doctors:
Travis Counts, Dalton
Griffin, Chelsie Serrano, Kim Counts
Pantry Item:
Canned Soup
Men’s Business Meeting Dec 12th After
Evening Services
Men Serving Next Week Dec 12,
2021
Prayers:
Morning: Charlie Counts – Walter McMillen
Evening: Greg Counts –
Don Hickerson
Doctrine, It Means Something
By Josh Blackmer
Why
do so many people have different teachings concerning the Bible? Not just in
the areas of opinion but often many groups have different teachings that are
directly at odds of one another. One might read a passage and say that God’s
authoritative word teaches their doctrine. Another might read the same passage
and say that it teaches their doctrine that contradicts the aforementioned
group. If anything, this highlights the need to “work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12).
We should not surrender our judgement and reasoning to others. It also should
give us pause to think about the nature of doctrine.
The
New Testament talks about two types of doctrines. There is doctrine that is
deceitful or different. “As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed
here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the
trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming” (Eph. 4:14). There
is doctrine that is different. “If anyone advocates a different doctrine and
does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the
doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but
he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words,
out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and
constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who
suppose that godliness is a means of gain” (1 Tim. 6:3-5).
These are doctrines or teachings that are contrary to what has been taught. If
the Bible mentions that such doctrines existed, then we must understand that
there is a doctrine that we should teach.
The
second form of doctrine is sound doctrine. Literally translated it means
healthy teaching. We are commanded to “speak the things which are fitting for
sound doctrine” (Tit. 2:1).
Also, “holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching,
so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those
who contradict” (Tit. 1:9).
It is plain to see that doctrine matters and one can’t teach anything they
want. It also means that the Bible was written to teach something specific.
So
why are there so many doctrines? Paul told Timothy this was the reason: “For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to
have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in
accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth
and will turn aside to myths” (2 Tim. 4:3-4). We
need to make sure that we are “constantly nourished on the words of the faith
and of the sound doctrine which you have been following” (1 Tim. 4:6b).