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1001 E. MacArthur
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Today
Please fill out attendance pads.
Don’t forget about the Children’s Bulletins on the foyer table.
New Sunday Morning Classes Larry Stillwell- Singles Class Garry Bailey- Young Married Class Wayne Stephens- Judges & Ruth, Auditorium Lonnie McDonald & James Cole- Nehemiah-Old lesson for New Church, Annex 1 Cliff Craig & Mike Shelburne- Romans Continued
This Week Ladies Class this Thursday at 10:30am. Men’s Prayer Breakfast This Saturday at 9am
Teens Tonite!! Youth Activity
Coming Up
2nd Sunday Fellowship Next Sunday Donuts Etc. 8:50-9:20 Please help us with this time frame. Menu Includes: Fried Chicken, potatoes, corn, green beans, salad and Hot rolls. Dessert: Pies
LTC fees of $20 need to be in by Jan. 1st. Need to start working on Pre-convention Events: Computer Web Page & Video Bible Drama due by Feb 9th
Church Holiday Party Dec. 16th at 6:30pm in annex. Dan’s Barbeque will cater, $7ea. Baby sitters provided. Will do Dirty Santa with a $5 limit instead of playing games. RSVP to Gary Smith by 14th if coming.
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December 07, 2003 Vol XXIV # 48 News Congratulations to Shawnee Wolves Football team for making it to the State Championship game that was played last week, and to our own Jared Kesler and Aaron Rowley who are part of the team and Whitney Brand who is a cheerleader.
Cookie Dough Need volunteers to bring cookie dough for the Kids in the Kingdom to do a work project for the Holidays by the 14th. See Janet Bailey
Holiday Cards Exchange baskets are on the foyer shelf, if anyone would like to play POST PERSON here at the building, it would be really appreciated!!
Winter Coats/Clothes Alicia Frazier is still taking up winter coats and clothes. Please bring to the annex building ASAP.
To my Northridge family- Thanks for the calls, cards, prayers & Snack basket, I really appreciated it. Love Bob Kotts
THANK YOU Our thanks this week goes to Harold Farris for always helping the men during our workdays!!!
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Remember in Your Prayers
Bob Kotts had a stint put in Wed at OK Heart Hospital. Surgery went fine and he is doing well. Rick Purdom had CAT scan last week, found a spot on his parathyroid. Angie Younger had heart tests last week, results came back fine. Mike Austin, Dusty Austin’s uncle, continues to need prayers for his health problems. Eddie Morris, Marsha Rowley’s brother, tests showed he has fibroses of the lung.
A Clarification Several of you spoke favorably to me about my bulletin article of 11/30. I thank you for your honesty and for receiving something hard to be said in a good spirit. I did notice that some of you got a wrong idea from my wording. I was not saying that the Small Groups Committee cannot find enough group facilitators to agree to help. No one has yet been asked. I was saying that it has become difficult to select enough capable men to lead groups who demonstrate a commitment to Sunday night assemblies. I believe that good leaders are the best followers and loyal to the coming-together times of the Body.
The Narrow Door In Luke 13: 23 when someone asked Jesus, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He did not say that those who are ultimately saved will be numerically few, for elsewhere we learn that there will be “a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language” (Rev. 7:9). This conversation is not about numbers but about presumptions of special privilege. In the verses that follow, Jesus identified those who will be excluded from the Kingdom. They are individuals who had a casual acquaintance with Jesus but were not really his intimate friends at all. “Then you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know you.’ You will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you. Go away, all you who do evil.’ ” (Luke 13:26-27). Jesus statement, “Go away,” is quoted from Psalm 6:8. The Psalms often use the term “evildoers” or “workers of iniquity” to describe hypocrites – people who claim to belong to God but whose hearts are far from him. The exclusion of hypocritical Jews will be all the more ironic, says Jesus, when they see the “people from all over the world (Gentiles) take their places in the Kingdom of God.” He notes this: “Some who are despised now will be greatly honored then; and some who are greatly honored now will be despised then.”
It is not enough to be acquainted with Jesus, or even to “know” much about
him. What counts in the day of judgment is to be known by him – to be in
relationship with him in genuine, mutual friendship. Those of us who fill
churches today need to hear that message just as much as the Jews did in the
first century. God’s “chosen people” have no claim on God, not then and not now.
Their status is always one of wholly unmerited favor – that God may extend at
any time to anyone he wishes. Jesus’ admonition in this passage still rings in
solemn warning – “The door to heaven is narrow. Work hard to get in, because
many will try to enter, but when the head of the house has locked the door, it
will be too late.” (Luke 13:24,25). If we are not in a fully committed
relationship with Jesus, we will not be saved! - James Cole
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