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1001 E. MacArthur
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Today 2nd Sunday Fellowship Day Donuts Etc. 8:50-9:20am After evening services Menu for basket dinner includes: Soups & Salads Stew & Crackers Beans & Cornbread Chili & Fritos Cookies & Brownies
Wayne Stephen’s Sunday Morning class has been dropped. You will need to find another class to attend.
Kindergarten class has been moved across the hall.
“LTC” Signing @ 2:00 Drama @3:00 Choir @ 4:00 H.S. Puppets @ 4:00
This Week CRAFT ENCOURAGEMENT OPERATION LUNCH This Thursday at 12:00 in the annex.
Men’s Breakfast this Saturday at 9AM
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March 09, 2003 Vol XXIV #10 Teens The bus will be leaving @ 4pm for Area Wide at Northwest.
Dates to Remember: Genesis – June 7-13 Trek – June 21-27 VBS - July 6-9 Mission Ringling – July 11-13 Camp Rock Creek July 20-24
Mexico Mission Trip Chris Craig will join many Oklahoma Christian students for a mission trip to Aquilles, Mexico on Mar. 13-23. The Edmond Church of Christ overseas this annual trip. Students will help in building projects and interact with the local church by conducting a VBS. The cost is $380.00. If you would like to help Chris, you may make a check to Northridge and give it to Darrell or Cliff.
UPCOMING
Kids In the Kingdom Sunday the 23rd of March after am services, there will be a Service Project for the elderly. Bring your lunch and help make “stained glass”.
Between 1.2 and 1.8 million women are physically abused each year.-Faith Partners Thank YouOur thank you this week goes to Judy Grisso for the wonderful new flower arrangements.
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Remember in Your Prayers
Kaci Hodges has been referred to a specialist at Baptist concerning the tumor in her finger. She has been in a lot of pain with her back and TMJ therapy last week. Jack Hickman is undergoing test to determine cause of chest pain at Unity North. Jack Howell is not doing good, Hospice has been called last week in to take care of him. Lena Doyle, Alice Morgan’s mother, isn’t doing very good. She is in the last stages of her disease. Phyllis O’Conner, friend of Carol Tomlinson, had stomach surgery last week and isn’t doing very good. Maxine Slater, David Slater’s grandmother, lost her leg because of a blood clot. Norman Rauw, Bob Kotts brother-in-law passed away last week in Texas Ernie McDaniel had a massive heart attack and died about a week ago.
SUNSETS AND WORSHIP SERVICES
We have heard of “sunsets” all of our lives. But there is no such thing. The earth rotates until the sun is out of view. I vaguely remember figuring that out in grade school science. We are turning; the sun is not going round us. I had to unlearn what everyday talk implied. We have also heard “worship service” and “going to worship” all of our lives. Biblically, there is no such thing. Worship is a chosen life before the Lord, not a Sunday event. If we unlearn some thinking we can better see what we are about. One word for worship in the N.T. is eusebeia. Paul used it in Acts 17:23 like the Greeks used it to describe honoring gods. But in Christian usage one Greek professor writes, “It does not consist in . . acts of congregational worship. It refers rather to a Christian’s manner of life.” See eusebeia used in such passages as 1 Tim 2:2,10, 4:7-8, 6:3-6; 2 Pet 1:3,6 and is translated as “godliness, good deeds, spiritual fitness.” That’s worship! Another N.T. word for worship is threskeia. It is used in Col 2:18 for the false worship of angels. But in James 1:27 in Christian application the same word is defined as looking after the downtrodden and a living a consecrated lifestyle. That’s worship! Another word for worship is proskuneo, “visible majesty before which the worshipper bows.” It is in John 4:21-24. Jesus gives the word a heightened sphere - no longer is worship a thing of place; it is of knowledge, relationship with the Father, spirit, and truth. The truth is not five or more acts. The truth is about the other things named here: about Him and our place before Him. That’s worship! A word from Jewish temple worship, latreia, reappears for Christians. It carries a spiritualized force that comprehends total relationship and service to God (Phil 3:3; Heb 9:14, 12:28). Its highest expression is Rom 12:1, the fullest definition of N.T. worship - the offering of self as sacrifice, a rational service. That’s worship! New Covenant worship is not merely associated with acts limited in place and time. It encompasses the whole of life. There is not a line drawn between worship proper over here and serving, practical matters over there. “Spirit and truth” is seeking relationship with Him. It is not a “worship service,” but a life of service. That’s worship! Of course, we know when we come together to worship, and we must do so in God-given ways. But we must constantly worship away from the building to properly come to the building to worship. We can figure out the truth about “sunsets.” We must get the truth about worship. - Cliff
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