WE CARE ADDRESSES
Denise Childs, Imani Childs
and Jayland Fowler
122 Overbrook Place
Stockbridge, GA 30281
You can send a card,
say a prayer
or make a phone call
to let our members know we care.
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
I Corinthians 12:25-26
Sunday, December 11, 2016 Please join us for a pot-luck meal after the morning service ~ we will return to the auditorium after we eat ~ there is no 6:00 p.m. service.
Thank you to
all who
assisted with the
Holiday Party!
Monday, December 5, 2016
10:00 a.m.
ATTENDANCE/CONTRIBUTIONS
November 27, 2016
56 a.m./30 p.m.
$4,072.00
WEDNESDAY INVITATION
December 7, 2016
Jerry Whitmire
See The Thank You note from the Claud Queen, Jr. Family on the foyer bulletin board.
Prayer
Requests
Ray Cooper’s sister had heart surgery.
Brooks Hammond, infant son of Cody Hammond (a former member here) was rushed to Egleston Hospital with RSV, a serious respiratory infection.
Shirley Hammond, a former member, is undergoing tests for cancer.
Lee Stanley, Shirley Queen’s brother, has been in the Northeast Georgia Health System in Gainesville for an undiagnosed issue causing a high fever.
Susan White, a former member here, had bypass surgery.
CONTINUE TO REMEMBER:
Lula Childs, Wyman Clark, Sue Collins, Willard Mann, Wyn Miller, Bill Queen, James Smith
MISSIONARIES: Robert Martin (Pacific Islands)
SHUT-INS: Gwinnell Goss; Sonny Vaughn
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
James 5:16
Matthew 15:8-10
These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
Fairview Church of Christ
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
December 4, 2016
Minister:
Jerry Whitmire
678-432-4953 Home
678-492-0383 Cell
Church Info:
1048 Swan Lake Rd.
Stockbridge, GA 30281
Phone: 770-474-7107
Fax: 770-506-0136
Email:
Services:
Sunday
Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m.
Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m.
Worship ...... 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m.
Worship Assignments
December 11, 2016
Announcements/Opening Prayer: Courtney Atchison
Lead Singing: Darrell Cooper
Lord’s Supper:
Bill Queen, Jack White,
David Samples, Charles Killian
Reading: David Samples
Prayer: Carlton Smith
Attitude
How can one develop a proper attitude toward God? First, our attitude toward God must be based on our conviction that “He is,” and that “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). This kind of faith will produce a good attitude of godly fear, and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). Second, God is absolutely holy, absolutely perfect, and absolutely wise. He is grieved by evil. He loves man and wants us to love and obey Him. All of this should motivate us to want to be true to Him all the days of our life. Our attitude toward God will then be such as expressed by the heavenly hosts: “Worthy are thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created,” (Revelation 4:11).
The churches of Christ greet you.
Romans 16:16
Worship or Playing Church?
Dan Jenkins
I will never forget that cottonwood tree just outside the back door of the house I lived in for my entire childhood. It was where we built our treehouse and where the ropes for young “Tarzans” and swings for young children were anchored. But, the best memory I have of that tree was that several times every week we “played church” in its shade.
We were serious about “playing church” ~ I preached hundreds of sermons and lead hundreds of songs under its huge branches. However, just to be entirely truthful, if my mother offered us treats or suggested we go get a special toy at the “five and dime” store ~ church ended!
Sometimes as I worship, I wonder if even now I fully comprehend the seriousness of worship. How far have I come from those days when I “played church”? The words God gave to two of His messengers come to my soul and create a longing for Him to help me to do more than “play church” ~ they help me to worship. “The Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth keep silence before Him…Guard your steps as you go into the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools…for God is in heaven and you are on the earth” (Habakkuk 2:20; Ecclesiastes 5:1-2).
It sometimes is far easier to “play church” and to just sing rather than to worship and praise Him. I know the words and melody of many songs but at those times when I sing, they come from my body and not my soul. Do you ever do this?
As I listen to godly men proclaim His message, I sometimes lose the attitude expressed by Cornelius, “We are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God” (Acts 10:33). God, at these times, help me. Mold me and make me…thou are the potter I am the clay.
We prayed under that cottonwood tree, but sometimes we missed the seriousness of prayer. Paul was in prayer; and, when in prison, he asked others to pray for him because he truly believed he would be released from prison because of these very prayers (Philippians 1:19).
We used to pretend to give as we “played church.” Sometimes, I lose sight of how my giving is designed to help minister to the needy, to proclaim the gospel to the lost, to enable the church to be edified especially in our building and to “help” God accomplish His work.
The same is true of the Lord’s Supper. When I forget the cross, I close the door to spiritual maturity (II Peter 1:8-9). Do you ever do this? God help me to be changed by worshiping you. Forgive me when I just “play church.”