AM
** THOSE TO SERVE June 25, 2017 **
Bob Heiser
Dave Jester
Dean Hankinson
*Mike Harper
Kirby Burkholder
Kyle Routh
Axel Routh
Joe Saul
PM
Our young
men will be
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worship.
Song Leader
Opening Prayer
Scripture Reading
Head / Serve
Serve
Serve
Serve
Closing Prayer
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If you cannot serve as assigned, please call Scott Coyle.
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Ushers: Matt Frampton / Tim Faulkner
Cleaning Group #4
CC: (C) Faye Frampton (F) Faye Frampton
June Building Security: Lonnie Frampton
Our Record – June 11, 2017
Today’s Speaker – June 18, 2017
Bible Study
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Worship
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Go, make, teach, observe.
Matthew 28:19-20
AM Sermon – Chris Krotz – Bad Guys:Judas
Matthew 26: 47-56
Clothes Closet – July 15, 2017
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Volunteers Needed
PM Sermon – Chris Krotz – Q & A #2
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of
God. Matthew 5: 9
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SUNDAY
Bible Study
Worship
Worship
9:30 AM
10:30 AM
6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY
Bible Study
7:00 PM
June 18, 2017
Church Family News
God has “called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light”! As God’s
“royal priesthood … God’s own people,” we joyfully claim the identity God
has bestowed on us. Welcome! (See 1 Peter 2:9).
VBS starts tomorrow and runs through Friday. There are classes for
all ages, including adults. Come and join in the fun and learn more
about God and His word! Dinner starts each evening at 5:00 PM.
See you then!
There will be a Hymn Sing at Broad Top on Saturday, June 24th
starting at 6:00 PM. Additional information is on the bulletin board.
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There is a signup sheet on the GEMS bulletin board if you would
like to attend a Senators baseball game on July 28th (fireworks
night) at 7:00 PM. We need a group of 20 or more to receive the $2
off per ticket. Please sign up by Sunday, June 25th.
PCC is next month. Below are the dates for this year’s camp.
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July 6-8
College Age – 18-24
July 9-15
Junior Week – Grades 6-8
July 16-22
Senior Week – Grades 9-12
July 23-29
Beginner Week – Grades 3-5
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln
A Father’s Greatest Responsibility
Joe Chesser
A man can be a great leader and at the same time be a lousy father. A man can be an
outstanding prophet, priest, or king, and still be a failure as a parent. It’s such a common
problem that there are jokes floating around about preachers’ kids and elders’ kids. To me,
that’s tragic. But, even more significant, God thinks it’s tragic, too.
Eli was a priest serving the Lord at Shiloh. As faithful as he was in performing his
duties to God and the people, his performance as a parent was awful. It was said of his two
sons that they were wicked and that “they had no regard for the Lord” (1 Samuel 2:12). They
had the nerve to take the fat portions of the sacrifices that belonged to God and keep them for
themselves. Eli didn’t stop them, even though “the sin of the young men was very great in the
Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt” (1 Samuel 2:17). Eli
neglected his greatest responsibility – to correct his sons and teach them to be obedient to the
Lord and to himself. Finally, the Lord sent a man of God to Eli with a prophecy of his
accountability: “Why do you honor your sons more than me ... ?” (1 Samuel 2:29). Eli was
faithful in performing the duties of a priest, but was unfaithful is his greatest responsibility –
teaching his children to be faithful to God.
Unfortunately, Eli’s example was not unique. Samuel, the prophet who grew up under
the mentorship of Eli, turned out the same way. He was personally faithful as a servant of the
Lord, anointing both Saul and David as kings, but his sons were very wicked. In fact, it was
because his sons were so corrupt that Israel sought to have king (1 Samuel 8).
Even David, the best king Israel ever had, would not have won “Father of the Year.”
In 1 Kings 1:6 it says of David regarding his rebellious son Adonijah, “His father had never
interfered with him by asking ‘Why do you behave as you do?’” As a result, Adonijah set
himself up as king over Israel when he thought David was too old to do anything about it.
The New Testament teaches that a part of the qualifications of a man who is to be
appointed as an Elders of the church is that he must have proven that he can “manage his own
family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect” (1 Timothy 3:4). In a
similar way, deacons are also to be able to manage their families well (1 Timothy 3:12). It is
the responsibility of fathers to teach and train their children in the ways of the Lord
(Ephesians 6:4).
In this brief study it is clear what God views as one of the greatest responsibilities of
fatherhood – to teach and train their children in the ways of God and to expect obedience and
respect. Children are not obedient and respectful because they are commanded to be, but
because a loving and caring father has consistently trained them in God’s ways and
demonstrated that kind of life before them day after day.
What greater privilege and responsibility does a father have?
Every man who desires to become a true father has to look continually to the Lord, that he might
learn of him how to relate to his own children.