Vol. XXXVII
Romans 16:16
Times of Worship:
SUN:
9:00am - Worship
10:15am - Bible Study
6:00pm - Worship
WED: 6:30pm - Bible Study
Email addresses:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Office Hours:
Mon.-Thurs. 8:00am-3:00pm
Office Phone:
931-728-3306
Fax: 931-728-1351
PERIODICALS,
Main Street Monitor
Second Class, Postage Paid
and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5.23). Body,
of course, is the fleshly or material part of man: that
part we tend to spend so much of our time and resources on. The word soul is used in a variety of ways
in the Bible. Sometimes it refers to physical life, as in
Psalm 22:20, where the writer says, “Deliver my soul
from the sword.” Then, sometimes soul is used to refer
to the whole of man, viewing him body and spirit, as a
single entity. For example, in Acts 2:41, it says, “there
were added unto them about three thousand souls.” Or,
as in 1 Peter 3:20, where speaking of Noah, it says,
“eight souls were saved by water.” Then, quite often
soul and spirit are used interchangeably in reference to
the immortal part of man. So, we have Jesus, in Luke
23:46, crying out, “Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”
And, in Acts 2:27, Peter cites a passage from the
Psalms wherein Jesus prophetically spoke of his death
and praised the Father, “Because,” said Jesus, “thou
wilt not leave my soul in Hades.”
The Scriptures regularly refer to man as body and
soul, or body and spirit, and then, for special emphasis
as in the passage we noted earlier, body, soul, and
spirit. The bottom line is: Man is a combination of
both finite matter, and eternal spirit.
Paul alludes to our compound nature when be wrote
of the “outward man” and the “inward man” (2 Corinthians 4:16). Scripture also views the “inward man” as
living in, dwelling in, or, literally “camping out” in the
outward man, the physical body.
Daniel cried: “I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in
the midst of my body…” (Daniel 7:15). The real “I” of
man is this invisible spirit within the body. Zechariah
said, “.... the lord...formeth the spirit of man within
him” (Zechariah 12:1). Again, “…there is a spirit in
man: and the inspiration of the almighty gives them
understanding” (Jb 32:8). There are those who “dwell
in houses of clay” (Job 4:19; Cf. 14:22). Man, then, is a
spirit enshrined in a body, the spirit being the true self.
This then is why in James 2:26, it says, “as the body
without the spirit is dead.” So, death takes place when
the immortal part of man leaves his tabernacle of dirt or
clay. But, that then gives emphasis to what becomes of
the spirit of man. Can we prepare for that? How?
That is the rest of the story. Everybody is going to be
somewhere someday.
— aa
Elders:
Home Phone
Bob Gillen
728-1660
Don Gregory
728-9556
Bill Hollins
455-7590
Bob Kerce
728-8382
David Sullivan
607-1580
Charles Willmore
728-4968
Deacons:
Tim Brown
728-8879
Tim Green
954-0136
Scott Vaughn
450-0911
Steve Willmore
728-6308
Jeremy Woods
581-5998
Evangelist:
Alan Adams
728-2679
1-615-763-3140
Youth Minister:
Brad Costello
728-8838
841-1406
Secretaries:
Penny Barnes
952-5429
Jeannette Verner
728-7925
Web Page:
Karen Green
954-0136
Web Site
www.mainstreetcofc.org
October 17, 2012
42
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?
Jesus had a special affection for the sisters, Mary and Martha, and
their brother Lazarus (John 11.5); yet, when news came from Bethany
that Lazarus was near death (vv. 3,14,21), the Lord purposely delayed
going to him (v. 6) for the high purpose of demonstrating the “glory
of God” (vv. 4, 11, 15), which purpose He accomplished in raising
dead Lazarus.
Lazarus was “sick” (v.3), yet his “sickness [was] not unto
death” (v. 4); and, Jesus having waited long enough for Lazarus to
succumb to his illness, told his disciples: “Our friend Lazarus is
fallen asleep; but I go, that I may wake him out of sleep” (v. 11). The
disciples did not grasp the sleep/death metaphor. They thought “he
spake of taking rest in sleep” (v. 13); so, He told “them plainly, Lazarus is dead” (v.14).
When the Lord later said, “Let us go into Judaea again” (v. 7), the
disciples responded, “The Jews were but now seeking to stone thee;
and goest thou thither again?” (v. 8). He said he was going to wake up
Lazarus; and, they said, “Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will do
well”—that is, He will recover or wake up on his own. Thinking of
the danger of being stoned in Judea, and thinking that Lazarus was
just sleeping, they saw no need to borrow trouble. Lazarus, they
thought, was asleep; he can wake up without us. It reminds one of the
saying: Let sleeping dogs lie.
Some Christians are “weak and sickly, and not a few
sleep” (1Corinthians 11.30). They will not likely just wake up on their
own and “do well.” The others sometimes do not want to go and awaken
them because of fear of the consequences; not of being stoned for sure,
but that the “sleeping” ones might get upset and offended. Christians
“love one…another” (John 13:35); they are “full of goodness, filled with
all knowledge, able also to admonish one another” (Romans 15:14). We
do not believe in letting sleeping brethren lie.
You may be a person who in years gone by “obeyed from the
heart” (Romans 6:17) being “baptized into Christ” (Galatians 3:27).
God “added” you to the “church” when you were saved (Acts 2:38,
47). Perhaps you have since “left [your] first love” (Revelation 2:10),
and wandered away. Come back; we love you. “Confess your faults”
and let us pray with and for you (James 5:16).
—aa
Wednesday October 17, 2012
FOR THE RECORD
Morning Worship (Oct. 14) ......................... 205
Bible Study ................................................... 140
Evening Worship .......................................... 111
Midweek Bible Study (Oct. 10) ................... 144
Contribution (Oct. 14)................................... 5,665
HOSPITAL
Elizabeth Kerce, Baptist, ICU.
HOME
Kenneth Poff, Dan & Linda Mullins,
Betty Vigdorth, Charles Reed, Mildred Munsey,
Ken Pippenger, Betsy Powers.
Grover Crosslin.
NURSING HOME
Eva Sims, Horizon Health & Rehab.
Kathryn Hickerson, McArthur Manor, Rm. D47.
Georga Willis, Horizon Health & Rehab.
Juanelle St. John, McArthur Manor.
Ruth Baskin, Bailey Manor, Rm. 8.
Aaron Crosslin, Veterans Home in Murfreesboro.
YOUTH
Oct. 20: UT vs. Alabama game @ the Woods’.
Oct. 21: Prepare baskets for shut-ins.
Oct. 27: Trunks for Treats.
Nov. 3: Hayride @ the Vaughn’s.
MEN TO SERVE
THOSE TO SERVE, SUN. OCT. 21:
9:00AM
Announcements:
Tim Brown
Song Leader:
Wayne Rigney
First Prayer:
Gayle Rains
Closing Prayer:
Steve Willmore
6:00PM
Song Leader:
Wayne Rigney
First Prayer:
Roy Finchum
Closing Prayer:
Pierce Green
SERMON TITLES:
A.M.: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican — Luke 18:9-14
P.M.: Stopped by an Angel— Genesis 22:11
PICK-UP ATTENDANCE CARDS, SUN. OCT. 21:
Blake & Jonathon Williams
THOSE TO SERVE, WED. OCT. 24:
Devotional:
Alan Adams
Announcements:
Steve Willmore
First Prayer:
Troy Finchum
Closing Prayer:
Jayson Little
Song Leader:
Michael Broadrick
Please remember to notify David Sullivan @
607-1580 if you are not able to serve at your
appointed time.
PANTRY ITEMS
TRUNKS FOR TREATS
October 27, 2012
CARE TEAM MEETING
Pumpkin baskets will be prepared for the
sick & shut-ins. They are asking for your help
with the supplies to fill these baskets. They are:
Travel size lotion, Stationery/Cards,
Socks (men’s & women’s), Puzzle books,
Chap Stick, Pencils/Pens.
There is a box provided in the foyer in
which to place these supplies. They are needed
by Oct. 21st.
If you have a child that will be going on
the bus to deliver the baskets to the shut-ins, you
will need to fill out a permission slip for them to
ride the bus. When you fill out the slips, please
bring them and put them in the baskets provided.
Chili, Soup, Cereal, Powered Milk.
Coy & Jewell Noblitt’s Care Team #1 will
meet @ the church building @ 5:00pm. Friday, Oct.
19th to take the bus to Papa Rons on the mountain for
dinner.
READ NEW TESTAMENT THRU:
Michael Broadrick
GOSPEL MEETING
Oct. 21-26: Southside in Smyrna, 7:00pm.
Speaker: Craig Bean
“A woman should dress how she wants other
women to look before her husband.”
They are needed by Oct. 21st. All children
are invited.
Also, if you would decorate a trunk,
please let Carrie McInturff or Megan Hall
know.
MENS’ MEETING
The men are invited to a breakfast
meeting, Saturday, November 10th @ 8:00am
in the fellowship hall. Following breakfast,
there will be a meeting with the elders.
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE
Lessons Graded (10/10-10/16) .................... 503
Students served............................................ 201
OPEN HOUSE
The Smartt church of Christ invite you to
the Open House of their new Recording Studio in
cooperation with The Gospel Broadcasting Network, Saturday, Oct. 27th @ 10:00am. The
speaker will be Mark Teske, Director of Operations for the Gospel Broadcasting Network.
Dear Main Street family,
We so appreciate your thoughtfulness in the last few weeks. We are so
blessed to be a part of a congregation like
Main Street. We thank you for your
prayers, visits, cards, calls, food and especially your friendship through this time.
Ken & Sandra Pippenger
EVEN WHEN HE IS SILENT
A young girl whose name may
never be known died in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. But her faith
will never be forgotten. On the wall of the
cell she occupied until her death, an Allied
soldier found these words she had written:
I believe in the sun even when it is not
shining; I believe in love when feeling it
not; I believe in God even when He is
silent.”
—copied
DEATH
At funerals, well-meaning people sometimes say things
like, “Doesn’t he look natural”? or, “Oh, she looks so
good.” A beloved late member of the Cowan church,
once told me—with tongue in cheek—that he was going
to instruct the funeral director to have both lids of his coffin open when people came by for viewing. “That way,”
he said, “When someone comes by and says how good I
look, I’m going to kick the fire out of them.”
A corpse does not look natural at all. The former
animation that was present the twinkle in the eye, the
mind, memory — the spirit of that person — are gone.
Gone where? Gone for what purpose? Gone to what
end? Such questions are they for which we seek answers.
To understand death, which is the “end” of mortal
life, it is necessary that we go back to the “beginning”
to fully understand what man is, how he’s made or constituted. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7).
Psalm 8:5 says Jehovah created man “a little lower than
the angels (or, “lower than God,” ASV] and “crowned
him with glory and honor.” In other words, from these
passages, we learn that man is a compound being. He
has a body made of matter, but inhabiting that body is
the real self, that part which was put into his body by
Jehovah.
According to the Theory of Evolution, the only difference between humans and animals is merely one of
complexity. In other words, human beings are “better,”
or of greater value, than animals only in the sense that
they are at the top of the evolutionary totem pole. In
reality, however, there’s a great difference between
men and animals. That’s intuitively true because most
of us regularly use animals for food. Second, the Bible
is quite clear on the distinction. Man was created in the
image of God, but animals were not. Both humans and
animals have in them “the breath of life” (Genesis
7:15), but only man is made in the image of God. Of
all the material creation, it is only said of “Adam” that
he “was the son of God” (Luke 3:38), which is we are
“of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:31).
The apostle Paul, in describing the extent to which
Christians are to be consecrated to Christ, said, “I pray
God your whole spirit and soul
— Page 4
Wednesday October 17, 2012
FOR THE RECORD
Morning Worship (Oct. 14) ......................... 205
Bible Study ................................................... 140
Evening Worship .......................................... 111
Midweek Bible Study (Oct. 10) ................... 144
Contribution (Oct. 14)................................... 5,665
HOSPITAL
Elizabeth Kerce, Baptist, ICU.
HOME
Kenneth Poff, Dan & Linda Mullins,
Betty Vigdorth, Charles Reed, Mildred Munsey,
Ken Pippenger, Betsy Powers.
Grover Crosslin.
NURSING HOME
Eva Sims, Horizon Health & Rehab.
Kathryn Hickerson, McArthur Manor, Rm. D47.
Georga Willis, Horizon Health & Rehab.
Juanelle St. John, McArthur Manor.
Ruth Baskin, Bailey Manor, Rm. 8.
Aaron Crosslin, Veterans Home in Murfreesboro.
YOUTH
Oct. 20: UT vs. Alabama game @ the Woods’.
Oct. 21: Prepare baskets for shut-ins.
Oct. 27: Trunks for Treats.
Nov. 3: Hayride @ the Vaughn’s.
MEN TO SERVE
THOSE TO SERVE, SUN. OCT. 21:
9:00AM
Announcements:
Tim Brown
Song Leader:
Wayne Rigney
First Prayer:
Gayle Rains
Closing Prayer:
Steve Willmore
6:00PM
Song Leader:
Wayne Rigney
First Prayer:
Roy Finchum
Closing Prayer:
Pierce Green
SERMON TITLES:
A.M.: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican — Luke 18:9-14
P.M.: Stopped by an Angel— Genesis 22:11
PICK-UP ATTENDANCE CARDS, SUN. OCT. 21:
Blake & Jonathon Williams
THOSE TO SERVE, WED. OCT. 24:
Devotional:
Alan Adams
Announcements:
Steve Willmore
First Prayer:
Troy Finchum
Closing Prayer:
Jayson Little
Song Leader:
Michael Broadrick
Please remember to notify David Sullivan @
607-1580 if you are not able to serve at your
appointed time.
PANTRY ITEMS
TRUNKS FOR TREATS
October 27, 2012
CARE TEAM MEETING
Pumpkin baskets will be prepared for the
sick & shut-ins. They are asking for your help
with the supplies to fill these baskets. They are:
Travel size lotion, Stationery/Cards,
Socks (men’s & women’s), Puzzle books,
Chap Stick, Pencils/Pens.
There is a box provided in the foyer in
which to place these supplies. They are needed
by Oct. 21st.
If you have a child that will be going on
the bus to deliver the baskets to the shut-ins, you
will need to fill out a permission slip for them to
ride the bus. When you fill out the slips, please
bring them and put them in the baskets provided.
Chili, Soup, Cereal, Powered Milk.
Coy & Jewell Noblitt’s Care Team #1 will
meet @ the church building @ 5:00pm. Friday, Oct.
19th to take the bus to Papa Rons on the mountain for
dinner.
READ NEW TESTAMENT THRU:
Michael Broadrick
GOSPEL MEETING
Oct. 21-26: Southside in Smyrna, 7:00pm.
Speaker: Craig Bean
“A woman should dress how she wants other
women to look before her husband.”
They are needed by Oct. 21st. All children
are invited.
Also, if you would decorate a trunk,
please let Carrie McInturff or Megan Hall
know.
MENS’ MEETING
The men are invited to a breakfast
meeting, Saturday, November 10th @ 8:00am
in the fellowship hall. Following breakfast,
there will be a meeting with the elders.
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE
Lessons Graded (10/10-10/16) .................... 503
Students served............................................ 201
OPEN HOUSE
The Smartt church of Christ invite you to
the Open House of their new Recording Studio in
cooperation with The Gospel Broadcasting Network, Saturday, Oct. 27th @ 10:00am. The
speaker will be Mark Teske, Director of Operations for the Gospel Broadcasting Network.
Dear Main Street family,
We so appreciate your thoughtfulness in the last few weeks. We are so
blessed to be a part of a congregation like
Main Street. We thank you for your
prayers, visits, cards, calls, food and especially your friendship through this time.
Ken & Sandra Pippenger
EVEN WHEN HE IS SILENT
A young girl whose name may
never be known died in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. But her faith
will never be forgotten. On the wall of the
cell she occupied until her death, an Allied
soldier found these words she had written:
I believe in the sun even when it is not
shining; I believe in love when feeling it
not; I believe in God even when He is
silent.”
—copied
DEATH
At funerals, well-meaning people sometimes say things
like, “Doesn’t he look natural”? or, “Oh, she looks so
good.” A beloved late member of the Cowan church,
once told me—with tongue in cheek—that he was going
to instruct the funeral director to have both lids of his coffin open when people came by for viewing. “That way,”
he said, “When someone comes by and says how good I
look, I’m going to kick the fire out of them.”
A corpse does not look natural at all. The former
animation that was present the twinkle in the eye, the
mind, memory — the spirit of that person — are gone.
Gone where? Gone for what purpose? Gone to what
end? Such questions are they for which we seek answers.
To understand death, which is the “end” of mortal
life, it is necessary that we go back to the “beginning”
to fully understand what man is, how he’s made or constituted. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7).
Psalm 8:5 says Jehovah created man “a little lower than
the angels (or, “lower than God,” ASV] and “crowned
him with glory and honor.” In other words, from these
passages, we learn that man is a compound being. He
has a body made of matter, but inhabiting that body is
the real self, that part which was put into his body by
Jehovah.
According to the Theory of Evolution, the only difference between humans and animals is merely one of
complexity. In other words, human beings are “better,”
or of greater value, than animals only in the sense that
they are at the top of the evolutionary totem pole. In
reality, however, there’s a great difference between
men and animals. That’s intuitively true because most
of us regularly use animals for food. Second, the Bible
is quite clear on the distinction. Man was created in the
image of God, but animals were not. Both humans and
animals have in them “the breath of life” (Genesis
7:15), but only man is made in the image of God. Of
all the material creation, it is only said of “Adam” that
he “was the son of God” (Luke 3:38), which is we are
“of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:31).
The apostle Paul, in describing the extent to which
Christians are to be consecrated to Christ, said, “I pray
God your whole spirit and soul
— Page 4
Vol. XXXVII
Romans 16:16
Times of Worship:
SUN:
9:00am - Worship
10:15am - Bible Study
6:00pm - Worship
WED: 6:30pm - Bible Study
Email addresses:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Office Hours:
Mon.-Thurs. 8:00am-3:00pm
Office Phone:
931-728-3306
Fax: 931-728-1351
PERIODICALS,
Main Street Monitor
Second Class, Postage Paid
and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5.23). Body,
of course, is the fleshly or material part of man: that
part we tend to spend so much of our time and resources on. The word soul is used in a variety of ways
in the Bible. Sometimes it refers to physical life, as in
Psalm 22:20, where the writer says, “Deliver my soul
from the sword.” Then, sometimes soul is used to refer
to the whole of man, viewing him body and spirit, as a
single entity. For example, in Acts 2:41, it says, “there
were added unto them about three thousand souls.” Or,
as in 1 Peter 3:20, where speaking of Noah, it says,
“eight souls were saved by water.” Then, quite often
soul and spirit are used interchangeably in reference to
the immortal part of man. So, we have Jesus, in Luke
23:46, crying out, “Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”
And, in Acts 2:27, Peter cites a passage from the
Psalms wherein Jesus prophetically spoke of his death
and praised the Father, “Because,” said Jesus, “thou
wilt not leave my soul in Hades.”
The Scriptures regularly refer to man as body and
soul, or body and spirit, and then, for special emphasis
as in the passage we noted earlier, body, soul, and
spirit. The bottom line is: Man is a combination of
both finite matter, and eternal spirit.
Paul alludes to our compound nature when be wrote
of the “outward man” and the “inward man” (2 Corinthians 4:16). Scripture also views the “inward man” as
living in, dwelling in, or, literally “camping out” in the
outward man, the physical body.
Daniel cried: “I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in
the midst of my body…” (Daniel 7:15). The real “I” of
man is this invisible spirit within the body. Zechariah
said, “.... the lord...formeth the spirit of man within
him” (Zechariah 12:1). Again, “…there is a spirit in
man: and the inspiration of the almighty gives them
understanding” (Jb 32:8). There are those who “dwell
in houses of clay” (Job 4:19; Cf. 14:22). Man, then, is a
spirit enshrined in a body, the spirit being the true self.
This then is why in James 2:26, it says, “as the body
without the spirit is dead.” So, death takes place when
the immortal part of man leaves his tabernacle of dirt or
clay. But, that then gives emphasis to what becomes of
the spirit of man. Can we prepare for that? How?
That is the rest of the story. Everybody is going to be
somewhere someday.
— aa
Elders:
Home Phone
Bob Gillen
728-1660
Don Gregory
728-9556
Bill Hollins
455-7590
Bob Kerce
728-8382
David Sullivan
607-1580
Charles Willmore
728-4968
Deacons:
Tim Brown
728-8879
Tim Green
954-0136
Scott Vaughn
450-0911
Steve Willmore
728-6308
Jeremy Woods
581-5998
Evangelist:
Alan Adams
728-2679
1-615-763-3140
Youth Minister:
Brad Costello
728-8838
841-1406
Secretaries:
Penny Barnes
952-5429
Jeannette Verner
728-7925
Web Page:
Karen Green
954-0136
Web Site
www.mainstreetcofc.org
October 17, 2012
42
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?
Jesus had a special affection for the sisters, Mary and Martha, and
their brother Lazarus (John 11.5); yet, when news came from Bethany
that Lazarus was near death (vv. 3,14,21), the Lord purposely delayed
going to him (v. 6) for the high purpose of demonstrating the “glory
of God” (vv. 4, 11, 15), which purpose He accomplished in raising
dead Lazarus.
Lazarus was “sick” (v.3), yet his “sickness [was] not unto
death” (v. 4); and, Jesus having waited long enough for Lazarus to
succumb to his illness, told his disciples: “Our friend Lazarus is
fallen asleep; but I go, that I may wake him out of sleep” (v. 11). The
disciples did not grasp the sleep/death metaphor. They thought “he
spake of taking rest in sleep” (v. 13); so, He told “them plainly, Lazarus is dead” (v.14).
When the Lord later said, “Let us go into Judaea again” (v. 7), the
disciples responded, “The Jews were but now seeking to stone thee;
and goest thou thither again?” (v. 8). He said he was going to wake up
Lazarus; and, they said, “Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will do
well”—that is, He will recover or wake up on his own. Thinking of
the danger of being stoned in Judea, and thinking that Lazarus was
just sleeping, they saw no need to borrow trouble. Lazarus, they
thought, was asleep; he can wake up without us. It reminds one of the
saying: Let sleeping dogs lie.
Some Christians are “weak and sickly, and not a few
sleep” (1Corinthians 11.30). They will not likely just wake up on their
own and “do well.” The others sometimes do not want to go and awaken
them because of fear of the consequences; not of being stoned for sure,
but that the “sleeping” ones might get upset and offended. Christians
“love one…another” (John 13:35); they are “full of goodness, filled with
all knowledge, able also to admonish one another” (Romans 15:14). We
do not believe in letting sleeping brethren lie.
You may be a person who in years gone by “obeyed from the
heart” (Romans 6:17) being “baptized into Christ” (Galatians 3:27).
God “added” you to the “church” when you were saved (Acts 2:38,
47). Perhaps you have since “left [your] first love” (Revelation 2:10),
and wandered away. Come back; we love you. “Confess your faults”
and let us pray with and for you (James 5:16).
—aa