October 2019

A note from the Pastor

Wednesdays in October

6:30 p Bible Study & JAM &

Youth Bible Study

Sundays in October

9:30 a Sunday School

10:45 a Worship Service

5:00 - 7:00 p Youth Group (6th-12th)

Sunday, September 29

4:00 p Church Cookout

Tuesday, October 1

10:00 -11:00 a Mom2Mom Study

Wednesday, October 2

7:30 p Board Meetings

Saturday, October 5

Heath Harvest Festival

Thursday, October 10

8:00 a Men’s Breakfast

Saturday, October 12

8:00 a - noon Work Day

4:30 p youth meet for Inferno

Concert

Sunday, October 13

12:15 p Children’s Ministry

Training

Friday, October 18

4:30 - 8:30 p Crawford Co

Praisefest @ FBC

Saturday, October 26 Gingerbread Float in Oblong parade

3 Otie Tuttle

4 Megan Jones

7 Monte Newlin

11 Joe Riggs

14 Aaron Jones

18 Marilyn Ferguson

22 Bonne Wright

31 Tyler Rehmel Missionary

4 Brian & Jaidy Brown

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” - Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

At a previous church where I served, the previous minister had built a strong ministry. His leadership style and personality were a large reason why the ministry had grown to the size it had. The previous minister had cast a vision and they were now looking at me to lay out a vision for continued growth. “Without vision, the people perish,” they said. It was the mantra of a few of them. God wants a clear vision from His leaders in order to see people come to Christ.

It sounds great. The mantra even worked to build up a strong ministry. And it was directly from the Bible! But there was a major flaw that I had a hard time getting the church to see. Proverbs 29:18 doesn’t say that a leader should cast a vision to accomplish God’s purposes. It actually says that without God’s purpose (vision), the people (including the leader) perish. It puts the emphasis

on God’s revelation, not man’s plans.

There are so many individual verses that are misused, taken out of context, or just manipulated to communi-cate our own personal agen-das. But God’s Word is perfect by itself, without us trying to fit meaning into it. As Paul charges Timothy, we must be careful to “rightly handle the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).

Through the months of October and November, the sermons will address several verses that are commonly misused or misquoted. Some of these misinterpretations teach correct doctrine, but miss the deeper message that God is communicating. Other times, we completely change the meaning of what God is communicating and fall prey to false teaching. I hope that the coming months will help us to a) correct some errors in how we read the Bible and b) draw us to a more careful study of God’s precious and perfect Word.

Sunday, Oct 6 Nursery: E Hester, C Ault Primary Church: Family Worship Sound System: J Chapman

Sunday, Oct 13 Nursery: K Inboden, JD Caballero Primary Church: D Pethtel, KA Chapman Sound System: T Knight

Sunday, Oct 20 Nursery: L Gallion, C Reid Primary Church: C Rehmel, M Jones Sound System: KE Chapman

Sunday, Oct 27 Nursery: J Wesley, A Wesley Primary Church: M Brown, Ethan Newlin Sound System: T Conner

Serving in Worship