February Attendance

Worship SS

Feb 3 130 64

Feb 10 100 47

Feb 17 122 64

Nursery Workers

Mar 3 Bethany Clark

Mar 10 Kay & Aimee Carlisle

Mar 17 Julie Freeman

Mar 24 Janet York

Mar 31 Marilyn Brock

Head Usher Ralph Tanksley

Greeter Bob and Sheryl Walton

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3

Missions Soup

Lunch

4 5

1:00 Ladies Bible

Study

3:45 Deaconess

6:30 Deacon

6

5:30 Children

& Youth

6:00 Bible Study

7

6:00 Trustee

8 9

10

6:00 Bible Study

11 12

1:00 Ladies Bible

Study

13

5:30 Children

& Youth

6:00 Business

Meeting

14 15 16

8:00 Men’s

Breakfast

17

6:00 Bible Study

18 19

1:00 Ladies Bible

Study

20

1:00 Woman’s M.

5:30 Children

& Youth

6:00 Bible Study

21 22 23

24

CLC 1-3

25 26

1:00 Ladies Bible

Study

27

No Services

28 29 30

31

11:35 CE

6:00 Bible Study

www.fbcmitchell.org

fbcmitchell@gmail.com

722 West Frank St

Mitchell, IN 47446

812-849-4764

Yes. Things have changed. No. Things have not changed.

We live in an ever changing world that doesn’t seem to be settling down anytime soon. Laws

keep changing. People keep changing. Definitions keep changing. It can be overwhelming

and a bit disheartening. At the same time, we are reminded in the Bible that really nothing

has changed: life begins at conception, marriage is only between a man and a woman, and

no one is a victim before God Almighty. The call upon us is the same as well. We are to be in

the world but not of it. We are to be salt and light. And we are to be those strange people

who repent and believe. - Pastor Reggie

Newsletter of First Baptist Church, Mitchell, IN March 2019

Announcements

Women’s Ministry

The next Women’s Ministry meeting will be

on Wednesday, March 20 at 1:00pm prior to

the blanket making at 1:30pm.

Men’s Breakfast

The next Men’s Breakfast will be on

Saturday, March 16 at 8:00am. Come for

a time of food, fellowship, and biblical

encouragement.

You will find a selection below from the Letter to Diognetus. The Letter to Diognetus was writ-ten sometime around the second or third century. At that time, Christianity was far from being an acceptable religion in the Roman Empire. In this letter we see how the Christians of that day tried to be in the world but not of the world. As we consider how we should do that in our day, I think that you will be encouraged by these words. You will be reminded that humanity is corrupted by sin today much like it was back then. You will also be reminded that the call to repentance and the call to take up our cross and follow hasn’t changed either.

___________ For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or cus-tom. For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do they speak some unusual dialect, nor do they practice an eccentric way of life. This teaching of theirs has not been discovered by the thought and reflection of ingenious people, nor do they promote any human doctrine, as some do. But while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one’s lot was cast, and follow the local customs in dress and food and other aspects of life, at the same time they demonstrate the remarkable and admittedly unusual character of their own citizen-ship. They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign. They marry like everyone else, and have children, but they do not expose their offspring. They share their food but not their wives. They are in the flesh, but they do not live according to the flesh. They live on earth, but their citizenship is in heaven. They obey the established laws; indeed in their private lives they transcend the laws. They love everyone, and by everyone they are persecuted. They are unknown, yet they are condemned; they are put to death, yet they are brought to life. They are poor, yet they make many rich; they are in need of everything, yet they abound in everything. They are dishonored, yet they are glorified in their dishonor; they are slandered, yet they are vindicated. They are cursed, yet they bless; they are insulted, yet they offer respect. When they do good, they are punished as evildoers; when they are punished, they rejoice as though brought to life. By the Jews they are assaulted as foreigners, and by the Greeks they are persecuted, yet those who hate them are unable to give a reason for their hostility.

David Norris from Heaven Nevaeh

Healing Center will be our guest

speaker on Sunday, March 24.

Each Sunday after the singing is done and the offering plate is passed, we open our Bibles, read the passage for the day, and consider what God has to say. This is an indispensable part of Christian worship. The sermon is not an addendum to worship but is a key part. Bryan Chapell says many things well about the role of the sermon in the worship service in his book entitled Christ-Centered Preaching. The section below is entitled “The Power of God Inherent in the Word.”

___________ Precisely how the Holy Spirit uses scriptural truth to convert souls and change lives we cannot say, but we must sense the dynamics that give us hope when we preach God’s Word. The Bible makes it clear that the Word is not merely powerful; it is without peer or dependence. The Word of God: Creates: “God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). “For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm” (Ps. 33:9). Controls: “He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. He hurls down his hail like pebbles….He sends his word and melts them” (Ps. 147:15-18). Convicts: “Let the one who has my word speak it faithfully…” declares the Lord. “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a ham-mer that breaks a rock in pieces?” (Jer. 23:28-29). Performs his purposes: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth...so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Isa. 55:10-11). Overrides human weaknesses: While in prison the apostle Paul re-joiced that when others preach the Word with “false motives or true,” the work of God still moves forward (Phil. 1:18). Scripture’s portrayal of its own potency challenges us always to re-member that the Word preached, rather than the preaching of the Word, accomplishes heaven’s purposes. Preaching that is true to Scripture converts, convicts, and eternally changes the souls of men and women because God’s Word is the instrument of divine compul-sion, not because preachers have any power in themselves to stimu-late such godly transformations (although human powers can certainly bring about all kinds of worldly changes, including those that masquer-ade as the products of heaven).

1 Mhel Beaty

2 Dwayne Baughman

3 Dwight Compton

Joyce Mundy

4 Dean Stewart

5 Rhaegan Egli

8 Charles Lamb

10 Don Sanders

12 Loraine Chastain

Nora Clark

16 Brynna Nicol

17 Ralph Tanksley

19 Barbara Blackwell

24 Todd Tanksley

26 Danielle Smuck

Kaitlyn Thompson

27 Sandy Michael

29 Marjorie Bowden