On the Lord’s Day:
9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from the Scriptures. To see Sunday school classes, ages and meeting locations, click on the red “Ministries” button under the category “Pages” (to the right).
10:30 am — The public reading and learning from God’s Word, the prayers of the saints, and the affirmation of our faith in song are all components of our corporate worship. Please prepare your heart and mind for these vital aspects of true worship, where our God and Savior is worshipped in spirit and in truth. Currently, we are studying the wonderful epistle of Jude, where we are encouraged to contend for the faith, once for all delivered to the saints.
New Elim Baptist Church directories are available on the back table in the sanctuary. Pick yours up today!
During the Week:
- Monday: Elim’s Softball team is schedule to finish a called game at 6:00 pm on Diamond # 6 and then play a full game at 6:40 pm on Diamond #7 at Sportscore. Check the softball schedule online at www. racsoftball.com.
- Tuesday: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays study continues next week with a chronological view of the Old Testament. This week, we’ll conclude our look at Job. This study will then take a summer hiatus until September 1. We meet at 10:30 am in the Fireside Room.
- Thursday: Our Thursday Night Toolkit Old Testament survey Bible study is on a summer hiatus until September 3rd.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- There will be an organizational meeting for returning and new Awana volunteers on Wednesday, August 12th at 6:30 pm. Please see the church office for more details.
- More volunteers are needed for our own in-house mission field—Children’s Church! These little ones need to hear about God’s love and salvation. Won’t you tell them by being part of our rotation of volunteers? See the church office for details.
- The next men’s fellowship meets Saturday, August 15th at 9:00 am. This study for men of all ages begins with a discussion of “Practical Religion” by J.C. Ryle. In asking for self-examination of our Christian practices, Ryles states: We live in an age of special spiritual danger. When we look around us, we may well ask, “How do we do about our souls?”
- Our next CEF Party Club meets on Wednesday, August 19th! Don’t miss out on the fun for kids of all ages at 6:30 pm. There’ll be food, games, fun and more!
- If you are interested in bowling on Elim’s church league this fall, please contact the church office.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
When a farmer comes to thrash out his wheat, and get it ready for the market there are two things that he desires—that there may be plenty of it, of the right sort, and that when he takes it to market, he may be able to carry a clean sample there. He does not look upon the quantity alone; for what is the chaff to the wheat? He would rather have a little clean than he would have a great heap containing a vast quantity of chaff, but less of the precious corn. On the other hand, he would not so winnow his wheat as to drive away any of the good grain, and so make the quantity less than it need to be. He wants to have as much as possible—to have as little loss as possible in the winnowing, and yet to have it as well winnowed as may be.
Now, that is what I desire for Christ’s Church, and what every Christian will desire. We wish Christ’s church to be as large as possible. God forbid that by any of our winnowing, we should ever cast away one of the precious sons of Zion. When we rebuke sharply, we would be anxious lest the rebuke should fall where it is not needed, and should bruise and hurt the feelings of any who God hath chosen. But on the other hand, we have no wish to see the church multiplied at the expense of its purity. We do not wish to have a charity so large that it takes in chaff as well as wheat: we wish to be just charitable enough to use the fan thoroughly to purge God’s floor, but yet charitable enough to pick up the most shrivelled ear of wheat, to preserve it for the Master’s sake, who is the owner of the crop. I trust…God may help me so to discern between the precious and the vile that I may say nothing uncharitable, which would cut off any of God’s people from being part of his true and living and visible church; and yet at the same time I pray that I may not speak so loosely, and so without God’s direction, as to embrace any in the arms of Christian affection whom the Lord hath not received in the eternal covenant of his love.
—from The Holy Spirit and the One Church, Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 13, 1857, by C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens
Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim