Hi Everyone,
April … ah … has a nice ring to it. Here is this weeks bulletin.
Pastor Dave
Excerpt 1, 2 Corinthians (Preacher’s Commentary) …
I can just picture the chairman of one of our “peace at any price” committees trying to counsel the apostle Paul along these lines: “Paul, this is risky for you. You already have some people in that church who are critical of you, and this will just add fuel to the fire. You’ve been gone three years and don’t realize how much the church has changed. Sure, there are some problems, but this isn’t the way to deal with them. Your spelling out the issues will surface all sorts of destructive feelings and will end up adding to the problem rather than solving it. Besides, what the church really needs to unite it is a big project, like a major building campaign.” Sound familiar?
Chafin, K. L., & Ogilvie, L. J. (1985). 1, 2 Corinthians (Vol. 30, pp. 30–31). Thomas Nelson Inc.
Excerpt 1, 2 Corinthians (Preacher’s Commentary) …
From my many years in the ministry I have observed that the church of our day admires the spiritual courage of leaders such as Paul but it falls far short of copying their style of dealing with serious problems. We have such an anemic picture of Christian love that we avoid writing or saying anything that might upset someone or hurt his or her feelings. So concerned are we to avoid any issue which creates tension that we bury our heads in the sand and don’t even bother to learn what the issues are. And our pathological fear of taking a firm and loving stand for Christ and His church has given us such finely tuned instincts for arbitration that we are deluded into thinking that we can reconcile any people or any ideas.
Chafin, K. L., & Ogilvie, L. J. (1985). 1, 2 Corinthians (Vol. 30, p. 30). Thomas Nelson Inc.
Hi Everyone,
Here is this week’s bulletin.
Pastor Dave
Hi Everyone,
Come out for our workday tomorrow and help us clean up the church yard. This shouldn’t really take that long. Thanks for helping in this way.
Pastor Dave
