April 22, 2007
1. Kenny Park: Health
2. Cindy Carpenter: Health
3. A deeper walk with Christ
4. Our youth
Guitar Lessons: Thursday, 6:00pm, here at the church.
Mother/Daughter Banquet: Ladies mark your calendars for May 12, 1:00pm, at Kid’s America. Plan to bring a covered dish. Lena Crouso will be our guest speaker. Bring your mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, someone close to your heart, or join those of us who will be attending alone. This will be a fun time together. There is a sign-up sheet on the table or register in the entryway at the Central Elementary side. Please sign up so plans can be completed.
National Day of Prayer: Women of Witness is sponsoring a “Read the Bible in 15 Minutes Rally” on May 3 at 7pm at the courthouse square. I heard that you can still sign up so if you missed your chance before let Robin know so she can get your name in.
Bake Sale: Looking for baked goods for fundraiser to benefit Children’s Hospital at Rite Aid on April 28. See Sis. Brandy Mullins.
Help Needed: Robin is looking for someone to help her serve food at the church on Saturday. See her for details.
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house ." Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT…CHILD TRAINING continued
By J. Richard Fugate
Principles
of Authority
1.
God is the ultimate authority. As the Creator, He has
the right to rule His creation according to His will.
God also possesses the absolute power to administer
justice to all creatures.
2. God has established institutions such as
government, marriage, and family for the orderly
administration of His plan.
3.
Each institution ordained by God has been arranged
with definite positions of authority for the orderly
function of that institution. Each institution is
independent from every other institution and is
directly accountable to God. Government is not a
higher institution than marriage or family. The head
of a family answers directly to God, as does the
government leader. Both the king of a country and the
father of a family are equally and independently
responsible to God.
4.
The one who is in the position of authority of an
institution has the right of rulership over the
subjects of that institution. This right to rule may
be exercised only
over
those within an individual entity of that
institution. If you are a father, you are the person
in the position of authority over only your own
family. You have no authority over any other family
and no other father has any authority over your
family. Each entity of a particular institution is
independent of every other entity.
5.
Every person is subject to one or more of these
institutions at all times. For example, an individual
is subject to the government, and a wife is subject
to the husband in the family.
6.
God’s Word gives specific boundaries for the
power of each institution. Each position of rulership
has defined limits in the extent of its authority.
The boundaries include those who are subject to the
authority as well as the extent to which they must
submit. For example, government has the right to rule
only within individual national boundaries.
Government has no right to administer justice to
other nations (except in self-defense) or to exercise
authority over other independent institutions, like
family or marriage. For another example, a father has
the right to rule his own family, but even his
authority has certain limitations as established by
God. A father does not have the right to make his son
steal.
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY:
TODAY:
Gabriel Carpenter
Thursday: Michelle Strange