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May 15, 2016

WELCOME!
WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE

We are a group of believers who simply try to follow the Bible as a guide for all we do. Everything done in our worship service is something for which we have a Bible basis. You are welcome to participate as much or as little as you wish. We will sing hymns together and we will observe the Lord's Supper or Communion together. We will also have an opportunity to give to the work of God in this area. This collection is for the members here, and if you are visiting you should not feel and pressure to give. Our lesson time will be divided into two groups. The young children will go to our classroom area in the basement where they will be taught the Bible at a level they can understand. The adults will stay in the auditorium for a lesson at an adult level. We do try to serve the community, and if you have some needs that we can help you with, mention it to one of the members. Thank you for worshipping with us.

FAMILY NEWS

PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR:

  • This Tuesday at 7:00 — Monthly Bible study group at Claytons'. Bring your Bible and enjoy fellowship with Christians from all over Michiana.
  • June 5 — Potluck Sunday
  • June 7 — Seniors' brunch 11:00 at Golden Corral in Mishawaka
  • June 21 — Claytons' monthly Bible study at 7:00 p.m.
  • July 3 — Potluck Sunday
  • July 4 — Independence Day
  • July 10 — Area-wide congregational picnic and Madeline Bertrand Park in Niles
  • July 31 – August 6 — Cass County Fair

TODAY'S LESSON

FIVE KEYS TO PERSONALLY
KNOWING JESUS

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2 Timothy 1:12

John Clayton
INTRODUCTION
A. What is your safety net when things go wrong?
1. Family struggles, death, bad treatment
2. Church struggles, doubt, depression
B. A safety net with Christ means knowing Christ.
1. Not just in name but in Spirit — reflected in prayer.
a. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” — really?
2. Must be built — consciously, deliberately
C. Five Keys to getting to know Christ personally.
Song: “Beneath the Cross of Jesus”
KEY Number 1: A WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER FOR CHRIST
A. 1 Peter 2:19 – 21
B. Have you suffered for doing what was right?
C. How did you respond?
D. A Christian response shows our willingness.
Song: “Fairest Lord Jesus”
KEY Number 2: A PERSONAL PRIDE IN JESUS CHRIST
A. 2 Timothy 1:12
1. Do we credit Christ with the reason we did it?
2. Use of the cards
B. Mark 8:34 – 38
C. Are you ashamed to be a Christian?
1. Peter? Fearful, so are we.
2. Cassie Bemall and Rachel Scott — examples
KEY Number 3: A PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
A. Song: “I Know Not Why God's Wondrous Grace”
B. John 5:39 – 40 — Do not miss heaven by 18 inches — the distance from your head to your heart.
KEY Number 4: A PERSONAL PERSUASION ABOUT CHRIST
A. Song: “I Know Not Why God's Wondrous Grace” — words
B. Romans 4:18 – 21
C. Agrippa versus Abraham
KEY Number 5: A PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
A. Song: “I Know Not Why God's Wondrous Grace” — words
B. 1 Peter 4:19
C. What is our commitment — personally and as a group?
Song: “Hark the Gentle Voice”


THE BACK PAGE

YOUR SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY

by Stephen Eckstein

We pay special emphasis to physical birthdays. Not only do we send cards and have birthday parties, but we give gifts and take pictures, especially when we have young children. Remembering our physical birth and measuring our growth is appropriate and profitable. The question is whether there is a more important birthday we need to remember.

Do you remember when you were baptized into Christ? You stood before God as a new creation, completely clean and clothed in Christ. Second Corinthians 4:16 tells us that the physical man (the outer man) is wasting away day by day, but 2 Corinthians 3:18 tells us that “we are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” This birthday is far more important than the birth of our physical body, which is aging and will die. Our spiritual body's birth is the start of our spiritual body which is eternal.

First Corinthians 15:42 – 44 tells us clearly that our physical body is perishable but our spiritual body is imperishable. It is stated that our physical body is “sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” It goes on to say that the physical body is changed so that “the perishable is clothed with the imperishable.”

Birthdays are a time for reflection and thought. Think back to when you were baptized into Christ, and be thankful for your standing before God. Also ask yourself, how much more am I like Jesus than I was last year? All who have been born into Jesus live in him, and though we experience physical death, we are then glorified like him for eternity — something worth celebrating (1 John 3:3).


Our sign by the street!

Our sign on the street says, WHAT IS YOUR SAFETY NET WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, 2 TIMOTHY 1:12!