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We have started meeting in our building This bulletin is distributed in a variety of different ways. It is distributed during our worship services at the church building; it is made available on the web at our dowagiaccoc.org website; and it is sent by e-mail/messaging in connection with our Zoom broadcast invitations. However you receive it, we hope it will be informative and encouraging. We are not a denomination, but a local effort to encourage people to follow what the church was like in the first century. We have no man-made creed and only follow the Bible. We do not have religious titles and do not solicit donations. Come and learn more by visiting with us, e-mailing us, or calling us. FAMILY NEWSMEMORIAL DAY 2021: Not only is Memorial Day a time to remember those who have made it possible for us to live in America, but it is also a time to remember those family members and brothers and sisters in Christ that have made a difference to us. We have been blessed with strong men and women who led us individually and as a congregation. We thank God for those who spent hours and money to build this building and for those who have taught classes and led us in worship. JEWISH FEASTS: As we read the Old Testament we see a large number of special celebrations that were kept by the Jews. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was to commemorate the deliverance from Egypt. The Feast of Weeks was to celebrate the harvest of grain. The Feast of Tabernacles was to spend a week enjoying the fruit tree harvest for a week. The Feast of Purim remembered Esther's great deliverance of Israel. The Day of Atonement was to make retribution for sin, and then of course the Sabbath was a day of joy at God's provision for Israel. Why were all of these special occasions celebrated? Because humans need to be reminded of how blessed they are and what God has done for them in the past. TODAY'S LESSON
INTRODUCTION
A. Began on May 5, 1868 — Called Decoration Day
I. WHY IS MEMORIAL DAY NECESSARY?
1. 3 years after Civil War ended
B. 1971 — Declared a national holiday by Congress2. Held at Arlington — 5,000 in attendance. C. December 2000 — National Moment of Remembrance 1. 3:00 P.M on Memorial Day — moment of silence 2. To put memorial back in Memorial Day A. We do not understand the sacrifices of the past.
II. WE HAVE A MEMORIAL DAY EVERY WEEK.
B. We take God's creation for granted. 1. We cannot just be users — Genesis 2:15.
C. We get absorbed in the here and now.
2. Wisdom is required — Proverbs 8:22-30. 1. Genesis 6:1-8
D. We forget who made things possible for us.
2. Romans 1:19-25 — Worship of creation 1. How much history do you know/remember?
E. What happens when we forget the past?
a. Tulsa Massacre (May 31; June 1, 1921), i.e.
2. Do we know what God has done for us?3. Acts 17:22-30 — Athens vs. America today 1. We make the same mistakes again.
A. Luke 22:19-20 — Jesus establishes the Lord's Supper.
III. COMMUNION IS NECESSARY.
1. A time to remember the past and profit by it.
B. 1 Corinthians 11:17-30 — Desecrating the communion
2. Luke 22:19 — “Given for you.” God gave his Son. 3. Luke 22:19 — “Do in remembrance of me.” 4. Luke 22:20 — “the New Testament in my blood” 5. Luke 22:20 — “shed for you” 1. We make the same mistakes again. 2. 1 Corinthians 11:28 — “Let a man examine himself.” 3. We get spiritually sick and our souls sleep spiritually. A. We need memorials as Americans and as Christians.
1. Not just at worship in the building on M 51
(Richard Hoyt refers to this song: “I Gave My Life for Thee.”)
THE BACK PAGEMEMORIAL DAY 2021If you ask the average man on the street what Memorial Day is about, they are likely to tell you everything but what it is actually about. Memorial Day is not the beginning of summer. Memorial Day is not a shopping day with unlimited sales. The history of Memorial Day is rooted in sacrifice and pain. One of the most painful songs that has come around in recent years was written by Jimmy Fortune and is titled “The Wall.” It tells of a mother coming to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall and tracing out the name of her son as one who died in defense of America. I have a tough time not being moved to tears as I see in my mind women whom I know who lost sons or brothers or husbands to war. I remember being with John Quick, an elder in the Niles congregation, on the 4th of July. When the fireworks started a few hundred yards from his house he got emotional. He later showed me pictures of his ship that was in the middle of World War II when many of his friends were killed in attacks on his ship. He survived to witness the surrender at the end of the war and he saw the nuclear test that his ship was sacrificed in. So here we are in May 2021 and all of that is pretty much forgotten. Our country is in trouble at least in part, because we have forgotten the past. We have people who deny that the Holocaust ever happened; our political machinery is so polarized that the moral principles that several wars were fought over are forgotten; and we have even had a physical assault on the Capitol of our country. The only cause for optimism that exists today is that many young people have seen where the secularization of society has taken us, and while the generation before them is in denial, many of them are turning back to God and to the teachings of Christ. We have the answers to America's problems, and it is in the hearts of our youth. — John Clayton Our sign by the street! Sign saying from www.sayingsforchurchsigns.com. Scripture links/references are from BibleGateway.com. Unhighlighted scriptures can be looked up at their website. www.dowagiaccoc.org |
