Wednesday night classes are prayerfully chosen with you on my heart. I hope you will join us this week for a blessing at 6:30!
Men’s prayer breakfast at 8:00 Saturday!
Bring your heart and your appetite.
July 4th Barbeque, Fireworks, & Homemade Ice Cream.
This event is an opportunity for you to reach out and invite family and friends to enjoy some Belmont hospitality.
Blowups for the kids. Sweet fellowship with friends.
Delicious meal with all the trimmings.
FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS!
Fun! Fun! Fun!
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Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 5:16, “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”
The deep significance that Paul opens up here is a new kind of knowing of Christ in contrast to his old knowing of Christ.
What is this new kind of knowing of Christ?
The obvious answer is in 2 Corinthians 5:17, where Christ is presented in an enlarged way by Paul.
He no longer considers Christ merely alone, by Himself.
He says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”
Here Christ is not just an individual man, but a corporate man.
Other persons are “in Him.”
So the new knowing of Christ is knowing Him as the church (Eph. 5:29-30).
It is the knowing of Him according to 1 Corinthians 12:12, where both the one Body and the many members form one whole Christ!
It is also the same knowing of Him found in Paul’s prayer for the believers in Ephesians 1:17-23.
There, the full knowledge of God is to know Christ as the Head of His Body, the church, which is described as being“the fullness of the One who fills all in all.”
It is the church as Christ which is the new kind of knowing of Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:16.
The church described as “the new man” in Colossians 3:10-11 is also the new kind of knowing of Christ.
The church as the new man of the new creation is the realm where Christ is all and in all.
It is also the realm where old things have passed away and all things have become new!
In this realm we know each other as members of Christ.
We no longer regard or know each other according to the differences and distinctions of the old creation (Gal. 3:27-28).
In the new creation we always prefer Christ in one another.
Until Tomorrow,
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Bill Lawhead – Bad Fall
Brandon Black
Brandon’s Dad & Grandmother – Home
Debra Roberts – Home in need of prayer
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
Joyce Ward
Don Slate – Angela Bryan’s Dad – Hospice
Marynell Ford – Waiting On Test Results
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom –Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Donna Gourley
Doug Fritzel
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
James Garner’s G’Son
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Mary Williams Son – Mike – Accident
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s G’Daughter
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Lisa’s Cousin
Sharon Blalock
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher
Wanda Galanti