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.
Sunday School! Sunday School! Sunday School!
Starts back Sunday at 9:15!
Classes for everyone!
Hour of power at 8:15!
Sunday school 9:15!
Service at 10:30!
July 4th Barbecue, Blowups, & Homemade IceCream.
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 Barbecue meal with all the trimmings.
FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS!
Fun! Fun! Fun!
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Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
To say “old things have passed away” and “all things have become new” means that old relationships have passed away and all things in our relationships with each other have become new.
We have all been newly created together in Christ as one new man, and have all been reconciled in one Body to God by the cross (Eph. 2:15-16).
Christ as our relationship with each other is what the church is.
In other words, the church is just Christ between us.
If Christ is not our mutual fellowship, then the reality of the church is lost.
So to know the church is to know Christ as our relationship with each other.
It is not a matter of knowing each other in a natural way, according to race or background.
Neither is it formally joining a church to become a member. No.
We are joined to the Lord in one Body, and His relationship with all His members becomes our relationship with every member.
So we freely receive one another the way Christ received us (Rom. 15:7).
This is what the church is.
The depths and intimacy of Christ as our relationship with one another can be seen in Paul’s relationship with the Philippians.
In Philippians 1:8 we read, “For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.”
Here Paul so identifies his feelings with the Lord’s that he is not merely saying, “I am burdened for you” or “I am thinking of you.”
The Lord Himself with His inward parts became Paul’s relationship with the Philippians.
Paul was a man who embodied the Lord’s own feelings and intimate care for the saints.
This demonstrates the extent to which Christ becomes our relationship with one another.
My relationship with you and your relationship with me is Christ.
How precious this is.
The more there is an increase of Christ in us, the more there will be an increase of Christ in our relationships.
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 – Much Prayer Needed
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