4 MORE DAYS

Begin inviting families & friends to be your guest at 10:30!

Dr. Lile & his wife will teach a purity class in Sunday School for 6th grade (with parents consent) through young adults at 9:30 AM in the Fellowship Hall.

Journey Baptist Church will host Dr. Lile at 2:30 PM for a special service for their church at Belmont. 

Please be praying & inviting folks for this special day.

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

In most translations of the Bible, the phrase “called according to purpose” is rendered “called according to His purpose,” with “His” in italics.

The translators supply the word “His” because purpose here obviously refers to God’s purpose.

But His is not in the original language.

Neither is there a definite article before the word purpose.

It is not “according to the purpose.”

It is simply “according to purpose.”

Then we might ask, what purpose?

In God’s thought there is only one purpose–Christ.

This means that if you and I are not calibrated to Christ in our lives, in our experience–with every detail from morning to night–then we are not living according to purpose.

We are in vanity.

In this universe everything apart from Christ is vanity.

Only Christ gives purpose to all things.

Christ alone is the reality and meaning of life.

This is why, when we turn to Him in the middle of all things in our life and begin to identify with Him, we have such a sense of significance in our being.

But if we are indifferent to Christ, if we try to figure things out on our own, then notice what it does to our insides.

There is a sense of emptiness, the sense that we have nothing of Christ to share with others.

But if we allow all kinds of environments to press us into the Lord, then we are filled with so much meaning, there is so much significance, and there is so much to share.

This spiritual phenomenon happens because the one sure purpose of our human life is to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.

By letting all things shape us into the form of God’s Son, we have a deep sense that we are living according to purpose.

Until Tomorrow, 

With A Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Amy Garner’s Dad

Brandon’s Dad

Dan Haines

Darlene Wiggins

Dr. Don Davis – Home

Freddie May’s Mom

George Alexander

Joe Johnson’s Parents

Linda Hodges’ Sister

Michael Stanley

John McClain

Linda Lanier

Mary Williams 

Melisa Smith’s G’Father

Tom Witcher

Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend

Bentley Smith

James Garner’s Friend 

Kim McClain’s Mother

Lonzo Christian             

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Bill Moody 

Charlie Sessom – Waiting  

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother

Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace

Kenny & Nora Allison  

Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford

Pastor & Mrs. Driskell 

Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 

Ricky Stubbs  

Rod Gustafson – Cancer

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sheila Simmon’s Cousin

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad