FEBRUARY IS MISSION’S MONTH
Our Joash (Sacrificial) Offering may be given at any time during the month. This annual offering is used for unexpected needs that arise for our missionaries on their field of service throughout the year.
Our Faith Promise Mission’s Offering enables us to support
3 Children’s Homes
2 Crisis Pregnancy Centers
1 Men’s Homeless Shelter
3 Bible Printing/Distribution Ministries.
7 Missionary Families From Our Church
Bibles For Free The Burnettes
Daniel And Emily Ford In Moldova
David & Gerry Smith In Brazil
Eli & Katie Guiltner In Japan
Eric & Lilianna Magnuson in Panama
Jeffery & Lydia Wacharia in Kenya
Marli Page Medical Mission’s Outreach
22 Foreign Missionaries Around The World
14 Local Missionaries in U.S.
Your monthly gift enables us to support these Missionaries in amounts from $100 to $2000 each month. The total amount needed each week is $2000. With each member giving an amount that God’s directs them, we give approximately $100,000 annually. Pray that others will join us in Faith Promise Giving above their Tithe to spread the Gospel around the world.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Galatians 4:19, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”
There are two ways that this verse has been understood.
One way is that Christ is formed in us progressively; the other is that Christ is formed in us instantly.
Christ being formed in us in a progressive way has been illustrated with a hand and a glove.
A glove is shaped according to a hand.
Now, I start slipping my hand into the glove in a progressive way.
First, I put my index finger into the glove, then my thumb, and then all my other fingers, one by one.
Eventually my whole hand is formed into the glove.
This illustration has been applied to our experiencing the Lord gradually over a long period of time until Christ is formed in us.
Experiencing the Lord progressively in our daily living is a reality that we enjoy.
Such an experience is scriptural, yet it should not be applied to this portion of the Word.
The question then is, What did Paul mean when he spoke of laboring again for the believers until Christ was formed in them?
The second way to understand Christ being formed in us is that it happens in an instant.
Christ comes into us and immediately is formed in our heart as our point of reference, our relationship with everything.
This is a constant inward state that every child of God can live in from the day of his new birth until he reaches full maturity.
So Christ formed in us does not refer to our arriving at a final stage of maturity in the growth of life.
If this was the case–if Christ being formed in us referred to one, long growth process–then Paul would not be laboring for it to happen once again.
And surely Paul is not expecting the believers to be born again a second time.
There is no such teaching in the New Testament.
They were already born again.
But something had happened in their experience to keep Christ from being formed in their hearts as their point of reference for them to grow in the Lord in a proper way. (Gal. 1:6)
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Charles Ward – Heart Surgery 2/15
James Garner’s Friend
Jim Mabe – Heart Surgery 2/14
John McClain
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Randy Bond’s Son In Law
Russell Paschal – Heart Surgery 2/15
Terrell Loyd
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Kenny & Nora Allison
Pastor 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
Tom Witcher