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Vol. 48, No.
8 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE April
22, 2005
The Bulletin Board
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The “Does God Exist?” Lectures
delivered by John Clayton will be Friday and Saturday, April 29 & 30,
at Greenfield High School, 4800 S. 60th Street at W. Layton
Avenue, just off Interstates 43 and 894. The lectures will be from 6:00 –
10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday. There will also be a conference for youth
on Saturday between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. at the Southside building.
Descriptive brochures are available at the church building for you to share
with your friends whom we urge you to invite to the presentations. John
Clayton also will be our speaker at the morning services on May 1st
at Southside and will teach the combined Sunday morning adult and youth
Bible classes that day.
Twenty-three attended the Men’s Retreat at Camp Matawa last Friday
and Saturday. The study sessions were directed by Kevin Parker, John
Dickson, Brad Stanger, Tom Nowlin, and Bruce Williams.
Congratulations to Kevin and Laura Mahan on the adoption of one year old
Samantha whom they just adopted after a two week trip to China.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
Two
years ago Last year Last week Goal
Bible
classes 132 128
120 170
Morning worship
311 234 *233 250
Evening worship
70 66 52 80
Contribution $4042.81
$4178.24 $5732.58 $4900.00
(*) first
service, 147; second service, 86
The Mother-Daughter Banquet will be
Friday, May 6th, at 6:30 p.m. at the church building. All the women and
girls are invited. Those who plan to attend should sign up on the bulletin
board immediately.
Grounds Clean-up this Saturday, April 23rd!
If you can help clean up around the church building, come after 9:30 a.m.
About twenty our youth and adults plan to attend
the W.C.Y.C. youth rally at Fallhall Glen this weekend. Soul Concern from
York College will perform.
Have you
noticed the weekly changes on the sign in front of our building? Dick
Bosetti is responsible for taking care of this. We appreciate all the
people who serve in obscurity like Dick in keeping work done for the
congregation.
Calendar of Events
April 23 –
Grounds clean-up, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
April 23,
24 – W.C.Y.C. youth rally with Soul Concern at Fallhall Glen
April 29,
30 –“Does God Exist?” seminar, Greenfield High School, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
April 30 –
Youth conference with John Clayton, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., Southside
April 30 –
Spring work day at Fallhall Glen
May 6 –
Mother/daughter banquet, 6:30 p.m.
May 8 –
Elders/ deacons meeting, 4:30 p.m.
May 8 –
Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.
Feelers and Doers
The two sisters were different. Mary was a
feeler. Martha was a doer. It was as a feeler that Mary sat at the feet of
Jesus as he taught while Martha, as a doer, spent her time in the kitchen
preparing the meal for the honored guest. You remember the story – Jesus
had been invited to dinner at the home of the two sisters and their brother
Lazarus. Martha, distracted by the preparations that had to be made,
complained to Jesus that Mary needed to be helping her. Jesus, in response,
commended Mary because she had sought the better part (Luke 10:38-42).
We are born with different personalities. Some are
more emotional (the feelers) while others are more practical (the doers).
These characteristics will always be with us, though we all, to some degree
have both qualities. Neither personality is inherently better than the
other. Ideally the feeler may need to grasp more fully the servanthood of
Martha who exemplified the teaching of Jesus that the greatest among us is
the servant of all. The doer, on the other hand, may need to ask himself
whether his “doing” has become a substitute for his devotion.
A highly dedicated Christian once confided to me
that she did not feel as spiritual as she thought she should feel. I must
confess as a fellow doer that I sometimes share that feeling when I become
preoccupied with details of the Lord’s work and lose my spiritual focus on
Jesus. However, we all need to learn that true spirituality is found in our
total relationship with our Lord, not simply in the emotional outpouring of
the heart that prompted Mary to pour oil on the feet of Jesus. True
spirituality is expressed in different ways. We need both Mary and Martha.
__Monroe Hawley
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“On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus
stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If a man is thirsty, let him come to me and
drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living
water will flow from within him.’” John 7:37,38
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