Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 50, No. 13                  SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                  June 1, 2007

The Bulletin Board

Plan to attend our Church Picnic this Sunday after the second worship at area #2, Root River Parkway.

Guest Speaker - Our speaker Sunday will be Bobby Valentine of Tucson, AZ who will be here to perform a wedding. He preached for Southside for more than three years until last January. Welcome back, Bobby!

New Address - Our newlyweds, Ty and Angela Ketterhagen, now live at ... Contact us for details.

Moved - We will miss Mike and Mary Price who have moved to Wyoming. Mary has been recovering from recent shoulder surgery. Contact us for details.

Wedding Bells! Lorna Dolhun and Jerry Seidner invite us to their wedding this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the church building. A reception at the building will follow. Bobby Valentine will perform the ceremony.

The sick - Emma Webb, mother of Sandy Ondrejka, underwent surgery Wednesday at Froedtert Hospital .... Ann Tevik is undergoing knee rehabilitation at Woodland Health Care Center.

ATTENDANCE RECORD

(*) first service, 87; second service 59

Due to our members at the Southside Retreat at Fallhall Glen and many others being away, our attendance last Sunday morning was the smallest in several years.

The Thursday morning ladies' class is being discontinued until September.

Calendar of Events

June 3 - Church picnic, Root River Parkway, after 2nd worship

June 10 - Praise and Palate, 6: 00 p. m.

June 17 - 30 - Junior Camp, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp, Fallhall Glen

June 26 - July 1 - Youth/adult service trip, Fallhall Glen

July 1- 14 - Middle Camp, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp, Fallhall Glen

July 15 - 28 - Intermediate Camp, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp, Fallhall Glen

July 29 - August 11- Senior Camp, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp, Fallhall Glen

Public Morality (1)

We were discussing society's change in attitude toward smoking. One person commented that he had recently seen a movie on television made fifty years ago. He noted that while in most ways it was very clean, it seemed that everyone was smoking. Today many of the things that were then unacceptable are now commonplace on the screen, but the reverse is true of tobacco which is now so improper that you seldom see a television character smoking.

The common term to describe the accepted values of society is "mores" which the dictionary defines as "folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group." Every cultural group has accepted standards of what is proper or improper, right or wrong. In the last fifty years the mores of our society has undergone a major transformation. In the 1950's certain things were regarded as unacceptable behavior: adultery, men and women living together without marriage, pornography, legal gambling, etc. All of these were practiced by some, but public pressure to conform to public morality was always present. However, most people used tobacco and racist attitudes were often openly displayed.

Today, the picture has changed. "Living together" is commonplace, and judging by the polls, adultery is regarded as acceptable (or at least not too bad because "we are all human.") Gambling is a national mania. Our nation is obsessed with sex. On the other hand, racism in any form is out, tobacco is abhorrent, and the greatest sin of all is calling anything "sin" that is politically correct.

I submit that the changing values of society do not alter what is right or wrong. If racism is wrong today (and it is), it was also wrong in 1950. If adultery was wrong in 1950, it still is. The Christian must always be prepared to stand for what is right regardless of the public morality or even the disapproval of other Christians.

Next week we will explore some forces that shape our public morality as we seek to determine the Christian's response.                                                                          Monroe Hawley

What God Hath Promised

God hath not promised skies always blue,

Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;

God hath not promised sun without rain,

Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

But God hath promised strength for the day,

Rest for the labor, light for the way,

Grace for the trials, help from above,

Unfailing sympathy, undying love.

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