Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 50, No.30                           SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                      October 12, 2007

The Bulletin Board

Southside Give-Away - Our annual Give-Away is open to the general public at 9:00 a.m. Saturday. The Give-Away is similar to a rummage sale, except that everything is given away. If you can help Saturday morning come early and help make this event a success.

New Arrival - A baby girl was born to Jim and Natasha Morrow Tuesday morning at Children's Hospital. The birth was quite premature so we ask that you remember Jim and Natasha and the baby in your prayers.

Attendance Directory - The new directories are now available. Our thanks to Cliff Copass for making this information available. The directory is a list of those who attend Southside, but is not a membership list.

Praise and Palate will be Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Bring sandwiches for the palate part.

Christian Workers' Meeting - The first Christian Workers' Meeting of the fall will be Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. Gary Cleveland will give "An Examination of Current World Views" and Jeff Hill will speak on "Who Is God In Your Eyes?" The monthly meeting is attended by people from neighboring congregations and is open to everyone.

ATTENDANCE RECORD

(*) first service, 156; second service, 85

The Sick - Maria Anguiano is home from the hospital following her recent heart surgery .... Pearl Molla has been discharged from the hospital .... Emma Webb, mother of Sandy Ondrejka, is in St. Luke's Hospital and had a pacemaker put in Tuesday .... Diane Santana will have back surgery October 22nd.

Mary Brown will present a special "ladies only" class at the Sunday Bible class hour on October 28th in the large basement classroom on the theme, "Men and Women In Conversation: A Christian Perspective." Mary will distribute flyers to provide ladies with the details.

The annual meeting of the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp will be Saturday, October 20th   at the Mandrake Road Church in Madison. We hope a number from Southside will be able to attend as we have heavy involvement in the camp.

Calendar of Events

October 13 - Annual Southside Give-away, 9:00  a.m.

October 14 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

October 16 - Christian Workers' Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

October 20 --- Annual meeting, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp, Mandrake Road Church, Madison

October 29 - Family Bible Day

November 2, 3 - Ministers, elders' retreat at Port Washington

A Spiritual Happening

Is baptism a traditional but meaningless ceremony or does something really happen when we are baptized? Many must look at baptism as a relic of the past, for they think of it as a relatively unimportant: something to be postponed indefinitely or even neglected entirely.

Baptism can be, and often is, meaningless. If we have no faith, no conviction, no desire to be different, we rob the act of all significance. But suppose baptism is accompanied by the biblically required inward change and that we are born not only of the water, but also of the Spirit (John 3:3-5). What happens then?

1. We openly accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. In New Testament times baptism was the way a convert proclaimed his "decision for Christ." "Those who received his word were baptized" (Acts 2:41). Then, everyone who truly accepted Christ was baptized.

2. We have our sins taken away by Jesus Christ. The Bible puts it this way: "Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name" (Acts 22:16). Although it is true that water does not wash away sins, it is equally true that sins are washed away by Christ when we are baptized.

3. We enter a new relationship with Jesus Christ. Paul tells it as it is when he says, "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:27). We belong to Christ, share Christ, possess Christ.

4. We start life over. Bible baptism, which is burial in water, portrays death to sin and resurrection to new life in Christ. "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4).

5. This all happens when we are baptized like the Bible teaches. What about your baptism? Was it a meaningless ceremony, or did something else happen?

Edwin Broadus

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