Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 51, No. 10                 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                                 May 9, 2008

The Bulletin Board

The Mother-Daughter Banquet is this Friday at 6:30 p.m. About eighty are expected to attend.

The sick - Christine Saunders is now home from St. Luke's Hospital.

The Southside Retreat will be at Fallhall Glen over the Memorial Day weekend, May 23 - 26. If you are interested in attending, see the sign-up sheet on the camp bulletin board or get details from Bill or Denise Eppler.

The annual Spring Youth Rally of the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp will be held at Fallhall Glen May 10-11. The information about schedule and cost is posted on the youth bulletin board.

ATTENDANCE RECORD

                                      (*) first service, 153, second service, 83

Praise and Palate will be Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.

Camp scholarship fund - Every year many of our children attend the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp. We have a scholarship fund to help pay the fees for those who cannot afford to go. If you would like to send a child to camp, see Brad Stanger.

Daryl Miller attended the Bible lectureship at Pepperdine University last week.

The annual Southside picnic will be June 1 after worship at Root River Parkway.

Calendar of Events

May 9  - Mother-daughter banquet, Friday, 6:30 p.m.

May 10-11 - W.C.Y.C. Spring Youth Rally, Fallhall Glen

May 11 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

May 17-21 - Evangelism and Church Growth Seminar, Sheboygan Church

May 20 - Christian Workers' Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

May 23- 26 - Southside Retreat, Fallhall Glen

June 1 - Southside picnic, Root River Parkway

June 15 - 19 - Quest family camp, Fallhall Glen

June 15 - 21 - Soul Quest, York College, York, NE

June 22 - July 5 - Middle camp session, Fallhall Glen

July 6 - 19 - Intermediate camp session, Fallhall Glen

July 12, 13 – 50th anniversary homecoming of Southside Church

July 20 - August 2 - Senior camp session, Fallhall Glen

August 3 - 16 - Junior camp session, Fallhall Glen

August 9 - Milwaukee inter-congregational picnic, Kleztsch Park

August 11 - 16 - Green Lake Family Encampment at Green Lake

August 12-17 - Youth and family service trip to Fallhall Glen

"I Was Just Brought Up That Way"

The new husband watched his wife prepare her first ham and noticed that she cut off a few inches from the end. It seemed senseless so he asked, "Why?" She replied, "I really don't know, but my mother always did it that way." They both puzzled over the fact that there must be a reason for what she had watched her mother do so many times. She decided to call and find out. Her mother replied, "My mother always did it that way, and I just do it because she did, I guess." So they phoned Grandma. "Oh," said the elderly one, "I had to always cut off a bit of the end because my pan was too small."

Grandma had a good reason for what she did. The others had done it for no reason at all except, "I saw my mother do it."

How true of many religious people. They blindly follow their parents in religious matters without ever giving any thought to whether or not it is the proper thing to do. Asked why they do certain things, they usually answer, "My parents believed that way" or "If it was good enough for my mother, it is good enough for me" Or "I was just brought up that way." If you are like that, please do some investigating.                                                                                                                                    Steve Snider

The Apostles' Creed

Many people have grown up in churches that recite The Apostles' Creed. It may be helpful to learn something of its history. The creed itself was not authored by the apostles.  It can be traced back to Hippolytus about 200 A. D.   It was designed as a simple confession of the faith of Christians who were sometimes faced with heresy or false teaching. The creed was changed through the years and its oldest form was known as The Old Roman Symbol. In this form it reads:

"I believe in God Almighty; and in Christ Jesus, his only Son, our Lord, who was born from the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, who under Pontius Pilate was crucified and buried and on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father, whence he is coming to judge the living and the dead; and in the Holy Spirit, the holy Church, forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the flesh, life eternal."

Probably all of us can totally agree with this confession.  The truths expressed are still valid. Since it is of human rather than divine origin, however, it should not be required that anyone subscribe to it. Our creed is Christ, and the divinely inspired writings we call the Bible is our guidebook.                                                                                                             Monroe E. Hawley

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