Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 51, No. l l                          SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                              May 16, 2008

The Bulletin Board

The Christian Workers' Meeting will be Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. Jim Coehoorn of Elkhorn will present a study of Exodus 33:7-23 and Roy Ratcliff of Madison will discuss "The Minister and His Families' Self-Care." Southside hosts these monthly inter-congregational meetings that are open to all. Tuesday's program will be the last one until October.

About eighty attended the Mother - Daughter Banquet last Friday evening.

The sick - Diane Santana will undergo surgery soon for a pinched nerve in her arm.... Suzanne Roberts will soon have a cochlear implant in her ear to improve her hearing. The implant she had in her other ear helped her hearing greatly.

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

ATTENDANCE RECORD

                                               (*) first service, 145, second service, 85

Five from Southside attended the youth rally at Fallhall Glen last weekend.

Daryl Miller will present the lesson Sunday morning.  Monroe Hawley will speak in the evening.

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

Calendar of Events

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 8 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

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

Which Translation?

There are hundreds of translations of the Bible.  Which is the best?   The most accurate? The safest? That depends on who you talk to - even legitimate scholars.

Of course, one doesn't have to be a scholar to speak with certainty about versions. I've had people who wouldn't know alpha from a slab of raw liver tell me authorita­tively that a certain version is the only accurate one.

Impressive arguments can be marshaled for most of the committee-translated versions. Each has its strengths - and weaknesses. I recently heard about a brother whose ministry consisted of splitting churches over translations.  That's sad.  He missed a basic teaching of the Testament, which is clear in any translation.  Hundreds of thousands don't yet have the scriptures in their own language.  So fellowship fights over translations strike me as less-than-wise use of time, energy, influence, and money.

Nevertheless, I'm taking a stand. And it's a dogmatic stand at that! There is one version we must have!  It's the one Paul talks about when he says, "You show that you are a letter from Christ ...written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God."

There are thousands upon whom the translation debates are wasted because they're not going to read any "written" version. But they can't keep from reading the Word "translated" into life.

If conduct doesn't square with teaching it makes no difference how accurate the translation is you use. The jots and tittles may be there without a loss - but if the attitude is not Christ-like, something is lost in translation.                                         Joe Barnett

Hallelujah!

Sometimes we use religious terms without fully understanding what they mean. Such a word is "hallelujah", a word used twenty-three times in the Psalms as an introduction or conclusion to a psalm.           It introduces the angelic praise of God in Revelation 19:1.    It is also used in many of the psalms and hymns that we sing in Christian worship.

Hallelujah is used in the Hebrew Old Testament literally means "Let us praise the Lord (or Yahweh)." The word has been transliterated into other languages, including Greek in which the New Testament was written, and English. This means that translators have chosen to use the term from the original language rather than to render it in our common speech. So the next time you sing "Hallelujah", remember you are praising God!                                                                                                                   Monroe Hawley

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