Sunday AM - Shirley Mullins - Blessings And
Challenges
Sunday PM - Gary Mullins - Will You Also Go
Away?
Monday - Phillip
Mullins - The Fragrance Of Christ:
How The Christians Influence Works
Tuesday - Glen
Young -
Moral Courage
Wednesday -
Tim Shepherd - The Family
Table
Thursday - Chris Fleming - Worshiping...In His
Presence
Friday
- Kevin Kay
- And He Appointed Twelve
(To The Members Of The Lord's Church At Wise.) Do
your best to be present. All the lessons will be beneficial to each and every
one who is present to hear them. Also, do your best to encourage someone else to
come in order that they, too, might benefit. We must always remember,
the gospel is Gods power to save mankind from sin. (
The Value And Importance Of
Gospel Meetings
The value of gospel meetings has long been a subject of debate. On the
one hand there are those that champion the philosophy that the gospel meeting of
today does no good. There are those on the other hand that tell us that the
value of gospel meetings to the overall spiritual and numerical growth of the
congregation is substantial. If we look only at the conversions to be
numbered in the gospel meeting we may indeed claim that they have not been
productive in recent years -- generally speaking. Surely the immediate
number of conversions is not an inadequate devise for measuring the benefits of
a gospel meeting, please notice the
following:
1. THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED EACH SERVICE DURING A GOSPEL
MEETING: 2 Tim. 4:2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season.
Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and
teaching. NKJV
2. BRETHREN HAVE OCCASION TO INTERACT TOGETHER:
Eph. 4:3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace
NKJV
3. THE
CONGREGATION IS STIMULATED TO UNITED EFFORT: Heb. 10:24-25 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love
and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the
manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the
Day approaching.
4. OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET CHRISTIANS FROM OTHER CONGREGATIONS
IS ENHANCED: 1 Thess. 1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread
abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
KJV
5. THE LOCAL
MEMBERSHIP HAS SPECIAL INCENTIVE TO INVITE OTHERS TO ATTEND THE
SERVICES: Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, NKJV
6. IT IS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN TO WORK: Titus 3:1-2 "Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to
obey, to be ready for every good work,
James 1:25-26 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work,
this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be
religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
religion is vain.
KJV
7. IT IS A TIME FOR PERSONAL AND CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER:
1 Thess. 5:17, 18 pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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