Adult Classes Sunday Auditorium Class : Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis Sunday Downstairs Annex Class: Effective Parenting in a Defective World, a Chip Ingram study. Led by Evan McGee Wednesday Downstairs Annex Class : 2 Corinthians, taught by Ethan Brown; Pick up pages for upcoming weeks in the lobby. Connection Groups TODAY. Choose a group and come enjoy the fellowship and Bible Study. Groups are: Audias (Mills River), Browns (Mills River), Carpenter (Auditorium), Godley (Annex, lunch followed by Bible study at 1:00), McGee (South Henderson/Saluda), McKelvey (West Henderson), Williams (West Henderson). Shoe Drive Update We have filled 60 bags with shoes so far. Our minimum goal is 100. Let’s keep those shoes coming in! 2 weeks to go in the Drive. We’re going “Wild for Jesus” in our summer-long Wednesday night VBS! Rising K-6th will meet every Wednesday, June-August (except July 3rd) from 6:50-7:50PM in the Annex. Regular classes for younger ages and teens will still meet. Adults will be in the auditorium. NEEDED: individuals or couples willing to lead crafts or games! You can help one week or many. Plans are provided. Please see Kylie Cochran, if you can help. Scrap Metal Drive for Honduras Mission Call the church office if you need items picked up. Drop off other items at the end of the main building, outside. Family Picnic Everyone invited! Saturday, May 25th Lake Julian, Arden 3:00-7:00pm Sign up in the lobby TODAY! Organized by Glenn and Whitney Elliott Updated and new pages for our church directory are on the table in the lobby. If you do not have a directory binder, please contact the church office. There are flyers in the lobby for the Fletcher Community Chorus concert on May 23rd at 7:00pm. See Bob Huff for more details. PBC Week 4: June 30—July 6th All children ages 9-18 are encouraged to attend Week 4 at Palmetto Bible Camp. Ethan will be on staff there that week. You may complete your registration online at pbc.camp. The week is filling up quickly. To hold your spot, please pay the regis- tration fee. The church offers scholarships to assist with the remaining payment. Let the office know if you will be registering your child/children. needed collected 1975 Haywood Rd Hendersonville, NC 28791 / 828 692-0306 / www.hvlcoc.org hvlcoc, hvlcocyouth hvlcocyouth [email protected] http://www.youtube.com/user/HVLCOC May 19, 2019 The gospel is consistent with reason and logic. It is possible to persuade both ourselves and other people to believe the gospel because it is a reason-based appeal to the mind. Certainly the idea of being loved by God appeals to the heart. So does the concept of the amazing sacrifice that God is willing to make because of his love. These move the heart powerfully once they are grasped by the mind, but the beginning of the gospel’s work on us is understand- ing, not feeling. The most disastrous mistakes that we make are mistake of the mind and of bad reasoning. It is certainly possible to make a muck of our lives because we fail to control our appetites or because we are impulsive. A sinful choice driven by desire, wrath, lust or fear can bring us close to ruin and cause pain that is difficult to bear. As long as our minds remain sound, however, we will turn to God in these awful seasons and survive them. In order to enter places from which we cannot or will not return requires an error of the mind. This its why Satan’s most dreadful attacks are not at the level of temptation to bad behavior, but temptation to bad understanding and bad thinking. He will kill you with impulsiveness if he can, but he would prefer to get you to believe things that are distorted and evil. Bad belief will drive bad behaviors while making us think they are good and turn us into advocates for what is evil. If we believe, for instance, that the material world is more real than the spiritual world, we will invest our energies here and ignore the greater reality. If we believe that God is a private matter, we will keep his love to ourselves. If we believe that God is bad or dangerous, or that he hates us because of our sins, we will keep our distance from the one who is our salvation. The gospel comes to us to destroy these weak and polluted thoughts. It tells us about the truth of God’s great reality that holds together everything that exists - he is more real, not less. It tells us of his universal claims on creation and on everyone who exists. It tells us that God is amazingly good, so much better than we think he is. It corrects every false philosophy and thought, and over- comes every lie. The gospel definitely appeals to the heart, and if you can learn of the gospel without being emotionally moved, then you are very hard-hearted indeed. But we must never lose sight of the truth that the gospel is Truth, and truth is understood and believed in the mind. —Ethan Brown