Greeters for Today Door 1 Tyler & Carrie Stallons And Cohen Door 2 Ed & Tammy Staley Door 3 Roy & Dana Staley Collin and Ryan Door 4 Freddie & Carole Sweeney Van Drivers If you need a ride, please call the church office. Southside Church of Christ 529 Country Club Lane Hopkinsville KY 42240 Sunday Morning Worship January 7, 2017 Song Director ............ .......... David Howell Prayer ....................... .......... Mike Dougherty Prayer ........................ .......... Tim Arvin Announcements ........ .......... Pete Harry Scripture Reader ....... .......... Carey Laster Speaker ..................... .......... Bryan Dill Sermon… ................... .......... God At The Center Dismissal Prayer ........ .......... Roy Staley Teaching Children’s Worship – Roy & Dana Staley Helpers—Logan Sco and Lexy Oas Communion to Shut-Ins Gerame Wells and Tim Arvin Wednesday Evening Prayer— 1/10 Ed Staley Sunday Evening Service Song Director ............ .......... David Howell Prayer ....................... .......... Freddy Farmer Speaker ..................... .......... Bryan Dill Sermon ……………. ...... .......... Creaon Dismissal Prayer ........ .......... Pete Harry Canaan’s Kids — Roy & Dana Staley Sunday Morning Worship January 14, 2017 Song Director ............. ......... David Howell Prayer ........................ ......... Prayer......................... ......... Lester Buckner Announcements......... ......... Pete Harry Scripture Reader ........ ......... Carey Laster Speaker ...................... ......... Bryan Dill Sermon …………….Simple Faith and The Church Dismissal Prayer ......... ......... Peyton Crump Teaching Children’s Worship – Bob & Donna Pickerill Helpers—Ehtan Noel and Hope Jones Communion to Shut-Ins Mark Burman and Brian Oas Wednesday Evening Prayer— 1/17 Raymond Perry Sunday Evening Service Song Director ............. ......... David Howell Prayer ........................ ......... Roy Staley Speaker ...................... ......... Bryan Dill Sermon ……………. ....... ......... Sin Dismissal Prayer ......... ......... Duane Moore Canaan’s Kids — Roy & Dana Staley Phone: 270-885-8392 Fax: 270-885-7615 Email: [email protected] Welcome! If you are vising with us today please feel free to parcipate. We will sing and pray to the Lord and express our adoraon and thanksgiving for all the blessings He freely gives. We will have an offering this morning and we do not want our visitors to feel obligated in any way. There is an infant nursery located through the double doors located to the leſt of the pulpit. The toddler nursery is located up the stairs in the foyer. A children’s worship is provided for children ages 18 months through 4 on the second floor which will be announced during our service. Please turn your cell phone ringers off during our service. Birthdays Brynlee Ervin Jan. 9 Trent Wells Jan. 10 Lauren Burman Jan. 12 Bailey Kington Jan. 12 Linda Robertson Jan. 12 Anniversaries Jackie & Ravinell Morris—Jan. 9 Ushers for January Foyer—Tony Vierra, Logan Sco and Freddy Farmer Side Door Ushers—Lester Buckner and Tommy Brooks Serve Communion in December Preside Mike Medeiros Albert Passenau Bob Pickerill Freddie Sweeney John Lancaster Mark Burman Brad Dougherty Robert Jones Ethan Noel Nursery Aendants: Sue Maxwell and Becca Hoslo Baby Nursery Aendants: Teri Brooks and Marsha Garne Elders Scott Cowan Pete Harry Duane Moore Wesley Parker Ed Staley John Wheeler Minister Bryan Dill 502-320-0007 [email protected] Associate Minister Walter B. Edwards 270-881-0871 Youth Minister Scott Wilson 615-430-1875 [email protected] Counselor Ann Vander Linden 886-3089 Missionaries Ricardo Alvarado Costa Rica Allan Lopez Panama Dorian Flynn Africa Sunday Services Bible School 9:00 AM Worship 10:00 AM Evening Worship 5:00 PM Wednesday Services Bible Class 6:30 PM Internet Home Page www.southsidehopkinsville. com Let’s examine Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Honestly, I’ve been shocked this week as I’ve dug deeper into this verse. Let’s look at it together. How It’s Oſten Read One way people read this passage is a promise that if you teach your children about God, they will be faithful to Him in adulthood. Sadly, this has caused a lot of pain and sorrow for parents whose children have leſt the faith. They wonder, “Did I not train them in the way they should go? Is this my fault?” Or, worse yet, they wonder why God broke His promise. Trying to move away from that interpretaon, many have suggested that the phrase, “The way he should go” is specific to each individual child. In other words, they believe this passage is more about training a child to embrace his or her own unique giſts and talents; finding the path that God has for him or her as an individual. Aſter examining the words and phrases in this passage, it seems to me that both of these interpretaons miss the mark. The Context of Proverbs First, the book of Proverbs is NOT a book of promises. We shouldn’t read the Proverbs as saying, “If you do X, then God promises Y will always happen as a result.” Rather, the book of Proverbs is a book of wise sayings, phrased in such a way as to be pithy and memorable. When taken as a whole, these proverbs help God’s covenant people – especially young people – develop a hearelt appreciaon for wise, righteous, and godly living. Each proverb captures and encapsulates a parcular truth about wise living and expresses it in poec form, Hebrew parallelism. Obviously, no single proverb can exhaust the subject it addresses (and it isn’t aempng to do so). Each proverb is simp- ly saying, “If you remember, and live by this truth, you and the people around you will have a much beer life.” (connued on page 2)