Southside Church of Christ 529 Country Club Lane Hopkinsville KY 42240 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 2 through 5 on the second floor which will be announced during our service. Please turn your cell phone ringers off during our service. Birthdays Ethan Noel April 7 Dana Staley April 7 Sharon Lancaster April 8 Amanda Perry April 8 Jean Trapp April 9 Gary Logan April 12 Briggs Ervin April 13 Kathy Higgins April 13 Dan Medeiros April 13 Pray this week for: April 6—Robin Pollard April 7—Lizzy Stout April 8—Terri Puy April 9—Paul Ray April 10—Dawn Ray April 11—Houston Ray April 12—Skylar Ray Unl we resume our worship services, Bryan Dill will be posng songs and a message on Southside’s Facebook page on Sunday. There will also be a message posted on Wednesday evenings on the church’s Facebook page. Elders Scott Cowan Mike Dougherty Freddy Farmer Pete Harry Ed Staley John Wheeler Minister Bryan Dill 502-320-0007 [email protected] Youth Minister Jackson Wells 270-847-8511 [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 Spiritual Anesthesia I’m no doctor, that’s for sure. I appreciate all of those who have gone through the necessary training to be able to perform medical procedures, and diagnose diseases. We especially appreciate those folks in this trying me. But, I want to talk to you for a moment about anesthesia. From what I understand, the simplest explanaon for how anesthesia works is that it interrupts signals being sent to your brain. So, even though your body may experience pain, the brain doesn’t process it. Anesthesia keeps your brain from acknowledging pain, or even remembering what happened during surgery (if it’s general anesthesia). Have you ever considered that so much of what the world has to offer us, is nothing more than a spiritual anesthec? We get pulled into binge- watching TV shows, polical agendas, sports, hobbies, chores, careers, etc. etc. … and it becomes a way to avoid acknowledging the ache in our malnourished souls. Perhaps this is part of the reason Paul warned so sternly in Romans 12 - “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…”. It’s easy to ignore our spiritual well-being while being anesthezed by the world. It’s easy to forget about the importance of our relaonship with God while constantly reading the latest updates about COVID-19. Perhaps while we all are spending more me at home, instead of finding one more new show to watch, or one more game to play, or one more website to browse … we need to spend more me in God’s word, and allow it to snap us out of our spiritual anes- thesia. Think about it. ~ Bryan Dill