www.magnoliachurchofchrist.com Ministers DC Brown (281) 961-1501 [email protected] Nick Schroeder (936) 697-3449 [email protected] Shepherds Sco Carpenter Bill Rogers David Singletary Jim Smith Deacons Bubba Burne - Finances Lee Coleman - Grounds & Technology Steve Hasley - Helping Hands Tony Langley - Mission Gerry Luther - 1st Impressions & Bridges Nathan Mahews - Worship Committee Chairmen Richard Dean - Benevolence Keith Ferguson - Buildings Nick Schroeder - Fellowship MORNING WORSHIP EVENING WORSHIP ASSEMBLY TIMES Welcome: Song Leader: Prayer: Communion Prayers: Offering Prayer: Scripture Reading: Message: Benedicon: David Singletary John Bus Arthur Carpenter Jim Smith Bobby Simmons Lee Coleman DC Brown Lawrence Morrow Announcements/Prayer: Song Leader: Communion Prayers: Evening Lesson: Closing Prayer : David Singletary Dion Massey Gerry Luther & Bubba Burne DC Brown Tom Fikes Sunday Bible Class: Sunday Worship: Evening Worship: Wednesday Bible Study: 9:30 AM 10:30 AM 5:00 PM 7:00 PM SUNDAY ADULT BIBLE CLASSES Auditorium: Annex Classroom: Annex Meeng Rm: Fellowship: Library: Romans Respectable Sins Young Adults Hebrews New Chrisans Lonnie Ritchie David Singletary Sco Carpenter DC Brown Morris Fridie Where You Are Family ENJOY THE WIFI Network: MCOC Guest Password: fellowship www.magnoliachurchofchrist.com JULY 08, 2018 823 S Magnolia Blvd, Magnolia, TX 77355 281.356.4466 [email protected] Things That Are Challenging - Not Impossible Among many great topics that were dealt with at Red River Family Encampment 2018 was the growing concern about teaching truth to those in our culture who are a part of Generaons Y and Z. You know Generaon Y by the more familiar term: millen- nials. Time marches on and the millennials are aging. Those now coming into adulthood, Generaon Z, are made up of young people born in 1995 or later. The concern is that the pervasiveness of modern culture may have rendered as useless the teaching techniques that have empowered previous generaons to develop their faith in the authoritave, inerrant and infallible word of God. Relavism, an unhealthy dose of skepcism, mulculturalism and pluralism are among the “isms” that work to keep our youngest adults from accepng the Bible as inspired and authoritave. What can be done about it? That’s the queson that seems to be without answer. One of the keynote speakers illustrated the problem to a group of preachers in a round table discussion by stang where he teaches Bible at the university level, not a single student of the Freshmen class of those who are currently pursuing a degree in Bible could name even one Restoraon leader. Admiedly, that is disturbing. Surveys that demonstrate the growing lack of confidence in the Bible were reviewed. The observaon was made that those three pillars of hermeneucs (commands, exam- ples and necessary inference) that gave tremendous success to the American Restoraon Movement are no longer considered praccal or efficacious in teaching logical interpretaon of the Scriptures. Invited to parcipate in this discussion, I listened to the oral review of the challenges we face and couldn ’t help but thinking that it is not really a new challenge. At the risk of being simplisc (and that was certainly implied by one brother when I spoke up), these are not new problems. I don’t believe that Satan has finally stumbled onto the perfect recipe to produce a cultural malaise that will once and for all eradicate the Scriptures from our daily lives. I don’t accept the premise that God’s word is somehow neutered by modern philosophy. I believe the challenges our young adults face are idencal to those of previous generaons. If the advent of 24 hour social media has complicated the burden of geng the message out, we simply need to increase our efforts in the home and in the life of the local church. There was a me when I, as a young adult, would have been challenged to name three or more leaders of the Restoraon Movement even though I grew up in a strong Chrisan home. There was a me, again as a young adult, that someone had to teach me the rules of logic so that my confidence in Scripture would have the solid founda- on that it does. As issues concerning the atudes of Generaons Y and Z towards biblical interpretaons were being agonized over I observed, and unfortunately it was out loud, that when I teach paerns of Biblical authority to new Chrisans, or to unsaved but inquisi- ve young adults, they get what I am saying. When young adults reach out to God, He reaches out to them with His holy word. He does not, nor is there a need to, issue a revised edion of the Scriptures every 25 or 50 years in which the meless truths are restated to conform to current paerns of logic. He leaves it to you and I as parents, as friends and as family to simply explain the truth. It is no more than what Priscilla and Aquilla did. It is no more than what Eunice and Lois did. It is what Elijah did with Elisha. It is what God wanted every Hebrew mother and father to do in their own homes with their children. If we can explain, in ways that are effecve, how to do everything else in life, we can explain why men and women of our generaon can have confidence in the truthfulness of God’s word. Signed, Not That Worried - DC