Schedule of Services • Sunday Bible Classes 10:00 am Morning Worship 10:45 am Evening Worship 6:00 pm • Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 pm Elders • Mike Ernstberger 270-753-2108 • James Pigg 270-759-2145 Location • Green Plain Church of Christ 3980 Murray Paris Road Hazel, KY 42049 • Phone: (270) 492-8206 • Email: greenplain@ greenplainchurchofchrist.org THE GREEN PLAIN PROCLAIMER Volume 35 August 27, 2017 Number 35 Deacons • Larry Enoch • Bobby Hall • Jesse Vincent Preacher • Jonnie Hutchison Cell: 270-978-7569 Home: 270-492-8091 Mission Work India FALL GOSPEL MEETING September 10-14, 2017 With Luke Puckett Coldwater church of Christ Murray, KY Sunday Services Bible Classes 10:00 am Morning Worship 10:45 am Evening Worship 7:30 pm Monday—Thursday 7:00 pm COME BACK HOME! By Jonnie Hutchison The pull of this world with its offer of sinful pleasure is strong. Far too many Christians give in to the world and fall away from God rejecting the salvation in which they once rejoiced. The faithful shed tears and diligently pursue their erring brothers and sisters hoping to bring them back home, back to God’s fellowship, only to have their efforts fail because sin has hardened the hearts of those they love. The writer of Hebrews describes it in these terms in Hebrews 10:26-27, “For if we sin will- fully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a cer- tain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.” Dear brother, dear sister, if you have become unfaithful to the Lord in your life these words de- scribe you and what you may expect if you do not repent and come back home. Consider what you left when you left the Lord. You left your God, the One who devised a plan to save you from your sins and willingly sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on the cross for you (John 3:16; Rom. 5:8-9). You left your Savior, the one who shed His precious blood on the cross to provide the means of for- (Continued on page 3)
Transcript
Schedule of
Services
• Sunday
Bible Classes
10:00 am
Morning Worship
10:45 am
Evening Worship
6:00 pm
• Wednesday
Bible Classes 7:00 pm
Elders
• Mike Ernstberger
270-753-2108
• James Pigg
270-759-2145
Location
• Green Plain Church of Christ
3980 Murray Paris Road
Hazel, KY 42049
• Phone: (270) 492-8206
• Email: greenplain@
greenplainchurchofchrist.org
THE GREEN PLAIN PROCLAIMER
Volume 35 August 27, 2017 Number 35
Deacons
• Larry Enoch
• Bobby Hall
• Jesse Vincent
Preacher
• Jonnie Hutchison
Cell: 270-978-7569
Home: 270-492-8091
Mission Work India
FALL GOSPEL MEETING
September 10-14, 2017 With
Luke Puckett Coldwater church of Christ
Murray, KY
Sunday Services
Bible Classes 10:00 am
Morning Worship 10:45 am
Evening Worship 7:30 pm
Monday—Thursday 7:00 pm
COME BACK HOME! By Jonnie Hutchison
The pull of this world with its offer of sinful pleasure is strong. Far too many Christians give in to the world and fall away from God rejecting the salvation in which they once rejoiced. The faithful shed tears and diligently pursue their erring brothers and sisters hoping to bring them back home, back to God’s fellowship, only to have their efforts fail because sin has hardened the hearts of those they love. The writer of Hebrews describes it in these terms in Hebrews 10:26-27, “For if we sin will-fully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a cer-tain fearful expectation of judgment,
and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.” Dear brother, dear sister, if you have become unfaithful to the Lord in your life these words de-scribe you and what you may expect if you do not repent and come back home.
Consider what you left when you left the Lord. You left your God, the One who devised a plan to save you from your sins and willingly sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on the cross for you (John 3:16; Rom. 5:8-9). You left your Savior, the one who shed His precious blood on the cross to provide the means of for-
(Continued on page 3)
NEWS AND NOTES
• REMEMBER IN PRAYER: Green Plain members: Paul Brandon, Lori Brandon, Jim Fielder, Peggy Jarvis, Rex Enoch, Will Ed Travis, Dean & Mary Crutchfield, Katelyn and Vickie Canter, Tina Wyatt Simmons, Joanne Barnes. April Fuqua and Frank Towery., Marguerite Stubblefield, and Nancy Meacham. Family and Friends: Harold Pond, Harry Lovett, Kenneth Mizell, Will and Nancy Winches-ter, Lora Pettigrew, Wallace Parker, , Nancy Flowers, Nolan Murray, Tina Adams, Kristen Scott, Bill Jackson, Robin Pera, Marilyn Machado, Rheanetta Colemans (Johnny Parker’s sister), Brittany Jackson Harry Lovett, David Lovett and Ken Holt If you know of those who need to be added or removed from our prayer list please let us know.
• LOCAL EVENTS: Our fall Gospel Meeting is scheduled for September 10-14, 2017 with Luke Puck-ett, preacher for the Coldwater church of Christ. Handouts are available in the front lobby. The fall ses-sion of the Green Plain School of Biblical Studies will start Monday, September 18, 2017.
• New issues of House to House, Heart to Heart and the Gos-pel Gleaner are available in the lobby. Be sure and pick up a copy of each.
• Please remember our snacks for the hospital program and place your items in the baskets in the lobby.
• Please continue to pray for the Lord’s work in India and the various preachers this congregation continues to support in local work there. Reports are located on the mission board in the back of the auditorium.
• PASS IT ON! When you have finished reading this bulletin, why not pass it on to a loved one, friend or neighbor. Use this as a tool to spread the gospel. Or, pick up extra copies to hand or mail to others.
• Look for our article in the Murray Leger and Times on the “worship page” in the Saturday edition.
• See our Facebook page for announcements, updates and articles. Access to past editions of this bulletin are available on our website at http://greenplainchurchofchrist.org.
• Visit our webpage at http://greenplainchurchofchrist.org. You can scan the image to the right for immediate access on your mobile device.
• Pray for our upcoming gospel meeting and for the lost who need to hear the saving gospel of Christ!
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RESEARCH
QUESTION
In what village did Jesus miraculously change water into wine?
Last Week: What were the names of the fleshly brothers of Jesus?
Answer: Matthew 13:55, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas.
GREEN PLAIN SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL
STUDIES
LESSONS TODAY
Morning—10:45 am
“Offer Your Sacrifice”
Evening—6:00 pm
“How We Can Be More Forgiving”
A 12 week in-depth
study of God’s Word.
Sept. 18—Dec. 4, 2017 Each consecutive
Monday 7-9 pm
EVERYONE INVITED!
SUBJECTS Fellowship
Earl Claude Romans
Dan Sikes
Jeremiah
Jonnie Hutchison
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giveness. You left all hope, the hope that anchors your soul in a sin-sick world, the hope of existing in heaven in eternity (Eph. 2:12; Heb. 6:19). You left the fellowship of God and His church and have cho-sen instead to fellowship “the unfruitful works of darkness” (Eph. 5:11). You left the freedom that is in Christ to return to the terrible bondage of sin. Jesus said, “Whoever commits sin is the slave of sin” and inspiration states that one who yields himself in obe-dience to sin is it’s slave (John 8:34; Rom. 6:17-18).
You left life for death. “the wages of sin is death” is true of any and all sin whether it is com-mitted by the non-Christian or a Christian (Rom. 6:23).
But what have you gained by leaving your Lord? In reality you have gained nothing of any lasting val-ue whatsoever. Whatever material thing you have gained will ultimately be destroyed (2 Pet. 3:9-10). Whatever earthly relationship you have entered that has contributed to your unfaithfulness will not last beyond this brief life. In essence you have lost every-thing that matters and gained only one thing that will continue in eternity and that is punishment in a dev-il’s hell separated from God, and from every loved one who has remained faithful to God, forever and ever and ever!
Sometimes we can be so short-sighted. To fail to
look beyond this life is the height of folly. It is the purview of fools to reject God (Psalm 19:1). How very sad when a child of God forsakes his/her Lord to return like a pig to wallow again in the filth of sin or like a dog to return to eat its own vomit. Such a person has become once again a “slave of corrup-tion” and entangled gain in the “pollutions of the world” (2 Peter 2:20-22). Oh, what a sad state these graphic descriptions portray!
But there is good news. The unfaithful has it within his/her ability to return to his/her Lord! “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous-ness” (1 John 1:9). A penitent heart pulsing with godly sorrow will surely bring the erring child of God home! (2 Corinthians 7:10). Like the lost boy in our Lord’s parable, who went into the far country and wasted all of his inheritance in riotous (sinful) living, but then, in the pig pen of want, realizing where his choices had brought him, made up his mind to return home to his father who was waiting eagerly for his penitent son with open arms, ready and willing to forgive. God, the one you have forsak-en, the one you left for the far country of sin, is that loving, forgiving Father! What about you? God is pleasing. Your brothers and sisters in Christ are pray-ing. Are you ready to come back to what you have left? Are you willing to come home?
(“Affections” - Continued from page 1)
A LITTLE PLACE "Father, where shall I work today?"
And my love flowed warm and free.
Then He pointed me out a tiny spot
And said, "Tend that for Me."
I answered quickly, "Oh, no, not there,
Why, no one would ever see
No matter how well my work was done.
Not that little place for me!"
And the word He spoke, it was not stern.
He answered me tenderly:
"Ah, little one, search that heart of thine,
Are thou working for them or Me?
Nazareth was a little place... And so was Galilee."
—Pennington Bend church of Christ
FROM GBN DAILY LIFT Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for
many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able (Luke 13:24).
Matthew 7:14 says, “there are few who find it.” “It” is referring to Heaven in this pas-sage. Heaven is our purpose for life. What are we doing with our life if Heaven isn’t our num-ber one goal? Sometimes we think that Heav-en is an unobtainable goal, we think that we have to be perfect to go to Heaven, but that certainly is not the case.
When we boil it all down, obedience is the only thing we need to do to go to Heaven. If we are obedient then we will do all of the things in the Bible, we will pray, we will study, we will be selfless. It is when we are disobedi-ent; when we are not doing what the Bible has laid out for us to do, Heaven becomes unob-tainable. Few obey God’s word. Few will find Heaven.
