Bread for the Head

A Reluctant Cross

Phil. 3:13-14

I've got to be honest with you. Sometimes I get tired of ministry. As Hanna Whitall Smith puts it in her book, "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life", my "May I?" of love has at times turned into a "Must I?" of duty. The problem with this happening is that if I don't have a change in attitude I will stop serving all together, and that is not an option.

Smith reminded me just this morning that when our attitudes are right, we'll endure all kinds of burdens and not be taken off of task. I have trained for two marathons. This involves hours and hours of running in training alone. Some of you have endures similar challenges for the glory of your sport. Others of you have endured years of training in your fields of study. So, we all know sacrifice.

What I call a burden within the Faith, in other spheres I call a challenge. Why is that? I think it comes from an engrained false belief that Christianity comes with little to no pain. We have managed or at least I have managed to ignore the many "take up your cross" directives, falling for the destructive lie that Jesus was the only one called to bear a cross.

I need to do more than embrace the truth about my "cross"; I need to view its burdens in an all together new light, to face them as challenges. The next time I start to get side tracked because of some momentary challenge I am going to try to focus on the prize.



 

  



Singles

Faith Enrichment Options:

Sunday Mornings at  9:30 "Life Groups"
Sunday mornings at 9:30 we offer the following Life Group Study Classes for single adults:

Singles: This class is made up of singles of all ages, basically age 30 and up (don’t worry, we don’t check IDs). We study relevant topics and see what the Bible has to say about them.
Teacher: Eric Amison           
Meets in B109 (get map)

ACTS: How they did Church.

Acts presents the thrilling beginnings and bold life of the early church. Their story will give you renewed hope and trust in the work of the Holy Spirit. This study has an optional student book that would be helpful during the study of this topic. It is from Serendipity House, it's called Acts: Model for today's church. Lifeway has the book for $6.99.

Come and discover how we might use an old story to do a new thing.

 

The Fall Gathering

Going back to The Shack

This is going to be fun! I read this book a few years ago and so have some of you. Let's open it together and see what comes out over a cup of coffee (decaf for me).

Details: Thursday nights starting Oct 14th at 6 p.m. in the Lounge. Going into the North Foyer entrance, follow the signs to The Gathering.

Instructions: Get the book and be prepared to discuss the forward through Chapter 1.

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