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Jimmy Carter says that he is losing his religion
Former President of the United State, Jimmy Carter is losing his religion, and he is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention, of which he has been a member for the past six decades, serving as a deacon and Bible class teacher on Sundays.
According to an article (“Losing my religion for equality”), that he wrote on TheAge.com.au, an Australian web site, he said that after the convention’s leaders, quoted, “a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be ‘subservient’ to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.”
He must know that he referenced a biblical passage, meaning something that the Holy Spirit wanted included in Scripture. Here is that passage, “And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression” (1 Timothy 2.12–14).
The question comes down to whether President Carter believes that the Holy Spirit moved the writers of Scripture, such as Paul when he wrote
First Timothy, or whether they just wrote their own opinion.
Does believing the words of Paul lead to discrimination against women? No, although some make try to interpret it that way, but I have never heard of such use of that passage or any other. Yet, The Bible does show male leadership in the church.
Jesus certainly could have chosen six women and six men as His apostles, but He did not. He decided to have twelve men. Why? I do not know, but I do trust Him to run His church the way He desires!
I have never been privileged to hear President Carter teach a Bible class, but now I think that he does not know how to interpret and teach biblical material.
Hopefully someday he will learn to see the Scriptures and the church for
the way the Lord wants them understood.
The Holy Spirit did move Paul to write that God created Adam first, and Eve sinned first. Paul merely repeated what you find in Genesis 1–3, and we do well to accept the Spirit’s account of creation and of the first sin.
Otherwise, how can we face the Creator on the Day of Judgment? DR
Our History: The Savage Street Church of
Christ began on March 4, 1923 at 6th and H Streets. After
sometime on Evelyn Street, we moved to our present location on March 20, 1960. Join us in 2023 when we celebrate our
100th anniversary!
June 25, 2017
SAVAGE STREET Church of Christ
10:30 Service
In the Year of Our Lord Did America’s Founding Fathers
take their religious seriously?
6:00 service
I Do Not Object to Dying
What it means to live with a good conscience
Acts 25
June Activities 25th: Potluck 28th: Singing
July Activities 2nd: Deacons Meeting 16th: Mens Meeting 26th: Singing 30th: Potluck
August Activities 7th-11th: Vacation Bible School
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1 Timothy 6:10
Pray for our upcoming VBS.
Pray for Jacob and Nick Noveske. They will be leaving for Church Camp today and will be gone for the week.
Pray for our shut ins and those who are healing.
2017 Contribution Open & Close Building
June Greeters Card Collectors Meet with elders & preacher
Weekly Average 3,232 ..................
Last Week June 18 3,074 ..............
Total After 24 Weeks 77,579.........
June 25: Larry & Diane
July 2: Gene Tomlinson
No VolunteersDominic Meyer
Jacob Noveske
The elders and
preacher have
regular meetings.
You may come
Mondays at 1:30
PM to Don’s office.
Call first. Or they
can meet with at
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OTHER NEWS If you would like to receive the bulletin as a PDF, please see Rebekah Calvert. If you would like to have your an-nouncement run in our bulletin, please place it on the secretary’s desk before Friday morning or email it to Re-bekah Calvert: [email protected]
Needed There is a need for REALLY large and small cardboard boxes for VBS. If anyone has any or can get some, please put them in the room by the office. Thank you!!!
Substitute Teacher Needed For: -There is a need for a substitute teacher for July 9, 16, and 23rd for the Sunday morning junior high class. -A teacher is needed for the Wednesday night Junior high class. With singing nights and VBS during sum-mer quarter, the teacher is only needed for 7 weeks!
Potluck Today Come enjoy fellowship and a potluck meal after Sun-day morning services.
We are still in need of people to volunteer for VBS. Please sign up with Carl or Traci. Also, for those who have already signed up as volunteers, it’s a good time to start working on getting ready for your part. All oth-ers please pray for good results.
Happy Birthday to Phil Frisby! He will be turning 93 years
old on the 29th.
We love you Phil!
Come enjoy a Hawaiian themed Family Fellowship Night this Saturday, July 1st.
3:30 pm at the Crisp House. Bring a swim suit and come play on a waterslide and bounce house! This is an extra fun
Family Fellowship and you don’t want to miss! We will be making sandwiches, so please see Andrea if you can contribute
some food items. She needs many items. See Mike or Andrea if you need directions as well.
Extra points for wear-ing Hawaiian shirts!
Our Mission Works Outside of Josephine County, Oregon
Chimala Mission Hospital and Schools,
Tanzania, Africa
Wayne Jackson & ChristianCourier.com, Stockton, California
Brad Harrub & Focus Press, Franklin, Tennessee
Don Iverson’s India Work
Don Patton’s archaeological work, especially Noah’s Ark
Mountain States Children’s Home, Longmont, Colorado
RUHL’S RULESSuggested Good Work Research a cause you know very little about—hunger, malaria, sex trafficking, orphans—and find one thing you can do to help (educate others, make a one-time dona-tion, volunteer, etc).
Control Your Tongue When you are being critical: “With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the simil-itude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and curs-ing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so” (James 3.9–10).
Trials vs Blessings “We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.” –Charles Spur-geon
A President Is Only as Good as Our Prayers
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes” (Proverbs 21.1).
“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, interces-sions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and rever-ence” (1 Timothy 2.1–2).
How to Identify Me by Thomas Merton “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
Church History 1965: Death in London, England, of Eleanor Farjeon. She authored the popular hymn “Morning Has
Broken.” Some of us are familiar with the song through the record-ing of Cat Stevens. 1865: Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the song, “Onward Christian Sol-diers,” as a marching song for some children he must keep to-gether as they walk between two villages during a festival. 1535: John Fisher is beheaded by command of King Henry VIII of England because he has openly rebuked Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and refused to accept Henry as head of the Church of England. John Fisher sounds like John the Baptist who also lost his head for rebuking the marriage of Herod. 304: (Traditional date—the event may have taken place as early as 209.) Alban becomes the first Christian known to have been martyred in the British Isles. He had been a pagan.
OUR SHEPHERDS: Wayne Duncan Dan Calvert
OUR PREACHER: Don Ruhl
OUR DEACONS: Gene Tomlinson Michael Crisp, Jr. Carl Peugh
OUR SONG LEADERS: Larry Amberg Phil Joseph Kevin Michael
OUR WEB SITE: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com
CONTACT INFORMATION: 220 NE Savage Street Grants Pass, Oregon 97526 541-476-3100 [email protected]
WORSHIP AND CLASSES:
Sunday Classes 9:30 .......... Worship 10:30 ........ Worship 6:00 ........
Wednesday
Classes 7:00 ..........
