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WESTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST 3235 HIGHWAY 54 WEST

BROWNSVILLE, TN 38012 731-772-3810

WEBSITE:WESTSIDEBROWNSVILLE.COM EMAIL ADDRESS: westsidecochrist@gmail.com

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

SUNDAY

Bible Classes 9:30 AM

AM Worship Service 10:30 AM

PM Worship Service 6:00 PM

WEDNESDAY

Devotional and Classes 7:00 PM

Nursing Home Activities 1st Sunday

Crestview 2:00 PM Sugar Creek 2:45 PM

3rd Monday Crestview 6:30 PM

MISSIONARIES Dewayne Shappley

Spanish Speaking Ministries

Rod Kyle

New Zealand

Curry Montague

Hungarian Mission Program

Joseph Ruiz

Mexico, Peru, The Philippines

World Evangelism Ministry

India Radio Fund

Howell Ferguson

WBI

Lance and Kristen Mosher

Porirua, New Zealand

David Nance

India Mission

Jerry & Paula Bates

India

BENEVOLENCE PROGRAMS

Churches of Christ

Disaster Relief Effort

Nashville, TN

Tennessee Children’s Home-West

Pinson, TN

MISSION PROGRAMS

Harding Graduate School

Scholarship Program

Memphis, TN

In Search of the Lord’s Way

Phil Sanders

WGNA-HD Cable 4, Sundays, 6:00am

WLMT-HD Cable 11, Sundays, 7:00am

Fishers of Men

Heritage Christian University

Phillip Goad

Freed Hardeman Bible Dept.

OUTREACH PROGRAMS

LISTEN to Brownsville Radio 95.3

after 8am News Report for our WESTSIDE MINUTE each week-

day and our 9:30 am sermon each

Sunday morning. You can also

CHECK OUT ..or JOIN,

Westside Group on FACEBOOK Website: WESTSIDEBROWNSVILLE.COM

Welcome Visitors! You are our honored guests! We are so glad that you have come to share our worship to the Lord. Please stay and allow us to assure you of your

Importance to us, and then, return for another visit very soon. Please sign our guest book.

STATISTICS

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Bible class 34

AM Worship 31

PM Worship 53

Wed, July 12, 2017 25

PREACHER

Larry Sweeney

cell 780-8280

Morning Services July 16, 2017

Song Service Wally Scaife

Opening Prayer Larry Sweeney

Communion Paul Lewis

Nathan Neal Morris Blatt

Ronnie Belew

Scripture Reading Bill Connally

Gospel Meeting Stephen Sutton

“The Ministry of Christ”

Closing Prayer Albert Jackson

Evening Services July 16, 2017

Song Service Wally Scaife

Opening Prayer

Bobby Neal

Scripture Reading Bill Connally

Gospel Meeting Stephen Sutton

“The Sermons of Christ”

Closing Prayer Jack Brummett

Wednesday Services

July 19, 2017

Song Service Zack Fox

Prayer

Mac Perry

Gospel Meeting Stephen Sutton “The Death and

Resurrection of Christ”

ORDER OF WORSHIP Announcements: Jack Brummett

Those to Serve Next Week

July 23, 2017 Morning Service:

Opening Prayer: Zack Fox Closing Prayer: Bobby Neal

Scripture Reading: Larry Sweeney Song Leader: Wally Scaife

Evening Service: Opening Prayer: Robert Neal Closing Prayer: Bill Connally

Scripture Reading: Larry Sweeney Song Leader: Zack Fox

August Announcements: Bobby Neal

August Table: Albert Jackson, James Woodard, Morris Blatt and Larry Sutherland

US STAMP

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Summer Quarter Sunday Morning Teachers

Cradle Roll—Angel Sutherland

Toddlers —Martha Sweeney

3-5 yrs —Rachel Sanders

1st-2nd grade —Joan Brummett

3rd-5th grade —TEACHER NEEDED

6th-8th grade —Zack Fox

9th-12th grade—TEACHER NEEDED

Adult Class— Larry Sweeney

Floating Teachers VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Westside Prayer List Darwin and Minnie Kate Johnson

Genrose Lovelace

Louise Tucker

Helen Faught

Jennie Neal

Yvonne Mathias

Peggy Hooper

Robbie Piercey

Bobby Goodman

Susan Goodman

Pam Rogers

Family and Friends Prayer List Gaye Kyle Ricky King

Don Cox Anna Smith

Jane Shaw Hayes Wayne Goforth

Mary Drinkard

Melba Cox

Joyce Fannin

Carol Crocker

Lucion English

Dorothy Frady

Joyce Sikes

Ruth Taylor

Melody Barbee Simpson

Tressie Joyner

Nursing Home Residents Prayer List Crestview

Minnie King

Margaret Bass

Nola Smith

Sugar Creek

Carolyn Freeman

Jack & Dana Williams

Jane Powell

Alamo

Sylvia Hart

Bells

Sheila Weir

Wednesday Night Teachers

Cradle Roll—Angel Sutherland

Toddlers —Cheryl Huff

3-5yrs —Ruth Glidewell

1st-2nd grade—TEACHER NEEDED

3rd-5th grade—TEACHER NEEDED

6th-8th grade—Jack Brummett

9th-12th grade—TEACHER NEEDED

Adult—Larry Sweeney

July Birthdays 03 Gene Campbell

05 Cheryl Huff

12 Becky Ward

12 Joseph Sutherland

22 Sheila Weir

22 Andy Sweeney

27 Nathan Neal

27 Allan Glidewell

27 Susan Goodman

Gospel Meeting 2017

July 16-19

Speaker: Stephen Sutton

Theme: “Life of Christ”

Prayer Requests

Our Gospel Meeting begins

TODAY! (July 16-19) Following

our morning worship we will

have a potluck fellowship meal.

Flyers are available in the foyer

to advertise our meeting.

Jack Williams is scheduled for

surgery at Vanderbilt on Tues-

day, July 18th and Tuesday, July

25th. Please remember him in

your prayers.

Wayne Goforth, a very good

friend of Doug Taylor’s and

brother in Christ, is in need of a

heart transplant. As a single fa-

ther he is in great need of our

prayers.

A Baptism In the New Testament It is interesting to go back in time to see the church in its primitive state. . . . when the Spirit was still directly instructing Christians on how God wanted religion practiced. One of the most detailed cases of conversion is the Ethiopian whom Philip taught while traveling a lonely back road (Acts 8:26-40). This treasurer requested baptism, and Philip conducted his baptism in the way God approves. Note carefully how baptism was done in the New Testament. The treasurer made a confession of faith before baptism He said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God” (8:37). No one can be scripturally baptized unless he has faith in Jesus (Jn. 8:24; Mk. 16:16) and is willing to make it known (Rm. 10:9, 10). Note that he did not confess that God had for Jesus’ sake already forgiven his sin, since his baptism was for the purpose of forgiving sin (Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Pet. 3:21). The treasurer was immediately baptized. He did not hesitate nor procrastinate. He was not told he would have to be voted on (unheard of in the New Testament) or that he would be on probation for some time. He did not have to go through weeks of classes or have to wait for several others who also wanted to be baptized. Someone has noted that no sinner in the Book of Acts ate, drank, or slept before being baptized once they learned that they were lost. Both the candidate and the administrator got in the water. They “both went down into the water” and came up out of the water (8:38, 39). Some have said that the eunuch was holding up a water jug when he said, “See, here is water . . .” (One older lady heard that and said, “My Bible says they both went down into the water. Are you telling me they both went down into a jug?!” Insert “jug” for water in the text and see the silliness of it) Baptism in the New Testament was always a burial – never sprinkling or pouring (Mk. 1:10; Jn. 3:23; Rm. 6:4, 5; Col. 2:12). Baptism began a joyful journey with God. Acts 8:40 says this new Christian “went on his way rejoicing.” Why? Because his sins were washed away and he had been added to God’s family, the church (Acts 2:47). Each of God’s steps to salvation is important. Faith changes man’s thinking (Hebrews 11:6). Repentance changes his lifestyle (Acts 3:19). Confession of faith forces him to “come out in the open” (Matthew 10:32, 33). Baptism changes his guilty state (from “outside” to “inside” Christ’s body, Galatians 3:26, 27). Study the other cases of conversion in the Book of Acts and note carefully the original pattern. Let’s do what they did. --House to House Heart to Heart