JOHN CALVIN PREACHING EXPOSITIONAL WAS NORMAL

Sunday March 15 Church News

Welcome to the rivers of joy Baptist church

Please excuse us while we are under new Construction.

One brick at a time and several bricks have been laid.

Spiritual bricks, physical bricks

One step at a time.

Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened…The writer of Hebrews quotes this verse in Psalms, but how does he say it? Look below:

Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

What happend to opening ears? How does that mean a body prepared?

Simply put, the OT Psalm was an idiom that makes no sense in English and it made no sense in Greek either, so he uses a little bit of dynamic equivelance to tell you what the OT idiom actually meant.

I found this to be a good summary from Francis Schaeffer:

We must realize that Christianity is the easiest religion in the world, because it is the only religion in which God the Father and Christ and the Holy Spirit do everything. God is the Creator; we have nothing to do with our existence or the existence of other things. We can shape other things, but we cannot change the fact of existence. We do nothing for our salvation because Christ did it all. We do not have to do anything. In every other religion we have to do something–everything from burning a joss stick to sacrificing our firstborn child to dropping a coin in the collection plate–the whole spectrum. But with Christianity we do not do anything; God has done it all. He has created us and he has sent his Son; his Son died and because the Son is infinite, therefore he bears our total guilt. We do not need to bear our guilt, nor do we even have to merit the merit of Christ. He does it all. So in one way it is the easiest religion in the world (202-203).

–taken from "Appendix A" in The God Who Is There

I say, forget everything else. Forget everything else. We need to realize the presence of the living God amongst us. Let everything else be
silent. This is no time for minor differences. We all need to know the touch of the power of the living God.

SUNDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY

10 A.M. Proverbs five and six

TODAY'S MESSAGE

PASTOR/TEACHER CHARLES E. WHISNANT

DURATION OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP part

PAUL'S DAY CARE CENTER FOR THE CHURCH

I THESS 2:7-8

The parental picture of the spiritual leader

The pastor's day care center

TONIGHT

John 3:16 "THE WORLD" Part THREE

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*CHURCH MEMBERSHIP NOW ARE THOSE WHO HAVE ATTENDED

IN 2009 AND HAVE SIGNED THE MEMBERSHIP COVENANT

*WE ARE A PLURALITY PASTORAL/ELDERS LED CHURCH

Yes we are Baptist,

The Pastor/Teachers deisre is this

"BE DO NOT USE OUR PEOPLE TO BUILD THE CHURCH BUT USE THE CHURCH TO BUILD PEOPLE

THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

MONDAY: PERSONAL BIBLE STUDY AND READING

Tuesday: MAKE SURE TO READ THE PASTOR'S WEBSITES.

Wednesday: prayer requests and singing at 6:45 p.m. bible study at 7:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall

Thursday: Pauline Lemaster's LADIES NIGHT OUT 6:30 P.M.

Friday CALL, EMAIL SOMEONE ABOUT COMING TO CHURCH

Saturday PRAY FOR THE SERVICES ON SUNDAY.

THE CHURCH THAT FELLOWSHIPS TOGETHER IS A HEALTHY CHURCH

OUR MISSIONARies ARE WORTHY

OF YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT

To follow Christ in All Things

Minford Ohio

Pastor/Teacher

Charles E. Whisnant

William Bower, Asso

Bob Temple, Minister of Music

MARCH 15 2009

What a guy!

Our Wednesday Evening music is getting to be

Rather good. Bill, Johnny and Jimmy.

Now who has some drums

The Scriptures are sufficient

(Thomas Brooks, "A Word in Season to Suffering Saints")

"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness--so
that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for
every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17

The Scriptures are sufficient . . .
to inform the ignorant,
to confute the erroneous,
to reform the wicked, and
to guide and direct, support and comfort--the godly.

Here a lamb may wade--and here an elephant may swim!

Here is milk for babes--and meat for strong men!

Here is . . .
comfort for the afflicted, and
support for the tempted, and
ease for the troubled, and
light for the clouded, and
enlargement for the straitened, etc.

Oh,
how full of light,
how full of life,
how full of love,
how full of sweetness,
how full of goodness,
how full of righteousness,
how full of holiness, etc.,
is every chapter, and every verse in every
chapter, yes, and every line in every verse!

No human writings are comparable to Scripture:
1. for antiquity;
2. for rarity;
3. for variety;
4. for brevity;
5. for plainness;
6. for harmony;
7. for verity.
All which should greatly encourage Christians, to a
serious perusal of them. "Oh, how I love your law!
I meditate on it all day long!" Psalm 119:97

RIVERS OF JOY BAPTIST CHURCH

CHURCH POLICY AND

FLOW CHART OF

DECISION MAKING

2009

Pastor/teacher

Charles E. Whisnant

RIVERS OF JOY BAPTIST CHURCH

MINFORD, OHIO

FLOW CHART OF DECISION MAKING

THE LOCAL CHURCH

GOD

CHRIST-SPIRIT THE BIBLE - SCRIPTURES

FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES - OBJECTIVES

1. Non-Negotiable Biblical Foundation

2. Our Basic Church Goals

3. Our Core Values

BODY OF PASTORS/ELDERS/OVERSEERS OF THE MINISTRY

1. Basic Areas of Ministries: Pastor/Teacher, Preachers or Teachers

2. Decisions Process Making

-LAY-STAFF PASTORS/LEADERS/ADVISORY

1. Head of a ministry: Christian Education, Youth, Music, Children, etc.

DEACON / LEADER

1. Heads up a ministry in one area: Building, Outreach etc.

STEWARDS/SERVANT

1. Manages a Ministry (Teacher)

2. Serves within the Ministry: (Secretary)

-CONGREGATION

1. Comes the Leaders

2. Prayer/Outreach

3. Ministries of spiritual gifts

4. Giving and Stewardship

STEM CELL RESEARCH AND SCIENCE THOUGHT

STEM CELL RESEARCH

Science and its role are in the news yet again with the recent directives by President Obama on stem cell research. He spoke about the need for scientific research and science policy to be freed from “ideology”.

In announcing his policy on federal funding of stem cell research, President Obama inadvertently cast a bright light on a dangerous temptation in science policy that ought to give Americans pause.

What you think of his policy depends on what you think of the moral status of embryos. If (as modern biology informs us) conception initiates a human life, and if (as the Declaration of Independence asserts) every human life is equally deserving of some minimal protections, government support for the destruction of human embryos for research raises profound moral problems. But if you think an embryo is not quite a person, or that its immaturity or inability to suffer pain or its other qualities mean that destroying an embryo does not amount to taking a life, the promise of stem cell science might well outweigh any doubts. Read the rest........

NEIL POSTMAN AND "SCIENTISM".

But the dream for a science free from ideology is an illusion—in fact, it is itself an ideology. As the late agnostic Neil Postman explains in his 1992 classic, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, such a dream is better called Scientism:

It is not merely the misapplication of techniques such as quantification to questions where numbers have nothing to say; not merely the confusion of the material and social realms of human experience; not merely the claim of social researchers to be applying the aims and procedures of natural science to the human world.

Scientism is all of these, but something profoundly more. It is the desperate hope, and wish, and ultimately the illusory belief that some standardized set of procedures called “science” can provide us with an unimpeachable source of moral authority, a suprahuman basis for answers to questions like “What is life, and when, and why?” “Why is death, and suffering?” “What is right and wrong to do?”

SO WHY PRAY IF GOD IS GOD

God’s plan is so comprehensive that it not only includes the final destinies of things but also includes the secondary, creatively processes that work together to accomplish these ends. For instance, God does not simply ordain light to shine on the earth each day; He also employs the sun, the moon, the stars, and countless other things to accomplish that end. God does not merely determine that someone will recover from a disease; He uses doctors and medicine to accomplish the healing. As the playwright of history, God did not simply write an ending for the book of time. He wrote every word on every page so that all events lead to the grand finale (Pray With Your Eyes Open, 109-10).

In other words, the “all things” which God works out “according to the counsel of His will” (Eph 1:11) includes the means that He uses to bring about His ultimate ends. God uses the sun to bring light to the earth, He uses doctors to restore people to health, and He uses prayer to bring about many things He has purposed in eternity past.

CHARLES E. WHISNANT PASTORAL STUDY OFFICE

Of course the Pastor/Teacher likes to have an office. I have a whole building, sort of.
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The original church building, when Quentin King started Rivers of Joy Baptist Church, and they out grew the building, and moved into the new building. The original building then became Sunday School Class rooms. Then in the last few years, the building was out of use. So when I came on board, I said, "Hay, this would be great for my offices." So it was done. Charity is so grateful since all this stuff was in our house.

My study office is really great. Now to use it on a regular basis would be great too.

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To view a video of the building, you need to visit GROWBYLEARN.COM. I have several pages that will show you videos, and photos.
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We have several more projects that need to be finish, and when they are I will post those photos as well.
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MUSIC AMAZING GRACE BY II DIVO

First saw this video here

TEN WAYS PAUL DID NOT MINISTER

How Paul Preached Approached Preaching from cwhisnant on Vimeo. Part One
Since I can only upload 1GB (that is over 1billion byes). (Which is about 23 minutes. And I had a 43 minute sermon. So guess what? I will have part two. I hope soon..... But it does take forever for the process to happen.