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First Baptist ChurchNEWSLETTER January 2018

Some years ago, I received a frantic call from one of my former staff members who had just been fired. He had reported on his Sunday School envelope an amount equal to his tithe, but he was not giving that amount. He reminded me of one of my words, “Giving is never financial; it is always spiritual.” In his book entitled, “God’s Miraculous Plan of Economy,” Jack Taylor says, and I agree, that there are seven planks in God’s platform of economy.

Plank Number One: God Possesses And Presides Over All The Wealth In This World And The Next. Check out Psalms 24:1, 1 Chronicles 29:11-12, and Romans 11:36. God has more wealth than Bill Gates.

Plank Number Two: God Wants His Wealth In Circulation. There are not shortages in the world…just a terrible imbalance brought on by the sinfulness of man. Read Luke 6:38. God entrusts to us only much as we can be trusted to put into circulation.

Plank Number Three: All Of God’s Wealth Legally Belongs To His Children. Paul tells us in Rom 8:32 that we have been given all things in Christ and then reminds us in 1 Corinthians 4 that as stewards we are accountable to God.

Plank Number Four: The Way to Appropriate God’s Wealth Is To Give. That makes little sense until you read and believe Luke 6:38. When trusted and applied, that one verse can create miracles in your life.

Plank Number Five: We Are To Give, Not According To Our Apparent Wealth, But According To God’s Actual Wealth. We are to give by revelation and not rationalization. Human calculation determines the

amount to be given. Revelation giving lets God determine the amount we give.

Plank Number Six: It Is Profitable To Give God’s Way. Remember 2 Corinthians 9:6? We reap what we sow. We must ask, “Whose profit do we seek? Gods? Or Ours?”

Plank Number Seven: God Loves A Hilarious Giver. Cheerful in 2 Corinthians 9:7 is literally the word for hilarious. Are you a hilarious giver?

Money is only one dimension of our giving. We have much more to give. We have time, talents, love, concern, respect, joy, esteem, thoughtfulness, physical commodities which can benefit others, and money.

…Dr. E. Richard Steel

The Pastor’s Paragraphs

January 201810 AWANA resumes @5:30 pm10 Angels in Action, 5:00 pm, Atkins Law Office15 Church Council, 8:30 am23 Ladies Bible Study begins @9:30 am

(See weekly bulletins for updated information)

Calendar of Activities

Weekly ActivitiesSunday9:00 am Sunday School10:00 am Refreshments10:30 am Worship ServiceTuesday9:30 am Ladies Bible StudyWednesday5:30 pm AWANA5:30 pm FLYTE5:30 pm Youth5:30 pm Men’s Bible Study

AWANA Club will resume January 10, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. We are always in need of volunteers. Please pray that laborers would enter the fields that are so white with harvest.

2 Becky Eckerman3 Betty Jo Hayes3 Dorothy Bridges5 Mike Prigmore5 Michael Erwin6 Cecil Hallum7 David Boring7 Tommie Hodges7 Bradley Browder8 Lilley Mayfield9 Fred Davidson10 David Edwards11 William Lewis11 Alan Kraemer12 Brayden Crawford13 Janette Cochran13 Michelle Dabney13 Ryan Buchanan14 Erik Benestante14 Annie Reid16 Jessica McNew20 John Toland20 Tom Blomstrom22 Annalisa Drake23 Brian Sewell23 Lexi Belshee27 Glenda Braddy27 Lori McGarvey28 Julia Neeley29 Patricia Mathews29 Hunter Thomas31 Kaylee Ousman31 Travis Rich

Youth (Grades 7-12) will meet this Wednesday (1/10) at 5:30 pm.

5:30 pm January 10, 2018

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24