ELDERS William Berry Dave Domingue Glenn Hitchcock

Tom Loftis Steve Stout

Email Address: wrcoc@wrcoc.com

Office Number: (478) 922-3056

MINISTER Tim Childs

Sunday Morning Bible Study 9:00 am

Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 am

Sunday Night Worship 5:00 pm

Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 pm

Ladies Tuesday Morning Class 10:00 am (September—May)

1947 Watson Blvd. Warner Robins, GA 31093

Website: www.wrcoc.com

The Reflector July 9, 2017

Going the Extra Mile In our modern age of principally engaging in selfish interests, Christians must not neglect to revisit the theme pertaining to “the spirit of Christ” and adopt it on a greater scale. Have many of us forgotten what Jesus Christ is all about? Have we allowed what is most important in the kingdom of heaven to lapse from our memories (cf. 1 Peter 4:1-2)? Examining the life of our Lord during his public ministry, we observe the life of a Man who loved to serve and bless His fellowman. Jesus did not come to be petted, pampered and waited upon. He did not come to amass an impressive treasury. However, the “Son of man” did come “to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Jesus cared and contin-ues to care about the well-being of people (just like you and me), not the least of which is the fulfilling of man’s spiritual needs. Are you and I following in His steps? Reflect a moment upon a given day when Jesus, the pre-eminent spiritual leader of God’s peo-ple, entered the small town of Capernaum on the northern coast of the Sea of Galilee. There He was approached by a centurion who pleaded with Him on behalf of a personal servant who “…lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented” (Matthew 8:6). In Jesus’ typical spirit of willingness to go out of his way to bless, He kindly assured the officer: “I will come and heal him.” You and I may not grasp the extent to which Jesus was offering to put Himself out, but appar-ently the military commander thought it was too great a sacrifice on Jesus’ part. The Roman centurion had both faith and insight to understand Jesus’ authority and power, and essentially insisted that Jesus not go to the trouble of travelling to the dwelling of the palsied man. Jesus announced He was quite impressed with the centurion’s tremendous faith and promptly healed the centurion’s servant without going to meet him. In His famed address, Jesus taught us, His disciples, to go the second mile in our service. “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two” (Matthew 5:41). We can never bring honour to Him whose name we profess to wear when we cut corners and see just how little we can do to get by. Skimpy on service is not like Jesus, the Christ. - Tim Childs

The church library is availa-ble Mon-Fri, 9AM-3PM. Our librarian is Peggy Maddox. Link to use for searching: http://wrcc.mysurpass.net. Ladies’ Bible Class will resume on September 12th. Baby Shower for Bailey Hart July 9th @ 3:00 PM in the fellowship room. Bailee is registered at Target & babylist.com. Camp Inagehi July 9th-14th. See Ryan Jump or Brian Har-gett for information. Sunday Night for the Sav-ior will meet July 9th after evening service. Bring finger-foods or a dessert and drinks. Ladies’ Night Out July 10th @ 6 PM at Cracker Barrel. Men’s Fellowship Lunch-eon July 13th @ 11:30 AM at Ole Times Country Buffet. GIFTS will meet Sunday, July 16th at 3:30 PM in Room 300.

Ice Cream Social July 16th in the fellowship room after evening service. Congrega-tion invited - bring your favor-ite ice cream. Young Adult Fellowship Ju-ly 17th @ 7-9 PM in the fel-lowship room. Youth Group Devotional July 18th @ 6-9 PM in the fellowship room. Youth Group Scavenger Hunt July 20th @ 6 PM. Youth Group Service Out-ing July 21st. Visitation July 22nd @ 9:30 AM. Meet in fellowship room. WR Rehabiltation & Nurs-ing Center Singing July 23rd after evening service. Young Adult Fellowship Ju-ly 24th @ 7-9 PM in the fel-lowship room. Youth Group Devotional July 25th @ 6-9 PM in the fellowship room.

TOPICS FOR SUNDAY: Sunday Bible Class: Auditorium: Dave Domingue - John 17 Fellowship Room: William Berry: Acts 9 AM Scripture Reading: 1 John 2:15-17 AM Lesson: “Resisting Worldliness” AM Scripture Reading Ephesians 4:29-32 PM Lesson: “God Has Feelings, Too!” The Elders request one of the following versions be used for scripture readings: King James, New King James, English Standard Version, or New American Standard Version

Attendance-week of July 2 Sunday Bible Class: 109 Sunday AM Worship 200 Sunday PM Worship 88 Wednesday PM: 112 Finance Contribution: $ 6,693.82 Weekly Budget: $ 6,971.48

NURSERY DUTY 7-9-17

Infant AM Jan Stout Toddler AM Fran Brennan Darcy Emerson PM Johanna Moore

THE WARNER ROBINS REFLECTOR

Josh Casson is having pain from a back injury.

Joyce Cox will be having cata-ract surgery on July 10th and July 24th.

David Whitehead is having increased loss of mental and physical functions.

Bob Sisk is having serious breathing difficulties due to COPD.

Bill Camp is having health problems and shoulder pain.

Lynelle Meadows is recuperat-ing from shoulder replacement surgery.

Emily Webb is recuperating from a broken foot.

Sally Walker had back surgery on June 16th.

Christopher Peterson, Nadine Guerry’s grandson, is recuperat-ing from abdominal surgery relat-ed to Crohns Disease.

Mark Allen, Annie Pearl Allen’s son, is recuperating at home from an infection in his foot.

Jerry Franklin, Missy Jenkins’ father, will begin radiation treat-ments in August for prostate cancer.

Glenn Edwards, the brother of David Edwards, has pancreatic cancer.

Charles Knight, Rosemary Knight’s brother, is struggling through cancer treatments.

Sympathy to the family of:

Susan Skidgel, David Smith’s neice (daughter of Judy Mailen, David’s youngest sister) who passed away June 28th in Ellijay, GA.

Please see the Extended Prayer List for others in need of prayer. Please let the church office know of any needed changes/updates.)

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER LIST

Summer Series 2017 The Family of God

Wednesday Nights in the Auditorium @ 7:00 PM

Date: Topic: Speaker: July 12 Priorities for Families - Kingdom First Steve Stout

July 19 An Example for Families - Pure Speech Steve Waller

July 26 Time for Families - Communication Glenn Hitchcock

August 2 Directions for Families - Raising Godly Children David Decker

August 9 The Absolute for Families - Bible Class & Worship Josh Casson

August 16 The Required Connection for Families - The Church William Berry

August 23 Family Finances and Honoring God Tom Loftis

August 30 The Sustainer of Christian Families - Fellowship David Smith

Your elders meet every Sunday at

3:00 pm in this building.

If you wish to meet with them ,

please let them know.

God’s Plan of Salvation - * Hearing of the gospel: Rom. 10:14-17, Acts 10:33 * Believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God (faith): John 8:24, Rom. 10:8-17 * Repenting of my sins: Luke 13:3, Acts 2:38 * Confess Christ: Rom. 10:10, Matt. 10:32-33 * Baptism for the remission of sins: Acts 2:38, Rom. 6:3-5 * Live faithfully unto the Lord daily: Matt. 10:22, Rev. 2:10

Where Bible Studies/Lessons can be seen on Cable TV & the Internet Gospel Broadcasting Network www.gbntv.org Tue. 5:30 am & Fri. 11:30 am GBN app (on smartphone) or www.gbntv.org/live-feed.aspx at 7:30 am daily & Thursday 7 pm

In Search of the Lord’s Way-Cable TV Internet: www.searchtv.org Cox: Sunday 7:30 am channel 3, & 7:00 am on 9 Watson Cable: Sunday, 7:30 am, channel 6 GBN: Sunday 8:30 am & 8:00 pm; Mon-Fri 11 am/pm Direct TV, Sunday, 7:30 am, channel 367

Getting to Know Your Bible Cox Cable—Macon, GA: Tue. 1:00 pm—Channel 18 Thur. 8:30 am—Channel 18 Sat. 6:30 am—Channel 18 Analog TV: Channel 88.6

The Elders’ Edification

Try Beginning Again By Gus Nichols

Perhaps some reader has tried to be a Christian, but failed. If so why not try again? Great success does not always come from a single effort. Worthwhile things are worth trying and striving for, even if we must try again and again. In the year 1917 a tornado destroyed our home, blew us away and ruined our crops on a farm before it tore into Carbon Hill, Alabama, and left the dead and the homeless in its wake. But we did not give up and quit. The next spring we found ourselves planting again and soon we were growing a crop. Life is very much like that. Wars are not usually won by a single battle. But battle after battle must be fought before the victory belongs to those who win the last battle. Very few spend a long life in the service of Christ without getting discouraged and, for the moment, giving up in despair. But those who overcome the world are they who (if need be) try again and again—who refuse to surrender to the evil one. If they fail, they go down fighting, soon to rise again. It is easy to give up and quit when the going gets rough, as it most certainly will soon-er or later. Long roads usually have some detours and rough places over which one must travel in order to reach the desired destiny. The Christian life is like running a race. “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2). “I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway” (I Corinthians 9:26-27). If one falls, he should get up and try again. The new birth is a sort of “Land of Begin-ning Again” (John 3:5). So is a restoration of an erring child of God. “Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multi-tude of sins” (James 5:19-20).