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September's Events September 17-18
Check out information regarding Sarah Palin coming to Missoula, Montana on September 12, 2010. Tickets are available at Teen Challenge: 543.1912 for $100 per person. http://www.teenchallengepnw.com/montana_womens/palin/index.html
COMMUNITY GROUPS Mike McGovern Keith & Pennie Mobley Karl & Brenda Williams Aimee Baskett & Chris Sims Jack & Ellisteen Smith Scot & Shelly Colwell Celebrate Recovery Water Baptisms take place the 2nd Wednesday of every month. The preceding Sunday, Pastor Scot teaches a Water Baptism class in the Prayer Room. Sign up sheet is at the Information Center.
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Welcome!We welcome you to Christian Assembly! Every week the staff prays that God would give us visitors to whom we would be a blessing. We want to help you feel right at home and our hope is that you would feel welcome to worship with us. It won't take you long to discover that this Church is truly a family. Our doors are open, as well as our hearts. We have a number of ministries that could well be of spiritual benefit to you. We would be honored to serve you in an ongoing way and would be equally blessed if Christian Assembly would become a place you could call your spiritual home. Please feel free to call the church at 406.721.6884 if you have any questions regarding Christian Assembly or if we may be of any assistance. In the service of the Savior,
“Love Makes It Hard To Hate!” Several Sundays ago, I spoke on “Outrageous Love.” When Jesus said, “Love you enemies,” He shocked people! The people of His day were caught off guard. Romans were shocked and His disciples understandably bewildered. The command to “love your enemies” is as shocking today as it was then. America is getting ample opportunity to love its enemies. To some degree, over the past 100 years, we have had some successes. Our nation has been plunged into some wars it didn’t start, but finished and then rebuilt the nations we demolished, because something in the soul of Americans says, “love your enemies.” Today, as in earlier times, we are found fighting another war. This time, the war is different! We are at war with people who don’t have addresses, live in multiple countries that are not their own, have no governments but their own, and for the most part we don’t even know their names and what they look like. We call them “terrorists!” They don’t fight fair and they don’t discriminate. Old men and women, to children, are their victims and if they can destroy military targets, that’s a plus. This is a most unusual enemy to love…I mean, where are they so that we can love them? It is almost an impossible question to answer, if it wasn’t so simple…love everybody as Jesus Christ did. He knew His denier and betrayer and His executioner, we don’t. We might have some of them also. Loving all people may not keep them from hurting us, but it will make it harder for them and we will be walking in the way of the Master. Love can hurt, but love makes it hard to hate! Mike
"When Political Correctness Is The Last Consideration The early Christian community in Galatia was having their faith rattled by troublemakers. People who claimed to be Christ followers were, in essence, stating that Jesus Christ isn’t enough. The apostle Paul said, in contemporary English, that he wished that “everyone who is upsetting you would not only get circumcised, but would cut off much more” (Galatians 5:12 CEV). Wow! That doesn’t have too much political sensitivity to it, does it? Is it ever politically correct to be intolerant? Is it ever right for intoleration to trump the sociability of toleration? For many, the answer is “never.” Toleration of all belief systems, even to some misinformed Christians, is a cardinal doctrine, yet without any Biblical warrant. For the apostolic fathers of the early church, there was no toleration of anything aside from the doctrine of Christ; “Whoever… does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God” (2 John 9). Paul, to the Galatian Church, said that there were some “…who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed” (Gal. 1:7-8). If the apostles would speak a curse of damnation over anyone, including themselves, if they altered the good news (gospel), I would say that the false mantra in America of toleration of beliefs has no place in authentic Christianity. When it comes to the complete work of Christ, there are no necessary add-ons. To do so would be endorsing a tragic heresy that Jesus Christ is not sufficient or enough. When it came to the gospel, Paul did not tiptoe around with a political soft peddle of toleration that all roads lead to heaven. His provocative language here, of cutting off more than circumcision requires (or castrating themselves), was a graphic word picture. The false teachers were saying, “You have to become Jewish (be circumcised) to be Christian (saved).” Paul is saying to the false teachers, “Why not really show your devotion to God and go all the way. This will really prove to God how serious you are and ultimately you won’t be able to propagate your false doctrine any longer.” So how does Paul’s politically incorrect zinger of an illustration against toleration apply to us today? In short, the believer has no wiggle room. Christian faith doctrinally (its core teachings) is intolerant to any other belief system, or as its LORD said: “He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18). In another place, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). We love those of different faith, but we are intolerant of what they believe. People of other beliefs are condemned if they are not converted to the saving faith in Jesus Christ alone! Solus Christus (in Christ alone), Mike Homepage |
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