FBC Information & Opportunities

This Week at FBC June 14-June 21

Thank You for Volunteering!

June 14 Office: Jane Lee

June 14 Flowers: Available

June 17 Supper: Salt

June 17 Security: Russell Bright ,Matt Evans

June 18 Grounds: Cameron Pierce, Steve Morgan

June 21 Office: Joyce Burns

June 21 Flowers: Tommy & Thelma Pierce

June 24 NO WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUPPER

June 25 Grounds: Wayne & Melanie Joyner,

Keith Lancaster

June 28 Office: Helen Edwards

June 28 Flowers: Pete & Loretta Lancaster

Wednesday Evening Suppers are served at 6PM. Take-out meals available for sick & shut-in at 6:45 pm.

Suggested donation is $5 per person or $15 per family .

June 14

SUNDAY:

8:00 AM Early Worship

9:15 AM Sunday School

Contemporary Service

10:45 AM Sunday School Traditional Service

5:00 PM

6:00 PM Evening Worship

MONDAY:

10:00 AM Prayer Time

7:00 PM Celebrate Recovery

TUESDAY 6:15 PM Tae Kwon Do

WEDNESDAY:

6:00 PM Family Night Dinner

6:30 PM Discipleship Class

7:00 PM Bravehearts (Ages 18– up) Adult Study Group

Prayer Meeting

Mission Friends ( 0-6) Girls-in-Action (Ages 6-12)

RA (Boys ages 6-12)

7:00 PM Choir Practice

THURSDAY:

7:00 PM AA

SATURDAY:

7:00 AM Discipleship Class

June 21

SUNDAY:

8:00 am Early Worship

9:15 AM Sunday School

Contemporary Service

10:45 AM Sunday School

Traditional Service

5:00pm Father’s Day, no evening activities.

Serving in the Nursery June 21:

9:15 AM: Alan Wood

10:45 AM: Keith & Susan Lancaster

Laurel Pate, Kelly Farabee

9:15 Managers: Jessica Huber

Darnett Coleman

10:45 Manager: Brett Dye

Jennifer Hogg If you are unable to be there on your assigned

Sunday, please Contact Dusty Carson or the

manager, notifying them of this change.

Girl’s in Action

Father/Daughter Kickball

Wednesday, June 17

7pm meet at the baseball field.

Sunday, June 21

MESSENGER

1435 Highway 119 North Springfield, Georgia 31329 (912) 754-3443

VOL. XX June 14, 2015 No. 24

The “Messenger” can be viewed each week at www.fbc-springfield.org

A Publication of First Baptist Church of Springfield

Meets tonight at 4:30pm

Contact Margaret Coombe

Vacation Bible School

June 22-26

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more volunteers

Online Registration will continue until June 17

VBS SCRIPTURE:

Isaiah 30:21

And whenever you turn to the

right or to the left, your ears

will hear this command behind

you: This is the way.

Walk in it.

Has been reschedule for

Sunday June 28th @ 5pm.

Message from Bill Bozeman,

Interim Pastor

Keepin’ it Real With Dusty Carson

Associate Pastor

I’ll Sail My Ship Alone

Most people in this world live by this attitude: “I want to live

as I choose.” Or, “I want to set my own course.” Or, “I want to

go when and where I want to go.” Or, “I want to sail my ship

alone.” Basically, what they are saying is that they want to run

their own lives and do their own thing without anyone telling

them how, when or where to do it. Many of them want to live

without any rules or any authority over them that might

restrain them or limit their plans and actions in life.

The only thing wrong with that attitude is that it’s wrong.

There is no such thing as a life without rules, regulations and

authorities. God is the Creator and Sovereign King of this

universe and He has designed it to operate under His laws,

statutes and principles so that people can work together and

maintain order even in a fallen state. He created the heavens

and the earth and established permanent laws that would

govern them day and night. He is the ultimate authority and He

has ordained the different levels of authorities that exist today.

When we live by God’s laws we are blessed but when we vio-

late them or choose to ignore them we will experience certain

consequences. Listen to the following Scriptures:

Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 15, “Now it shall come to pass, if you

diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe

carefully all His commandments which I command you today,

that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of

the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and

overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your

God . . . . But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the

voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His

commandments and His statutes which I command you today,

that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”

Galatians 6:7-8: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for

whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows

to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows

to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”

Romans 13:1-7: “Let every soul be subject to the governing

authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the

authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever

resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those

who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are

not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be

unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have

praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good.

But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in

vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on

him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not

only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For

because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers

attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all

their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom

customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”

Psalm 22:28, “For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and He rules

over the nations.”

As stated previously, God is the ultimate authority and He has

ordained the different levels of authorities that exist today.

When we live by God’s laws we are blessed but when we

violate them or choose to ignore them we will experience

certain consequences. Instead of attempting to go our own way

and resist the laws of God, we would be far better off to submit

to Him and seek His wisdom.

I look forward to seeing you this Sunday.

Love you all. Brother Bill

We’ve all heard that as believers in Jesus we have an enemy and we

do. I believe that one of the greatest enemies of the church and the

cross is something we least expect. Let’s be honest you wouldn’t

expect an enemy to be so obvious. The enemy that we face is

transparency. The greatest enemy we face is the urge to act like we

have life all together, to fool others and then eventually ourselves. In

doing so, we turn the church, which is meant to me a trauma unit

into a museum and this is why a broken world can’t relate to church-

es. You see God is wild and he is wild about humanity. The heart-

beat of God is humanity. We try to live lives that are flawless hop-

ing to impress others, God and even ourselves. If God was looking

to be impressed, the Bible wouldn’t use the word “Abba” which

means daddy. Daddies see all that happens in the life of their chil-

dren and still loves them through the good, bad and ugly seasons of

life. God takes the mess and pains of life and turns them into a

masterpiece, for his glory and your good. If you and I were as half

as cultured as people wanted us to be and wish we were, we would

be of no use to Christianity. I love a quote by one of my heroes of

the faith Rich Mullins, excuse my paraphrasing “people will judge

and condemn, matter of fact some are looking to do that. I’d rather

live on the edge of falling and let my security be in Christ, then

living up to others pietistic illusion of moral excellence.” I believe

that revival happens, when we stop trying to impress others and

building our own kingdom. Revival happens when Christ followers

are raw, real and an example of what God can do with broken

people. You see transparency, honesty and relevance is what attracts

people to Christ through you, not perceived perfection. I have a

theory, and it might not be very popular. Everyone is broken, the

brave ones are just willing to admit it day in and day out. These

people are brave in the midst of pain. We’ve got two options, first

we can ignore it like most will or we can claim it, acknowledge it

and allow God to mend us. I write this as a person who is broken. I

don’t cling to a title or even the degrees that hang on my wall. Those

things are fleeting and very superficial and misleading at times. I

cling to Philippians 3:8 “Yes, everything else is worthless when

compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as

garbage, so that I could gain Christ.” You really want to see the

gravity of what Paul is saying go look up the original word that is

translated garbage and you will see Paul is not as sanitized as believ-

ers wish he was. What am I saying… don’t hide, but run with your

flaws and imperfections to the cross. Find joy in your Abba. Don’t

fall for the trick that you have to be perfect and have life all together

to be accepted, love, forgiven or used by God. Picasso said good

taste is the enemy of art. I’m thankful that God’s love is not cultured

but its wild and it’s free and it sometimes doesn’t make sense. I read

an article this week that sums up want my heart is saying “You can-

not sanitize grace. You can’t stuff it into a blue blazer and make it

wear khakis. Grace is messy, offensive, and it sometimes misses

church. To expect God to pump prefabricated plastic moral people

out of a religious factory is to neuter grace and chain it inside a gat-

ed community. If God’s scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs

(12 disciples) means anything, then we should expect a variegated

spectrum of righteousness and be patient—or repentant—when

such sanctification doesn’t meet our expectations. God meets us in

our mess and pushes holiness out the other side." Allow God to

wade into the waters of brokenness with you and allow him to

rescue you.

In Christ,

Dusty Carson

Sharp Words

David Sharp, Minister to Students George Pabst, Crossroads Mission Pastor

News at the Crossroads

SLU 101

June 15th –19th

www.slulead.com

Middle & High School Youth

Vacation Bible School

June 22-26

If you are volunteering for VBS meet in the loft at

8:00am every morning.

Movie Night

Every Tuesday 8:00pm-10pm

Bring a friend!

I am in need of an adult to travel with us to Cleveland. If you

are willing to serve with the students July 5-13 please let me

know. You may be need to drive a van. This would be a great

time for you to see our students serving. We will be doing two

soccer camps, baseball camp, softball camp, cheer camp and

basketball camp as well as performing Dramas and Music in

the evenings.

Vacation Bible School is fast approaching. I am in hopes that

everyone who can help has signed up. Molly is still in need of

helpers. Please go online or see Molly. Every day after VBS

we will be doing an activity. The cost is $5 per person. This

will help offset some of the expense. If you can help with

chaperoning please let me know. We have transportation for

25 people once that is full if we do not have any other adults

and vehicles we are limited the event to the first 25 paid.

The youth ministry team would like to invite all middle school

and high school students and parents to a movie night Sunday

night June 28th. We will be showing an outdoor movie. Bring

your lawn chairs and blankets. I will be serving hotdogs, chips

and drinks as well. Please come enjoy the fun with your

student.

Summer time always means time at the pool. Tonight our

coed small group will be meeting at the Bevills. Regular time

5-7. Food will be provided. If you would like to come swim,

fellowship, and learn about a small group, come hang out with

us.

We have two students and adults leaving for SLU in the

morning. Please pray for their safety as they travel to Orlando

and that God will show them how he would like to use them as

leaders in the future. I am very excited for them as they will

evaluate what God has done and will continue to do in their

lives.

Forgiveness, so misunderstood!

For the past two weeks I have been speaking about forgiveness

based on an article at MarkMerrill.com Forgiveness is not what

you think! The following is an outline of sorts. It will probably

evoke more questions. That’s good. We start with

Forgiveness is NOT:

A Feeling If it were we would never do it because we

would never feel like it!

Weakness It requires more strength to recognize the

wrong, declare it and deal with it.

Ignoring It is not ignor ing the hur t or hiding from it. It

is just the opposite.

Forgetting It is what God does but you are I are not God.

At least not like him yet!

Condoning It is not excusing the wrong. It neither mini-

mizes nor justifies the act.

Reconciling We are to forgive and r econciliation may

follow but it is not necessary for forgiveness

Based on THEIR actions or inaction it really is about

us and our actions. They may never acknowledge the

wrong or even know of the wrong. We should forgive to

let go of the hurt and begin healing.

Conditional It does not contain clauses like If you do this

and this and this…then I will forgive you. It’s not about

them! It’s you letting go!

A Free Pass Sin has a way of finding us out. It will come

back to bite us again and again if we don’t change our

ways.

Revenge It is not a way to make the other feel bad so they

can hurt like you.

Justice God is the judge of the righteous and the unright-

eous. ALL will stand in judgment before him with Christ

or without!

Change The other person that is. Their actions, thoughts

or behaviors. It’s about changing yours.

Trust Because you forgive another does not mean you

have to trust them. It may mean that you can and will and

that is best. Forgiveness is freely given. Trust must be

earned with consistent truth telling over a period of time

usually longer than we think.

Changing the Past Rather it is to draw a line in the sand

to change the present and the future from her on out.

Forgiveness IS: A Command with a Consequence

A command of God is for our best interest. It is for our benefit.

We don’t like being told what to do that’s why we rebel. But

God’s heart is good. He is for us not against us. He has way too

much invested in us to destroy us although it would be his right

as we can never repay the debt we owe to him. 14-15 “In prayer

there is a connection between what God does and what you do.

You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also

forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself

off from God’s part. Matthew 6:14-15 The Message

In HIS Service and Yours

Bro G