Johnson Avenue church of Christ

iglesia de Cristo “Where God’s family builds eternal homes”

523 South Johnson Ave | El Cajon, CA 92020 | 619-444-6106 | www.jacofc.org

To Our Guests, Thanks for coming today! Stay a while after services, let us get to know you!

Chris Quinn, Evangelist Andrew Lemus, Evangelist Oscar Velazquez, Evangelista

JACOC Prayer List Be sure to include them in your daily prayers

Ethan & Jocabed Smith (currently working in Japan) Dottie Swaim (recovering from car accident) James Josephson (turning is life back to God) Joe Baruffaldi (health issues) Carol Reed (death of husband, Roland) Dick & Paula Root (friends of Baruffaldi’s), health issues Bev MacDowney (friend of Carol Baruffaldi, has been diagnosed with breast cancer) Liz Smothers (recovering from stroke) Samael De La Rosa (battling leukemia) Tony Clark, (brother of Natalie Price) fighting drugs Haydee Garza (friend of Jennifer Edwards, brain tumor) Debbie Stinson (undergoing radiation treatments) Carol Crawford (heart problems) Archie Morris (Carol Crawford's brother, leukemia) Betty Jourdan (Carol Crawford’s sister, heart surgery) Barry Smith (cancer) Lucca Baruffaldi (developmental challenges) Ralph & Mabel Pray (Father and Stepmother of Betsy Quinn, both are in declining health) Mark Walsh (being treated for ongoing health issues) Latrice Nadeau (health issues, now in long-term care) Carla Farrell (complications from Multiple Sclerosis) Tisi Weins (Richard Renteria’s daughter, ongoing illness)

Make the Prayer List a part of your everyday

Prayer life! 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." Do you have someone who needs prayers for strength, comfort, support, or healing? We can help!

1. You may submit your request to one of our elders, deacons, or evangelists.

2. Email your request to prayers@jacofc.org Also remember in your prayers the men we support who are working to spread God’s Word around the world: Surender Yerra | Mumbai, India Derrick Victor | Oxnard, California Dan DeGarmo | Chillicothe, Ohio Ariel Villa | Tijuana, Mexico Chris Quinn | El Cajon, California Andrew Lemus | El Cajon, California Oscar Velazquez | El Cajon, California Crisis House Food Pantry - next collection is May 28. Please place your donations in the bins in the lobby. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

SAVE THE DATES! July 10-14, 2017 – Vacation Bible School VBS is coming soon. Be sure to mark your calendar, and start thinking ahead about what you would like to do to help out this year! Everyone has a talent, and those talents are needed to help share God’s Word with the children who will attend!

Have an idea for an act of spiritual service that you would like to recommend,

lead, or assist in? Let us know!

Take time to enjoy a QUOTEFALLS “BIBLE QUOTE” PUZZLE

The object of QuoteFalls is to construct a quotation by selecting from available letters in the vertical columns. The letters in each column of the puzzle will go into the squares immediately below them, but not necessarily in the order they appear. A word broken at the end of a line will continue on the next line. A black square indicates the end of the word. When all letters are in their correct squares, you will be able to read a quotation across the grid from left to right. NOTE: If you need a hint, check the bottom of the BIRTHDAYS section.

May 7, 2017

Church Schedule Programa Español es en Azul

SUNDAY CLASSES 9:00 AM Front of Auditorium

Equipping the Saints Taught by Chris Quinn

Rear of Auditorium

The Book Of Colossians Taught by Scott Anglin

Sala 13 - Arriba CLASE DE BIBLIA

Impartido por Oscar Velazquez

SUNDAY 10:00 AM SERVICES Should we be Blamed

Romans 9 Chris Quinn

10:00 AM - SERVICIO ESPAÑOL Oscar Velazquez

SUNDAY 5:00 PM SERVICES A Working Faith James 2:14-26 Andrew Lemus

WEDNESDAY 7PM Bible Study Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

Taught by Keith Vail

Sala 13 - Arriba CLASE DE BIBLIA

Impartido por Oscar Velazquez

Next Week

SUNDAY 10:00 AM SERVICES Salvation is for All!

Romans 10 Chris Quinn

SUNDAY 5:00 PM SERVICES The Righteous

Shall Live by Faith Chris Quinn

The Johnson Avenue Church of Christ Vision Statement “We are growing together as a close, loving, spiritual family; edifying and equipping ourselves

for discipleship, spreading God’s word as faithful soldiers of Christ, while doing everything to the Glory of God”

Morning Messenger

TODAY!! – Financial Meeting There will be a financial meeting with the church membership TODAY, after AM services. Please be sure to make arrangements so you can stay for this important meeting. Thank you. Prayers Needed Leah Evans, mother of Donetta Roberts, had her gall bladder removed recently. It was infected, and she is now at home recovering with the help of home health care. Keep her in your prayers for complete healing from the surgery. Laurie Bowman’s father, Max Meyer, fell and broke his hip on April 23. He is recovering at Stanford Court and is expected to be there for the next several weeks to rehabilitate. Pray for healing and proper treatment during this time for the Bowman and Meyer families. Eduardo and Fernando Guevara's mom (Gabriela) was taken to ICU in México on Pneumonia. The doctors continue to treat her for the pneumonia, as well as an injury to her recent hip replacement. Eduardo and Fernando request prayers for their mom. Thank you. Our brother Samael de la Rosa needs our prayers as his treatments for Leukemia do not seem to be working. Pray that he and his family continue to find strength in God. Send a card, or set up a visit to see Leatrice Nadeau, as she needs our prayers and attention. Two of her close friends in the facility she is living in have moved away, leaving a big hole in her daily activities. It’s Your Opportunity to Speak! Men, we are looking for you to speak during our Summer Speaker Series. This is your opportunity to present a 20-minute talk. Contact John McConnaughy or Randy Johnson for more info. May 2017 Duty Assignment list is available! Be sure to get a copy in the foyer, and plan ahead to serve as scheduled. Thank You for your help!

CONGREGATIONAL FIVE DAYS A WEEK

New Testament BIBLE READING

WEEK 18 | May 6-12 MON: 1 Sam 18-19; 1 Chr 3;

Ps 59; Acts 13 TUE: 1 Sa 20;1 Chr 4;

Ps 56, 57, 142; Acts 14 WED: 1 Sam 21-22; 1 Chr 5;

Ps 52; Acts 15 THU: 1 Sam 23-24; 1 Chr 6;

Ps 54; Acts 16 FRI: 1 Sam 25; 1 Chr 7;

Acts 17

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with

great eagerness and examined the Scriptures

every day to see if what Paul said was true.

MEMBER INFORMATION The JACOC financial statements are always available to our members upon request. Please ask one of the elders and we will make sure to get a copy to you.

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Sermon Points of Focus MAY BIRTHDAYS

5/1 Jack Sutton 5/3 Norma Appel 5/3 Mary de la Rosa Solano 5/4 Ryan Swaim 5/6 Gavin Kenyon 5/6 Rose Morris 5/7 Ray Baker 5/7 Chris Delgado 5/7 Melissa Ramsey 5/10 Jeff Howell 5/11 Alexa Galeana 5/17 Agatha Agbarakwe 5/17 Julie McConnaughy 5/18 Roberto Reyes 5/18 Cherry King 5/20 Conrad Jarrell 5/21 Lana Swinea 5/23 Daniel Hoskins 5/23 London Hoskins 5/23 Pierce Hoskins 5/25 Greyson Price 5/24 Donna Smith 5/25 Angi Schirer 5/25 Lucia Stone 5/27 Taylor Mulligan 5/29 Samantha de la Rosa Solano 5/29 Magdelena Velazquez

MAY ANNIVERSARIES 5/5 Jeff & Kelly Howell 5/14 Jack & Georgia Howell 5/14 John & Natalie Price 5/18 Harry & Angi Schirer 5/22 Don & Rosie Tapper 5/24 Mark & Kerri Walsh 5/26 Dillard & Jolene Harwell 5/27 Ray & Susie Heavilin

5/27 James & Lili Tapper

Looking for a great way to grow spiritually in

2017? Why not put your FAITH INTO ACTION by joining

us on one of the SERVICE PROJECT

workdays, scheduled for June 3 AND July 8. See Andrew Lemus for info!

Quotefalls Hint: John 9 (NIV)

If the Gospel is True, God Has Not Been Fair In His Treatment of Israel Bruce Reeves, La Vista church of Christ

Morning Messenger Sermon Scriptures for Sunday, May 7, 2017

1. Romans 9:19 “You will say to me then, “Why does he still find _____________ ? For who can resist his will?”

2. Romans 9:20 “But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ 21 Has the _______________ no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

3. Romans 9:22 “ What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his

power, has endured with much _______________ vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,”

4. Romans 9:23 “in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of _______________, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?”

5. Romans 9:25 “As indeed he says in Hosea, ‘Those who were not my people I will call ‘my _______________,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

6. Ephesians 2:11-13 “Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought _______________ by the blood of Christ.”

7. Romans 9:27 “And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ‘Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be _______________, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.’”

8. Romans 9:29 “And as Isaiah predicted, ‘If the Lord of hosts had not left us _______________, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.”

9. Romans 9:30 “What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by _______________;

10. Romans 9:31 “but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to _______________ did not succeed in reaching that law.

11. Romans 9:32 “Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on _______________.”

12. Romans 9:32 “They have stumbled over the _______________ stone,”

13. Romans 9:33 “as it is written, ‘Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to _______________.’”

The Jewish defiance against the gospel's inclusion of Gentile believers, as well as its rejection of Jewish unbelievers escalates to a charge against God Himself, "You will say to me then, 'Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?'" (Romans 9:19). The Jewish conception is that since God established Israel as His people through Abraham and through the Law, God is unfair if He rejects circumcised Jews who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ (Romans 2:17-24; 9:14). Basically they were blaming God for their own unbelief, as if they had caught God in the "horns of a dilemma." Their reasoning seems distorted, but it is similar to the discussion earlier in Romans, "But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous is He? (I am speaking in human terms). May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world … Their condemnation is just" (Romans 3:5-6, 8). How could God use the Jewish people to provide the Messiah and yet reject them due to their unbelief? The Jews' accusation against the gospel according to Paul was in reality slander against God Himself. To argue that God's use of unbelievers to accomplish His purposes renders Him responsible for their wickedness is slanderous. The Calvinistic interpretation of this passage grants the Jewish argument Paul denies! It is only by divorcing Romans 9:10-24 from the surrounding context that this passage has been interpreted primarily in terms of unconditional individual election. Paul rebukes the perverse rebelliousness of the unbelieving Jew, "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, 'Why have you made me like this?' Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?" (Romans 9:20-21). The unbelieving Jews had no right to demand God to be answerable to them - God sets the criteria for justification, not them (Romans 10:1-3). The Jews were attempting to obligate God to fulfill their false concepts of His purpose, which were contrary to Old Testament scripture.