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August 26, 2010

The Franklin middle school group has a new name!!!  The Young Believers!!

We are about to begin a new bible study titled Love Out Loud, by Doug Fields.  This gives a new meaning to LOL.  Ok, Ok…if you are asking what is the old meaning…Laugh Out Loud is the popular term, but now it can be LOVE OUT LOUD.  We will explore the true meaning of love and caring.  The bible reads in John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Wow!!  That is powerfull!!  Come check it out.  For more information contact Brad Rogers 405-613-8663

Traditional Christians

Rhodes” ramblings.

In the May United Methodist Reporter, Dr. Donald Haynes makes the statement that, “The Church is the only source of input in our society where God is really the subject, but the church has lost much of it’s influence and impact.” I couldn’t agree more. So many of our “main line” churches are on the decline. Our “traditional churches” have tried many ways to stop the steady decline in membership. Instead of preaching, teaching and pushing bible study they have tried other means to draw and “please” the people. Things like contemporary worship, emerging worship, high dollar marketing programs and in some cases, Starbucks and Krispy Kremes in the foyer. They end up with weak Christians with little biblical knowledge. One of the largest churches in Chicago with a membership in the thousands admitted this in a letter. The result is large congregations of weak Christians who tend to buckle in the “storms” of life and cannot live the rich full lives that God wants for them. Too many Christians are biblically illiterate. They don’t study their bible. They aren’t capable of making disciples as Jesus commanded. They are content to be spectators at church if or when they go. They don’t have a compass for their life. As a result neither do their children. Eventually they see no great purpose in traditional church and drift away into self help books and programs, feel good TV ministries, and mega-churches where they can stay anonymous and out of sight, hear a “feel good” sermon and go home. What a sad thing they do to themselves and their children. They will be easy targets for the devil and his crew. Franklin is a traditional church. We shall continue to preach, teach and study the bible so that our lives will be enriched and we can find our place in God’s plan. The bible cannot enrich our lives and give us direction if we don’t know where to find God’s will and God’s promises in it.

Gerry

VBS 2010

Franklin VBS 2010 was a blast!!! The kids love worship time, krafts and most of all the FOOD!!!

Kids and Adults learned together how God’s word can be comforting in the storms of life, but we have to have an open heart and listening ear to take advantage.

Thank you God for all the blessings we experienced this year during VBS. Thank you also for all these wonderful children, they are your gift to the world.

GOD IS GOOD!!

Treasures

Treasures in Heaven

One of my favorite scriptures is Mathew 6: 19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

My grandmother on my mother’s side was a wonderful Christian woman who struggled her whole life with one ailment after another. She had every surgery you could imagine, from heart by-pass, multiple knee surgeries and even brain surgery. She was in constant pain, but she loved to talk and have fellowship with anyone who would offer an ear. Her ailments didn’t slow her down one bit, until that fateful morning at the breakfast table where she had a stroke. Ma-maw struggled for several years with depression of not being able to talk or sing, and we struggled watching her. She could not share with us any more all the wonderful stories with her mouth, but she could still speak with her eyes. When anyone would come to see her, her eyes would light up and she wanted a hug. She loved people. It didn’t matter who you were, she just loved you because you were God’s child.

I have very fond memories when I was younger about both Ma-Maw and Pa-Paw. They owned and ran a dairy farm called Catclaw Dairy. But at the time Ma-Maw had here stroke, they were retired from the dairy and were living a good life. We couldn’t understand why Ma-Maw had to suffer, why didn’t God just take her home? Once we received word that time was drawing near, my family drove all night to San Angelo, Texas to join the rest of the family at the hospital. Ma-Maw was strong, she held on for a long time, long enough so everyone could say goodbye and give that one final hug.

After she passed, Pa-Paw asked my cousin Tonya and I to speak a few words at the funeral. I didn’t know where to begin, but I had my bible. I had started reading the bible more just that past summer. Looking back, I can see that God had been preparing me. I searched the scripture, looking for that perfect verse, and that’s when Mathew 6: 19-21 became apparent. I immediately penciled in Ma-Maw’s name in the margin of my bible.

Her heart was not filled with the things she owned, it was filled with the love for family and friends. My wife Christy remembers the first time they met. Christy got a big hug and knew right away she was family. Ma-Maw had that way of being like Jesus, you just always loved to be around her.

After she passed, one of the questions we had was answered: “why did God make her suffer for so long?” We learned Ma-Maw brought one of the ladies at the nursing home to know Jesus Christ, but she hadn’t spoken in probably 2 years or so!!! She led her to God with her eyes and her loving heart.

God’s word lives in each of us, even if we don’t know the right words to say, the Holy Spirit will guide us when it is time to lead one of His children back home.

Brad Rogers

 
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