Bulletin for October 11, 2020
Welcome to church! Jim Garrett is preaching this morning from the series on Revelations.
Service is at 10:30.
Sunday School is meeting at 9:15 AM!
Sunday School is meeting at 9:15 AM!
Childcare is available again during Sunday School and church time.
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Songs This Week:
Great Things
Everlasting God
Holy Spirit
Great are you Lord
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Upcoming Events:
"Threads" is our regular Wednesday night program at FSBC. Join us for a meal at 6, followed by devotions looking at the Fruits of the Spirit, and ending with a time of games and fellowship. This is every Wednesday night from 6-8.
Nominating team for next year's committees is made up of Wes Underwood, Elsie Spencer, Cliff Hooker, Sara Bouchard, and Cathy Fitzsimmons. Please prayerfully consider where you can use your talents to serve at FSBC.
Christmas is coming! Join your friends at FSBC in supporting Operation Christmas Child. We have a table set up where you can get more information. Items on the table can help you start your shoebox. Make sure your shoeboxes are returned by November 15th. Let's share the gospel with Christmas gifts!
The deacon search team has been selected by our members. The search team includes Kyle Kistler, Steve Fergerson, Wes Underwood, Bob Plum, and Dahlton Strobel. Please pray for them as they seek God's guidance in finding deacons for our church.
The pastor search team is Steve Fergerson, Bob Plum, Annette Adalpe, Crystal Strobel, and Rodney Jackson. The alternates are Kathy Anderson and Cammi Kistler. Please pray for them as they go through the process of looking for our next pastor.
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Sermon notes for this week:
The Messages to the Seven Churches
Church at Ephesus
Characteristics of Christ: The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden Lampstands.—See Revelation 1:12
Words of praise: I know your deeds, your hard work, and perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
Words of criticism: Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had a first.
Words of promise: To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God or New Jerusalem—See Revelation 22:2
Church at Smyrna
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of him who is the First and Last, who died and came to life again.—See Revelation 1:17-18.
Words of Praise: I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Don’t be afraid of the persecution you are about to suffer. Be faithful, even to the point of death.
Words of criticism: none
Words of promise: The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.—See Revelation 20:14-15.
Church at Pergamum
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of him who has the sharp double-edged sword. See Revelation 1:16.
Words of praise: I know where you live (note, not I know your deeds)—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
Words of criticism: There are some among you who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teachings of the Nicolaitans.
Words of Promise: To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. See Revelation 19:9.
Church at Thyatira
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Words of praise: I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service, and perseverance and that you are doing more than you did at first. ( because of their love produced service)
Words of criticism: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching, she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.
Words of promise: To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations. I will also give that one the morning star.—See Revelation 20:4; 22:16
Church at Sardis
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.—See Revelation 1:4
Words of praise: Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.
Words of criticism: I know your deeds, you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.
Words of promise: Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. The one who is victorious will like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.--See Revelation 21:27.
Church at Philadelphia
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the keys of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
Words of praise: I know your deeds. See I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
Words of criticism: More of an admonition, hold on to what you have so that no one will take your crown.
Words of promise: The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from My God; and I will also write on them my new name.—See Revelation 21:2
Church at Laodicea
Characteristics of Christ: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. –See Isaiah 65:16 (the Amen is also the God of truth) Colossians 1:15
Words of praise: none.
Words of criticism: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Words of promise: To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. –See Revelation 20:4
Attendance last week: 75
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Offering last week: $4,270 of which $525 was designated for Viola Webb
Online offering last month: $7,718.32
Viola Webb offering goal for our church is $1500.
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