Greeters for Today

Door 1 Tyler & Carrie Stallons

And Cohen

Door 2 Ed & Tammy Staley

Door 3 Roy & Dana Staley

Collin and Ryan

Door 4 Freddie & Carole Sweeney

Van Drivers If you need a ride, please call the

church office.

Southside Church of Christ 529 Country Club Lane Hopkinsville KY 42240

Sunday Morning Worship January 7, 2017

Song Director ............ .......... David Howell Prayer ....................... .......... Mike Dougherty Prayer ........................ .......... Tim Arvin Announcements ........ .......... Pete Harry Scripture Reader ....... .......... Carey Laster Speaker ..................... .......... Bryan Dill Sermon… ................... .......... God At The Center

Dismissal Prayer ........ .......... Roy Staley

Teaching Children’s Worship – Roy & Dana Staley

Helpers—Logan Scott and Lexy Oatts

Communion to Shut-Ins Gerame Wells and Tim Arvin

Wednesday Evening Prayer— 1/10

Ed Staley

Sunday Evening Service Song Director ............ .......... David Howell Prayer ....................... .......... Freddy Farmer Speaker ..................... .......... Bryan Dill Sermon ……………. ...... .......... Creation

Dismissal Prayer ........ .......... Pete Harry

Canaan’s Kids — Roy & Dana Staley

Sunday Morning Worship January 14, 2017

Song Director ............. ......... David Howell Prayer ........................ ......... Prayer ......................... ......... Lester Buckner Announcements ......... ......... Pete Harry Scripture Reader ........ ......... Carey Laster Speaker ...................... ......... Bryan Dill Sermon …………….Simple Faith and The Church

Dismissal Prayer ......... ......... Peyton Crump

Teaching Children’s Worship – Bob & Donna Pickerill

Helpers—Ehtan Noel and Hope Jones

Communion to Shut-Ins Mark Burman and Brian Oatts

Wednesday Evening Prayer— 1/17

Raymond Perry

Sunday Evening Service Song Director ............. ......... David Howell Prayer ........................ ......... Roy Staley Speaker ...................... ......... Bryan Dill Sermon ……………. ....... ......... Sin

Dismissal Prayer ......... ......... Duane Moore

Canaan’s Kids — Roy & Dana Staley

Phone: 270-885-8392 Fax: 270-885-7615 Email: southsidecoc@hesenergy.net

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Welcome!

If you are visiting with us today please feel free to participate. We will sing and pray to the Lord and express our

adoration and thanksgiving for all the blessings He freely gives. We will have an offering this morning and we do not

want our visitors to feel obligated in any way. There is an infant nursery located through the double doors located to

the left of the pulpit. The toddler nursery is located up the stairs in the foyer. A children’s worship is provided for

children ages 18 months through 4 on the second floor which will be announced during our service. Please turn your

cell phone ringers off during our service.

Birthdays Brynlee Ervin Jan. 9 Trent Wells Jan. 10 Lauren Burman Jan. 12 Bailey Kington Jan. 12 Linda Robertson Jan. 12

Anniversaries Jackie & Ravinell Morris—Jan. 9

Ushers for January Foyer—Tony Vierra, Logan Scott and Freddy Farmer

Side Door Ushers—Lester Buckner and Tommy Brooks

Serve Communion in December Preside Mike Medeiros

Albert Passenau Bob Pickerill Freddie Sweeney John Lancaster Mark Burman Brad Dougherty Robert Jones Ethan Noel

Nursery Attendants: Sue Maxwell and Becca Hostilo

Baby Nursery Attendants: Teri Brooks and Marsha Garnett

Elders Scott Cowan Pete Harry

Duane Moore Wesley Parker

Ed Staley John Wheeler

Minister Bryan Dill

502-320-0007 pbc23@yahoo.com

Associate Minister Walter B. Edwards

270-881-0871

Youth Minister Scott Wilson 615-430-1875

scott.wilson@hesenergy.net

Counselor

Ann Vander Linden 886-3089

Missionaries Ricardo Alvarado

Costa Rica Allan Lopez

Panama Dorian Flynn

Africa

Sunday Services Bible School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:00 AM Evening Worship

5:00 PM

Wednesday Services Bible Class 6:30 PM

Internet Home Page www.southsidehopkinsville.

com

Let’s examine Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Honestly, I’ve been shocked this week as I’ve dug deeper into this verse. Let’s look at it together.

How It’s Often Read One way people read this passage is a promise that if you teach your children about God, they will be faithful to Him in adulthood. Sadly, this has caused a lot of pain and sorrow for parents whose children have left the faith. They wonder, “Did I not train them in the way they should go? Is this my fault?” Or, worse yet, they wonder why God broke His promise. Trying to move away from that interpretation, many have suggested that the phrase, “The way he should go” is specific to each individual child. In other words, they believe this passage is more about training a child to embrace his or her own unique gifts and talents; finding the path that God has for him or her as an individual. After examining the words and phrases in this passage, it seems to me that both of these interpretations miss the mark.

The Context of Proverbs First, the book of Proverbs is NOT a book of promises. We shouldn’t read the Proverbs as saying, “If you do X, then God promises Y will always happen as a result.” Rather, the book of Proverbs is a book of wise sayings, phrased in such a way as to be pithy and memorable. When taken as a whole, these proverbs help God’s covenant people – especially young people – develop a heartfelt appreciation for wise, righteous, and godly living. Each proverb captures and encapsulates a particular truth about wise living and expresses it in poetic form, Hebrew parallelism. Obviously, no single proverb can exhaust the subject it addresses (and it isn’t attempting to do so). Each proverb is simp-ly saying, “If you remember, and live by this truth, you and the people around you will have a much better life.” (continued on page 2)

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This week’s chronological Bible

in A Year reading schedule:

Jan. 8—Job 17-20 Jan. 9—Job 21-23 Jan. 10—Job 24-28 Jan. 11—Job 29-31 Jan. 12—Job 32-34 Jan. 13—Job 35-37 Jan. 14—Job 38-39

The yard sale to raise money for Partners4Africa

has been CHANGED to February 3rd from 8 AM to

noon in the Family Life Center. Please plan to

bring your donations starting January 31st. If

you need to bring it before then, please call Carol Myers. It will help if you can price your items. We also need volunteers to set up and

run the sale.

A contribution has been made to the

Building Fund in memory of Mark Howell,

Todd Hayes and Paul Hostilo by Barbara

Smith

Lanie Bivins, daughter of Holly,

was baptized last Sunday at

Southside.

Be sure

and tell

Lanie and

her family

how happy you are for her!

(continued from Page 1) Train Up” Proverbs 22:6 begins with the Hebrew word, “hanak.” This word appears in three other verses in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 20:5; 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chron-icles 7:5). Interestingly, every other time this word is used, it is not translated, “train up,” it is translated, “dedicate.” It means to get something started or initiate something. So the first part of the Proverb is about starting a child off in a certain direction or starting him on a path. “In the Way He [Should] Go” The next phrase is very interesting. The word “should” does not actually appear in the original Hebrew at all. The phrase literally means, “in his way.” The Hebrew word for “way” appears 69 times in the book of Proverbs. It is used to describe BOTH the way of wickedness (e.g. Proverbs 12:26) and the way of right-eousness (e.g. Proverbs 13:6). Essentially, it is a road or path metaphor that simply describes a manner of life. What Does It Mean? So if you take what we’ve discovered, the literal reading of Proverbs 22:6 would read something like, “Initiate a child on his path; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” It seems to simply mean we are set on a path as children and we seldom deviate from that path. This proverb could be a warning. It could warn me, as a parent, if I allow my children to follow the “way that seems right” to them (Proverbs 14:12), I will have a hard time getting them off that path when they become adults. After all, the path that children are naturally in-clined to follow is a path of foolishness and it takes disci-pline to keep children from going down that path (Proverbs 22:15). On the other hand, it could be an encouragement to “dedicate” or “initiate” children on the path of holi-ness, righteousness, and wisdom when they are young. In other words, get a child started on his path of doing right when he is young; it will be harder to get him off that path when he is an adult. Another possibility is that this proverb is inten-tionally ambiguous in order to highlight the malleability of children and the challenge of getting adults to change their ways once they’re on a particular path. Either way, there is a lot of wisdom in this one little proverb and God’s people would do well to meditate on it and apply it to our lives. I love you and God loves you, Wes McAdams

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Fred McLerran continues his recover and is doing well. David Morrow is also recovering from surgery. Ken-neth Morris is recovering from surgery and will under-go rehab. He won’t be able to resume cancer treat-ments for several weeks. Kathy Armstrong fell while in Florida and broke her hip. Following surgery she is now at Bradford Heights undergoing rehab. Bob Pick-erill had gall bladder surgery recently. Remember these also: Amanda Ashby, Paul Arvin, Denny Audas, Violet Berkley, Lena Bickers, John Burman, Frances Chenoweth, Darrell and Judy Batey Conley, Nancy Farmer, John David Foster, Joel Gardner, Peggy Grace, David Graham, Wayne Gray, Drayton Hatcher, Liz Herndon, Ann Hicks, Ricky Hunt, Alma Kennaday, Marsha Kelly Kingrey, Tara King, Wanda Lancaster, Mary Lou Laster, Jean Likens, Robin Mahoney, Russell Martin, Doris Medeiros, Ed & Barbara Moore, Ken-neth Morris, David & Jan Morrow, Dorothy New-comb, Dottie O’Nan, Malcolm Oatts, Junie Peterson, Betty Brame Richardson, Hester Rogers, Geraldine Simmons, Hope Thomas, David Turner, Ronnie Turner, June Ubelhor, and Earl Webb.

Remember Cecelia Hostilo in the recent loss of her

uncle and Fred McLerran in the loss of his brother-in-

law. Also remember Rudy Adams and his family in the

loss of his mother, Myria Bush. Many thanks for the cards, phone calls, food and

the visits while I was at Bradford Heights. Special thanks

to Adrian and Theresa Cannon for the beautiful poinsettia

and to Bryan for the visit to Nashville prior to my surgery.

I love you all! My new hip is doing fine!

Fred McLerran

Aryon and Melissa Caulder

1601 East 9th Street, Apt. D

Hopkinsville KY