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Welcome - It's More Than A Handshake

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“Welcome, it’s more than a handshake”

 

Introduction:  the word “welcome” is a beautiful word.  We all want it, we all smile when we get it.  But, it’s more than a handshake and a “glad to see you!”  It’s a life style.  Sometimes it means forgiveness, sometimes acceptance, sometimes loving, sometimes letting go.  It’s risky!  To be a lifestyle it must be!  Real welcoming is also costly, extravagant, intentional.  In August we are doing a 6 wks. Introduction on “hospitality”.  It is not meant to be a “six weeks series and then we’re done” but rather a launching pad when Fairview says, “We’ve heard.  Now, let’s begin!”

 

Aug. 2: “Welcome, it’s a two way street”

Thoughts:  Hospitality is both to and from God.  God is the guest and He is the host.  He invites us to come follow.  And then we invite Him to join us on the journey.  Because of Him we are both the guest and we are the host.  Christian hospitality is not a “Southern thing!”  We extend hospitality because of the grace that has been given and extended to us.

 

Aug. 9: “Re-thinking Manure”

Thoughts: In everyone’s life there is manure.  As the bumper sticker so rightly puts it (and this is a paraphrase) “Manure Happens!”  It’s not what happens that matters, it’s all in how you handle it.  You can let it pile up, douse it with chemicals, bury it or turn it into compost.  And, until you deal with the manure in your own life you can not extend welcome or hospitality to another. 

 

Aug. 16: “Sometimes you just want to throw mama from the train!”

Thoughts: Some of us (maybe all of us) have a relative that we want to throw off the train!  We’re good at extending hospitality to “outsiders” but when it comes to our own families we struggle.  We’d like our family gatherings to be a Norman Rockwell painting.  But, sometimes, our Thanksgiving dinner is more like an episode of the Jerry Springer Show and the perfect scene at Rockwell’s table eludes us.  There’s no hospitality here!  The Bible is full of dysfunctional families.  Like them we can accept, agree to disagree, let go or fully embrace.

 

Aug. 23: “Life at the clothesline”

Thoughts:  Long before there were electric washers and dryers there were wringer machines and clotheslines.  More than drying clothes happened in the fresh air of the back yard.  Neighbors talked to neighbors.  They knew each other’s families -  the struggles, the celebrations and the challenges.  They knew names, and birthdays, and anniversaries.  They shared stories, joys and heartaches.  They raised each others children.  They were community.  Now, most of the clotheslines have gone the way of all antiquated things and knowing and loving your neighbor has gone with it.  And hospitality has suffered.

Aug. 30: “Mama don’t know everything!”

Thoughts: We all grew up with mother saying, “Don’t talk to strangers!”  On one level that’s good advise but, on another level mama was wrong.  We have come to view the stranger as “an enemy,” “one to be ignored, feared, disrespected.”  The stranger has becomes strange!  And, hospitality has ceased to be.

 

 

Sept. 6: “It’s the shape of the nose”

Thoughts: Though we don’t want to admit it, each of us has a prejudice.  By definition prejudice is an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race or their supposed characteristics.  Many times these prejudices form the “data base” for our “enemy file.”  The shape of the nose, the curve of the chin, the texture of the hair has pitted man against man.  How do we learn to love our enemies?  How do we extend hospitality to those who really do cause us harm or whom we simply hate based on the shape of their nose?      

 

 

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From The Pastor's Desk

Apr 15
Posted In: Church Wide

In our Daily Bread devotional for April 28, there is a story that I had never heard. It

seems the allied forces of WW II were in a training exercise preparing for the Normandy

invasion. Suddenly a German gunboat appeared as the allied forces were in this

amphibious training exercise. Over 700 Americans were killed in that attack. The soldiers

thought they were in a training exercise but in reality they were attacked by the enemy

when they least expected it. Like those soldiers at Slapton Sands, the enemy comes at us

many times when we least expect it. Peter and the disciples, who betrayed Jesus and fled

the garden, were caught unprepared for the attack of the enemy.

Peter was blindsided by the girl as he stood by the fire warming himself and listening,

hoping to get a word about Jesus’ arrest. Sometimes we are attacked while we are in

training and preparation.

Sometimes I laugh when I think of the most heated debates I have ever heard were among

Christians over spiritual matters in the Bible. That energy could be directed toward the

needs of people and not at each other. The devil is a sly and deceitful enemy. Peter

understood this and these verses are found in the small letter that bears his name.

1 Peter 5:8-10” 8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9Resist him, standing firm in the faith,

because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind

of sufferings.10And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ,

after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm

and steadfast.

There is a monument commemorating the loss of life of those 700 men there at

Slapton Sands. The enemy is real and is seeking to defeat we who are followers of the

resurrected Lord. Remember one of the hardest weeks of the year is just after Christmas

the birthday celebration of Jesus, and Easter Sunday, the resurrection day of our Lord.

Don’t be caught by surprise this week.

Pastor Jerry

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Holy Week

Mar 26
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Sunday, April 5

Palm Sunday

Children’s process of palms



Wednesday, April 8

No Wednesday night supper or

activities (small groups check

with your leaders)



Thursday, April 9

7 pm

Maundy Thursday worship

(communion will be served)



Friday, April 10

12 noon

Good Friday worship

Words from the cross



Sunday, April 12

Easter Celebration!

6:30 am Easter Sonrise

service (parking lot – bring a

lawn chair)

7:15 am Easter breakfast

(sponsored by youth choir - $

donations)

(*note times)

*8:15 am and 11 am Easter

worship

9:45 am Sunday School

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