Good Morning
Welcome back to the Monday Update! I've been gone two weeks in a row spending time with our students at camp then at Student Leadership University. Let me get you caught up on what's going on.
Yesterday was a fantastic day at Mt. Olive. We had three people join the church. Welcome John and Kim Renshaw and Abby Hodges. We also had a fantastic song from one of our students, Allison.
Next Sunday we will hear from the SLU students about their trip and we have a group of students who will be singing. You don't want to miss that.
Tomorrow is Independence Day. As you celebrate, appreciate the amazing freedoms we have been given by God. Our nation has recognized those freedoms from the beginning. May we be good stewards of what has been passed to us.
No Wednesday Services on July 5th
The normal church schedule will resume on Sunday July 9th.
Student Camp Thank You!Welcome back to the Monday Update! I've been gone two weeks in a row spending time with our students at camp then at Student Leadership University. Let me get you caught up on what's going on.
Yesterday was a fantastic day at Mt. Olive. We had three people join the church. Welcome John and Kim Renshaw and Abby Hodges. We also had a fantastic song from one of our students, Allison.
Next Sunday we will hear from the SLU students about their trip and we have a group of students who will be singing. You don't want to miss that.
Tomorrow is Independence Day. As you celebrate, appreciate the amazing freedoms we have been given by God. Our nation has recognized those freedoms from the beginning. May we be good stewards of what has been passed to us.
No Wednesday Services on July 5th
The normal church schedule will resume on Sunday July 9th.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's camp possible. So many of you donated items or sponsored a student or gave your time to make camp possible. I can't thank you enough. Continue to pray for the students as they begin to live out what they have learned.
The Five Love Languages
Michelle and I will team teach The Five Love Languages beginning July 9th at 6pm at the church. This is a three week group that includes the personal assessment, an overview of each of the love languages, and lots of examples of how the dynamics work in personal and family life. Books will be available for a small fee and you can sign up Sunday at church or contact me by email.
Wildflower Dental Clinic
The dental bus will be at Mt. Olive on July 12th at 10am. Appointments can be made through the clinic.
Breakfast for Students
Each Sunday morning volunteers serve breakfast to our students. A schedule is on the white board in the fellowship hall. See Barbara Rackliff if you would like to provide the breakfast one of the available weeks.
Plug-In To A Group
Ongoing groups are held Sunday mornings at 9:30 and Wednesday nights at 6:30. Other groups are available. A list of all groups is on the table in the foyer of the church. You can find out more about groups by calling the church office or emailing Debbie Bohannon.
Monday Morning 5
1. Dads, Date Your Daughter’s Boyfriend
2. What I’ve Learned from Being Isolated and Allergic to Everything
3. 6 Ways to Avoid Delayed Adulthood
4. Those little things you do when no one is looking
5. Fatherless
Monday Meditation
My Utmost for His Highest July 3, 2017
The Concentration of Personal Sin
When I come into the very presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular area of my life. A person will easily say, “Oh yes, I know I am a sinner,” but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, as Isaiah did, what we really are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God. There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting us of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed our mind’s attention. If we will surrender, submitting to His conviction of that particular sin, He will lead us down to where He can reveal the vast underlying nature of sin. That is the way God always deals with us when we are consciously aware of His presence.
This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.
This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.
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