Sunday Mornings Worship 8:00 Coffee Fellowship 9:10 Bible Classes 9:30 Worship 10:30

wifi password: WESTSEVENTH 931-388-6514office@w7church.orgw7church.orgWest 7th Church of ChristWest Seventh Street Church of Christ

405 West 7th Street Columbia, TN 38401

August 26, 2018Welcome, Guests! We are honored that you joined us and hope that you will be blessed by your time with us. Register - Guests, as well as members, are asked to register their attendance as the pads are passed down each row. Attended Nursery is provided for children younger than two years of age. It is in the hallway as you exit the door to the left of the pulpit.Quiet Bags for children are available at the coat rack and a Cry Room is located in the Foyer.

Gluten Free Communion is available in the foyer.Hearing Assistance is available; see an usher for assis-tance.Information Center has details about ministries, classes, and more. It is in the hallway as you exit the door to the left of the pulpit.

EldersBill AlsupTom AndersonJohn CornKerry Couch Wade DenneyJerry DugginMike KeslerJohn LawJohn M. Smith

Staff Barry EnglandRandy OwensAlex Quintero Haley Schmidt Tucker Vincent

Office - 388-6514Marriage/FamilyPreachingSpanish SpeakingChildrenStudent

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Spanish SpeakingSunday Morning Bible Classes 9:30 Morning Worship 10:30Wednesday Eve. Bible Classes 7:00

Wednesday Evenings Bible Classes 7:00

Sunday Evenings First & Third- SMALL GROUP BIBLE STUDIES Group meets in Chapel @6 Second- CONNECT Meets in Teen Center @ 6 Fourth- HOME DEVOTIONALS Group meets in Chapel @ 6

Today8:00 a.m. First Worship9:10 a.m. Fellowship9:30 a.m. Bible Classes10:30 a.m Second Worship Worship in Spanish

TonightHOME DEVOTIONALSOr meet in the Chapel @ 6.

Striving to be completely committed followers of Jesus

School Supplies: We will collect school supplies for Cox. Please place supplies in the tub at the Information Center. Blood Drive: We will host a blood drive in conjunction with the Columbia Fire Department on August 30 from 12:00-6:00 p.m. Sign up at redcross.org.

Community Bible Study at CAEveryone is invited!

Joel Oswalt has resumed weekly Bible studies.

Fridays at 7:00 a.m. in the Upper School Library

Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. at the Spring Hill Campus.

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITYRandy Owens will lead an in-depth Bible study on Wednesday evenings from 7-8 beginning in September. To introduce the inductive study approach, he will teach a one-time class on Sunday, August 26, in the Family Center at 9:30 a.m. Anyone interested in learning more about this study is welcome to join the Family Center class that day. The Family Center class will resume their study of Acts the following week.

SYMPATHYTo Tom Anderson and family on the death of his mother, Rubye Anderson. The funeral was August 21.

SYMPATHYTo Diane Porter Campbell and family on the death of her aunt, Dorothy Baxter. She was also the sister of Marguerite Porter. The funeral was August 24.

SYMPATHYTo Linda James and family on the death of her mother-in-law, Frances James. The funeral was August 25.

SYMPATHYTo Amy Sanchez and family on the death of her great uncle, Dick Oliver, who passed away August 17 in IL.

To Amy Sanchez and family on the death of her great uncle, Dick Qualls, who passed away August 19 in CO.

To Amy Sanchez and family on the death of her aunt, Sarah Long, who passed away August 20 in OK.

To Amy Sanchez and family on the death of her grandfather, Jeff Palmer, who passed away August 22 in AL.

Recovering | extended illnesses | homebound:

Family & Friends: Beau Burm’s uncle - Steven Williams Kerry Couch’s mother - Verna Lee CouchMarynelle Criswell’s brother - Nelson AlsupJeanine Denney’s mother - Jean JollyKim Forsthoff’s mother - Reba AyersJane Hawkins’ grandson - Justin HawkinsGeorgia Henry’s sister-in-law- Patricia AryOlivia Howell’s husband - Kirby HowellSue Jones’ sister - Annie Lee WhitwellDavid & Linda Kirk’s daughter - Rebecca Kirk BuchananAllison Kittrell’s sister - Amy Pilkinton BedoyaEmily Lansdell’s father - Shelton BeairdJorge & Yolanda Larrea’s granddaughter - Abigail Fernanda Jaro HermosilloTesha Marchal’s granddaughter - McKenzie BruensBettie Pogue’s daughter - Melanie SemoreBettie Pogue’s son-in-law - Michael SemoreAlex Quintero’s father - Juan QuinteroBeth Robinson’s mother - Gaynor PerdueTracy Robinson’s father - Guy BarberBeverly Simmons’ brothers - Chris & Mike ShankleChuck Simpson’s mother - Peggy SimpsonRachel Thomas’ father - William ParkerTod Trulove’s mother - Joan TruloveCarolyn Turnmyre’s aunt - Leona LyonsDee Westmoreland’s mother - Bonnie JeffcoatJoe Westmoreland’s uncle - Don WestmorelandOlivia Whiteside’s aunt - Martha WhitesideDorothy Jean Witherow’s daughter - Jennifer HolderGreg Yokley’s mother - Martha BelewDeborah Young’s father - John Spence

Pray without ceasing...Reported sick this week:

Jean Outland is in MRMC, room 379.

Elizabeth Craft is recovering from a fall at NHC-Maury, room 1508.

Eva McMahan, Linda Kirk’s mother, is in Life Care, room 201, for skilled nursing.

Tucker Vincent615-504-0680

tucker@w7church.org

Good morning!

I hope you’ve had a great week! Just a few things today:

We are finishing up our Rooted series this Wednesday. We’ve really enjoyed studying Stephen, Noah, and Paul and how they stayed rooted in their faith through trials. We will conclude this week with a look at John.

This Fall quarter, we will look at the book of James on Wednesday nights and talk about practical ways for us to grow in our faith. We are also excited to start a brand new quarter on Sunday mornings next week! The high schoolers will meet downstairs with Jim Robinson and study 1Timothy and the middle schoolers will meet upstairs in room 214 with the youth deacons and special guests and study Romans!

That’s all I have for this week. Have a great Sunday! Tucker

Sunday a.m. Worship 503 8:00 260 10:30 169 Worship in Spanish 35

Poplar Estates 16 The Bridge 23

Sunday Bible Classes 364

Sun. Evening Gatherings 157 The Bridge 11Wednesday Bible Classes 186

Budget $21,000 Total Special Contribution $27,328 YTD vs. Budget $65,692

Church Record

Discipling l Equipping l Serving l Loving

Bill AlsupDiane CampbellTennie ChaffinRamona CherryJeanette ColeJohn CornSarah Duncan

Armando GaliciaJune GaskillGeorgia HenryMary HuntBill JerniganSue JonesFrances Lee

Robin MillerTerry NorthcuttMarie OswaltMarguerite PorterSammy SaltersAnnelle TubbMolly WattsJuanita Westmoreland

Haley Schmidt 901-573-8055haley@w7church.org

Preparing to Marry:Tucker Vincent & Baylie Farris Sept. 21Hunter Cary & Chamberlain Green June 22

WednesdaySong Leader.................................Ken Jackson Prayer.........................................Brad Beasley Van Driver.................................Rickey Savage

(Messages are available at w7church.org, itunes, YouTube, Facebook or order a free CD at the Information Center.)

TONIGHTHome Devotionals

See insert for devotional guide. Or meet in the chapel @ 6.

Van Driver - a.m............................Steve CoferVan Driver - p.m...............................John Law Nursery - 8:00 a.m...Willie & Kathy Robinson Nursery - 10:30 a.m.................Amy Skidmore Brandy Young

Order of WorshipWelcome........................................Bill Stevens

Porter King

Song Leader..............................Tucker Vincent

Blessed Assurance - 71

10,000 ReasonsScripture...................................Robert Murphy

James Thomas

John 11:25-26

We Praise Thee, O God - 732

He Knows Just What I Need - 209

Prayer.........................................Mike Greene

Rush Holladay

I Am A Sheep

There Is a Balm in Gilead - 881

Communion................................Mike Forsthoff

Brad Beasley

O They Tell Me of a Home - 502

Prince of Peace

Message ....................................Randy Owens

His Grace Reaches Me - 237

Shepherd’s Blessing........................Mike Kesler

Adult Classes 9:30-10:15

Room 213 (College & Yg Prof.)New Look at Old Truths

Room 212 (Young Marrieds) Seeing the Unseen

Fireside Room (Young Families) Habits of a Loving Heart

Chapel (Homebuilders) Gospel of John

Family Center Acts

Auditorium James

TV Studio Gospel of Mark

Room 307 (Spanish Speaking Class)

TEXT: Genesis 15-16

Introduction: One of the most difficult tests of faith is when God seems unresponsive.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. James 1:2-3 ESV

Consider the prolonged frustration Abraham and Sarah endured.

Sometimes we have to wait ______________

Sometimes we have to wait ______________________

Genesis 16: Sarah proposed and Abraham cooperated with a solution.

Why does God delay?

Sometimes God waits __________________________________

Sometimes God waits __________________________________

Sometimes God waits __________________________________

What do you think it m

eans to be “godly?” Can you nam

e a few people that seem

like godly people? Som

etimes, our em

otions or the way w

e feel towards others

isn’t so godly. Here’s an exam

ple. Present something green to your children.

What color is this? (green) w

hat emotion do you feel w

hen you see this color? H

ave you ever heard the saying, “green with envy?” W

hat do you think it means?

What does it m

ean to have envy or jealousy?

People who know

a lot about words and w

here they come from

think that the term

“green with envy” began w

ith the Greeks. The G

reeks believed that em

otions came from

the organs in their bodies. Do you know

where your liver is

in your body? The liver produces bile, which is a yellow

-green color, and it helps us get rid of w

aste, like food. So when people becam

e jealous, they thought it was

because the liver was producing too m

uch bile, and it caused their faces to turn slightly green! Jealousy is such a yucky thing. Som

e people like to say that when

others are jealous, the “Green-Eyed M

onster” has gotten them. H

ave you ever felt like the G

reen-Eyed Monster has gotten ahold of you?

Let’s talk about a story in the Bible? Do you rem

ember w

ho was jealous of D

avid? (K

ing Saul) Why do you think K

ing Saul was jealous of D

avid? (Because David

was a great w

arrior and the people loved him.) D

o you remem

ber what happened

after King Saul died? (D

avid became king.)

Is jealousy always a bad thing? (K

ids may say yes.) The Bible says that G

od is a jealous god. (Read Exodus 34:14). Scripture plainly tells us that G

od is good and perfect. So jealousy m

ust not always be a bad thing. M

ost of the time in the Bible,

we read of G

od being jealous when H

e is telling the people to stop worshiping

false idols. When w

e’re jealous, we fear losing som

ething that is valuable or that m

eans a lot to us, right? So, when G

od becomes jealous, it m

eans that He doesn’t

want to lose us because w

e are valuable to Him

.

In 2 Corinthians 11:2, Paul says that he is “jealous for [the people] w

ith a godly jealousy.” This m

eans he saw the people behaving in w

ays that did not honor G

od, and he was jealous for them

to have a right relationship with Jesus.

We are not to be jealous and envious of other people in such a w

ay that we break

relationships with others. N

or are we to be m

ean and angry and act like King

Saul. We are to be jealous w

ith a godly jealousy, desiring all people to know Jesus

and walk w

ith him. W

e are not to be jealous OF people, but w

e are to be jealous FO

R people.

What can w

e learn from K

ing Saul? If we w

ant to be godly, we m

ust make every

effort to choose not to be jealous because of selfish reasons, but because we w

ant other people to know

Christ. Read 2 Peter 1:3.

Godliness

If using this guide in solitude, begin by thanking G

od in prayer for the tim

e to privately connect w

ith Him

. Ask the Spirit to guide you into truth as you spend tim

e in the W

ord. Write your answ

ers to the questions, using additional paper if needed.

If using this guide with others,

begin by

thanking

God

in prayer for this opportunity to be together. Ask the Spirit to guide you into truth as you spend tim

e in the Word. D

iscuss your answers to the questions.

Some people seem

to easily remem

ber birthdays and other key events. O

thers seem to have trouble rem

embering their ow

n phone number. W

hich one describes you? H

ave you always been that w

ay?

To begin, review the text for these devotionals - 2 Peter 1:1-10. Last m

onth w

e looked at perseverance/steadfastness/patience. The next in Peter’s list is godliness, w

hich is at the heart of enduring. Translations agree in translating the G

reek word, eusebeia, as godliness. It also appears in verse

3. Simply put it m

eans reverence. But don’t think of this to imply a solem

n face - no joy - type of disposition. Instead, it is a practical aw

areness of God

in every area of life.

John MacA

rthur wrote, “Josephus, the Jew

ish historian, contrasts this word

with eidololatreia, idolatry. Eusebeia, reverence, gives G

od His rightful place,

worships G

od as He ought to be w

orshiped. Idolatry does the opposite. W

hatever the Greeks said about the w

ord eusebeia, the Christians m

ade it greater. Paul says in 1 Tim

othy 4:8, ‘Godliness is profitable in all things.’ The

believer is to worship G

od, and love God, and adore G

od, not with stained

glass and organ music, but w

ith a life of reverence for God and devotion to

His holy w

ill. He is to do w

hat David did in Psalm

16, set the Lord always

before him. This is to be our com

mitm

ent.”

When are you distracted and struggle to keep an aw

areness of God? W

hy?

When are you m

ost aware of G

od? Why?

Read Psalm 16:8 and discuss how

to “set the LO

RD always before” you.

Read 2 Peter 1:1-10 together to begin.

Over the last few

months w

e’ve discussed and studied this set of verses to pull out som

e of the key themes that can help us in our w

alk with Jesus. This

week, w

e’re going to be looking at godliness. Before we do that, take som

e tim

e to look back on the attributes prior to godliness.

Have you been applying these attributes to your life and w

alk with the

Lord? Discuss.

So, what exactly is godliness? G

odliness is the ability to spot God in all kinds

of situations. Godliness goes along w

ith the idea of praying without ceasing

(1 Thess. 5:16-18). It is the notion that we are to see G

od at work w

ithin the m

oments in our life. The busy, the m

undane, and everything in between.

Do you see G

od working in your life on a daily basis? D

iscuss.

Along the sam

e lines of seeing God w

orking in your daily life, godliness also pushes us to a deeper pursuit w

ith Jesus. If you are actively looking to see G

od in your life in every mom

ent, you are - by default - going to follow

Him

even closer. Godliness is not an easy task, in fact it can be quite diffi-

cult. For us, it can be easy to get caught up in the mom

ent and ignore what

our true purpose is. That is exactly why Peter tells us to “m

ake every effort” (2 Peter 1:5).

What A

bout Us?

Why do you think it’s so difficult to see Jesus in the ordinary every day?

In what w

ays are you currently seeing God at w

ork in your life?

What are som

e ways you can be m

ore aware of G

od’s presence daily?