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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
of
Charlie Wallace
Pastor
David Baptist Church
The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
“Marriage is meant for our holiness’
This year I entered my tenth year
marriage. To many of you, ten
years doesn’t seem like such a long
time. I admit, it isn’t. But in ten
years of marriage, not only have I
learned a lot about my wife and my
children, I’ve learned an awful lot
about myself. And I’m quite posi-
tive that in another ten or so years
I'll know even more - for better or
worse.
For those of you that have been
married or are currently married,
think about your life before you
‘tied the knot.” Remember those
days? They were really quite simple if you think about it. When
you made decisions, for instance,
assuming you were an adult and
lived on your own, you consulted only yourself in your decision-
making. If you wanted to go to a fast-rood restaurant and grab some
dinner, you only needed to consult yourself and come to a consen-
sus with “me, myself, and I” that
fast-food would be what you ate
that night. You decided how you would spend your money. You de-
cided how you would have fun. You decided many things about
your life unilaterally without much input from any other person.
‘Then you got married and all that changed. Now, a simple de-
cision such as where to eat dinner
one night has the chance of turn-
ing into a disagreement which could lead to an argument which
could lead to a full-fledged fight. In marriage, simply declaring
urning Bush House of God
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704-739- 2877
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704- 739-4015
Baptist Church
246 Range Road
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704-487- 707
: Church at Me no
108 E. Mountain St.
Cornerstone Church of God .
202 Margrace Road
704-739-3773
Cornerstone Independent
Baptist
107 Range Road
_ 704-737 -0477
_ Crowders Mountain Baptist
125 Mayberry Lane
704-739-0310
David Baptist Church
2300 David Baptist Church
Road oo
04-7394555
704-739-3215
East Kings Mountain Church
of God
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a 704, 730. 7367
: Eastside Baptist Church
308YorkRoad
704-5 -739- 8055
Ebenezer Baptist Church
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Churches to host
community VBS
Four Kings Mountain churches—Resurrec-
tion Lutheran, St. Matthew’s Lutheran, Central
United Methodist, and First Presbyterian—will
host a community Vacation Bible School June
17-20 from 5:30-8 p.m. at Resurrection
Lutheran Church, 600 Crescent Circle.
The theme is “Athens: Paul’s Dangerous
Journey to Share the Truth.”
Children will step back in time to Athens,
Greece, exploring the Apostle Paul’s adven-
tures. Kids and adults participate in a memo-
rable Bible-times Marketplace, sing fun songs,
play teamwork-building games, dig into Bible-
times snacks, work together in an Oikos (fam-
ily) and create a frieze to remind them of God’s
Word. Everyone will look for evidence of God
around them through God Sightings. Each day
concludes at Celebration - a time of upbeat
worship that gets everyone involved.
Children are invited to arrive at the church
by 5: 20 p.m. each evening.
To register, call Resurrection Lutheran
Church, 704-739-5580.
where the two of you are going to eat one night usually doesn’t go
very well.
When children are introduced into the family, this concept of
decision-making is made even more complex. Now there are mul-
tiple layers and multiple people to go through when simply making
a decision as to what to eat, where to go, and what to do about it.
One of the reasons I believe that God has designed marriage, as
well as the family, is for the production of our holiness: that of
being conformed to the image of Christ by the action of self-de-
nial! Genesis 2:24 describes the process of being married as a man
leaving his father and mother and holding fast, or cleaving, to his
wife, thus becoming one person in heart, soul and mind. Therefore,
by nature, the marriage relationship is a symbiotic one that depends
on the mutual agreement of one another. If this doesn’t happen,
cracks in the marriage develop and threaten to destroy it. In other
words, there’s a lot of give and take.
The Apostle Paul put it this way: “Do nothing from selfish am-
bition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than
yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but
also to the interests of others.” (Phil. 2:3-4)
Not only is this self-denying process successful in marriage, it’s
successful in all relationships. And in living this way, that of put-
ting other peoples’ needs above your own, you are modeling the
true love and sacrifice that Christ showed us by his death on the
cross. God creates us to live in community and in so doing putting
each others’ needs above our own. How have you been doing with
that lately?
Doyle Dykes in concert
Family Worship Center, 1818 Shelby Rd.,
Kings Mountain presents Doyle Dykes in con-
cert on Sunday, June 9 at 10:45 a.m.. For more
information please call 704-739-7206.
F atured Church of the Week:
Jove e Valley Brprine Church
- First Presbyterian Church
111 E. King Street
0a 739 8072
"Emmanuel Independent
Baptist Church
602 Canterbury Road
704- 739.9939
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