Last Sunday English worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Last Sunday class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Contribution last week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,71900

Numbers of Interest:

Numbers do not tell us everything. Nor are they the final answer. But we can learn from what we see and what we can measure.

Our prayer is that this box will constantly show a growing church.

Worship & Class

Schedule

Coffee is hot by 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship (English) 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Classes (English) 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship (Spanish) 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Classes (Spanish) 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

Westview Church of Christ

4151 W. 20th Street

Greeley, CO 80634

Phone: 970-330-3716

office@westviewcoc.org

Birthdays & Anniversaries:

5/1 - Lynette Puga

5/2 - Dan Esposito

5/2 - Terry & LaNelle Newton

www.westviewcoc.org

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Servers for Worship

Today (April 30th) Next Week (May 7th)

Scripture Reading Steve Adams Bob Locke

Prayer Guy Wohlfahrt John Locke

Serve Communion:

Comm. Prayers Troy Wallace Ken Clark

Contrib. Prayer Todd Zwetzig Tom Lininger

Tyler Wallace Tyler Colbeth

David Barton Jakob Crowell

Michael Bevel Dan Esposito

Fred Birdwell Stefen Gomes

(May 14th) (May 21st)

Scripture Reading Doug McEntire James pascoe

Prayer Randy McCrain Randy Rowe

Serve Communion:

Comm. Prayers Roy Moore Kyle Rutz

Contrib. Prayer Marchel Morningstar Kurtis Rutz

Kim Hegarty Dennis Quesenberry

Johnny Martinez Joshua Reynolds

Erik McCrain Christopher Reynolds

Scott Moellmer Elijah Rutz

Nursery Attendant

Today: Tracy Morningstar

May 7th: Connie Seaman

May 14th: Whitney Rutz

May 21st: Cameron Rutz

May 28th: Carol Wells

June 4th: Audrey Rutz

June 11th: Carol Wohlfahrt

June 18th: Tracy Morningstar

If you are unable to serve on the designated day

please contact the church office.

Lobby Greeters

Today: The Webers

May 7th: The Wohlfahrts

May 14th: The Birdwells

May 21st: Billie Ann Adams & Eldene Burrows

May 28th: The Clarks (J&K)

June 4th: The Clarks (K&K)

June 11th: The Crowells

June 18th: The Durans

The Purpose From here to heaven… Following God wherever He leads us.

April 30, 2017

WELCOME VISITORS!WELCOME VISITORS!

We are thankful you are with us today as we worship our God and Savior. Our prayer is that you will encounter Him today.

A nursery for small children is available in the east hall off the lobby.

What will you experience at Westview?

Praise through song. It is the tradition of our heritage to sing a cappella (without instruments) as we encourage everyone to be involved in uplifting praise.

We value the Bible. You will hear God’s Word read and all sermons will give the utmost respect and priority to Scripture.

We share the Lord’s Supper every week remembering Christ’s sacrifice that provides us forgiveness as we celebrate our salvation through Him.

We do not expect our guests to give financially to our work. We depend on the generous and godly giving of all Westview members to provide the funds needed to implement God’s plans for this church.

We invite you to stay for Bible classes following our worship time. We hope you have been blessed today!

Today’s Order of Worship

Let the Lord Be Praised, O Zion!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise the Lord

Meet & Greet

Elder’s Blessing & Prayer

As the Deer

And Can It Be

We Remember Christ’s Sacrifice

Contribution Collected

Heavenly Sunlight

(Honduras Children’s Collection)

Scripture Reading:

James 1:22-25

Sermon

The God of the Covenant:

Think!

There Is a Habitation

Prayer

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder

Potluck Dinner this evening

We’re having an old-fashioned potluck dinner this

evening at 5:30 in the fellowship room. Please

bring a main dish and one of the following: a

side, salad, or dessert. It’s always a blessing to

spend time together in fellowship!

VBS MEETING TODAY

If you are interested in helping with VBS in

June, there will be a short meeting today

immediately following classes.

The tentative dates are June 12—16.

Is there a “Christian” Sabbath? #11

Commentary from a common Terry

To this point in this series it has been a fairly straight-forward study about the Sabbath. We have looked, in detail, at the purpose and meaning of the Sabbath under the Law of Moses and its usefulness to the spiritual health of the Israelites. We studied Jesus’ teachings about the Sabbath, which primarily was in response to his critics’ grumbling about actions he or his disciples took on the Sabbath Day. But what about post-gospels, from Acts to the end of Revelation? The New Testament church, the New Covenant people are now the people of God. How does the Sabbath fit in? Does it fit in? The Sabbath is specifically men-tioned 57 times in the New Testament, all but eleven in the four gospels. Of those eleven remaining references, nine are in the book of Acts and there is no “New Covenant” teaching at-tached to those references. All nine in Acts are simply time sequence or dis-tance uses. “On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue….” The word was read, “on the Sab-bath….” Paul would meet with people to discuss scripture “on the Sabbath.” They traveled “a Sabbath’s day’s distance….” You get the idea. No teaching about how to incorporate the Sabbath into the New Covenant Christian age. That leaves only two references to the Sabbath in the final 22 books of the New Testament, from Romans through Revelation. The first is in Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae. And, it is used in a negative sense. Paul stressed to the Christians that they had been released from the burden of the old covenant Law of Moses and it’s stipulations of certain practices that established a righteous response to God. I don’t be-lieve Paul banned the practice of some

Jewish customs. What concerned him was that the way this was being en-forced by some “spiritual referees” in the church was replacing Jesus as Lord and Deliverer and placing the emphasis of spiritual success on the fulfillment of those practices. So he wrote, “Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with re-gard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.” Colossians 2:16 There were those people watch-ing the church community to see if it observed those holy days of the Jew-ish tradition, including the practice of certain dietary restrictions that went along with those observances. Appar-ently the salvation of people, according to these folks, depended on the contin-ued observance of such things. Paul, in the strongest language, told them to never allow themselves to be judged in such a way. To restore these days and festi-vals in the way Paul criticized was, in essence, denying the Messiahship of Jesus and the salvation he had brought to the world through the Cross. Whether it be a yearly event (festival), monthly (new moon), or weekly (Sabbath), all of these in the old law looked forward to a Savior still to come. Jesus had already come! It was the improper use of and emphasis on the old purpose of those days and weeks that Paul condemned. So in this way, Paul made it clear that the Sabbath was not be observed in any way like it was before. It had been a day of reflection and meditation with God. It was a day of anticipation of a coming Deliverer. Well, the Deliverer had come! Anything we do that de-tracts from that we shouldn’t do. That leaves one text to study—Hebrews 4:9. See you next week.

Love one another,

Sunday Morning

Classes (10:30 a.m.)

8 a.m. Study

Cleansing the Inside of the Cup/New Creation Series

Taught by Vern & James Pascoe Room #15

Adult/Teen

Textual Study

I Corinthians Taught by Tom & Randy

Fellowship Room

Adult/Teen

Topical Study

Full-Grown: Making Spiritual Maturity Our Goal

Taught by Terry in Room #14

Children’s Classes

6—24 mos. Room #8 (purple)

2 & 3 yr. olds Room #9 (purple)

Pre-K Room #7 (red)

Kindergarten Room #6 (yellow)

1st—3rd grade Room #10 (blue)

4th—6th grade Room #11 (green)

Wednesday Night

Classes (6:30 p.m.)

Adult & Teen Study

The Apostles: Ordinary or Extraordinary?

Children’s Classes

3 and under in room #8 Teacher: LaNelle Newton

4 yr. olds—6th grade in room #10 Teacher: Audrey Rutz

No Men’s Coffee This Week

We will not have our weekly Men’s

Coffee this Tuesday, the 2nd.

We will resume on the 9th.

If you haven’t had your picture taken for the new directory please stop by Terry’s office in between worship & classes today.

The Caterpillars to Butterflies group will have their annual

Mother/Daughter Brunch on Saturday, May 13th at the building.

The girls will meet at the building at 10:00.

Mothers/guests can arrive at 11:00.

The brunch will end around 12:30.

The Ladies’ Bible Study will meet

tomorrow evening, May 1st, at

5:30 at the building. They are

studying the book of Hebrews.

Welcome

We are delighted to welcome Blair Reynolds

and her three children to our church family.

Her children are:

Christopher Chitwood

Hannah Chitwood

Joshua Chitwood

They hope to be moving into their new place

next month. They are staying with Bob &

Susan right now. We’ll get you their address

as soon as they get settled.

Potential Family Minister

Our plans are to host Daniel & Brooke

Kirkendall and their two children on the

weekend of May 19-21 as we discuss

the possibility of their serving Westview

as our family minister. Currently they

work with the church in Lagrange,

Georgia. We will have more information

about plans for the weekend as it

approaches. We know you are praying

diligently about this entire process.

We trust God will guide us to the right

family and the right family to us.