In This Issue June 2019

2 3950 Wyoming, Kansas City, MO 64111 Worship, Sun: 10:00 am (816) 561-4392 www.roanokebaptist.org Bible Study, Sun: 11:00 am e-mail: [email protected] June 2019 Bible Study, Tues: 6:30 pm I guess that I can consider the war effort. Dad died shortly after I turned myself old now that I have lived Dad’s parents had attended a fifteen so he never got to teach me 25 years longer than my dad. Baptist church in a little town to drive a car. He never saw me When dad was born on a small nearest to their farm while he was graduate from high school or farm near the Missouri River in growing up, but after he left home from three colleges to obtain my 1914, World War I had just begun and married, he and mom bachelor, master, and doctorate two months before. He was the attended Disciples of Christ degrees. He never knew I served oldest of six children and thus churches. Apparently dad’s in the Air Force for twenty years. more of the responsibility of baptism wasn’t accepted by the He never met my wife or our helping his dad work their farm church they attended when I was three children or his great fell on his shoulders. Dad born because dad and I were grandchildren. He never knew experienced the Roaring Twenties baptized the same day when I was that I became a pastor. But I’m and the Depression of the 30’s ten years old sure if dad were alive today he working long hours to help his Dad’s life experiences taught would be proud that his sons have family have the necessities of life. him to value hard work and learned the lessons he taught and When he was almost seven family. He learned to make do have taught them to their children. years old, dad experienced the with what he could afford and to I’m sure he would approve of the loss of his two-year-old brother take care of them so they would lives we are living. If it were and his grandmother in an last as long as possible. Because possible on this Father’s Day, I automobile accident. Dad was of these experiences, dad taught would take time to be with my intelligent and did well in school, his sons to take care of what they dad and thank him for how he but he was only able to afford two had. raised me and all he taught me. years of college Family was important to dad If your father is still alive, take When Japan bombed Pearl so he always took time to play time to be with him this Father’s Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, dad had a games with his children and teach Day and thank him for being your son just over four months old and them to be considerate not just of dad. That will make him happier worked for the County family but all people. That’s why than any purchased gift. Agricultural Conservation Office. he took my BB gun away when Because of the importance of his he saw me pointing it at him as he In This Issue job for the future of the nation’s walked home from work one food supply, dad was prohibited evening. He taught me that Postmodernism 2 from military service, but a pointing a weapon at anyone, The Essential 100 3 younger brother became a even when only pretending, was Spotlight on Missions 4 bombardier on B-29 aircraft. The wrong because weapons were Library News 5 whole family experienced the instruments of death and not play Kid’s Page 6 shortages and rationing caused by toys. Pray for our Missionaries 7 2 By Kathleen Penton in Missions Mosaics, June 2016 There are no absolute truths – Postmodern Condition, written like you? Do they look like you, truths that do not vary among in 1979. For Lyotard, think like you, believe like you? cultures, people, or fundamental postmodernism was the Are you willing to adapt to do goals in life when it comes to intellectual state reached when missions in a postmodern world? moral, social, and political one no longer believed any grand If so, you must first let go of claims. Everything is relative story about history, whether assumptions you may have about and shaped by the cultural religious or secular. postmodernists: context of a particular time and They have a felt need for God. place. At least, that’s what Chief Characteristics (Reality – many don’t think about postmodernists believe. Postmodernism values and him.) For Christians, the refusal to promotes diversity. It claims to They fear death. (Reality – believe in moral absolutes is seek the interests of “the other,” they don’t believe in an afterlife.) perhaps the most distressing those marginalized and oppressed They are hopeless. (Reality – aspect of postmodernism. by modernist ideologies and the most are quite satisfied with life.) Postmodernism is a worldview political/social structures that They will come to Christ fast shift that emerged in the late support them. Postmodernists are once you introduce them to Him. twentieth century in response to searching for freedom not only (Reality – most need the the shortcomings of modernism. for themselves as individuals but environment of a relationship Modernism, which began around also for everyone. with a Christian to progress the turn of the seventeenth Postmodernism maintains that toward a relationship with Christ. century, had placed its faith in texts – historical, literary, or You must be willing to make a reason and hope in progress otherwise – have no inherent lifetime investment in people.) rather than God. Modernists authority or objectivity in Then you must remember that believed with the proper use of revealing the author’s intent, nor Christians are called to make reason, a natural capacity for can they tell us “what really disciples. A disciple is a learner, good and rational decisions, any happened.” They reflect the and discipleship is a process of problem – social, political, peculiarities of the writer’s becoming more like Christ. personal, or ethical – could be particular bias, culture, and era. Next, you must move beyond solved. And if reason were Furthermore “text” means nearly the niche of the “God people” distributed universally, or nearly anything that can be interpreted, and into your city to make so, things were bound to get including books, speeches, Bible disciples. Find out what is going better and better. But this looked passages, magazine covers, or the on in your city and join in – take increasingly implausible as the ritual at the Tomb of the a class, join a club, etc. This nineteenth century moved into Unknown Soldier. allows you to get to know people the twentieth, which saw two Postmodernism argues that in context so you can have world wars, the Holocaust, and language shapes thinking and meaningful conversations. But the development of increasingly there can be no thought without you don’t have to do it alone. Go powerful weapons of mass language. Therefore language in pairs or groups and support destruction. literally creates truth. each other. Postmodernism emphasizes Above all, you must be Basic Definition that truth is a matter of genuine, especially about your A key definition of perspective rather than something struggles and how your Christian postmodernism is “incredulity universal. worldview and community help toward metanarratives.” The you. Answer their questions word metanarrative was coined Postmodern Missions wisely and lovingly. Ultimately by French philosopher Jean- With whom do you spend the you may have the opportunity to Francois Lyotard in The majority of your time? Are they share the gospel. 3 The Essential 100 Last month, we saw God husband killed in a battle. When King of the Babylonian empire, speak to a young boy and call confronted with his sin by the in 605 BC. He took many him to be Samuel, the great prophet Nathan, David repented captives from Judah, including prophet and priest. God heard of it and threw himself upon the Daniel and Ezekiel. Because of the cries of the Hebrew people mercy of God. God allowed him a rebellion by the people he left for a king to rule over them. He to remain the King of Israel but behind, Nebuchadnezzar sent his had Samuel tell them they didn’t would not allow him to build a troops back to destroy Jerusalem need any king but God, but temple to honor the name of in 587 BC. He also destroyed when the people still cried out God. Instead, he allowed the Temple, took its equipment for a king, God had Samuel David’s son, Solomon, to build and stored them in Babylon. anoint Saul, from the tribe of it. Benjamin, to be their king. We continue to see that this is an amazing love story where Unfortunately, Saul thought a God shows his great love for king should be able to decide for mankind. Here are the next ten himself what was best for his passages for you to read during people and when to accomplish the month of June. As you read, certain actions rather than look for ways that God shows listening to God’s will and his his love. timing. So Saul disobeyed God and God replaced Saul with a Section 9: Psalms and young shepherd boy named When Solomon became king, Proverbs David. he asked God not for wealth or power but for wisdom. So God 1. The Lord is My Shepherd, David believed God’s word made him the wisest man alive Psalm 23:1-6 and trusted him for the power to and also gave him wealth and a 2.

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