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www.housetohouse.comwww housetoho A publication of the... Churches of Christ Founder: Christ – Mt. 16:18 Jeff erson’s Place: Jerusalem – Isa. 2:1-3, Acts 2:5 Time: A.D. 33 – Dan. 2:44, Acts 2 Head: Christ – Eph. 1:22 Organization: Christ as head – Eph. 5:23 Elders oversee local church – Bible Heb. 13:17, Titus 1:5 Deacons as servants – Is a Acts 6:1-6, 1 Tim. 3:8-13 Members compose body – Col. 1:2 Name (group): Church of God – Eph. 3:15 Body of Christ – Eph. 1:22-23 Page Short Churches of Christ – Rm. 16:16 Bride of Christ – Rm. 7:4 by Allen Webster Name (individuals): Disciples – John 15:8 Saints – Rm. 1:7 Brethren – Lk. 8:21 I picked up a copy of the Jeff erson ranging talents, and boundless energy. Children of God – Gal. 4:26 Bible while visiting , But Jeff erson had his fl aws, and recent Christian – Acts11:25-26 Jeff erson’s Palladian retreat in Bedford history has been less fl attering to Creed: Jesus/Bible – Acts 8:37 County, Virginia. him than the previous two centuries. Rule of Faith & Practice: I have a keen interest in Jeff erson, Suffi ce it to say that he was a man—a Word of God – 2 Tim. 3:16-17 and have read more about him than remarkable man in many ways, but he Worship: Jn. 4:24 still walked on clay feet. We see the clay Sing – Eph. 5:19 any other modern fi gure. I’ve stood in Pray – Acts 2:42; 1 Th es. 5:17 the Jeff erson Memorial in Washington, prints most clearly when we pick up Th e Teach – Acts 5:42 D.C., and read his famous words Jeff erson Bible: Th e Life and Morals of Communion – 1 Cor. 1:23-26 carved in stone. I walked his footsteps Jesus of Nazareth, which he completed in Contribute – 1 Cor. 16:1-2 in Natural Bridge, Virginia. I’ve been 1819. Th e dust cover of Jeff erson’s Bible Mission: Save Souls – 1 Tim. 4:16 to the , which he says, Warning: Be Faithful – 2 John 9 designed and founded in his old age. Working in the in Jeff erson was a remarkable man for his 1804, Jeff erson set out to edit the If you have questions or comments please contact day—in many ways, he was far ahead in order to uncover the us via email at: [email protected] of his time. I always come away from essence of true religion in the simple impressed with his curiosity, story of the Life of Jesus. Jeff erson Th is fi le provided by: www.housetohouse.com inventiveness, attention to detail, wide- was convinced that the authentic >> message of Jesus could be found Several saw Him more than once, some only by extracting from the Gospels alone, and some in large groups. One Jesus’ message of absolute love and was in the morning; another in the service, rather than the of the evening. In some cases Jesus ate with Annunciation, Virgin Birth, or even them; one time He cooked a meal; the . another, He did a miracle like one He Jeff erson’s Bible gives us, according had done in His early ministry—the to the back cover, “a preaching Jesus of large draft of fi sh (John 21; Luke 5). distinctly human dimensions, without Th e reactions to seeing the resurrected or resurrection.”1 We are not Christ were also diverse. Some surprised, then, to fi nd that the last worshipped; perhaps others wept for sentence in the According to joy. Yet all were transformed by the Jeff erson reads: “Th ere they laid Jesus. What did encounter. And rolled a great stone to the door of THE WITNESSES WERE UNIFORM the sepulcher, and departed.”2 You see, Jeff erson miss? IN IDENTIFYING THE LORD. Jeff erson’s Bible is a page short—it ends Each told similar stories about his or in Matthew 27 instead of Matthew 28, out in 1 Corinthians 15:3–6. If every her experience. How could they be sure on Friday aft ernoon instead of Sunday that the person they were seeing was not morning. person the Bible identifi es as being an eyewitness to Jesus’ resurrection were an imposter? Jesus kept the scars from What did Jeff erson miss? What His crucifi xion, which no one else could evidence do we have of the resurrection? called to the witness stand for cross- examination, it would take 129 hours imitate (Luke 24:39–40). Presumably Th ere is much, but let’s focus on the He could have had any resurrected witnesses. to hear their testimony, at only fi ft een minutes a person.4 In other words, it body He wanted, and yet He chose Th e most outstanding proof that one identifi able, mainly by scars that Jesus rose from the dead is that at least would take from opening session on Monday until the closing session on could be seen and touched. Doubtless 515 eyewitnesses saw Him on twelve the reason could be summed up in the diff erent occasions over a period of forty Friday at dinnertime, listening around the clock to hear the testimony of those theme of John’s biography: “To the intent days. “He shewed himself alive aft er his ye may believe” (John 11:15). Dr. Luke passion by many infallible proofs, being witnesses. We in the twenty-fi rst century have a decision to make: whose report recorded Jesus’ reference to His body as seen of them forty days, and speaking of “fl esh and bones” (Luke 24:39), which the things pertaining to the kingdom of will we believe—the more than fi ve hundred eyewitnesses, or the skeptical is the only time that phrase is used in God” (Acts 1:3). Jesus had six weeks to the (usually the body is establish His identity for all time, and He “scholars” seventeen hundred years removed from the events? identifi ed as “the fl esh and blood”—fi ve used the time wisely. times in New Testament). Some see Th e resurrection of Christ is a fact THE WITNESSES WERE DIVERSE. in this a change in Jesus’ resurrection to be proved, like all other facts, by Skeptics, most of whom live centuries body—that it was bloodless—and tie it 3 competent and credible witnesses. removed from the events, would have to His giving His blood for us. Evidently If you hit a hole-in-one playing golf us believe that the appearances can be His body did still have a gaping hole Saturday, how would you prove it to explained by mass hysteria or mass large enough for Th omas to insert his incredulous friends on Sunday? You hallucinations. Yet the facts do not fi t hand (John 20:27). would call over your golfi ng partner this hypothesis. Th e time frame does As a group, these appearances to confi rm that he saw you do it. If not fi t. Th e interactions were spread comprise overwhelming evidence for the that failed, then you would bring in over forty days—not merely a few hours resurrection—evidence that would stand others who were there to confi rm or a couple of days (cf. Luke 24:13–35; up in any court of law in the world.6 your story. Any sensible person will 5 1 Corinthians 15:5–7). Most of these Jesus said, “Blessed are they that have believe a report corroborated by fi ve hundred witnesses were still living not seen, and yet have believed” (John several credible witnesses. Paul uses the twenty-fi ve years later when Paul wrote 20:29). same logic to prove the resurrection 1 Corinthians. Th ere is no record of a No thanks, Mr. Jeff erson, we will keep in 1 Corinthians 15. He appeals to single one who ever changed his mind that page of the Bible. ✤ the witnesses who had attested to the and recanted his testimony. Endnotes: resurrection, and then showed that it Th e number of witnesses and the was not possible that so many witnesses 1 Charles S. Adams, Religious Studies Review. circumstances do not fi t these theories. 2 Jeff erson Bible, page 147. were deceived (1 Corinthians 15:5–7). A large number of people saw Him alive 3 Albert Barnes. Barnes’ Notes. THE WITNESSES ARE SUFFICIENT. in diff erent locations, at diff erent times, 4 Lee Strobel, Th e Case for Easter. 5 Tim LaHaye, Jesus, Who Is He? Th e apostle Paul, when writing a letter and under diff erent circumstances. No 6 LaHaye. to a group of new Christians, laid it all two appearances were exactly alike.

2 House to House ~ Heart to Heart The Price of Children The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and Lift ed Me came up with $160,140 for a middle-income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t LOVE even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn’t so bad if you break it down. It translates into: By the main warehouses in a particular town, the river channel has to be ■ $8,896.666 a yearyear,, dredged oft en so barges can come in. Th e sand dredged from the river bottom is dumped on the riverbank. Children love to play on these huge sand hills. However, ■ $741.38 a month, or the mounds can be dangerous. When the wet sand dries, it creates a crust. It can ■ $171.08 a week. collapse at any time, causing a person to sink down inside the mound and be ■ That’s a mmereere $24.24 a day!day! covered instantly by the sand. ■ Just overr a dollar an hour. Several years ago when two brothers did not come home for dinner, their bikes were found outside the fence where the sand mounds were. Th eir family and “Happy is tthehe man that hath rescue workers began searching frantically. Th ey fi nally found one of them. He his quiver ffullull of thethem.”mm..” was buried up to his chin in the sand. Because of the pressure of the wet sand and PSALM 127:5:5 muck around him, he was not breathing; so they began to dig frantically. When they uncovered him down to his waist he regained consciousness. His parents, in hysterics, said, “Where’s your brother? Where’s your brother? Where’s your brother?” Th e boy replied, “I’m standing on his shoulders.” Th e one brother had given his life so the other might be saved. Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for Burdens GGiveiUWi Us Wings his friends” (John 15:13). Jesus demonstrated this greater love by giving His life for you and me. When we An old legend says that long ago God were sinking in the depths of sin, Jesus bore the weight of our sins on the cross (1 had a great many burdens that He wished Peter 2:21–24), providing the means of our salvation. He invites each of us to stand to have carried from one place to another on earth, so He asked the animals to lend a on His shoulders so you and I can be saved. hand. All of them began to make excuses for We can be saved by the merits of Christ’s death on the cross if we believe in Him not helping: the elephant was too dignifi ed; (Acts 16:30–31), turn from our sins in repentance (Acts 17:30–31), confess Him the lion too proud; and so on. before men (Romans 10:9–10), and are baptized—immersed—in His name for the Finally the birds came and said, “If you will forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). Th en if we continue to follow Him faithfully, He tie them into small bundles, we’ll carry them will receive us into an eternal home (1 John 1:7; John 14:1–6). for you. We are small but we would like to help.” “I was sinking deep in sin, Far from the peaceful shore, So God fastened upon the back of each a Very deeply stained within, Sinking to rise no more; small bundle, and they all set out walking But the Master of the sea, Heard my despairing cry, across the plain to their destination. They From the waters lift ed me—Now safe am I” sang as they went, and did not seem to feel “Love lift ed me . . .” the weight of their burdens at all. Every day the burdens seemed lighter and lighter, until Won’t you allow Jesus to lift you from the deadly depths of sin? the loads seemed to be lifting the birds, —David A. Sargent, Mobile, Alabama (Story adapted from Tom Moore, Avenue T Church of Christ; instead of the birds carrying the burdens. Lyrics written by James Rowe 1912.) When they arrived at their destination, they discovered when they removed their loads, there were wings in their place, wings which enabled them to fl y to the sky and the treetops. They had learned how to carry their burdens, and their loads had become wings to carry them nearer to God. The burdens we carry for others may become wings of the spirit, to lift us into happiness. —Author Unknown “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfi l the law of Christ.” GALATIANS 6:2

www.housetohouse.com 3 Financial Advice forHard Times Come Again? ■ Set a budget. stores to promote Determine where impulse spending. A woman went to the money leaks It keeps them in court and told the are. Evaluate business; it puts judge she wanted priorities. you out of business. a divorce. “Do you have any grounds?” ■ Do not wreck Impulse buying the judge asked. your fi nances concerns wants, not “Just two acres,” for big ticket needs, so stay away she said. items—even for a from it. “No, I mean do you have a grudge?” fancy house. ■ Evaluate your “No, we park the car in the front yard.” ■ Do not allow budget monthly. Frustrated, the judge continued, “Does the “tyranny If this takes more your husband beat you up?” of the urgent” than an hour, then She replied, “No, I get up before he to out vote the your budget is too does.” important. complicated. “Then why do you want a divorce?” ■ Do not buy ■ Remember, your “Because,” she confessed, “we just items not on budget is your don’t seem able to communicate.” the budget. For friend and not the “A merry heart doeth good.” “big ticket” items on the budget, wait law. It can be changed when necessary. PROVERBS 17:22 thirty days before signing. Th is allows It is your best paper friend. It may be clearheadedness and cancels impulse a lot of fun to get into debt, but it is buying. On most purchases, wait sheer misery to get out of debt. Misery Is Good? twenty-four hours—in other words, “Strong men retain riches.” The key to a happy relationship could sleep on it. Merchants arrange their PROVERBS 11:16 be accepting that some miserable times are unavoidable, experts say. The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy reports that the pursuit of relationship nirvana can actually be Parenting Tips potentially damaging, the unrealistic aim leading couples to feel they’ve ■ Motherhood—If it was going to ■ Raising a teenager is like nailing Jell-O failed. “Nobody’s life or relationship can be easy, it never would start with to a tree. be in a permanent state of happiness,” something called labor! ■ Th e joy of motherhood: the time when says Jan Parker of the Association of ■ Parents: People who bear infants, bore all the children are fi nally in bed. Family Therapy. “There will always teenagers, and board newlyweds. ■ Life’s golden age is when the kids are be diffi cult times.” Instead, “Couples ■ Shouting to make your children obey too old to need babysitters and too need to build strengths, such as is like using the horn to steer your car, young to borrow the family car. understanding, into their relationships and you get about the same results ■ Grandparents are similar to a piece to help them cope with hard times and (Proverbs 15:1). of string—handy to have around and appreciate the good times.” ■ To be in your children’s memories easily wrapped around the fi ngers of “The trying of your faith worketh tomorrow, you have to be in their lives grandchildren (Proverbs 17:6). patience.” today (Genesis JAMES 1:3 44:30). “Through wisdom ■ Good advice on a house is built, child rearing: AndA by understanding enjoy them while it is established.” For more material on the home and they are still on PROVERBS 24:3 family, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, grandparents, and family your side. fi nances, go to www.housetohouse.com.

4 House to House ~ Heart to Heart Can a Person ow He Is Saved

Although it may sound arrogant and can know it. Th us begins a life-long they are not maturing as Christians for one to say, “I know that I am saved,” journey of the “babe in Christ” growing should, but are moving backward. Th is the Bible teaches that the Christian can into the mature Christian. oft en happens when a person does not know that very thing. John wrote, “Th ese We must also trust God to keep His give his whole heart to Christ. Jesus said, things have I written unto you that Word. Christians are not perfect, and “For whosoever will save his life shall believe on the name of the Son of God; God does not expect us to be. We still lose it: but whosoever will lose his life sin, but God forgives those sins as we that ye may know that ye have eternal for my sake, the same shall save it” (Luke repent of them and confess them. As life, and that ye may believe on the name 9:24). Th e person who tries to live as a God expects a forgiving attitude of of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13). Christian while not fully surrendering Christians, He shows a forgiving attitude How can we have such confi dence? his life to Christ must have doubts, as a Father. because he cannot walk in the light if Both trust and obedience play a part. Salvation does not depend on how he does not give his whole heart to the John wrote, “Hereby we do know few sins or mistakes we make, but Lord. that we know him, if we keep his upon whether or not we accept God’s As the hymn says, “Trust and obey, for commandments” (1 John 2:3). Jesus grace and are obedient to Christ. As told Nicodemus that one must be born we continue to serve Christ, the Lord there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, again of water and of the Spirit in order continues to bless and forgive us. If we but to trust and obey.” to enter into the kingdom of God (John walk in the light, following the pathway —Bob Prichard, P. O. Box 3071, Oxford, AL 36203 3:3–5). A person is born again of the of Christ, His blood continues to cleanse To ask a Bible question or view water and of the Spirit by being baptized us of sin (1 John 1:5–7). previously answered questions, go to into Christ. Th is person is then saved— Many Christians have doubts because www.HouseToHouse.com. This month on housetohouse.com James Watkins studies God’s Plan for Marriage and the Home.

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A survey of churchgoing people revealed the following: ■ Th e most widely known Bible verse among adults and teens is “God helps those who help themselves”—which is not actually in the Bible and even confl icts with the basic message of Scripture. ■ One-third could not put the following in order: Abraham, the Old Testament prophets, the death of Christ, and Pentecost. ■ Half could not sequence the following: Moses in Egypt, Isaac’s birth, Saul’s death, and Judah’s exile. ■ One-third could not identify Matthew as an apostle, from a list of New Testament names. ■ When asked to locate the biblical book supplying a given story, one- third could not fi nd Paul’s travels in Acts, half did not know that Jesus’ birth was in Matthew, half did not know that the Passover story was in Exodus. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” HOSEA 4:6

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During His ministry upon the earth, Jesus promised to From the beginning, the followers of Christ have been build His church (Matthew 16:18). Although He was rejected identifi ed by their steadfast adherence to the commands of and crucifi ed, His promise did not fail. God’s promises never Christ. To some Jews that believed on Him, Jesus declared, do (2 Peter 3:9; Numbers 23:19). In Acts 2, we fi nd the church “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples in existence on the earth just as Jesus had promised (Acts indeed” (John 8:31). In like manner, concerning the church, 2:47). His death was not an unforeseen occurrence but rather Luke recorded, “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ a part of the “determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God” doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in (Acts 2:23; Isaiah 53; Revelation 13:8). His death facilitated, prayers” (Acts 2:42). rather than frustrated, God’s eternal plan (Ephesians 3:10–11). How do you identify the true church in the midst of so It was through the shedding of His blood at Calvary that the many churches today? You fi nd it in the same way that men church was purchased (Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:25). and women found it in the fi rst century. You fi nd it by fi nding Th e diffi culty that faces man today is not whether the those who are abiding in the doctrine of Christ in all aspects of church of Christ exists, but rather how to fi nd it among their work and worship (2 John 9–11). We humbly ask for you the hundreds of man-made churches that dot the religious to put us to the test (1 Th essalonians 5:21). We sincerely invite landscape. For sure, the search can be frustrating. In fact, some you to “come and see” if we are that church (Isaiah 2:2–3; John have given up on ever fi nding the church, while others have 1:39, 46; 4:29). —Wade Webster, Southaven, Mississippi simply settled for something less than the church recorded in the New Testament. While identifying the church among so many counterfeits may be diffi cult, it is not impossible. God has given man a blueprint by which he can prove that which is good and reject that which is bad (1 Th essalonians 5:21; 2 Peter 1:3).

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What Really Send us your answers (address on front) to receive a FREE Bible bookmark. We’ll grade and return your questions and enclose the Coins of the Bible bookmark as a way of saying “thanks” for Changed Paul's Life? spending time in the Word (quantities may be limited). Name: ______All of Jerusalem was Address: ______disturbed (Acts 21:30). Paul ______had been seized, dragged out Phone: ______of the temple, almost beaten to Questions from Pages 1 and 2 death, and falsely charged with 1. T or F Belief in the virgin birth or the resurrection is not essential desecrating the temple (Acts to true Christianity. 21:30-32, 35). 2. T or F There is not much evidence for the . 3. T or F We should be able to prove that Jesus was resurrected Of interest, when he was fi nally before we believe it. allowed to defend himself, he 4. T or F Witnesses are not a reliable way to prove that Jesus was talked about—of all things—his resurrected. conversion. He spoke of 5. The most outstanding proof that Jesus rose from the dead is that at least ______eyewitnesses saw Him on ______different ■ his “education” at the feet of Gamaliel (22:1-3) occasions over a period of ______days. ■ his “convictions” relative to the strictness of the law (22:3) 6. T or F Most of the fi ve hundred witnesses that saw Jesus were still ■ his “dedication” as a zealot, persecuting the church (22:3-5) living twenty-fi ve years later when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians. There is ■ his “immersion” for the remission of sins (22:6-16); and no record of them ever changing his or her testimony. ■ his “commission” as one sent to the Gentiles (22:17-21). Questions from Page 3 1. According to the popular gospel hymn based on Scripture, what Question: What really changed Paul’s life? What turned him lifted us when we were sinking deep in sin?______from one religion to another? What redirected his energies? 2. ______proved His love for us by dying on the cross. Why was he converted? 3. T or F God doesn’t have any specifi c plan for saving man. We can Answer: He saw Jesus! On the road to Damascus, his do whatever we want to be saved. associates saw the same light Paul encountered, but only Paul 4. What six things do we need to do to be saved? ______was temporarily blinded. Why? Paul was the only one actually ______to see the Lord in His glory, and it changed his life forever Questions from Page 4 (Acts 22:6-9; 9:7). 1. T or F Experts say that some miserable times are unavoidable. 2. T or F Read Matthew 5:45. God says that He will not allow bad Even so, when you and I study the Old Testament, we are times to come for His children. encouraged to anticipate a Savior. When we study the New 3. T or F Modern experts on relationships agree with what Jesus said Testament, we are introduced to Jesus as that Savior. If we are over 2,000 years ago. baptized into Him (Galatians 3:26-27) and allow Him to live in Answers to Last Issue: Bible Book Word Find (in this order): 1. a mos; 2. mark; 3. lu, ke; 4. john; 5. jo, El; 6. judges; 7. job; 8. he brews; 9. es. Ther; 10. acts; 11. jam, es; 12. ruth; us (Galatians 2:20), like Paul, it will make all the diff erence in 13. rom ans; 14. t it us; 15. O see (variant spelling of Hosea); 16. m at the w; 17. genes is; our lives . . . and our eternity. 18. Phi lemon; 19. Chronicle, s; 20. Daniel; 21. na hum; 22. hosea; 23. lamentations; —Dan Winkler, Huntingdon, Tennessee 24. revelation; 25. Timothy; 26. Samuel; 27. numbers; 28. mal. A chi; 29. pete r; 30. exodus; 31. king s.

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