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Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church 10050 Ferguson Avenue ❖ Savannah, Georgia 31406 July 25, 2021 Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church 10050 Ferguson Avenue ❖ Savannah, Georgia 31406 Where Christ Is Exalted and the Fellowship Is Exciting Announcements Masks Only in Organ Side Overflow Room Quarterly Congregational Meeting & Evening Worship Our next quarterly congregational meeting will be this afternoon, Sunday, July 25, at 5:45 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Evening Worship will follow at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Night Activities Join us this Wednesday, July 28, at 7:00 p.m. Bob will teach his study of Romans in the sanctuary. The Youth will meet in the OBWM. Children’s Music Camp meets in the Fellowship Hall. Senior Saints’ Bible Study Tom’s Senior Adult Bible Study will meet Thursday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m. in the Fel- lowship Hall. Children’s Camp Older Children’s Camp this summer will be a day camp here at the church, from Thurs- day to Saturday, July 29-31. Pray for the kids and workers! Volunteer Opportunities Now that Covid restrictions are pretty much behind us, we are adding back events and activities that were suspended during the pandemic. One of these is the Sunday School fellowship time at 9:00 a.m. We need volunteers! You’d need to come in no later than 8:30 a.m., make coffee, and set out any goodies that are available. Then clean up after- wards. If you would like to help with setup and cleanup for this once-popular activity, call the office at 355-0949 and let Dawn or Tom know! If you can think of something else we haven’t added back into the schedule, let us know that, too! Next D-Group Session Starting Soon! Sunday, August 1, starts Launch Week for the next D-Group Series, Faith, Part 2 (F2). This is a simple sermon series, with no books to buy or read. If you are interested in joining a group, women may talk to Jessica Dimmitt, Savannah Martin, or Emily Wise. Interested men may speak with Robert Holland. continued on p. 4 FABC Elders Bob Dimmitt Tom Keller Church Phone: Senior Pastor Assoc. Pastor/Senior Adults 912-355-0949 912-398-4363 912-308-3767 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.fabchurch.com July 25, 2021 Welcome and Announcements Call to Worship Psalm 47:1-2 Pew Bible p. 472 Hymn #13, bulletin p. 6 “Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty” Prayer of General Confession Tom Keller Romans 4:7-8 Pew Bible p. 941 Hymn #224, bulletin p. 7 “I Know Whom I Have Believed” Scripture Reading Mark 14:66-15:5 Lance Ficek Pew Bible p. 852 Hymn, bulletin pp. 8-10 “Only a Holy God” Message Bob Dimmitt Our Bodies & the Resurrection, Part 3 Romans 8:18-24, Pew Bible p. 944 1 Corinthians #108 Hymn, below “Doxology” Old Hundred Tune Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen 2 A.M. Notes Our Bodies & the Resurrection, Part 3 1 Corinthians #108 Romans 8:18-24 The Apostles’ Creed The Belgic Confession Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England Westminster Larger Catechism London Baptist Confession 1689 Questions Regarding the Resurrection How Should We Treat the Body? Job 19:26 Will the Resurrection Body Be Recognizable? Matt. 22:30 See supplemental information on page 11. 3 July: 25 Quarterly Congregational Meeting 5:45 p.m. 29-31 Children’s Camp August: 1 D-Group Launch Week for F2 18 Children’s Choir Concert and Reception 7:00 p.m. 25 Suppers & Awana begin 5:45 p.m. November: 14 Homecoming December: 5 Visit from Carlos & Sandy Rios 8 Christmas Banquet to our most recent new members! Moonyean Blanton Avalon DeLoach Lindsey Walker 4 You can help reach every home in our zip code with the Gospel Saturate USA – Savannah, Georgia Christ for all People began a campaign called Saturate USA. This is a God-sized vision to take the love of the Gospel to 120 million households by the end of 2027. The hope is to spark true repentance and re- vival in our beloved country. Please share this vi- sion with your friends and colleagues so that they can join this exciting movement. Our country needs to rediscover the message of the Gospel and we need to cry out in prayer for revival to sweep the land. United in love, and with God on our side, we can win America back to Christ. How is this done? A church simply adopts a zip code or city to Saturate. FABC has adopted the zip code 31406. Basically a TEAM of 2 people can deliver 400 Saturation Packs in just 4 HOURS…and a TEAM of 25 people can deliver 5000 packs in just 4 HOURS. What are in the packs? Saturate USA will provide and deliver all materials FREE of charge. Saturation Packs include: Door Hangers, Free Streaming, Free App, Multi-Language Jesus Film DVDs, Gospel Tracts and Adopted Area Maps. FABC has just received our materials. What’s next? First: We need a few people who are interested in helping to coordinate the packing and distribution of these packets. If you are interested see Pastor Bob. Secondly: we will need volunteers to come and put the materials in door hanger (bags or packets). We’ll have a date set and a signup sheet for this. Thirdly: we’ll need teams (teams may consist of two people or as many as 20) or individuals who will distribute these packets door to door. Zip code 31406 has been divided into 30 smaller areas, a team can adopt one or more of these areas, several teams can team up to complete an area, then teams will go out and place a packet on each door of each home or apartment in their area. We’ll have signup sheets for this as well. It’s a big project, it will not be done in one day, teams might want to dedicate one day a month for 2 or 3 months to help accomplish this. You may have friends who do not attend FABC who might be willing to help. However by working together we can ensure that all 14,000 households are reached. 5 6 7 8 9 10 Articles he Apostles’ Creed has been with the church from almost the very beginning (in some form). It is a statement of belief that contains the important facets of T what Christians should hold as true. The Apostles’ Creed is not a statement to be made that guarantees a person salvation if they recite it, it is a condensed the- ological system that reflects what is right for a follower of Jesus Christ to believe. An early version of what later became the Apostles’ Creed, called the “Old Ro- man Creed,” was in use as early as the second century. The earliest written form of this creed is found in a letter that Marcellus of Ancyra wrote in Greek to Julius, the bishop of Rome, about AD 341. About 50 years later, Tyrannius Rufinus wrote a commentary on this creed in Latin. In it, he recounted the viewpoint that the apos- tles wrote the creed together after Pentecost, before leaving Jerusalem to preach. The title “Apostles’ Creed” is also mentioned about 390 by Ambrose, where he re- fers to “the creed of the Apostles which the Church of Rome keeps and guards in its entirety.” The English version is as follows: I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body (flesh) and the life everlasting. Amen. The Belgic Confession was originally written by a French-speaking, Reformed pas- tor, Guido de Brès, who had been a student of John Calvin in Geneva. Though de Brès was principal author of the Belgic Confession, other Reformed pastors and theologians contributed to the final, received form of the Confession. First written in 1561, copies of the Confession were sent to Geneva and other Reformed church- es for approval. ❖ 11 I Was a Misunderstood Muslim: Common Misconceptions About Islam by Pastor Afshin Ziafat Christians are called to be witnesses of Christ to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). In our day, the ends of the earth are moving into our neighborhoods — at least for those of us in America and Europe. Muslims are emigrating to our cities in record numbers. Many of us don’t need to board a plane to take the gospel to the Muslim world. We only need to cross the street to our neighbor’s house. Unfortunately, many Christians are apprehensive about engaging a relationship or even a conversa- tion with Muslims. Some have a misperception that Muslims will not be friendly. Others are gripped with the fear of potentially offending Muslims by committing a cultural faux pas. Essentially, many are overcome by the fear of the unknown. I want to shed light on some common misconceptions that hin- der Christians from reaching out to Muslims with the saving truth of Christ.
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