Forgiveness...who takes the first step?

This week at Emmanuel Lutheran Church we will be talking about forgiveness.

The following video tells some truth, but also the opportunity we have to take the first step.

Funeral for the Church.....

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~ A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first services.

The following Sunday the church was all but empty. Accordingly, the Pastor placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the church was dead, it was everyone's ...duty to give it a decent Christian burial. The funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice said.

Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward and pay their final respects to their dead church.

Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look.

In the coffin, tilted at the correct angle, was a large mirror......

~ What is a dead church?

A dead church is a church that is not drawing “life” from the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.

~ For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven,
and giveth life unto the world. John 6:33

No matter what its attendance, no matter how impressive its buildings, no matter what its status in the community, such a church, having denied the only source of spiritual life, is dead.

Photo by, Andrew Filer

* God bless and keep sharing the Good News !!! ~ C4C

WEEKLY UPDATE February 7, 2014

Here is some information from Emmanuel

Events coming up here at Emmanuel

THIS WEEK
Sunday 2/9         9:00 A.M.     Worship/Noisy Offering/Boy Scout Sunday
                                     10:15 A.M.     Sunday School Journey to the Cross
                             10:15 A.M. Coffee Fellowship
                              6:30 P.M.  Hebrew Bible Study @ Jack & Marilyn Eklund’s Home
Tuesday 2/11        7:00 P.M.   Church Council Meeting                                
Wed 2/12              1:30 P.M.   Staff Meeting                         
Friday  2/14                            Pastor’s Day Off
NEXT WEEK
Sunday 2/16      9:00 A.M.      Worship w/communion
                            10:15 A.M.  Sunday School Journey to the Cross
                            10:15 A.M.  Coffee Fellowship
                            11:00 A.M.  Confirmation
                        11:00 A.M.      POTLUCK
                             6:30 P.M.   Hebrew Bible Study @ Jack & Marilyn Eklund’s Home

Edna Valentine Snethen 95^th Birthday
February 14^th
Please shower her with cards...
Edna Snethen
7080 Rd 15
Goodland, Ks. 67735

 

 

 

 

Recycle and Help Kaylee go to China!  
Kaylee Willems has the incredible opportunity to travel to China next summer with the People to People Student Ambassador Program. To help pay for her trip she is collecting used inkjet cartridges and old cell phones. These used items are sent in and recycled according to EPA regulations. If improperly disposed of, one cell phone can pollute up to 35,000 gallons of drinking water.

 

If you would like to send cards to Kay and/or stay in contact with her, here is her information... Kay Hull

                      4181 Menlo

                      Wichita, Ks. 67218      Phone-- 785-223-5248

 

 

 

I am in need of a live donkey for Palm Sunday.  If you know of anyone that has one would you please let me know so that I can begin to make arrangements. 
Thank you. Nicki Glassman

 

WE PRAY FOR:  Our homebound, *Dan Dorn and family, *Shirley Reed, *Verneda Bowman, *Della Helzer, *Merwin Jensen *Jan Malpert *Amy Busse, *Ruth Knodel, *Patrick O’Neal, *Bethany Rice, *Lee Tubbs, *Jake Wilkening, *Ruby Heinrichs, *Mike Fink, *Kay Hull, *Sylvia Hybl, *Roger Blume, *Kari Snethen, *Mary Lou Isernhagen, *Lavern Rapier, *Edna Snethen, *Diana Spinney, *Evelyn Kowalke, *Mike Ginn, *Fred Dietz, *Marion Carter
 In the Military:  *Brandon Zelfer, *Pr. Joanna Grimshaw, *Adam Rector, *Shane Mac Donald     

 

 

SERVING February 9, 2014

Worship Leader:  Pastor Darian Hybl
Organist:  Marla Harrison
Lector: Trina Mays       
Acolytes: Autumn Mays    
Altar Guild:  Alberta & Duane Coash
Usher: Harold Snethen               
Greeters: Elda Blake, Kasey & Seth Stramel      
Coffee Hosts:  Stramel Family               
Flowers:
Sunday School Snacks: Mays Family

 

Pastor’s Sermon Blog – For those who may not be able to attend worship on Sunday, Pastor has started a new blog of the sermon preached.  The address is http://emmanuelgoodland.blogspot.com/.  Please let us know what you think!!