Aug-Sept 2015

Here's what's going on with the FBC West Point Student Ministry!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SaturdayAugust 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

-Sunday School-Transformed University-S.N.A.C.

-Renewal Worship@ 6 p.m.-Jennifer Zachary is speaking.

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

23 24 25 26 27 28 29-Sunday School-Transformed University

-Renewal Worship @ 6 p.m.-Ethics 101: Racism & Hostility

**C.J. – NOBTS for school.-College Discipleship...

-Pancake Prayer Breakfast @ FBC – 7:00 a.m. (Rides provided after)

-Youth Praise Band Workshop // 9:00-2:00 @ FBC (lunch provided)

30 31 Sept. 1 2 3 4 5-Sunday School-Parent Luncheon-Transformed University

-Renewal Worship @ 6 p.m.(Live Different)

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

-Prairie Arts Festival: Parking Fundraiser -From 6-12 a.m.

6 7 8 9 10 11 12-Sunday School-NO EVENING ACTIVITES

-Labor Day-Church Office is closed.

-Renewal Worship @ 6 p.m.(Live Different)

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

13 14 15 16 17 18 19-Sunday School-Transformed University-S.N.A.C.

-Renewal Worship@ 6 p.m.(Live Different)

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

**Green Shading denotes C.J. @ NOBTS for school.

20 21 22 23 24 25 26-Sunday School-Transformed University

**Yellow Shading denotes SYATP Global Week of Prayer

-SYATP Community Wide Night of Worship @ FBC Sanctuary

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

-Pancake Prayer Breakfast - FBC @ 7:00 a.m. (Rides provided after)

-Tailgate Party! -More Info TBA-MSU v. Auburn-O. Miss v. Vandy

27 28 29 30 Oct. 1 2 3-Sunday School-Transformed University

-Renewal Worship@ 6 p.m.

-College Discipleship Group – 7 p.m. @ C.J.'s

(Live Different)

MORE DETAILS BELOW – PLEASE READ!! For any questions, contact Student Minister, C.J. Moore – 662-295-9076.

Jennifer Zachary, from the Center for Mission Mobilization (CMM) in Fayetteville, AR, will be speaking on Wednesday night, August 19 during Renewal Worship. In Matthew 9:37, Jesus told the disciples that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. With 40% of the world’s people groups still

unreached with the gospel, the greatest need is for more laborers to go to the unreached where few are harvesting. The heartbeat of CMM is to mobilize the body of Christ to send missionaries from

around the globe to the remaining 2.9 billion unreached people. Come ready to help financially and prayerfully.

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READING FOR YOUR RENEWING – PARENTS: THREE MOTIVATIONS TO AVOID

By Jason Allen, President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO

As the father of five young children, I live with an ever-present awareness that my greatest stewardship is my children. Many men can preach a sermon and more than a few can be a seminary president, but only one can father these five children. Thus, my wife and I approach our family with a profound sense of stewardship and intentionality. As parents, we are practitioners, but also observers, always seeking to learn and improve in order to be most faithful. Over the past decade, I’ve witnessed in others—and, unfortunately, in myself—three parental motivations to avoid. Like weeds that force their way through the best-cultivated garden or thickest concrete, these motivations seem stubborn, always reappearing; resilient, always resurfacing.

"In fact, if I could wish away three parental motives from my heart, and from others, it would be these: AMBITION, FEAR, AND PRIDE."

Parenting out of Ambition: Parenting out of ambition occurs when we channel our goals through our children. Mothers do this when they vicariously cheer through their daughters and fathers do so when they vicariously play sports through their sons. At a deeper level, this occurs when parents require of their children a level of commitment and accomplishment they never attained. Parental ambition drove Hans Luther to deter his son, Martin, from entering the ministry. Luther’s father desired him to study law that he might enjoy financial gain and social respect. Had he been successful, Hans Luther would have deprived the church of one of one of its greatest gifts and delayed the much needed reformation and revival he brought. There is a difference between aspiration and ambition. It is right to have aspirations for our children and to cultivate in them a healthy sense of ambition. But it is wrong to channel our ambitions—whether for their lives or our own—on them, especially when those ambitions are man-centered and not God-centered.

Parenting out of Fear: Another parental attitude to avoid is fear. Like ambition, fear appears in many forms. Sometimes it is hyper-safety, leading parents to avoid contact sports and seek to insulate children from harm. At other times, it shows up in “helicopter parenting,” remaining in proximity to our children, helping them make decisions and avoid life’s dangers. In bourgeois Christianity it is often fear of our kids failing in life. The thinking goes, “If my son doesn’t make all As he might not score well on the SAT, not get into the best college, or find the best job. He’ll be a failure. He’ll live in my basement and play Xbox for life.” My wife and I insist our children wear seatbelts, and we hold them to rigorous academic standards. But we aim not to parent out of fear of what they may or may not become. The point is not to be cavalier,

Sunday Nights5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

First Class – A Survey of the Old TestamentBring your Bible,

notebooks, and a pen!

Sunday-Night-After-Church

Kiddie Pool Kickball!Aug. 16 @ the Williamson's

Then, Sept. 13 @ the Crum's

Youth Praise & Worship

Wednesdays @ 6 p.m.New Series Starting

Soon:LIVE DIFFERENT:

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

See You At The Pole

On Sept. 23, students will meet before school, on their

campuses, to pray. Churches will meet to

August 30th after morning worship! We will be talking about our continually developed vision as a Student Ministry, weekly activities happening throughout the next year, and all things pertaining to the calendar through the Summer of 2016! Please be here for free food and

The youth group will have their annual parking fundraising event during the Prairie Arts Festival, on September 5, 2015. Be looking for the sign-up sheets to be posted on the office windows and upstairs on the announcement boards by the youth worship room!

recklessly hoping for God’s kind providence. Rather, we should parent out of stewardship and love, not fear and doubt.

Parenting out of Pride: Parenting out of pride is the most insidious—and injurious—attitude of all. If left unchecked, it will lead us to value morality over spirituality and cultivate children that are self-righteous, but know not Christ’s righteousness. Parenting out of pride is more concerned about man’s evaluation of your parenting than God’s, and more concerned about man’s opinion of your children than God’s. Those serving in ministry are especially susceptible to parenting out of pride. An unhealthy commitment to I Timothy 3, and a well-ordered house, can cause one to incentivize moral structure to the oversight of repentance, regeneration, and true submission to Christ’s Lordship. Even more disastrously, pride can lead parents to prod children down the aisle before the gospel has ripened in their heart. Jesus beckons children to come to him, but he doesn’t beckon parents to shove them. Lead them to Jesus, yes. Shove them down the aisle, no.

On the Contrary, Redemptive Parenting: Due to our sin natures, even our best efforts will remain indecipherably corrupt. But the more one is conscious of a propensity to err in these directions, the less likely one is to do so. Gospel-centered parenting focuses on cultivating the heart toward submission to the Word of God, repentance, godliness, and cherishing the gospel.

Conclusion: Parenting is the most enjoyable and exhilarating responsibility I know. I feel as though I am getting to create, invest, sculpt, build, and nurture all at once. It satisfies the pastor, entrepreneur, teacher, builder, evangelist, and leader within me.

As I do this, I know my supererogative responsibility is to tend the heart, nurturing my children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and teaching them to know, love, and live the gospel. To make sure their heart is right, I must first nurture my own, and that includes forsaking ambition, fear, and pride.