CPC e-News: January 16, 2008
**QUOTABLE**By Mark Dever, Senior Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington D.C. [From “The Deliberate Church”]
“In a healthy church, private corrective discipline is happening all the time. People in the church sin. But growing Christians welcome other Christians into their lives for the purposes of confessing their sins to one another...
“Sin needs darkness to grow - it needs isolation disguised as ‘privacy’, and prideful self-sufficiency disguised as ‘strength.’ Once these conditions prevail, sin is watered with the acid of shame, which then makes darkness appear more attractive to the sinner than light.
“But when we walk in the light by confessing our sins, we realize that we are not alone in our struggles, and we open ourselves to the protective rebukes and loving corrections that function as pesticides to curb the destructive and enslaving potential of habitual sin.
“Bringing our sin into the light by confessing it in the context of personal accountability friendships helps to prevent the sins we struggle with now from becoming scandalous later.”
***ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING***
This Sunday, January 20, during the Sunday School hour, we will present information about plans for 2008, and the church budget.
If you are a member of CPC, please plan to attend. If you are a regular attender, please feel free to attend and learn more about us!
***MEN’S RETREAT***
You can still sign up for the Ohio Valley Presbytery Men’s Retreat. We will meet at Hueston Woods on February 1-2.
This year’s main speaker is John Sartelle, Senior Pastor of Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky.
Sign up at ovpretreats.com.
***CPC FAMILY GATHERING***
Please mark your calendars for the next CPC Family Gathering
Sunday, February 10, at 5:30 p.m.
***PRAY***
+ For the persecuted church: Pray for Christians in Iraq. Four churches were recently bombed in coordinated attacks around the country. Pray for the healing of those injured in the attacks.
+ For the Next Generation Committee, as they coordinate our youth ministries.
+ For the Missions Committee, as they consider options for summer mission trips.
+ For the Nottingham family and Amy Petery, as they soon begin a new semester at Covenant Seminary.
+ For our sister church in Muncie, Westminster Presbyterian Church, as a candidate for Senior Pastor visits the church this weekend.
+ For those who are still seeking to sell homes in Richmond: Ken-Pat Bane, Joe-Lois Beltrame, Dale-Shelly Kulp, Shawn-Melanie Munn.
***THIS SUNDAY’S SERMON TEXT: MATTHEW 13:44-46***