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home.” Perhaps through the years they
Or Suppose a woman has ten silver
“belonged to a church”, attended Sunday
coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a
School and sat in the pews during wor-
lamp, sweep the house and search care-

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ship. But if you were to probe into their
fully until she finds it? And when she
inner lives and their response to Jesus,
finds it, she calls her friends and neigh-
there would appear to be no genuine ex-
bors together and says, “Rejoice with me;
perience of the reality of the Lord Jesus.
I have found my lost coin.” In the same
I have heard many times the stories of
way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the
presence of the angels of God over one parents who dutifully made their children
sinner who repents. Luke 15:8-10 go to church while they were growing up,
June 24, 2021 • Vol. 44, Issue 25 In the parables of the lost in Luke 15, but as soon as their children were old
Jesus tells of a woman who has lost one enough to leave the home and live on

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of her ten silver coins. While the mone- their own, they lost all connections with
tary value of that coin was quite small, to the Kingdom of God. To make matters
the woman there was great sentimental worse, many young adults view family
value in that coin. In the culture of that members that continue in the faith as out
day, when a woman married, she would of date, rigid, and at best “quaint” but not
gather up ten coins to be sewn in her someone to be taken seriously. A recent
bridal headdress as a symbol of all that survey found that 43 percent of millenni-
she had to contribute to the marriage. als “Don’t know, Care, or Believe” in God

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June 27, 2021 Thus, the coin’s loss cut to the core of (American Worldview Inventory from Ari-
the woman’s commitment to the marriage zona Christian University’s Cultural Re-
Please welcome Chris and Casey Willis and to her home. To make matters even search Center). And the impact? - This
as they will be joining us in worship on worse, the coin was lost a home...a place same survey suggested that only 48 per-
Sunday, June 27, 2021. With the sup- where such valuables should be secure. cent of millennials believed “you treat oth-
port of the Southern Baptist Conven- Although nothing is said about the cause ers as you want them to treat you”. My
tion’s International Mission Board and brothers and sisters in Christ we must not
of this loss, we can imagine that she had
Warren Baptist Church, they along been careless or had neglected the care be careless, we must not neglect those
with their four children, Tucker, Cash, of these coins. When she wakes up to lost souls in “our home.”
Blair and Crew are preparing to return realize that the coin is missing, she is Notice the three important steps taken
to Uganda to feed and care for those so by the woman to find the lost coin. First,
stirred to a flurry of activity to recover it
needing the hope of Jesus Christ. she lit a lamp - if we are going to find
because of its value to her.
I believe that this parable draws us to those lost at home, we are going to need
the question, ”Do I have something lost the light of the Scriptures. When need to
learn from the scriptures the truth and
Our Mission: We exist to obey Jesus Christ by at home?” More to the point, “Is some-
how to share the truth in love with those
one, not something, lost?” because Je-
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ships and share Christ’s story in order to make sus is not talking about things but is illus- lost in our homes. Second, the woman
mature disciples. trating the value of lost persons. Is swept the house - we need to lay bare the
someone lost in your home, - a child, a circumstances of our home and our lives,
421 Edgefield Road | PO Box 8168 to be honest with ourselves. If we are to
North Augusta, SC 29861-8168 grandchild or a spouse, perhaps, that you
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Sunday, June 27 Fall Festival
Week of: June 20, 2021
9:15a Sunday School Teens Reserved Unto True Holiness
Weekly Needs $6,281.00
10:30 Worship/Guest Speakers: Saturday, Oct. 9
Volunteers needed! Weekly Tithe $4,232.14
Chris & Casey Willis Needs/Date $151,113.25
IMB Missionaries to Uganda If you would like to help with
this event, please let YOUTH Offering/Date $140,378.03
5:45p Small Group (John Baker) Sunday School @ 9:15am
Tuesday, June 29 Jane Brown know. Youth Building ( No On-line giving included for this week)
6:30p Pastor Search Com Mtg (YB) Missions #8025 $45.00
Wednesday, June 30 Annie Armstrong #8040 $40.00
6:30p Praise Team/Choir Rehearsal Memorial #8005 (Benton) $10.00
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Sunday, July 4 Happy 4th of July! If being hurt by the church causes you to
9:15a Sunday School lose faith in God. Then your faith was in
10:30 Worship people.
5:45p No Small Group SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Tuesday, July 6 From Pastor David McKinley @ NOT GOD
6:30p Deacon’s Mtg (FH) Warren Baptist Church
Wednesday, July 7
You are invited to listen in on a Youtube
6:30p Praise Team/Choir Rehearsal
announcement from David McKinley (cont. from God Matters) Members In Service
(Sanct.) away self-righteousness and pride. We Welcome Team
regarding important events at Warren
Baptist Church that in the last half of the must search for the lost with repentance
announcements speaks directly to the and humility in our hearts. And finally Ushers
launching of a process at Belvedere note that the woman searched diligently Deacons are filling in at this time
First Baptist Church to consider being - to find those that are lost we must
adopted by Warren Baptist Church. make it a priority to take the time to Safety
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know and to love those in our home, un- Olin Boatwright
Homebound til they open up, until they are able to
comprehend the good news of Jesus Sound & Multimedia Team
Marilene Bullard Christ, and until true discipling can Wayne Duke, Debra Wheeler
121 Adamsville Spring Rd. begin. Why are so many young people
29860 Pulpit Supply drifting away…perhaps because the mil- Deacons-On-Call
Jeanette Still June 27, 2021 lennials do not believe that we, the Alex Mabe / 803-278-2939
381 Harvester Dr. church, know them and truly love them. Jake Farr / 803-279-3162
Chris and Casey Willis
29860 In the end, the woman finds the coin
Jeannette Gorga Pray & Go and rejoices with her friends and neigh- Extended Session
119 Concord St. bors. You, too, will know this kind of joy
Team Schedule
29841 when you see those in your home enter- Sun., June 27
Fourth Sunday, June 27 ing life committed, concerned, growing,
AM Service:
If you know of anyone that should Team A: Alex & Kaye Mabe settled in faith, solid and secure. And
be on this list please let me know. Ryan Greene Jesus said that when one who was lost
Marilene was added due to her but now has found the living Lord, there Children are welcome to worship with their
is a great celebration in heaven! May parents in the Sanctuary
injury from a recent fall. Team B: Phil Solesbee, Mike Gee
Dorothy Gary Hartley we be diligent in our search and join in
the great celebration.