This Lord's Day (July 9, 2023) at Rainsville First Baptist Church

Our life without Christ is like a descending elevator.  We are trapped in a dark, dead, and doomed environment.  There is no life, light, or liberty.  All hope is gone of us surviving the falling, collapsing elevator.  All we are doing is waiting to hit bottom and die spending eternity without God in hell.

But in this despair, Christ visits us to show us our desperate situation and His glorious salvation.  Through faith alone in Christ alone, we are rescued.  When the door of the doomed elevator opens, the first thing a new believer experiences is justification.  As the verse below indicates, this is our "introduction" to the Christian life. What is justification?  

This Lord's Day (July 9, 2023) we will examine this wonderful and foundational doctrine of justification based in Romans 5: 1-2:  "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God." (NASV)

Also this Sunday, Bro. Jimmy Traylor will give us an update on the debt and share a testimony.

Then in Sunday School, we will hear from our New England Mission Team.  All of our team members will be sharing in Sunday School. Here is the schedule:

Preschool classes through Kindergarten will meet as normal.

All Children's classes (Grades 1-6) will join their parents in their (adult) classrooms to hear the mission stories.

All Youth will meet in the larger room of the Youth Center to hear the mission stories of the youth.  Parents of youth may attend to hear their youth share their stories.

All adult classes will meet in their normal places and each class will have their members share their mission stories.  Children of your class members may be in the class with them this Sunday.