Make plans to join us Wednesday, October 28th from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Glenwood Church of Christ in our Front Parking Lot for our annual Fall Festival know as “Trunk or Treat”. Decorate your trunk, bring a bag of candy, and come along for a hayride and lots more fun! Hamburgers will be provided.
We welcome bags of donated candy. (Bring to the church office.) Invite your neighbors, friends and come along in your best co
stume for a great time of fellowship!
Filed under: events, worship | Tags: communion, First Christian Church, Great Communion, Restoration Movement, Thomas Campbell
It is a good thing when people come together to worship. But why did we do it? Recently, on Sunday night, October 4, Glenwood Church of Christ and First Christian Church of Tyler came together to worship on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Campbell’s, “Declaration and Address.” In it, Campbell encouraged all churches to drop the traditions of men in exchange for simple and biblical Christianity.
All over the country people came together for these worship services called “The Great Communion.” We did it because both of our churches have roots in the Restoration call, and both of our churches sometimes forget that church is simply about loving God and one another, a place where people are called to treat others in Christlike ways. But more importantly, we came together to worship. Plain and simple. We came together to worship. We can reflect a great deal about how wonderful it was to get our churches together. And it was good. But at the end of the day, our goal was to come together to give God the glory for our lives and for the gift of His Son to us.
Jeff Christian
