The Citizen, 1998-08-26, Page 12MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
We welcome you to come and worship with us.
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
PASTOR JAMES H. CARNE AUBURN 526-7515
ASSOCIATE PASTOR - YOUTH - JEREMY SHUART 523-9788
Sunday 8:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11 a.m.
8 p.m.
Monday 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Friday 7:30 p.m,
- Morning Worship Service
- Family Bible Hour
- Morning Worship Service
- Evening Service
- New Hope Support Group
- Prayer & Bible Study
- Youth
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Christine Johnson - Minister
Church Office 887-6259 Home 887-6540
During the month of August, the congregation of
Brussels United Church will be worshiping jointly
with Melville Presbyterian Church
11:00 a.m. - Melville Presbyterian Church
Ethel United Church will be closed
for the month of August.
WORSHIP GOD WHEREVER YOU ARE!
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9:30 a.m. - Worship Service
10:45 a.m. - Christian Education
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Pastor Ben Wiebe
887-6388
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Blyth Community
Church of God
will be meeting with
Blyth United Church
for the month of August
Special Speaker is:
Rev. Cecil Wittich Aug. 30
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PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1998.
From the Minister's Study
Minister questions inspiration of commercial
Rev. Lynn Nichol
Knox Cranbrook
You may have seen the soft drink
commercial where there is an
episode on the beach between a
The theme for this year's
Vacation Bible School at
Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in
Ethel was "Passport to the Holy
Land". During this adventure
youngsters visited some of the
Bible's most interesting cities,
where they were learning to follow
Jesus every day.
Each day the children visited one
of five sites that had been set up to
help them enter the atmosphere of
Bible-time places.
In Nazareth, they learned how
Bible-time carpenters lived and
worked.
They learned about bartering,
buying and selling at the
marketplace at Jerusalem.
In Capernaum the synagogue
came alive as they learned about
the Bible.
At the sheepfold of Bethlehem
they learned how Jesus is our Good
Shepherd.
In Bethany they experienced an
authentic Bible-time meal with
Mary and Martha.
They heard and experienced
Bible stories such as the healing of
the man at the Pool at Bethesda
because of his faith in Jesus, Mary
and Martha learning that the true
value of "spending time" with Jesus
was by sitting at His feet Aid
learning from Him, and stories that
reveal the love of Jesus for His
sheep.
Also, they learned Bible verses,
made interesting crafts, played
games, sang and had lots of fun.
The attendance began with 66 on
Monday, 70 on Tuesday and
continued to climb daily.
very large, muscular man and a
very slender, small man. We'll call
them David and Goliath.
David bumps into Goliath, and
gets ice cream on his chest. Goliath
proceeds to pick David up, shake
him upside down, and toss him
across the beach.
As David is lying there dazed,
the lid pops off his pop bottle
(which was shaken up during the
tussle). The lid flies over and hits
Goliath square on the forehead,
knocking him over. (Those of you
who know the Bible story of David
and Goliath will now know why I
chose those names.)
Here's the clincher. When the
women who were fawning over
Goliath before see the imprint of
the soft drink cap on his forehead,
they are apparently so impressed by
David's taste in pop that they
switch the allegiance. The final
scene shows David, dancing on the
beach, with the same two women
who had been with Goliath.
I don't know for sure that the
writers of this commercial had the
Biblical account of David and
Goliath in mind, but I don't see
how they couldn't have. There are
so many connections.
On the other hand, the
commercial also departs from the
Bible story in some pretty
important ways. In the Bible, David
went up against Goliath on
purpose, to defend God's people,
not just because of an ice cream
accident. The message of the Bible
account, at least in part, is that it
doesn't matter how big or small you
are; what matters is who your God
is.
The commercial changes this to
say that it doesn't matter how big or
small you are; what matters is what
soft drink you choose. (Does that
mean that the soft drink
manufacturers want to be our
gods?)
Or maybe the soft drink
manufacturers really do believe that
we, the little guys, should get a
break. But the break they have in
mind (us enjoying their product) is
really more of a break for them? To
me, there is an irony in a
multinational corporation selling its
product by seeming to take the side
of the little guy.
To accept this commercial at face
value, we would have to believe a
few things that I just can't believe.
First, that an accident with some
ice cream is enough to start a fight
over. Also that women are really
impressed by what soft drink a man
chooses, and that for a man to have
apparently brainless women
fawning all over him is necessarily
a good thing. Finally, we would
have to believe that a soft drink can
change your life.
I believe that the only thing that
can really change your life for the
better, in the ways that count, is
following Jesus Christ as Lord. Not
a multinational corporation.
An interesting mixture
As participants in the Ethel Cornerstone Bible Fellowship
vacation Bible school, Michelle Nichol, left, and Christine
Boyer stirred up a stew fit for any shepherd.
VBS attendees
visit Holy Land
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
You are welcome this Sunday
Rev. Nancy Beale
AUGUST 30 - PENTECOST 13
HOLY EUCHARIST
Trinity, Blyth St. John's,
9:30 a.m. Brussels
Wheelchair accessible 11:15 a.m.
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
Ethel
Communion - 9:45 -10:30
Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
11:00 - 12:00
John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
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Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
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BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Adrian A. Van Geest
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible