Frugality...devotional for Thurs. Oct. 28

Great night at Hayride/bonfire!   Over 50 Singles in attendance.  Thank you to Tom, Evelyn, Barb, Reinhold, Paul and all the others who made this event such a great success!

 

Looking forward to Bowling in Novemember.  Date and time tba.....

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Fugality:  Character and Prosperity

read pages 77-83  Character Matters  by Mark Rutland

 

story of Oseola McCarty....family hospice...saved $150,000...inspiring!

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.   Burke

A society without frugality loses its capacity to evaluate what is really precious.

A society is defined by what it wastes as well as by what it wants.

story  pages 79-80

Frugal or Stingy:Many identify frugality as mere thriftiness, but the thrifty can easily become stingy, then loveless, judgmental and withholding.  Frugality springs from a balance view of things and life.  Stinginess may actually be a lack of frugality.  What passes for frugality is sometimes only an obsession with smallness and pettiness.

frugality might even result from obsession.

False Frugality always sees itself as acting virtuously by doing things that are irrational and unethical.

Stinginess can also become judgmental toward what it perceives to be the excesses of others.

God may give another liberty at one level regarding possessions that He does not give me.

True Frugality:   Frugality is the opposite of reckless wastefulness.  It has to do with controlled living.  Think of the purpose of the thing.  What is a thing's purpose and place in my life. 

Consumption without frugality produces an escalating cycle of things without purpose.  Frugality is about understanding the connection, the dangerous link between things and my view of life, value and others.

 

Studying to show ourselves approved by God,

Becky

 

Fwd: Evangel Singles Bonfire.pdf

Hope to see everyone there tomorrow night....

scavenger hunt....bonfire.....hayride.....food....fellowship.....lots of laughs!!!!!

 

BRING LAWN CHAIR,  FLASHLIGHT,   SNACK FOR BONFIRE!!!!!

 

FRIDAY OCT. 22     7:30-10:30PM

9508 FAIRMOUNT RD   40291

 

CALL 593-2117 FOR MORE INFO

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Modesty and Controlled Living - Oct. 14 devotional......Oct. 22 Hayride/Bonfire

OCTOBER 22 HAYRIDE/BONFIRE.....FOR ALL SINGLE ADULTS IN LOUISVILLE AREA.....7:30 - 10:30PM   (see Tom Fawbush email flier for details and directions)

 

 

NEXT THURSDAY  NIGHT OCTOBER 21....JESSE DUPLANTIS AT 6900 BILLTOWN ROAD  (NO SOURCE GROUP THAT EVENING AT MINOR LANE)

 

 

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Modesty and Controlled Living

read pages 72-75   Character Matters by Dr. Mark Rutland

Modesty keeps its emotions under appropriate control.  It has no inordinate need for attention, because of a calm self-acceptance and self-possession.

Modesty is not passionless living.  It is passion under control.  It is passion that accepts the limits of propriety.

What do you think?  "It is uselessly legalistic to ask such questions as how short is too short and how sheer is too sheer.  The more important questions about modest dress have to do with being showy or inappropriately seeking attention."

If immodesty has to do with excessiveness, then could a high, twisted bun hairstyle be excessive and flamboyant, demanding attention? 

Our author suggests: "Modesty that is fastidious and judgmental will become legalistic to say the least.  It is false modesty that nitpicks and criticizes youthful enthusiasm and discourages joy and vitality.  Such pharisaism is hateful and binds people up."

Guidelines to Modesty:

(Listing rules would be petty, soon dated and would miss the point entirely.)

consider these:

* Always be suspicious of the flamboyant.  Remember that you are trying to express the orderly, decent, modest glory of God through the way you dress.   

* Instantly suspect fads.

* In clothing, particularly, try to avoid those styles that are provocative and draw attention to your body.

BALANCE is key word!  Holiness does not always have a look like it has been thrown away:)  The point is that an inner conviction to seek modesty requires Christians to look in the mirror and honestly ask themselves some searching questions:

...Are these clothes just slightly too tight?  Is this dress just a little too low cut?  Will these clothes be an unnecessary temptation to others?

Modesty is the quiet, dignified celebration of the sacredness of one's privacy with God

Discussion point:  Recently a young actress explained her nudity in a movie by asking, "Well, what about Adam and Eve?  They were naked in the Garden of Eden.  I'm not ashamed of my body either."

Important fact about Adam and Eve:  They did not even know they were naked.  Pure Innocence(which we know not of!)

That which is used for a shameful purpose becomes shameful, and that which is used to incite lust or cause guilt in others is shameful.  The body is not shameful and should not be used shamefully. 

God is for the body.  The body is holy, a living sacrifice, acceptable unto God.  Modesty does not want to inspire the unhealthy attention of others.  It does not want to be the center of attention. Modesty--true, balanced, wholesome modesty--wants JESUS to be the center of attention.

Closing thoughts by author:

"It would be easy if the "Ninety-seven Rules From God About Modesty" were to descend from heaven.  That is what the Pharisees thought they had.  They were wrong and, in their wrongness, became legalistic and hateful.  Their modesty was as fleshly as the prostitutes's immodesty.  There are no rules like that because God will not give them.  Instead, we must make decisions about makeup, clothing, attire and all related matters because our hearts are His home and our bodies are a living sacrifice to Him."

 

See ya tonight 6:00pm Minor Lane Foyer,

Becky

Evangel Singles: Hayride/Bonfire

evangel singles

        hayride/bonfire

 

friday oct 22^nd 7:30p – 10:30p

 

9508 fairmont rd. – 40291 – (hoagland farm)

 

·      Bonfire, hayride, speed friendship game, scavenger hunt, campfire singing, games…

·      bring lawnchair, flashlight, warm jacket, and favorite food/snack to cook in bonfire

Directions:  Exit from Gene Snyder Bardstown Road South.  Turn right at Rite-Aid (light) and take quick left onto Old Bardstown Road (side road).  Turn Right onto Fairmount Rd. (at house with red roof).  go to end of road, turn left and go to 9508 Fairmount (Big Sign for Singles Bonfire).  Farm is only 5 minutes from Gene Snyder.

 

 

 

evangel singles

hayride/bonfire

friday oct 22^nd 7:30p – 10:30p

9508 fairmont rd. – 40291 – (hoagland farm)

· Bonfire, hayride, speed friendship game, scavenger hunt, campfire singing, games…

· bring lawnchair, flashlight, warm jacket, and favorite food/snack to cook in bonfire

This Thurs...Source group at McAlisters on Outer Loop across from JMall....Devotional: Modesty

We have been having excellent discussion at our Singles Source group on Thursdays.  More people are coming each week.  Plan to join us as McAlisters for dinner and discussion 6:00-7:15pm this Thursday.  We will head to Minors Lane for 7:30 revival service and CGI ordination.  

 

*******Plan on coming to our Bonfire/Hayride Friday Oct. 22  7:30-10:30pm   9508 Fairmount Rd.  40291  (Hoagland Farm) *******

Look for details on forthcoming email.

Bring  lawnchair, flashlight, warm jacket, and any food/snack to cook in bonfire.

 

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Modesty:  Character as simplicity 

read pages 63-72  "Character matters"  by Mark Rutland

Discussion of Church History:  Acts 19 The impact of Christianity at Ephesus was an immediate change in lifestyle.In Jerusalem, Christianity was a theological issue. 30 years later, Christians were asking: "How do we do business?  Should we buy meat dedicated to pagan gods?  How should we treat slaves?  How should our women dress?"  By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Western civilization had been Christianized.  Not everyone was honest, but there was a societal consensus about what honesty was.  Not everyone went to church but going to church was considered a "good" thing to do.  Likewise, not everyone was modest, but modesty was considered a virtue.  That is not necessarily true anymore. Modesty is now more often considered the neurotic repression of both sexuality and individuality.  Now, we are in the post-Christian era of the West.  The moral decay around us is forcing Christians to come up with answers that are no longer "givens."  In many ways, the author suggests, we are headed back to Ephesus.

Living Within Limits:

Most modern Americans understand the word MODESTY to have reference only to one's manner of dress, and even then it is mostly used with regard to women.  Yet modesty actually has far more to do with self-respect and self-control than with how revealing one's garments are.  Style of dress is an application of modesty, not a definition.  Modesty, in its classical sense, means living within limits.  Modesty submits to the boundaries of propriety.  It is the opposite of putting oneself forward in the sense of being overly aggressive or presumptuous.  Modesty has to do with being other than boastful and arrogant.  Modesty springs from a tempered and humble estimation of one's own importance.  It is unobtrusive.  Modesty sees restraints as being positive safeguards, not negative hindrances.  IMMODESTY denies responsibility to law, culture, authority and tradition.  Modesty says,"Ther are things in this world that are right for me to do and things in this world that are not right for me to do.  I am not too good, too big, too rich or too powerful for someone else to point those out to me."  Modesty is the conviction that there are correct limits on life.  The modest learn to set their own limits.  Modesty has a great deal to do with one's self-view.

Read Romans 12:1-3  This is the Biblical insight on Modesty.  This scripture helps pagans in ancient Rome and modern America understand that modesty means much more than how a woman dresses!

If your body is a sacrifice that is acceptable to God, then treating your body with respect is also important to God.  Note that a sacrifice is acceptable to God only as long as it is on the ALTAR.  When I take my body and my life in my own hands, I make myself meaningless and valueless;  my life becomes an unending search for ways to convince myself and the world of my significance.

Modesty is unassuming and genuinely humble.  The immodest announce by demeanor, dress and attitude, to everyone in general and to the opposite sex in particular, "Look at me.  I am what is important in this place." 

 

We will conclude our discussion on Modesty next Thurs. at Minor Lane (Oct. 14)  pages 72-75.

 

Seeking for More of God together,

Becky