Welcome Center
Visit the welcome center in the foyer for any information you may need for different ministries, and sign-ups, or to have any questions answered.

Coffee Bar
Stop by the coffee bar in the foyer for fresh coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Guests will receive a free gift for visiting with us.

Sunday School & Small Group Classes begin at 9:30 a.m.

Classes are available for EVERYONE. A greeter at the door will help you find the right class for your child and provide details so you can also select a place to plug in.

Classes for Children age 3 through Teens.

While your son or daughter is in a class, join one of the following ADULT small group classes:

Topical Class
The Power of a Whisper: by Bill Hybels-SMC Room 4

Topical Class
Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in
a Healthy Way: by Gary Chapman-SMC Room 5

Seekers Class
SMC Social Room (Fireplace)
This is an older adult class that studies a variety of topics.

Women’s Class
SMC Adult Library Room 20
This class studies various topics.

Coming Soon (October 8)
Galations: a book of the Bible (study)

CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

CHILDREN'S CHURCH is available during the worship hour for children age 3 through 2nd grade. While you are in worship, they will enjoy a fun and interactive bible lesson. Children's Church begins after a brief welcome, prayer, and singing at the beginning of the worship hour, and our adult leaders will guide the children to the class.

Sermon Notes: September 17, 2023
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Todd Martin
Can’t We All Just Get Along

Romans 14:

This is your point: Our love for ________ is always revealed by our love of __________-especially in regards to ________________ ____________.

v.1-7: Love your ____________ and mind your own _______________.
Who do you judge that you shouldn’t?

v. 8-12: You are ________________ to a ________________ Lord.
Do you believe this is not disputable?

v.13-18: This is the delicate _________ of _____________ discernment in ________________.
What do you need to discern?

v.19-23: When in doubt _________!
What disputable matters are you wondering about? Let’s discern together!

Scripture:
Please use YouBible, Bible Gateway, or your personal bible for context.

Romans 14

1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another ,whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. 22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.