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AREA CHURCH DIRECTORY
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'ERKINS CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
Rev. Brayant J). Badger, Pastor
hurch School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.
t hi-Rho and C.Y.F. 5:30 p.m.
Jr. Fellowship Wed. 3:30 p.m.
Women's Council Third Wed.
METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Ronal Weathers, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
,r. and Sr. MYF 6:00 p.m.
dvening Worship 7:30 p.m.
ASSEIIBLY OF GOD
Rev. Jlmmale Ledgerwood, Pastor
unday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Evening
Services 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST. RIPLEY
B. H. McDonald, Pastor
Bible Study 10:OO a.m.
itorning Worship I 1:00 a.m.
Lhening Worship 6:39 p.m.
r, IPLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Liorning Worship II:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship -6:30 p.m.
Lvangelistie Service 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Service 8 p.m.
CHURCH OF THE OPEN DOOR
H. L. Hix, Pastor
Funday School 9:i5 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:15 a.m.
Evening Worship 8:00 p.m.
Children's Church 8:00 p.m,
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Christians
Grow Up!
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Text: "At a time when you shou-
ld be teaching others, you need
teachers yourselves to repeat to
you the ABC of God's revelat-
ion to men! For anyone who
continues to live on "milk" is
obviously immature -- he sim-
ply has not grown up." (Heb-
recs 5:42-13, J.B. Phillips tran-
sla tion )
At a recent school-class re-
union someone figured that the
eight of the class was 3 V2 tins
greater than when they grad-
uated! We might ask what else
did they accumulate, beside
fatty tissue? Are we also grow-
ing intellectually, spiritually,
emotionally? Are the processes
of maturation alive in us? For
you see, ell adults are not "a-
dult." The1:e are persons who
are grown up on the outside
but who are ehildreri on the
inside. They may be 6' tall, but
mere babies emotionally and
lrittmlly. So we come to rea-
lize that immaturity is as much
a sin as some forms of immor-
ality. For "sin" is basically fl
failure to fulfill the God-ord-
ained purpose for life. One out-
tanding missionary, Dr. E.
Stanley Jones, says that the
pr651em of both East and West
is the great for maturity. "We
are very immature people at-
?4roping to handle very mature
mblems. Our problems are
mltrtmrdg :our capacity to hand-
le them."
For instance, marriage coun-
selors agree that lack of adult
maturity is the case of most
marital difficulties. Marriage is
or adults-- not for spoiled child-
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Walter Hurt, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Training Union 6.'30 p.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Evening
Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
EDEN CHq]PEL EVANGELICAL
UNITED BRETHREN
Rev. Van Nickels, Pastor
Sunday School 10:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Evening Worship 7:30
3IEHAN UNION
Route 4
Logan E. Haxgrove, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship ] 1:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30
HIGHWAY 33 UN-
DENOMINATIONAL CHURCII
6! Miles east of Nine Mile Crn,
Mrs. Ralph Stiles, Pastor
Sunday Service 8 p.m,
Thursday Service 8 p.m.
Fellowship Meeting 2nd.
Thurs. each month 8 p.m.
CHtrRCH OF 'JESUS CItR1ST
of LATER DAY SAINTS
17Z0 E. Virginia
Bishop Jay C. Murray
Priesthood Meeting 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School I0:30 a.m.
OLIVET CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Rev. Steve Rambaugh, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship l 1:00 a.m.
Pen seeking selfish desires. Or
again, here is a father who goes
into a temper tantrum to have
his way; or a sulking mother.
others dominate and become a-
gressive to cover up feelings o
inferiority. Still others hang on
to leftover prejudices, childish
fears, and jealousies. Worst of
all, there are those caught on a
low level of living, who have
ceased to grow up, living in a
daily grind instead of daily
growth.
This matter of immaturity is
he concern of the Epistle to the
Hebrews, and in paraphase he
says, Won't you ever grow up-"
We all like to think we have
grown up; its always the other
person who is immature. Rath-
er, let us confess that none of
us have "arrived" - none of us
have reached that fullness of
mature manhood that is found
in Jesus Christ. Christain ma-
turity is not a goal that we ever
reach: we're always in a pro-
cess of becoming which Js a
continuing experience in the
life of any serious Christain.
The Hebrew writer is face
to face with he problem of the
Christain who refuses to grow
up: The Christain who refuses
to row up in fith and know-
ledge is quickly out-of-date,
answering old questions, and
avoiding new ones, such as pea-
ce and war, race prejudice, the
new sex morality, etc. There are
people who have never grown
up in behavior. Too many a-
dults are like children who sulk,
throw temper-fits, and refuse
to 'play' if things danX .go his
own way! A case of 'arrested
.development' is ahvays a path-
etic thing; and the world, and
our churches, are full of people
whose religious development has
been arrested. They refuse to
RIPLEY CHURCH OF GOD
Rev. W. O. Wilkerson, Pastor
Sunday School 9:41 a.m.
Morning Worship I 1:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Service 7:30 p.m.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
P.L. Cook, Superintendent
Sabbath Day School
(Saturday) 9:45 a.m.
FIRST CItURCH OF
CHRIST. SCIENTIST
Stillwater
Sunday School l 1:00 a.m.
Sunday 9:30 & 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday Evening 8:00 p.m.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Coyle
Kenneth Stokes, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
DIAMOND VALLEY
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Six miles East of Stilhvater
On Highway 51
Ken Arri:%'ton, Pastor
Sunday School I0:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Services 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Evening
Services 7:30 p.m.
TRYON CHI{ISTIAN CHURCH
Edwin Elliott, Pastor
Sunday School 10:00 a,m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Bible School 10:00 a.m,
grow up. Yes, they even refuse
to attend church school classes,
because they recognize no need
for further growth, and stopped
learning, growing and maturing
years ago.
It is true that Jesus said that
the greatest thing in the world
is the child-like spirit; but there
is a world of lifference between
the child-like and the children
spirit. Peter Pan, the boy would
not grow up, makes a chaining
play on the stage; but Peter Pan,
the man and woman and teen-
ager who will not grow up,
makes for a tragedy in real life.
Therefore, is our faith the re-
ligion of childhood, or the faith
of maturity? Let us be careful
thai we are not still behaving
like children when we should
be behaving like Christian men
and women full grown! May our
standard of Christain maturity
be nothing less than the mea-
sure of the stature of the full-
ness of Christ."
CtlUR(q[/ OF THE BRETHREN
Three Miles West of Cushhyg
K. O. Thralls, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
PARADISE BAPTIST CHURCH
6 miles south, 5 miles west of
Stilhvatc"
Harold Rhoades, Pastor
Sunday School
Morning Worship
Training Union
Evening Worship
Wednesday Service
FRIENDS
9 miles south, 7
Sunday School
Morning Worship
Christian Endeavor
Evening Service
Wednesday Evening
BIPLEY
Marvin R.
Morning Worship ]
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Training Union
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship
8:00 p.m. Wednesday S ' "
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7:30 p.m. c_.._
LOST CREEK EVANGELICAL
UNITED BRETHREN
Rev. Dale Stocktoz:. Pastor
Jask Robertson, Assistant
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
h,orning Worship 11:00 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
2 miles east of city
Sunday morning Worship
I0:30 a.m.
Sunday evening worship
7:00 p,m.
Wednesday evening Worship
7:30 p.m.
UNION HOME CHURCH
OF CHRIST
5 miles east, 3 miles north
of Stillwater
Lee Marsh, Pastor
Bible School 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship l1:00 a.m.
Youth Meetings 7:00 p.m.
Evening Worship 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday Service 8:00 p.m.
VASSAR
12a4 miles
of
Sunday School
Morning Worship
Evening Worship
Wednesday C-I.t
UNION
OF
Route 1,
Rev. Lee
Sunday School
Church Services
Wednesday Night
Prayer Meeting
ST.
Father James
Charles Swett -
Sunday asses 8:30;
11:30 ;. and 5:00
Weekday Masses .
Confessions Saturda
00:3o-8:3o_z.
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AREA CHURCH BOOSTEI{S
Gardner's Gibble Gas
McDaniel & Son
Ralph's Packing
Stillwater
B0atright
FUNERAL HOME
Payne County
Del-Mars Food
Perkins "Y" Livestock
Mr.&Mrs. Lee
