Services
Sunday A. M. Bible Study -
Sunday A. M. Worship -
Sunday P. M. Worship -
Wednesday Evening Bible Study -
Address
700 Mill Street
Mt. Vernon, Indiana 47620
Gospel Plan of Salvation
Hear -
Believe -
Repent -
Confess -
Be baptized -
Live faithfully -
This is the day of the placid pulpit and the comfortable pew. Today’s Christians slip around in smooth slippers, fearful of giving offense. The cry to preachers today is to water down the implications of the gospel story, lest we offend someone. Placid being an adjective meaning; “pleasantly calm or peaceful; quiet”, such as placid lake. Although this may be desirable if you’re swimming or skiing, it is not in preaching God’s Word and his church should not tolerate it! Jesus himself said, “Think not that I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matt. 10:34).
The church needs members who will stand up and tell these placid preachers to proclaim the whole counsel of God, plainly, and without compromise of one single “jot” or “tittle” (cf., Matt. 5:18; Acts 20:20, 27; II Tim. 4:1-
Historian Arthur Schlesinger has written, “ours is an age without heroes. . .today no one bestrides our narrow world like a colossus.” Is this true? Is this the age of the common man? Is there a famine of great men and women today? Not so, for our Lord said, speaking of John the Baptizer, “Among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater...” (Matt. 1:11). John, a preacher faithful to God’s Word and in applying it to men where they were lost in sin. To the Jews he preached the necessity of repentance (Matt. 3:2). To the godless Pharisees and Sadducees he proclaimed “Ye offspring of vipers,who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance” (Matt. 3:7-
I recently reviewed a set of tapes by a so-
Rick Popejoy, CHRISTIAN WORKER, September 1989