Midway church of Christ Sewanee, Tennessee

06/16/2026

06/16/2026

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06/15/2026

My Heart’s Desire: An Appeal to Our Institutional (Liberal) Brethren (Part 2) (by Keith Hamilton)

“Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10:1-4)

In Part 1 of this subject, I mentioned the Monteagle church of Christ, its elders, and their new preacher. Since doing so, I have received critical feedback from others that I should not have specifically called them out by name. Either the church or the men involved. Let me respond by saying that such was not done with malice. Neither was doing so pleasant or desirable. There are many other things I would rather be teaching from the Bible than to talk about the false practices of my brethren. I have people I know there who I consider to be my friends. I have always had a cordial relationship with their former preacher, current elders, and members of that congregation. Whether such continues will depend on them and their reaction to the things I have said and am about to say. It is with prayer and after much careful consideration that I address the issues that have separated us and churches in the past. There are two reasons for this: (1) I wish to see these brethren saved from their error and a restoration of fellowship with other faithful churches of Christ; and (2) I would rejoice in being able to recommend that church to others as a sound congregation dedicated to the Lord and following things precisely according to the pattern for the New Testament church. In all good conscience, I cannot at this time. That is unfortunate as there have been people traveling through our area on Interstate 24 and have asked me about worshiping with that church since their building was right off the interstate. It was unpleasant to tell those folks that the church in Monteagle was in error and to drive to another location. It is my heart’s desire like the apostle Paul that they will renounce their error and be restored to a right relationship with the Lord. Let us pray such happens. If the elders, preacher, or any of the brethren there believe I am in error or have made false allegations, I am always open to discuss such with them. In the meantime, I wish to continue discussing one of the points from the previous article.

In the previous article, I pointed out that Institutional Churches engage in all sorts of practices for the purpose of luring people into their buildings. I accused them of using carnal incentives like their Fellowship Meals, etc. to do so. As I mentioned previously, one of the elders with the Monteagle church of Christ was very transparent about why they were going to be offering meals to the community on Saturday. As he said, “We hope they will come back on Sunday.” Over the years, preachers with Institutional Churches (i.e. Liberal) have argued about the “expediency” (their words, not mine) of Christians meeting at a church provided facility to eat a Fellowship Meal together. Whether that facility was called a Fellowship Hall, Outreach Center, Community Service Center, etc. it is a place built and furnished by some church for social activities. The discussions with these preachers has always been dishonest and disingenuous. The reason I say such is because they know that brethren have gone way beyond just having a meal and now do all kinds of outlandish social activities. So, I have asked these preachers to provide Bible authority for these activities. The only response has been that such was done as an “expediency” and that if the elders approved those activities for the good of the community, they were acceptable. So, do these brethren still want to pretend the difference is just about eating a meal at the church building? Then provide the authority for the following:

1. The Highland Hills church in Tullahoma providing a “Carnival for Christ” with games, rides, and refreshments for the community.
2. The Wi******er and Owl Hollow churches opening their resources to be used by businesses like the Red Cross, Life Screening, and providing social counseling for a fee. Please tell me where a church has any right to cooperate with a business: for profit or non-profit? In addition, one of these churches allowed their building to be used for political purposes as a polling place for the community to vote. Authority?
3. The Central church in Murfreesboro having a “Ladies Day” and selling t-shirts. The Crosstown church in Oklahoma having a “Singles Retreat” and charging people $75 to attend. They also provided their building for a community plant swap and flea market. The Lynchburg church renting out their parking lot during the Jack Daniel’s World Bar B Que for the purpose of making money to send their children to a Summer Bible Camp. Two other churches that rent out their Fellowship Hall to anyone in the community for any social event. Still think the difference is just between churches that believe it is ok to eat in the church building and churches that do not?
4. How about a church in Kentucky that hosts a “Gospel Bluegrass Jamboree” for the community in their Fellowship Hall. The Church Street church in Lewisburg hosted classes on resume writing and how to handle oneself in an interview taught by two ladies out of Nashville. This was done on a Wednesday night in their Fellowship Hall at the same time they were having Wednesday night Bible study. What answer can be given with churches that have had sewing, Zumba, Yoga, BINGO night, Super Bowl Parties, and Line Dancing classes? It was especially humorous to note that the preacher of the church where the Line Dancing class was held was also the one teaching the Line Dancing.
5. The Otter Creek church in Brentwood and Northfield Blvd church in Murfreesboro now have multiple “campuses” over which one set of elders oversee. Calling the different churches and their different locations “campuses” is their way of circumventing elders only overseeing one congregation. With this we are seeing the emergence of the Church of Christ denomination.
6. Please justify the fact that among Institutional churches of Christ (i.e. Liberal) it is estimated that at least 33% of them now use instruments of music in their worship services. Also, among some of these churches there is the use of women preachers and the rise of appointing women to be elders. Still not convinced that the difference between Institutional and non-Institutional churches is only about eating meals in the church building?

Folks, I could go on but hopefully such examples are sufficient. What my brethren with Institutional churches have failed to realize is that when you allow the camel of error and apostasy to stick its nose into the tent, that before long the whole camel will be in the tent with you. What is happening today among many churches is precisely what we warned would happen back in the 1970’s. In a debate with brother George Darling with the Fort Pierce church in Florida in 1979, I warned him and those present that such would happen. During that debate I said that I am no prophet or the son of a prophet but in the future the Institutional churches would have to deal with Instrumental Music in Worship, having women preachers, and women being appointed to leadership roles. Brother Darling laughed and called me an “alarmist.” He said that such would never happen among the Institutional churches. I assured him it would because of the progression of apostasy and the fact history repeats itself. The same problem with error and apostasy with its digression that we saw give rise to the Christian Church denomination is now being repeated among Institutional churches of Christ. The solution. Repent, or perish.

It is with great sorrow that we call out to our brethren to repent. It is with love for their souls that we call out for them to repent. It is with a desire to once again see broken fellowship restored that we call out for them to repent. It is with the intent that the Lord might once again be honored before the divided denominational world and the hypocrisy of our Liberal/Institutional brethren be eradicated by their inconsistency that we call on them repent. My brothers and sisters repent and come back home. For too long you have wallowed with the pigs in denominational error and eaten out of the hog trough of socialism. Come to your senses and return to the Father and cease your sinful prodigal ways. We are waiting to welcome you home.

Please join us for Bible study and worship each Sunday at 10:00 and Wednesday at 6:00.

Midway church of Christ
151 Otter Falls Road
Sewanee, Tennessee

06/14/2026

[Here is the next lesson by Leroy Brownlow. We are currently studying the New Testament Church each Sunday morning at 11:00. Please join us in this study. Midway church of Christ - 151 Otter Falls Road - Sewanee, Tennessee.]

REASON XVII
BECAUSE IT TEACHES THAT A CHANGE OF HEART IS
INDISPENSABLE TO MAN'S SALVATION

I. INTRODUCTION

A RELIGION which does not touch and change the heart is not the religion given by the Christ. The heart is the spring from which our actions flow. If the heart has been defiled by sin, a black and wicked conduct flows therefrom. ''For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings'' (Matthew 15:19). These heinous sins are first committed in the heart. If the fountain is kept pure, the stream will be pure. If man's heart is kept pure, his life will be pure. This should be sufficient to prove the absolute necessity of a change of heart. However, the charge has been made that the members of the church of Christ do not believe in a change of heart. The reader immediately recognizes the accusation to be false and unjust. The charge has doubtless grown out of man's ignorance of what the heart is, the analysis and exercises of it, and how it is changed, rather than out of maliciousness. This subject is one of the most discussed and least understood of all sermon topics. But God cannot be blamed for this confusion, for the Scriptures present the subject in a plain and comprehensible manner.

II. THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF MAN

The term heart is defined as the seat of life. The outward and visible man's heart is the hollow muscular organ in the left side, which keeps up the circulation of blood. Many have spoken of this lobe of flesh as though it were the subject of the gospel. How many times we have seen men pound themselves on the left chest and hear them exclaim, ''I feel it right here!'' They speak of the change of heart as though it were the heart of flesh in the chest cavity. Their misunderstanding has arisen in their failure to observe that the Bible teaches that man is both an outward and inward being, physical and spiritual, and that each has a seat of life or heart. Paul, in speaking of the dual nature of man, says, "But though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4:16). When the heart of the outward or physical man is pricked, death follows. We have an example of this in 2 Samuel 18:14; ''He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. '' But when the heart of the inward or spiritual man is pricked, the outward man is untouched. For instance: "Now when they beard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?'' (Acts 2:37) The hearts of these Jews were pricked with the gospel and they lived. Absalom 's heart was pricked with darts and he died. The two different hearts were acted upon by two different weapons. It was the heart of the inward man that the gospel touched. It is evident that this is the heart which is changed in conversion to God. This fact is made still plainer by studying the analysis of the heart and its exercises.

III. THE ANALYSIS AND EXERCISES OF THE HEART

1. The heart is that part of man called intellect, which:

(1.) Thinks. ''Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?'' {Matthew 9:4)
(2.) Reasons. "Why reason ye these things in your hearts?'' (Mark 2:8)
(3.) Understands. "Understand with their heart." (Matthew 13:15)
(4.) Believes. "With the heart man believeth." (Romans 10:10)
The Bible says that the human heart thinks, reasons, understands and believes. God. calls this part of man the heart, but man calls it the intellect. So what the Bible ascribes to the heart, man attributes to the intellect.
2. The heart is also seen to be that attribute of man called emotion, which:

(1.) Despises. "She despised him in her heart." (2 Samuel 6:16).
(2.) Desires. "Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.'' (Romans 10:1).
(3.) Loves. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart." (Matthew 22:37).
(4.) Trusts. "Trust in Jehovah with all thine heart." (Proverbs 3:5)

So what God calls the heart, man calls the emotions. We see that man's heart embraces man's feelings, sensibilities or emotions. God's word says the heart despises, desires, loves and trusts.

3. The heart is that quality of man called will, which:

(1.) Determines. "Hath determined this in his own heart." (1 Corinthians 7:37)
(2.) Intends. "The thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)
(3.) Purposes. ''That with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." (Acts 11:23)
(4.) Obeys. "Ye became obedient from the heart." (Romans 6:17)

So the heart determines, intends, purposes and obeys. Man calls this quality the will or volition. God calls it the heart.

4. The heart is that faculty of man called conscience, which:

(1.) Condemns or condemns not. ''If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God." (1 John 3:20, 21)

The Bible speaks of a part of man which condemns or approves. God calls this part the heart. Man speaks of it as the conscience. The above scriptures make it plain that the heart of the inward man is that part of man which embraces the intellect, emotions, will and conscience. It includes the whole of man's inner nature.

IV. CHANGE OF HEART

1. A complete change is needed. If the human heart embraces the intellect, emotions, will and conscience, there can be no. complete change of heart until each has been changed. Each must be changed, if man's whole heart is changed. The heart must be changed from evil thoughts to good thoughts, from wicked reasoning to good reasoning, from ignorance of God's word to a knowledge of it, from unbelief to belief, from despicableness to admiration, from the detestation of good to its desire, from the love of the world to the love of the Lord, from trust in material things to trust in God, from unrighteous determinations to righteous determinations, from unscriptural intentions to scriptural intentions, from unholy purposes to holy purposes, from disobedience to obedience, and from a condemning conscience to an approving conscience. This is the change of heart which is essential to man's salvation.
2. How is the human heart changed?

(1.) The intellect is changed by evidence or testimony. It is changed from one state to another according to the evidence presented. Thomas' thoughts, reasoning, under standing and faith were not changed until Jesus appeared and said to him, ''Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side : and be not faithless but believing.'' Thomas then exclaimed, "My Lord and my God." (John 20:24-29). Consider another example: Not so long ago the father and mother of a sailor received a telegram from Washington stating that their son was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack. Their thoughts, reasoning, understanding and faith were wholly changed. A few weeks later they received another telegram from the same authority saying that the first was all a mistake and that the boy was alive. This testimony produced another change in intellect. Thus it is easy to see that evidence or testimony controls the intellect. The word of God is the testimony God has given to change man's intellect: ''These are written that ye may believe.'' {John 20:31). Again, "So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." (Romans 10 :17).
(2.) The emotions are changed by faith in the testimony presented. It is the testimony believed that produces the change in emotions. Despicableness, desire, love and trust are the effects of the thing believed. The mother and father spoken of in the above paragraph had gladness turned to sadness and vice versa because of the thing believed. It is faith in the testimony of Christ that produces the change in the sinner's emotions from the desire of evil to the desire of good, from the love of the world to the love of Christ, and from trust in material things to trust in the Lord.
(3.) The will is changed by motives produced by faith. Saul determined, intended and purposed not to obey Christ, thinking that He was an imposter. We see this persecutor with a determined will traveling on the road to Damascus to persecute Christians. Saul had no New Testament to read, but the audible word of Christ changed his heart from unbelief to belief. When he was told to be baptized and wash away his sins (Acts 22:16), he unhesitatingly obeyed. A disobedient heart was changed by motives produced by faith: belief in the goodness of Christ (Romans 2:4), a motive; belief in the reward of the obedient (Hebrews 5:9), a motive; belief in the punishment of the disobedient (Revelation 20:15), a motive. Saul's sins were washed away in the act of obedience. An obedient heart is indispensable to man's salvation. One becomes free from sin and a servant of righteousness by obeying from the heart: ''Whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; and being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness" (Romans 6:17, 18). The degree of faith which leads to salvation is a belief with all the heart which incites complete obedience from the heart. No man is a servant of Christ until he obeys from the heart. No heart is right until it is an obedient heart.
(4.) The conscience is changed by faith in having done right. If a man understands and believes what Christ has commanded, he can never have an approving conscience until he does it. For instance, baptism is a command (Acts 10:48); this being true, if one understands and believes baptism is a command to be obeyed in order to enjoy the remission of sins (Acts 2:38), he cannot have a clear conscience until he has been baptized : ''Which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:21). It is faith in having done right, having obeyed the commands of God, that changes the condemning conscience. The conscience does not hurt until one believes he has done wrong. This is why multitudes are in disobedience to God with an approving conscience. They just do not know or believe they are living in disobedience. This was true of Saul. He, with a conscience as clear as crystal (Acts 23:1), persecuted Christians, and did not have a condemning conscience until he learned and believed the truth. Saul's condemning conscience was then changed to a state of approval by obeying Christ. When man's intellect, emotions, will and conscience are changed, man's whole heart is changed. It is evident that some who have talked the most about "heartfelt religion," a changed heart, have really said the least. They preach only a partial change of heart, telling the people that belief only, a changed intellect, is the only essential item in man's salvation. But conversion to God demands a change of the whole heart. Such includes a change of intellect, emotions, will and conscience. Is it not, then, easy to see which religious organization preaches the religion of the whole heart?

06/13/2026

Our study on the Life of Christ quickly approaches. Please make plans to join us.

06/13/2026

Tomorrow we continue our study. We invite you to worship and study with us.

06/13/2026

[Note: Many churches have unscriptural "Fellowship Halls" and in them their sinful "Fellowship Meals." Please consider the following article and if you want to study more about this issue, just let us know. K.H.]

ARE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS FELLOWSHIP?
(by Ron Halbrook)

The inspired Apostle John expressed the fulness of the fellowship we have as Christians when he wrote, “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ” (1 Jn. 1:3). Does that fellowship include the church organizing, sponsoring, and overseeing social functions?

Defining the Term Fellowship

Fellowship is sharing based on common ties or interests. Fellows have fellowship. In the New Testament it refers to the common spiritual relationship shared by Christians with God and each other. Our union or partnership with God automatically makes us brothers and partners with each other. Fellowship is expressed in concrete ways by people who share this bond – it can be seen in action.

The sharing of faith, relationship, and actions by Christians is described in the New Testament especially by a family of words rooted in the Greek noun koinos, meaning something shared in common. Related terms include the nouns koinonia, for sharing in common or joint participation, and koinonos, a person who shares or partakes in something, and the verb koinoneo, to have fellowship, to become a partner or associate.

As humans we relate to each other in many ways: the common bond of humanity, family ties, national bonds, business associations, civic and political partnerships, educational endeavors, recreational functions, athletic contests, and social activities such as sharing meals. In other words, we share all sorts of things based on a wide range of shared interests and bonds. In the broadest sense, fellowship or sharing can apply to this whole range of activities among all kinds of people, but the New Testament does not use it that way.

We have a deeper bond of unity, a spiritual fellowship, with God because we are made in His image and are reconciled to Him in Christ (Gen. 1:27; Col. 1:18-22). When the New Testament speaks of fellowship among Christians, it refers to this spiritual relationship with God and each other. The word is never applied to other commonalities we share such as our humanity, our earthly families, or civic, recreational, and social functions such as sharing meals.

Searching the Scriptures Regarding the Term Fellowship

1 John 1:3-7 highlights the deep spiritual relationship signified by the term fellowship:

3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Here the noun koinonia is used four times in reference to the spiritual bond Christians have to God and to each other. John is not teaching that we share social meals, birthday parties, wedding showers, fishing trips, movies, basketball games, and similar secular activities with the Father and the Son, and then with each other. We share a right relationship with the Father and the Son because we are cleansed by the blood of Christ and walk in righteousness rather than sin. There is no hint in this passage of the church sponsoring social functions.

2 Peter 1:1-4 gives another beautiful picture of our unity in Christ. Peter addressed saints who “have obtained like precious faith with us,” have “all things that pertain unto life and godliness,” and have become “partakers (noun koinonos) of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” We partake in the righteous and holy nature of God when we escape a life of sin by being baptized into Christ (Rom. 6:1-7, 16-18). The gospel teaches us all things that pertain to this new life. There is no instruction here about sharing social meals, though such meals can be both healthy and pleasant.

When Jude wrote about “the common salvation,” he urged saints to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (vs. 3). The salvation saints share in common (noun koinos) requires that we vigorously defend the teaching upon which it is based. To follow a different doctrine destroys that common salvation. There is nothing here about sharing in social functions. “Love feasts” in verses 12-13 are not church sponsored social meals, but Jude here warns against false teachers figuratively “feeding themselves” as in Ezekiel 34 by spreading error to promote themselves rather than feeding God’s people the truth.

The New Testament speaks of fellowship Christians should and should not have in serving God. His promises regarding our final salvation will never fail us and He called us “unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Cor. 1:9). This fellowship (noun koinonia) with Christ includes the truth he gave us, participation in his sufferings, and the salvation he provides, but we are not engaged in social functions with him.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper is a spiritual “communion” (noun koinonia) in the benefits of the body and the blood of Christ which was offered for our sin (1 Cor. 10:16). Likewise, the Jews were “partakers of the alter” (noun koinonos) when they ate a portion of the sacrifices they offered, i.e., their sins were forgiven in view of the promised Messiah. Saints must not participate in idol feasts lest they “be participants with demons” (NIV; noun koinonos). None of the activities pictured here pertain to social functions, but it is clear the Lord’s Supper rather than a social meal is the Christian’s fellowship meal. “And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation.” (1 Cor. 11:34).

Paul warned the church at Corinth not to receive false teachers: “what fellowship hath light with darkness?” (2 Cor. 6:14) Brethren at Jerusalem signified their unity in faith and practice with Barnabas and Paul by extending “the right hands of fellowship” (Gal. 2:9). The noun koinonia in these passages refers to sharing in the truth not in social activities.

The collection and its use are “fellowship” because they express our shared faith, relationship, and work in God’s kingdom. Acts 2:42 includes “the fellowship” (noun koinonia) in worship. In Greek the article “the” precedes fellowship, indicating a specific act of worship when the saints contribute funds into the treasury. It was used especially for benevolence because the huge number of conversions resulted in many emergency needs. They “had all things common” (noun koinos), i.e., a common treasury, and even sold possessions when necessary to meet the pressing needs (Acts 2:44-45; cf. 4:32).

Many passages show the treasury was used for benevolence to needy saints (2 Cor. 8:4, noun koinonia) and for evangelism (Phil. 4:15, verb koinoneo) but never for social activities as expressions of the church’s fellowship.

A Distinct Line of Separation

So-called “fellowship” rooms provided by churches are unscriptural and are misnomers in terms of speaking as the Bible speaks (1 Pet. 4:11). The early church assembled to participate in their spiritual fellowship with God and each other in Acts 2:42 and 46 (“daily with one accord in the temple”). Individual saints made their own arrangements to share social meals “in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts” (Acts 2:46, NIV).

When the line is crossed separating the church’s work from individual activities, the church soon loses its distinctive spiritual nature. It becomes all things to all men, as broad and wide as the human imagination can reach with all sorts of meals, parties, games, contests, social services, secular educational offerings, athletics, political activities, job and business training, medical and dental clinics, and the-sky-is-the-limit. The church reflecting “the manifold wisdom of God” in the New Testament is corrupted into a worldly institution created by man in the image of his own misconceptions about “religion” and “fellowship” (Eph. 3:10).

Please join us for Bible study and worship every Sunday at 10:00 and Wednesday at 6:00.

Midway church of Christ
151 Otter Falls Road
Sewanee, Tennessee

06/12/2026

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
(by Dennis Abernathy)

Someone once asked: “What is more embarrassing than jumping to a conclusion that isn’t there?” In some matters jumping to unjustified conclusions is worse than embarrassing. It can be fatal! It can jeopardize one’s salvation.

For example, look at one of the most common false conclusions many jump to concerning salvation. Because the Bible says we are saved by faith, many people jump to the conclusion that salvation is by faith “only.” They conclude people are saved the moment they believe, and regardless of whether or not they obey other things God commands. However, the conclusion they jump to isn’t really there.

First, the Bible plainly says we are not justified by faith only. “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.” (Jas. 2: 24). Obviously, when the Bible says we are not justified by faith only, anyone who jumps to the conclusion that we are justified by faith only, is jumping to a conclusion that isn’t there. When the Bible teaches that we are saved by faith, it doesn’t mean “faith only.”

People are saved by faith when, their faith leads them to repent of their sins, confess Christ, and be scripturally baptized. Just as the Bible says we are saved by faith, it also says, in 1 Pet. 3: 21, “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us.” It would be jumping to a conclusion that’s not really there, if we decided we are saved by baptism “only” because the Bible says we are saved by baptism. By the same token, it is jumping to a false conclusion to decide we are saved by faith “only” because the Bible says we are saved by faith.

The truth is, we are saved by faith when we, by faith, do the things God commands of us to be saved. That includes baptism, as well as repentance and confession of Jesus. Have you been saved by faith? Think on these things.

Please join us for Bible study and worship each Sunday at 10:00 and Wednesday at 6:00.

Midway church of Christ
151 Otter Falls Road
Sewanee, Tennessee