Our spring Gospel Meeting with W. T. Allison is now only two weeks away Sunday through Wednesday, April 15th-18th.  Take a look at our topics for the meeting: Sunday    Bible Study          10:00 a.m.     Reasons and Results: The Life of Christ    Worship               11:00 a.m.     God’s Greatest Love Story: John 19-21    Evening                  7:30 p.m.    Choices That Free Moral Agents Cannot Make Monday Evening              7:30 p.m.    The F-A-M-I-L-Y of God Tuesday Evening             7:30 p.m.    The Only Church Wednesday Evening       7:30 p.m.     God’s Greatest Compliment to the Church Make plans now to attend every service to hear these wonderful messages straight from God’s Word, the Bible.  Please invite your family, friends, and neighbors to this wonderful opportunity for study and fellowship.  You never know!  A personal invitation from you may be the deciding factor in their decision to make a change for the better. We are privileged to host the South Carolina state wide Senior Rally on    Saturday, April 28th.  I am looking forward to sharing three lessons from God’s word on the theme of “Paul’s Pattern for Growing Old.”    9:00 a.m.        Registration  9:30 a.m.        Welcome and singing - Song leader: Mike Moore 10:00 a.m.       Faith for our time! 10:55 a.m.       Committed to what? 11:50 a.m.       Senior Christians CAN motivate others!  LUNCH provided following the final session! We will have a great time of fellowship together as we study together from God’s word being edified in the most holy faith. Sunday morning we will continue in our series “Light the Fire” as we consider the topic:  Expectation.  We have already studied two spiritual principles from our text in 2 Kings 6:1-7:  admittance and acknowledgement.  The prophet who had lost his axe head admitted his loss then acknowledged where it was that the axe head went into the Jordon River.  If our faith has grown weak, if our love has grown cold, we too must admit the reality of our situation and acknowledge where it was that we lost our “cutting edge.”  The next step in our journey to a closer walk with God is expectation.  This step is a step of faith.  In James 1:5-8 we find that wisdom comes from God and that we should ask God for the wisdom we need in life.  We find in this passage that we must ask in faith, in expectation, without doubting.  The Holy Spirit through James teaches us that the one who doubts is a “double-minded” man unstable in all his ways (8).  Verse 7 of James  chapter 1 says of the one who prays without expectation, “Let not that man suppose he shall receive anything from God.”  In our Christian life we must admit our need.  We must acknowledge where we were, where we are, and where we need to be.  We must also expect God to restore, rekindle, revive, and renew that which was lost. On Sunday evening we will consider a much needed principle in the life of every Christian: in order to be forgiven I must forgive.  We will take our lesson from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:9-15 and Jesus’ Parable of the  Unforgiving Servant in Matthew 18:21-35 to learn about forgiveness.