Our Easter Egg Hunt will be on April 7, Saturday morning at 10:00AM.

Join us in Room 5 Friday, March 30 from 8-10pm for prayer and worship.

“Love the Word. Learn the Word. Live the Word.”

Join us for the 40 Days in the Word campaign beginning on Sunday, February 26.

Host Locations (Please contact us for house addresses)

THE FOLLOWING GROUPS WILL MEET SUNDAYS AT 6:00PM

Host: Bill & Beverly Rogers. Leader: Pastor Bill Rogers
Location: Word of Life Fellowship

Host: Joel & Erica Miley. Co-Leaders: Joel Miley & Miguel Carbajal
Location: Centerton

Host: Kevin & Angie Fitch. Leader: Pastor Jim Dixon
Location: Bella Vista

Host: Buddy & Brandy Blue. Leader: Buddy & Brandy Blue
Location: Little Flock

OTHER GROUPS AND TIMES:

Host: Gene & Bonnie Ciabattari. Co-leaders: Gene Ciabatarri & Twila Farish
Location: Bentonville
Time: Sundays, 5:30pm

Host: Sunday School. Leaders: Ed & Candy LaRotunda
Location: Word of Life Fellowship
Time: Sundays, 8:45am

Host: Tammy Borin. Leader: Bonnie Vines
Location: Gravette
Time: Wednesdays, 6:30pm

Host: Mike & Rhonda Dixon. Leaders: Mike & Rhonda Dixon
Location: Bella Vista
Time: Wednesdays, 7:00pm

Host: Ken & Shelly Ferguson. Leaders: Ken & Shelly Ferguson
Location: Word of Life Fellowship
Time: Wednesdays, 7:15pm

Host: Todd & Georgia Maberry. Leaders: Tate & Paula Wilson
Location: Bentonville
Time: Saturdays, 10:30am

Host: Men’s Ministry Leaders: Pastor Jeff Odom
Location: Word of Life Fellowship
Time: Saturdays, 10:00am

Join us November 20, Sunday morning at 10:00 for BLAINE BOWMAN AND HIS GOODTIME BAND.

If you’re a little bit Country, Blues, Western Swing, Rock, Bluegrass, or Jazz, then this concert is perfect for you!

MUSIC, COMEDY, & THE WORD

CD’s and DVD’s available at concert and online.

Check out their website here to meet the crew and here some of their music.  http://www.blainebowman.com/fr_home.cfm

To reserve your seat, you may send us an email through our Contact Page or call the office at 479-273-3460.

6:00 – 8:00pm

Popcorn, cotton candy, an inflatable, games, prizes, candy, music and a positive message.

In both camps there are nice people and there are nasties. There are those who are naturally humble and others who are prideful. Some people are givers and some are takers. You will find good marriages and absolute train wrecks – in both groups. You will find the self controlled and the impulsive, compulsive, obsessive, obsessive compulsive, narcissistic, me-monsters, the smart, the ignorant, the beautiful, the – you might try more rouge. And the list goes on……and on….

The thing is is that we are all just people, some of us are truly pursuing Christ and others are pretending to pursue Him or throwing Him a half-hearted nod now and then, some believe He exists but refuse to live for Him. Some don’t think about Him and some don’t believe He even exists. Still some are even hostile towards Him. Any way you slice it there are only two kinds of people in this world- those who know Him and those who don’t. We are all one race with different ethnicity’s and personalities.

So where am I going with this? I wanted to build a base that would show we are all alike yet distinct.

When a person changes from one camp to the other (everyone starts in the losers bracket) one thing changes instantly (justification- you are eternally secured in Christ and guaranteed eternal life) and everything else immediately starts changing (sanctification- you gradually grow in the perfecting pleasure of knowing Him). So lets say you know someone who claims to be a Christian and they are a bit of a stinker (we all know someone like this- if not, go look in the mirror). We must look at this person (and each other) in the light of the forgiveness we have received for ourselves. When dealing with a difficult brother or sister in the Faith we must think of this one thing- Christ suffered tremendously for this person. He lived a perfect life, died a horrific, painful death, and gloriously rose again- for this jack leg! Lord help me love people like you love them (although this is an impossible request to perfectly love like Him while I am still present in this imperfect body, I yearn to walk as He did). It helps when I look at my own walk and see the areas God has grown me in. I think “This fellow might be surly but maybe they were super surly before they were justified”.

You may be thinking “I know “Churchfolk” who were “justified” a looooooong time ago…………..still nasty. Well maybe they aren’t justified, or perhaps you might be the one God uses to help them grow up. How do you know the difference? The Bible says we will know them by their fruits. A true believer will bear SOME kind of fruit (even if its just a dried up raisin). Deep in their hearts they will want to pursue Christ and not their own desires. Even when we are unsure if the person is truly justified we still are dealing with a human being whom He created and we still must try and help and love the confused, the weak and those who are seeking. This same God given, Holy Spirit driven compassion and love that we must be walking in for each other is the same compassion and love that drives away wolves (false teachers, pretenders) who would try to enter in and deceive God’s people, it’s the same compassion and love that wars against the strategies of the enemy as he roams around seeking whom he may destroy.

JOHN 13:34-35      ”A new commandment I give to you,that you love one another: JUST AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another”

Did you see that? Apparently if we don’t have love (His kind of self sacrificing love) for each other then we are not disciples. This love for each other doesn’t originate from our own self will or even making ourselves love each other, it only comes from the Holy Spirit that dwells inside each and every believer. That is what links all us “Churchfolk” together. He abides in us- perfect love in an imperfect individual…..isn’t He amazing?

I think about standing before Him. He is looking at me. What have I done with the breath he gave me? I can’t stop thinking about all the wickedness I have revelled in. I remember every foul thing I ever did. Everything from lying to my mother and father as a child to the unspeakable acts and thoughts I wholeheartedly engaged in. I tell myself I didn’t fight the temptations enough! In fact I ran to them, I swam in them. He is still looking at me. I know He knows.

I think, if He says “guilty” what will be my response? He is Elohim, the Highest, Most Righteous Judge. There is no one to appeal too. Nothing I could ever say would change His mind now. And trying to explain would probably just make it worse. Maybe I should just scream out ”guilty” or “have mercy”. Anything to break the silence. If He judges me damned I will have no other outlet but to agree. I know what I have done.

I think about when my heart was convicted at a Bluegrass Gospel Festival at a church in Lebanon, Ohio in 1995 (I am not a redneck- OK, maybe just a little). I start thinking about a preacher I didn’t even know at the time coming to me and saying “God is about done wrestling with you”. I remember running to the alter and falling on my face and bawling for what seemed an hour. I remember getting up and feeling about 300 lbs. lighter. I wonder if that really had anything to do with what was about to happen. Would that have any bearing on what He would say.

I know something happened that night. Something inside had died and there was a newness there now. He is still just looking at me- reading my every thought (maybe I should just be thinking Bible verses or something). I think about all the sins I had committed since that day, to numerous to count. Would they now come back to haunt me? Had I sinned too much? Had I like Cain brought offerings of works and not obedience? And if of obedience was I obeying to show Him I loved Him or was I loving Him and producing obedience. A product of works or of grace?

I played church alot- too much. I had a hat for when I was at work and one for when I was at His house. I didn’t tell everybody I knew about Him. He even gave me opportunities and I missed them. I didn’t always respect my authority He placed over me. I didn’t love my wife as much as I knew too, I wasn’t a good enough example for my kids, I didn’t obey Him immediately when He showed me my sin.

These are a few of the things I think about.

I am staking all my hope in what the Bible says so clearly, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” Jhn 3:16. That’s all I have got. I am all in. According to God’s Word there is no hope outside of Jesus. It’s not Jesus plus anything. It’s just Jesus.

He is still looking at me. Someone I recognize on His right hand gives Him a seal. It says “PAID”.