Church Calendar

THIS WEEKS EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

TODAY
7:00 a.m. Mens Growth Group
8:15 a.m. Prayer, Room 205
9:00 a.m. Worship Service
11:00 a.m. Worship Service

Mexico Mission Trip Departs

July 16

MON
9:00 a.m. VBS
7:00 p.m. The Most Excellent Way

Canyonview Day Camp

July 27-31

Lords Supper with Phil Howard

July 19

TUE
9:00 a.m. VBS
6:00 p.m. Cause Park Night
WED
9:00 a.m. VBS
12:00 p.m. Mens Growth Group
6:45 p.m. Worship Team Practice
THUR
6:00 a.m. Mens Growth Group
9:00 a.m. VBS
FRI
9:00 a.m. VBS

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Info & News

Summer Series - Family Matters
Justin Greene - July 12
Phil Howard - July 19
Donald Whitney - July 26

F a m i l y M a t t e r s

Canyonview Day Camp

Registration is open online for kids entering first grade through
entering sixth grade. Check the church website for more info.

Cause Men Of God Backpacking Trip

Fun trip for father and son! Interested? There will be a meeting
July 26 @ 10:35 a.m. in the chapel. Trip dates are August 5-8.

Patrick & Becky Patterson

The Pattersons will be back in the U.S. for a visit from July 10 August 6. If you want to hear an update about the work in East
Asia, contact them to arrange a meet up!

Tim & Mary Dady

The Dadys are fully funded! They leave for Latvia this
month. You are invited to a send off celebration July 19 at
Salem Heights Church from 4-6pm. See you there!

SHC Staff
Pastors
Justin Greene

Senior Pastor
Carl Chica

Pastor of Family Life

Matt MacCollin

Pastor of Mens/College
Lay Elders
Chuck Moore
Ted Ferry
Administration
Ron Groves

Giving Update
The ministry of SHC is funded entirely by the
generous giving of Gods people. You will
notice that we do not pass the offering plate;
however, there are offering boxes in the back
of the auditorium. We believe from the Word
of God that the Spirit of God will lead people
towards giving back to God of their first fruits.
...God loves a cheerful giver, (2 Cor. 9:7).

Please prayerfully consider what the Lord

would have you do.
Monthly Budget Needed
Monthly Giving To Date
Fiscal Year to Date +/Building Fund

$107,000
$35,604
-$16,505
$25,892

Administrator
Russ Libby

Director of Ministries
Scott Hunter

Facilities Manager
AJ Acker

Music Ministry
Tim Saffeels
Director of Student Ministries
Pete Potloff

Our Purpose
To reach people with the love of Jesus Christ,
provide a safe and supportive environment,
proclaim the standards of Gods truth,
duplicate the Christian life in others, and
celebrate the majesty and works of our Great
God.

Director of Family Life

Ed Reister

Community Connection
Jay Duffus

Mens Biblical Counseling

Laura Chica
Womens Biblical Counseling
Julie Bernard

Womens Ministry
503-588-0403

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FAMILY MATTERS SUMMER SERIES

PART 2

How to Build the Fire

Genesis 2; Ephesians 5

Presented by
Pastor Justin Greene
July 12, 2015

A man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his
wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound
mystery... Ephesians 5:31-32
In 1947, Dr. Carle Zimmerman, a professor of sociology at
Harvard University, published a book titled Family and
Civilization. In this very technical work, he established an
unmistakable correlation between the strength of the
family and the strength of the culture. As the teeth of one
gear mesh with another, the attitudes that undermine a
family will ultimately bring down a nation.
Dr. Zimmerman identified three types of families, the last
of which he called atomistic. After a careful study of the
worlds great empires, he found that a nation of
predominantly atomistic families rarely escapes extinction.
I find his description of this type of family eerily prophetic:
This type of family arises first as an extension of the
ideas of freedom of the individual ... Thus the
individual is left more and more alone to do as he

wishes. At first the freedom becomes an incentive

to economic gain ... But sooner or later the meaning
of this freedom changes. The individual, having no
guiding moral principles, changes the meaning of
freedom from opportunity to license. Having no
internal or external guides to discipline him, he
becomes a gambler with life, always seeking
greener pastures. When he comes to inevitable
difficulty, he is alone in his misery. He wishes to
pass his difficulties and his misery on to others.
Consequently he continually helps to build up
institutions to remedy his misery. He willingly
follows any prophet (and they are mostly false
ones) who comes along with a sure-cure nostrum
for the diseases of the social system.1
Thus we witness the peculiar anomaly in that atomistic
people, who seem to have given all for this freedom, are
the ones who create the most violent and bloodthirsty
dictatorships.2
Here are six of the particular attitudes that Zimmerman
states are typical of a society nearing its last days. Most
of them have to do with marriage.
Increased and rapid, easy, causeless divorce.
[Guilty-and-innocent party theory became a pure
fiction.]
Elimination of the real meaning of the marriage
ceremony.
Rise of theories that companionate marriage or
looser family forms would solve social ills. [A
companionate marriage is one in which the
couple agrees to just be companions, not to have
children, not to commingle their finances, and
divorce by mutual consent.]

 The refusal of many other people married under

the older family form to maintain their traditions
while other people escape these obligations.
[The Greek and Roman mothers refused to stay
home and bear children.]
Breaking down of most inhibitions against
adultery.
Common acceptance of all forms of sex
perversions.3,4
Studies like these reveal the tracks left behind by others. Failure
is NOT inevitable, but it is more probable if we do not build our
home fires right.

KEY
Q: Why is our perception of marriage (and family) so bleak when
the stats on marriage remain positive?

A: Our Me Generation does not like the materials used to

build a good relationship.

BUILDING THE FIRE RIGHT

Not the same ... but ONE.
You were designed different ... change is inevitable.

The goal is not he needs to change or she needs to

change, but Lord, change me so that we can change.

Not self satisfied ... but serving.

Not just happy ... but holy.

Not gooey but gospel (confession and repentance are

important).

Not your good ... but Gods glory.

Not picture perfect ... but protected.

HOW IS YOUR FIRE?

Carle C. Zimmerman, Family and Civilization (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947),
161.
2
Ibid., 760-61.
3
Ibid., 776-77.
4
Charles R. Swindoll, Marriage from Surviving to Thriving (Nashville: W Publishing
Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.), 25-27.