Water Valley Country Church

12/04/2023

Good evening Water Valley! Water Valley Church has resumed morning services and will be meeting Sunday mornings at 10:00 moving forward. If you don’t have a church home we would love to see you here!

10/01/2023

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09/24/2023

A heartfelt “thank you” to the volunteers who took time off to help put the new roof on Water Valley Church! A few finishing touches left but it looks great!

09/23/2023

“…for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.” Galatians 2:16b.

Imagine going to a church picnic with a friend only to discover that they are too emabaraassed to associate with you in front of their church friends because of some religious rule you do not follow perfectly.

Maybe some of you have actually experienced something similar to this in real life and it is the reason you no longer attend church?

Would you be surprised to learn that Peter, one of Jesus’ original disciples, was guilty of this?

Thankfully, the Apostle Paul quickly and publicly set him right.

Guess what? It does not matter how bad things are in your life right now, there is a God who desperately wants to save you and help you walk out of that darkness.

The Church is called to join him in that by loving and serving you, not be gossiping behind your back and dismissing you.

While the church is indeed scripturally called to judge those within itself, it is called to do it gently, with love and humility, and with the full and constant focus being to help the person struggling.

Join us at 5:30 tomorrow to learn more!

09/22/2023

New roof is coming along great! Prayers appreciated for a successful and safe completion tomorrow!

09/03/2023

***Small Group Discussion Tonight at 5:30***

Have you ever wondered why Jesus spent so much time with prostitutes, criminals, and unclean people instead of shunning and avoiding them?

Do you think it's weird that a lot of people who claim to be his followers today do the exact opposite of what he did?

Join us tonight at 5:30 as we continue our journey through Galatians. You will learn why it is so tempting to compete with God for the glory of our salvation by embracing legalism and why that will always lead to a Pharisee like mentality where we harshly condemn and drive away the very people God calls us to love.

The below quote from Martin Luther's commentary on Galatians was eye opening for me in my study this week. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below and, if you are able, please join us tonight in person!

-DW

"We also are come at this day to the knowledge of grace by the self-same merits. I crucified Christ daily in my monkish life, and blasphemed God through my false faith, wherein I then continually lived. Outwardly I was not as other men, extortioners, unjust, whoremongers; but I kept chastity, poverty and obedience. Moreover, I was free from the cares of this present life. I was only given to fasting, watching, praying, saying of masses, and such like. Notwithstanding, in the meantime, I fostered under this cloaked holiness and trust in mine own righteousness, continual mistrust, doubtfulness, fear, hatred and blasphemy against God. And this my righteousness was nothing else but a filthy puddle, and the very kingdom of the devil. For Satan loveth such saints, and accounteth them for his dear darlings, who destroy their own bodies and souls, and deprive themselves of all the blessings of God’s gifts.

Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 80–81.