TO NEVER
BE FORGOTTEN! Greater
Concord Missionary
Baptist Church, Sunday,
Easter Sunday, April 12,
2020, Resurrection
Sunday, Greater Concord
MBC will be thirty nine
years old!
This
anniversary will never
be forgotten! The Corona
Virus (COVID-19) has
caused churches,
businesses, and
government to be closed
down. April 12, 2020,
Easter Sunday, the
church at 4500 East
Davison, Detroit, MI
48212 will be closed due
to Corona Virus
(COVID-19). The building
is closed but not the
church. O praise His
Holy Name! Sunrise
Service at 6:00 a.m. at
the building will not
take place; but at 6:00
a.m. Easter Sunday
morning we can all pray.
We can't have breakfast
at Bob Evans, but we can
all pray. O praise His
Holy Name! We will
celebrate our thirty
ninth anniversary in an
unusual way. On this
thirty-ninth anniversary
we will commemorate the
home-going of Dr. O'Neil
D. Swanson.
Our
church, Greater Concord
MBC had it's humble
beginning at Dr. O'Neil
D. Swanson's Funeral
Home on the Boulevard
March 29, 1981. O what a
blessing! Thirty-nine
years later, from that
humble beginning, thanks
to Dr. Swanson for his
agape love, we are where
we are today, in a super
complex. Dr. O'Neil
Swanson did our Tenth
Church Anniversary,
April 7, 1991. His
subject was: "Celebrate
the Victory!", II Kings
7:8-11.
Now,
Greater Concord, if the
Bible be true, and it
is; "All things work
together for the good,"
the building is closed,
but I hear the Word
saying that, "the gates
of hell shall not"
destroy the church. At
this moment, we may be
cast down but we are not
knocked out. Let us
celebrate at home,
knowing that we will be
back for number forty!
To God be the glory!
Number 39, Pastor
Cullian W. Hill.
Greater
Concord, last Sunday, we
could not have church in
our building due to the
virus on Palm Sunday,
the Sunday that Jesus
rode into Jerusalem.
Jerusalem was filled
with jubilation two
thousand twenty years
ago. Visitors filled the
city to capacity. News
spread swiftly among the
crowds that Jesus was
coming. He was about to
march triumphantly into
Jerusalem. Expectation
was fanned to a fever
pitch and a great
multitude went forth to
meet Him. Even to this
day, Palm Sunday is
still being celebrated
with excitement. The
Pharisees lives were
filled with bitterness,
jealousy and hatred.
They hated Jesus for no
reason at all, but
combining meekness and
majesty, He rode in! The
crowd shouting Hosanna,
(save now), the shouts
rang out across the
valley. They asking,
"Who is this?" The
Lord's triumphal entry
shook Jerusalem,
morally, and spiritually
from end to end. The
Jewish authorities were
enraged. After arriving,
Jesus goes into the
temple and found them
again profaning it. They
had made the temple a
"den of thieves". The
bad thing, the Priest
sanction the
commercialization of
that part of the court.
The granting of
concessions to merchants
and moneychangers was
financially rewarding to
the Jews. (You know,
judgement must begin at
the house of God. I
Peter 4:17) In the
temple, the Lord cast
out those who bought and
sold. He overthrew the
tables of the
moneychangers and threw
over the seats of them
that sold doves.
(Matthew 21:12) "It is
written, My house shall
be called the house of
prayer: but you have
made it a den of
thieves." They had
turned the hallowed
courts into an unholy
caver where brigands
squabbled over their
ill-gotten gains. On
Palm Sunday, the
sanctuary was cleansed
again.
Greater
Concord, this Sunday,
Easter Sunday, we will
celebrate our
thirty-ninth Church
Anniversary. God has
blessed us with a
beautiful sanctuary, let
us not profane it! We
must always remember
that it is the house of
prayer. Always enter it
with reverence knowing
that God is observing
us. We never want God to
be displeased with what
takes place in the house
of prayer. This house
has been dedicated for
worship! Praise His Holy
Name! Some leaders, now
must have dancers,
shouters and jumpers;
turn to your neighbor
and high five; but we
must remember that this
is a place for worship.
Last Sunday, Palm
Sunday, Jesus cleansed
the temple out! Here at
Greater Concord MBC, we
must always be conscious
that God is always
present. Yes, we might
not be able to see one
another physically, but
we will rejoice anyway!
Remember that the church
house is where hearts
are changed. We will
never forget that number
thirty-nine, we could
not come to 4500 East
Davison, Detroit, MI
48212, where our church
building is. Pastor Hill