An Answer for the Curious Observer

In the Beginning...

Travel back in time to Jerusalem in 35 AD, just a year or two after Jesus' death and resurrection. If you searched the Yellow Pages under "Church" in those days, you might have found several listings but they all would have had the same name. The beautician or the barber would not ask you, "Where do you go to church?" If you went to church at all, they already knew where.

Are You Up to the Challenge?

Mission: Impossible

That's an apt description of the difficulty of getting people to read religious literature. I know that it's not that folks aren't interested. At least not always.

After all, you have a busy life. There are lots of demands for your time. I mean MCI, AT&T and Sprint called you all in one night. One telemarketing sales pitch is an ordeal--much less three.

Besides that, the kids are playing ball and spending the night with their friends. And you had to "pick up something" for dinner for the third night in a row.

Biblical Principles to Assist Your Search

So, You're Just Looking

I avoid salesmen. I just like to look around when I shop. I don't like to be hurried. I don't want to be pushed. And if I have any questions, I'll ask the salesman when I'm ready.

I think most folks are that way. And when an individual or a family begins looking for a church to attend I suppose they "shop around," excuse the terminology, in the same fashion. They don't want to be hurried or pushed. And they'll ask questions when they're ready. But for now they're just looking.

A Brief History of this Local Church

So they said, "Let us rise up and build!" (Neh. 2:18)

On two consecutive Thursday evenings, May 4 and May 11 of 1961, the following group of twenty men met in the home of Roy E. Shilk at 910 Pauline Street of Pasadena, Texas to discuss the prospect of beginning a new congregation in South Pasadena: Rex Cottle, Chester Gage, Noble Cayton, Leo Dickey, Austin Harris, Etzel Henson, Norman Henson, Crawford Jackson, Charles King, Lloyd Kirksey, Emmet Pryor, Roy Shilk, Frank Shinn, Thomas Shipp, Howard Spradling, John Straughan, Carl Walker, Charles Walker, T.C. Weatherly. These men and their families, and several others who joined them later, left the Central Church of Christ because of the rift caused by discussions over the issue of church-sponsored institutions. Among other matters decided in the first of these organizational meetings, the group fastened upon the name "Southside" as a designation for the infant church. In the second meeting final arrangments were made to secure Southmore Junior High School as a temporary meeting place until a piece of property could be purchased and a building erected. Leo Dickey and Wilson Usrey were appointed to supervise arrangements for bible classes. Norman Henson agreed to function as "temporary" treasurer.

How To Get Divided Believers Together Again.

About Us, About You

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