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Dr. Stephen Peeples
Welcome to the homepage of Roopville Road Baptist Church! You will find that Roopville Road is a place for you and your family to worship, fellowship and grow in your Christian walk. It is a place dedicated to caring for you and challenging you to new heights in your relationship to God and His people. It is a place where you can make friends for a lifetime and experience faith that will be meaningful for this lifetime and eternity.
Whether you are single or married, with children or without, you will gain a sense of family as you worship, study and serve. We are dedicated, first and foremost, to God and His Word. Because of His love for us and our commitment to Him, we are committed to love those He brings our way.
We invite you to come and experience the Roopville Road fellowship and God's presence. You will find a people ready to call you "friend," and a fellowship ready to welcome you. Above all, you will feel at home. Roopville Road is indeed a "Place for you to Call Home!"
I can't wait to meet you!
In HIS Service,
Pre Trip Thoughts of Backpacking Honduras....
Often times the Lord has a tendency to stretch us....taking us out of our comfort zone. I remember the very first mission trip I took back in 1996. It was my first time outside the borders of the United States of America. I will never forget the culture shock upon arriving in a third world country. That culture shock intensified when we traveled almost another ten or so hours from the place we landed. Upon arriving in a rather remote village in Honduras, the team of fifteen split up into three teams of five and we then went in three different ways to spend the week accordingly. So, my culture shock continued to intensify. I will never forget being dropped off in an even further remote village with no electricity or running water. It was rather dusky and time to eat and here we were in the middle of nowhere being the only Americans to be seen. As the van drove off, leaving us "stranded" for the week, with absolutely no outside communication to the world, my culture shock rose to an all time high! However, as the mission progressed throughout the week, myself and the four others became somewhat use to our environment. It was nice to not have televisions, phones, newspapers....those modern means of communication was then seen as major distractions in my life. I will never forget the culture shock I received upon my return. Going back in time at last a hundred years, and then coming forward back into modern culture was shocking as well.
I say all that to say and reminisce somewhat, because the Lord is about to stretch me once again! After having done short-mission work for over thirteen years Lord willing, I will embark on a mission that I have never explored. Myself and seven others will be on a back-pack mission to Delecius, a remote village that will take several hiking hours to get to. The team covets your prayers..... details at 11'....... in my next blog, I’ll share what happened.......
Bro. Stephen
Love
Love. Such a powerful word. We use the word to express emotion towards various things. One may say they “love football,” or they “love spaghetti,” or they “love church!” I like that last one. However, when you say that you love someone, well then, the word takes on a whole new meaning.
In our culture, the word love has lost it’s umph! There is puppy love, candid love, flippant love and casual love. Those expressions of love doesn’t define love’s true meaning. Love can be defined in yet another word...commitment. When you love someone you are committed to them no matter what. Marriage is all about commitment. For richer for poorer, for better for worse, in sickness and health, as long as we both shall live (until death we do part). Those are powerful vows that are made to the Lord God first and to the spouse second. As a pastor, I have performed many weddings and funerals. I have been on the front end of a relationship where love is bliss and in some cases blind, and I have been on the back end of a relationship where a spouse departs from their mate in death after years of a committed relationship. The beauty of a long term marriage where marriage vows have been respected and have honored the Lord is having seen love displayed and lived. I recently performed a funeral of a dear friend and brother in Christ in our church who was married to his dear wife for sixty-two years. You talk about love! Those two have never been apart. His dear wife honored the vows she made to the Lord to the end. For the last several years she cared for him night and day due to health issues. She loved him in sickness and in health. What a testimony in a day and age where love is not lived and truly defined in many relationships. Also, being a pastor, sadly I am involved in matters where some desire to deplete the vows. The going has got tough and they see the solution to the matter by spelling love as d-i-v-o-r-c-e. Again, I say, love is commitment. Again, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, in sickness and health, as long as we both shall live (until death we do part).
The Bible says in John 15:12, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” That includes everyone (husbands and wives included)! How did and does Jesus love? Unconditionally....with unreserved commitment. May we follow suit and display the love of our Lord inside and outside our homes. Doing so will certainly impact our world in a most positive fashion.
I want to extend a cordial invitation to you and your family to worship with us the next Lord’s day. The Lord has blessed our church with ministries that will meet the needs of you and your entire family. You need a church home where you can be ministered to and where you can minister to others as well. In times of crisis and trials, there is nothing like a church family that rallies around you. If you haven’t made the Lord’s Day apart of your Sunday agenda, why not being this coming Sunday!
I would love to personally meet you and minister to you in any way possible. As a means of my appreciation to you for reading this column, I would like to send you a FREE gift. Please feel free to correspond with me and ask for your free gift by sending your correspondence to: Roopville Road Baptist Church, c/o Stephen Peeples, 835 N. Hwy. 27, Roopville, Georgia 30170.
