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Recently I’ve been thinking about our vision of what’s to come in the future. Both before and after the return of Christ. Tonight I had the opportunity to discuss this at the meeting. If we read James 1:22-25 we can recognise the importance of examining ourselves and actually acting on what we see. Acting to
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There was a very strong underlying message to the ministry this week: Be with God. Get stuck into it. We read in Daniel 3:24-26 the outcome when Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego were cast into a extremely hot furnace. The particular piece that we want to pull out of this passage is the comment by King
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It is a shame that my second From the meeting needs to be a little negative: It is unavoidable. Today we heard that those that worship God must do so in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). The topic of Worship really made me ask: How would I instruct people to worship God? Well, obviously,
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Back in February a few people, myself included, were asked to try and re-word the RCI We Believe statements. However I have further developed my thinking over the last few months. And I said this last night. A church meeting today is run very similar to how they ran 500 years ago. The way we
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I thought it might be nice to, each week, share thoughts that I get out of the meetings. Today one topic was Experience. In 1 Timothy 6:20-21 we read Paul encouraging Timothy to oppose ideas derived from knowledge, science in the KJV, where this knowledge is false (i.e incorrect, based on bad facts, etc…). The
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It occurred to me while writing the previous post: really we are instructed to preach the gospel in two manners: a) active; and b) reactive. Where active is drawn from Mark 16:15, an instruction to put a foot forward, to tell people without any prompting. Alternatively reactive is drawn from 1 Peter 3:14-15 to be
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Last night (at the house meeting) I spoke about the brains capacity to recognise and use patterns to discern the nature of a particular item. For example: If I ate 5 extremely hot chilli’s you would expect my appearance to change: I would go red, I would perspire. Alternatively, if you observed this appearance you
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Proof is a major issue with teaching people the salvation message of Jesus: People want demonstrable proof of God’s existence. Down through the ages people have intellectualised this issue, both theologically but also philosophically. However, most arguments stem from one of Thomas Aquinas’ Quinquae viae. Personally I feel these proofs are boring! It is hardly
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This is an older topic, but I remembered today that I had drafted an email on this topic not that long ago. You can find the email below. But first I should probably direct you to some definitions: Glossolalia and Xenoglossia. Essentially the difference lies in if the language is an actual human spoken language,
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Oh ooh! What am I getting myself into with this? I have had many discussions about the role of women in The Church (i.e. Gods people, the ecclesia) and in parallel, the role of women in the RCI. This is an important issue for me: I personally believe that in the foreseeable future, given the
about 3 years ago
Isn’t God’s will to have a relationship with man? Except for the fact that Man throughout the Bible keeps getting it wrong – first in the garden, then the whole Old Testament debacle, and then they will even get it wrong at the end after the Lord returns, when after the 1000 years of ruling and reigning, “Satan” will be unleashed again for another 1000 years?