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Today's Quiet Time Notes: Point of it All (part II)
         Parachurches can not replace simple churches but it can facilitate communication and fellowship among them

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Point of it All (part I)
         Churches need to continuosly examine themselves continually make sure additonal activites do not ecipse the essential ones

Today's Quiet Time Notes: No Easy Path of Reform
         It is not the church's essential mission to provide employment, social services, social acceptability, recreation, entertainment, etc

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Sunday Gatherings
         Sometimes the more the merrier, right? But when it is too big of a regular church gathering? All the resouces and volunteers worth the event?

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Must Churches Be Complicated? (part V)
         Sometime the laity are quite content to let the clergy culture continue because it gives them an excuse for their spiritual laziness

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Must Churches Be Complicated? (part IV)
         Simply because you earn a degree in ministry and convince a church to hire you, does not guarantee you are doing the work of the Lord

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Must Churches Be Complicated? (part III)
         If churches met in the home, took no collections, made no budgets, owned no common property, had no employee, it operate more like a family than a business

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Must Churches Be Complicated? (part II)
         Smaller house churches will most of the time be closer to the ideal church the first century Christians lived

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Must Churches Be Complicated? (part I)
         Church history (like Israel) can written as a tug of war the tendency to drift away and returning to the essentials

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Lure and Threat of Political Power (part III)
         Church state-given privileges enables employment models of churches

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Lure and Threat of Political Power (part II)
         It is the lives people that speak and act in witness to the love of God revealed in Jesus. Nothing else is required.

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Lure and Threat of Political Power
         Every organization demands that its members confirm to that identity and help achieve its purpose - weather good or bad

Today's Quiet Time Notes: The Essential Mission (part II)
         The New Testament mandates essential practices

Today's Quiet Time Notes: The Essential Mission
         Over time, it is well known that associations tend to stray from their founding purposes

Today's Quiet Time Notes: First Thing First (part III)
         The church consists of people who in obedient faith have responded to God's call and by baptism have been added to His body

Today's Quiet Time Notes: First Thing First (part II)
         Christ is the head of the body, without Him, the body has no unity or direction

Today's Quiet Time Notes: First Thing First
         We need to rid ourselves of the view that the church displaces God as the primary actor and replaces him with human actors

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Intro
         The first century church was many things but does not look like most churches today

Today's Quiet Time Notes: New Testament Error Free
         Since the Bible is the standard of truth, anything that contradicts a teaching in the Bible is false

Today's Quiet Time Notes: New Testament Cannon
         The canon is a list of authoritative books more than an authoritative list of books

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Jesus and the New Testament
         The miracles confirmed the message. God's way of saying the message was really coming from him.

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Jesus and the Old Testament (part III)
         Despite have a human nature, Jesus knew what was true because he only taught what the Father told him to teach

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Jesus and the Old Testament (part II)
         Why would Jesus question religious leaders with the Old Testament unless it was the ultimate authority?

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Jesus and the Old Testament
         Jesus came not to destory but to fulfill the Old Testament

Added/Updated a Document: Reasons God is Good

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Who Is Jesus? Objections
         Trinity can not be fully understood by finite beings but we can apprehend the Trinity like we apprehend the ocean

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Who is Jesus? Proof and Sinless Life
         Despite being with Jesus day and night for three years, His disciples found no sin in Him

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Who is Jesus? God In Action
         We are left with only one conclusion, Jesus is Lord

Today's Quiet Time Notes: Who is Jesus? God - Claims
         The very reason Jesus was killed was because he claimed to be God