Topical Memory System

http://www.navigators.org/us/resources/illustrations/items/Topical%20Memory%20System

http://discipleshiplibrary.com/pdfs/APP00162.pdf

http://turret2.discipleshiplibrary.com/APP00162.mp3

We Mean Business

Compadres -

"We Mean Business" is my company's [Chase Couriers] slogan.

It communicates that we treat our customers with a high degree of quality care and service.

So should it be with our lives as men of God. Like good businessmen, we need to be practical and principled in our approach to our lives and ministries.

To prepare for Friday morning (2/9) listen to the personal testimony of Daws Trotman gave in 1955.

http://turret2.discipleshiplibrary.com/J132.mp3

As you listen, answer the following questions:

1. Who was the person most instrumental in bringing Daws to Christ?

2. What two spiritual weapons were used to bring Daws to Christ?

3. What surprising observation did Daws make about the Christians in the Young People's Group he attended?

4. How did scripture memory help him battle sin in his life?

5. Considering I Corinthians 10:13, what does our disbelief in His promise of victory say about our opinion on the faithfulness of God?

6. Daws said, "The greatest waste of time is the time getting ___________."

7. What personal application can you draw from this testimony?

8. What ministry application can you draw from this testimony?

Please be prepared to quote a verse you are currently working on.

See you Friday.

- Bill

Character

FROM BILL

Have you read II Timothy 2:2 in the Amplified version? It packs a powerful punch:

"And the instructions which you have heard from me along with many witnesses, transmit and entrust as a deposit to reliable and faithful men who will be competent and qualified to teach others also." -- II Timothy 2:2 (Amplified)

Each of us has been given a valuable deposit which we are called to transmit to faithful men.

Are we faithful men?

To prepare for Friday morning (1/26) please listen to this 38 MINUTE message by Skip Gray on five attitudes of a serious follower of Christ:

Faithful
Available
Inter-dependent
Teachable
Holy

Message: http://turret2.discipleshiplibrary.com/G360.mp3

As always, listen with dual purpose:

(1) Intake -- How does this apply to me personally?
(2) Output -- How does this apply to my ministry?

LISTEN AND TAKE GOOD NOTES that you might strengthen the iron in your spirit so as to be able to sharpen the iron in my spirit.

Genesis 3 and Quantum Theory

Leroy Eims' Daily Walk message for today is not specifically related to the reading. However, Mr. Eims talks about seeing what you're looking for. A big reason folks say they don't get anything from a specific reading is that they're not looking for anything. Click the hypertext above to hear his 4-minute message.

He breaks out two areas that are helpful as he journeys through the Bible.

1. Topical reading -- Say your looking for better ways to witness or disciple. Go to the gospels and look specifically at how Christ witnesses the father or how he approached picking disciples.
2. Character reading -- Want to be a man after God's heart? Read stories of David. You get the idea.

The pay off for me was seeing separation or more accurately, dialectics, through new eyes. Oddly, unless you know me of course, is that the idea of quantum theory was actually the topic that got me there. Dialectics? Quantum theory?

What follows you may find on a variety of blogs, a relatively uncohesive mix of ideas that I'm assuming is harmless, humorous or provocative, as in, for words -- do you guys ever comment?

Basically, (if basic is even possible at this point), there's the idea that the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the tactical hiccup at the fall. Prior to that knowledge, there may not have been any separation that would have occured on this plane in Adam's or Eve's mind.

Good or evil may have been as God described the separations at the time of creation -- [all good]. This naivete ...naked and unashamed...wasn't sinful until it was coupled with a disobedience, a disobedience of interpretation and exaggeration. At this point, the basics of quantum mechanics arise.

Recent experiments have shown quanta (packets of matter) have behaviors as radical as being in two places at once, but only when they're observed. Descartes and Newton are among those who would flip out if they knew that mind were getting an edge over matter in this way. And it forces a philosophical issue on modern objectivists who must deal with the impact our consciousness has on their "facts."

I love it. Was God giving us an insight into this when the knowledge, of good and evil, and any other dialectic, was where our fall occured? In other words, God creates no evil, per se, rather our knowledge of evil creates it. Satan was surely in the garden, but wasn't cursed in Biblical accounts until after our ancestors changed their perception. Paul refers to the law making sin as it points it out. Wrap your head around that.

Christ refers to the Kingdom being like a mustard seed in 3 gospels. Is this a suggestion that you can observe the smallest objective to formulate conditions that occur on the grandest of scale? Sounds like string theory. Man, that Bible. What a book.