WHEN YOU’VE BLOWN IT . . .

Christian,*
“WHEN YOU’VE BLOWN IT, OWN IT.”

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*also,
Preacher,
Politician,
Reporter,
Husband,
Wife,
Mom,
Dad,
“WHEN YOU’VE BLOWN IT, OWN IT.”

SCHEDULING TIME

SCHEDULING TIME FOR . . .
OR
SPENDING TIME WITH . . .

Time ?
Time for what we must do !
Time for what’s important to us !
Time for people important to us !
Time for health !
Time for fun !
Time alone !
Time for God !
Time with God !
Time to GO !
Time to STOP !

Schedule time ?
Why do we need to schedule time ?
Can we schedule time ?
Does scheduling time mean we have too much in our day ?
Does scheduling time mean we are better because we get more done ?
Does scheduling time make it go farther ?

Pioneers and Us ?
Seems like they did not have to focus on scheduling like we do.
Seems like they did not try to, or think they could, get more done by scheduling better.
They just worked hard until the day was over.
Always seems to me that we could learn from them, even to counter the expectations of ‘scheduling’.

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Think !
How does it make us feel ?
Is there a difference ?

+ Scheduling time for those closest to us.

+ Spending time with those closest to us.

TO PROPHECY TEACHERS

Hmmm — You may be right, about everything you say.

Hmmm — Maybe not so sure, about everything.
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You speak and teach with such confidence and certainty, even in answering questions.
You have to answer with authority, or you would not keep the audience.

My question to all of you prophecy teachers —
If your positions, conclusions, predictions, timelines are so clear, so simple—why can’t you, or why don’t you, lead the rest of us through the incremental Bible steps to arrive at all of your teaching, from the beginning, at our speed, not yours ?

All I hear is these leaps to conclusions, repeated like obvious assumptions, with a few quickly quoted verses to verify.
You lose me every time—too fast.
How did you get there ?

And that makes it become suspect in my perspective.
It seems to fall back on, “Trust me—I studied it thoroughly.”

Has not that been the plague of theology throughout church history ? — highly educated leaders who tell the people how much they know, so the people don’t have to, or can’t, study their own Bibles to “see if those things are so, that they were taught.”

I have never seen this so evident as in the recent emphasis on end-times prophecy teaching.