The symbol of a drama, a symphony, or a dance is useful to correct a certain absurdity which may arise if we talk too much of God planning and creating the world for good and then being frustrated by the free will of the creatures. This may raise the ridiculous idea that the Fall to God by surprise and upset His plan, or else _ more ridiculous still _ that God planned the whole thing for conditions which, He well knew, were never going to be realized. In fact, of course, God saw the crucifixion in the act of creating the first nebulae. The world is a dance in which good, descending from God, is disturbed by evil arising from the creatures, and the resulting conflict is resolved by God's own assumption of the suffering nature which evil produces.

We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? __or all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God_ [Romans 3:23 NIV].God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.