Emergent Nazarenes: Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest

Emergent Nazarenes: Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest
PREDICATE PARADOX
http://ole-ship.blogspot.com/2009/10/vailed-and-hailed.html

VAILED AND HAILED

"Did you mean ..."

what does it matter what is vailed or hailed if something else is meant?

The answer...

Thats it, The ANSWER is what matters.
Well, that line came from my last google seach result that asked above the first result, "Did you mean..." .
Ole_ship Nazarite

Search terms Nazarite, Nazerite, Nazarene, Nazerene
Well, I mispelled it, but I landed somewhere on an interesting note to this topic, and not without a note to the regaurd it has to this topic (VAILED AND HAILED).

tHE WEBSITE i SURFED And almost commented there, but I reserved that for later, and after vmore of my own studies , , the outline they posed on this topic TITLE is linked

Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest {from Wednesday, October 14, 2009}

7 areas he finds consistent voices of protest within emergent circles.Here are the protests he identifies with a very brief and limited clarifying comment below each.

1) Captivity to Enlightenment RationalismThis boils down to a belief that the church has been imprisoned by rationalist philosophies that essential removes revelation from the way we know truth. This has found itself rooted in how we try to defend the church, defend scripture, and explain our faith.

2) A narrow view of salvationEssentially emergents believe that the church has focused too much on justification and not enough on sanctification. There has been an over emphasis on becoming a Christian and not enough on living like a Christian.

3) Belief before belongingThis is a criticism of a traditional practice requiring people to have right doctrine before they are accepted into the body of the church. Doctrine is the gatekeeper for community.

4) Uncontextualized WorshipWorship has been too far removed from the culture of the people who are worshiping and instead it is preserving a culture of a different day and age that is increasingly irrelevant. This is a critique of using worship music, prayers, and liturgy that was all birthed from a one time relevant cultural place, but that time has long since passed.

5) Ineffective PreachingThe pastor as the fount of all knowledge has reduced spiritual formation to head knowledge and has removed people from lending their voice and their experience to the proclamation of scripture


6) Weak ecclesiologyEcclesiology is the study of how church is structured and how church functions. Traditional church top down structures and unadapting methodology has effected its missional effectiveness.


7) TribalismThe traditional church has has shied away from its responsibility to go out and to engage the world and to truly bring the Gospel to the world. This engagement with culture has resulted in the church being known more for what it is against that what it is for. We have lost the ability to be countercultural and to create better culture.
So this is where our conversation will begin with Deep Church. Are these fair assessments of the Emerging Church? Are these fair critiques of the Traditional Church? Does any of them resonate with your own protesters heart?

REALITY CHECK

REALITY AND VANITY.

BETWEEN WHERE WE HAVE COME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE GOING TO, IS WHERE WE ARE.

REALLITY THEN, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BIBLICAL+%22OPPOSITE+OF+VANITY%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

An email I sent out the other day was on topic of "just the opposite of vanity or in vain"

Time is short now as it was then. Every draft since 9:30 am today has failed to save...
Spending how much of your hours in writing, "stuck" with nothing that comes to interest to write about anymore? Despite that link's sufggested, THIS POST IS ENTIRELY ON FOCUS, ands to furthewr explain the email, well,

..Well here is a porttion of it pasted in, I just didn't know after sending it, whether the info I had pasted was from a result I had found on a search engine, "VANITY DEFINED" or the first link on that page which was about "ANGELS"..

sINCE NO ONE i HAD SENT THE EMAIL TO HAD ASKED OR EXPECTED IT, I wondered," if I had sent the link of "angels" then, then they probably think I am just complimenting them for being outhere or at my side so to say...

the email read:

This mail subject is about the opposite of what is "IN VAIN" OR OF VANITY !
If some of you wonder why or how I ever started including you, just wait
and dont worry about it. This is an AT LEASURE Email to read.

Suprises may come to those of you That I have had concerns
that the world may not be presenting you a favorable outlook on your own
progress.; in that, I hope at least the comfort of some praying has been offered on your account.
Others concerned with me may have issues of your own that are none of my business either.
So, from those points I note what may not be understood of my own efforts through my own views ...hope it helps others (you all- as well as me)

Searching today for the opposite in vanity so as to not wind up on some course in vain..
IN VAIN OR OF VANITY

i'm sorry, im out of time
this is all ive found so far:
Topical Studies

so what was it I sent?

Turned out it was "vanity".

so for now, all I CAN ONLY ADD are THESE

FOLLOWED BY BOTH VANITY AND ANGELS

ONE, OF A BIBLICAL'

THE OTHER OF "SUBJECT AND FOCUS" WHEN WRITING BELOW

THE EMBEDED -BIBLICAL

ONE OF WRITING
So tough it seems when some days there seems there is nothing worth writing about.
Maybe you feel like your repeating yourself or that your audiance just isn't going to ever catch on...
http://www.earlytorise.com/2009/08/14/learn-how-to-how-to.html

ONE OF VANITY

Vanity(From Forerunner Commentary)
First, before all else, the God Family created angels. Angels are spirit beings, immortal, with power of mind superior to human.
God creates in dual stages. Angel life was not completed until character had been formed within them. Character may be defined as the ability of a conscious thinking entity to choose the way of life of outflowing love—God's law—and to will to live that way of life, even under outside contrary pressure or contrary self-desire. Once character had been formed and lived, angels, composed of spirit, could never change. I compare it to the pouring of cement or concrete. When first poured its form and shape changes—but once "set," it is hardened and cannot be reshaped or formed.
Scriptures indicate a third of the angels were placed on the earth prior to final formation of their character. Following the initial creation of angels, God created the physical universe. Chapters one and two of Genesis state that the earth and the heavens—the physical universe with galaxies—were all created in the same day.
Job 38 says plainly the earth was created when angels had been previously created. God placed a throne of government on the earth. Both Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 reveal the cherub Lucifer being placed on the throne of the earth. II Peter 2:4 reveals that angels sinned. Lucifer was a super archangel. Lucifer had been trained in the administration of God's government on the very throne of God in heaven. He was supremely beautiful, dazzling in brightness. Vanity seized him. Vanity is self-glory, self-centeredness, concern for self even to the point of hostility toward others. He became jealous, envious, resentful, and hostile against God his Creator. He turned hostile to the law of God. He turned to a way of life of vanity, covetousness, envy, rivalry, competition, violence, and destruction. And this hostile way of life is itself a law. It is the law of vanity, self-concern, "do your own thing," rebel against the authority of God. That, then, became the basic law of the government of Lucifer, whose name was changed to Satan the Devil. The name Satan means "adversary."
So the government of God on the earth had been replaced by the government of Satan.
This sin of the angels, now called demons, brought on them the penalty of perversion of mind, bitterness, anger, wrath—but they had been created immortal. Their character now "set" as evil, being spirit beings, they can never change. Forever they must suffer the torture of such perverted and unhappy minds. Their sin brought physical chaos, decay, ruin, and darkness to the physical earth.
Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) A World Held Captive
Job 42:5-6 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Though among the most upright of men, all his life Job had held a wrong evaluation of himself in relation to God and other men. But when God allowed him to "see" himself, he was devastated, his vanity was crushed, and he repented. Only then could he really begin to love.
John W. Ritenbaugh Passover, Obligation, and Love
Psalms 39:5 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
God inspired His servant David to announce that, in his very best state, man is vanity. Not quality, not excellence—vanity! Although God made man "very good" (Genesis 1:31), He purposely made him temporary and incomplete (II Corinthians 4:18; II Timothy 3:17; James 1:4).
John Plunkett God's Quality Way of Life
Proverbs 11:2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The proud hypocrite deceives himself into ignoring realities in the conduct of his life that the meek and humble person quickly recognizes and takes into account. The proud person's vanity pushes him into conduct that will end in shame. The humble person's attitude, on the other hand, is a vivid contrast, for his wisdom prevents him from pursuing the same conduct. This in turn produces even more wisdom when good fruit is produced because it reinforces his right decision.
This pride seen in Proverbs 11:2 literally means "boiling up," or we might say, "puffed up." It can mean "to overstep the boundaries." The proud person has an inflated opinion of himself and/or his possessions, abilities, powers, and accomplishments. This exists because pride has deceived him about his importance. He is the center of the world! The day is coming soon when everyone's proud ego will be deflated, and man's haughty self-regard will be stripped away.
This is exactly what happened to Satan. He got so full of himself that his pride tricked him into believing he could defeat His Creator in battle and take His place! He ignored the reality that he was the creation of God, and that God was thus superior to His creation in every way. His pride deceived him into underestimating the awesome power of God that he had seen demonstrated in the creation! It made him disregard the limited nature of his own power in comparison, making him think he was stronger than was true. It actually made him think he could be God!
This attitude is also at the foundation of Laodiceanism. Of what does God accuse the Laodiceans? "[Y]ou say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'" (Revelation 3:17). Their pride deceives them into believing they are self-sufficient. They have it all! They do not need anything! We should consider that in all probability the Laodicean does not say any such thing with his tongue. In fact, he is probably able to "talk the talk" very well and hypocritically put on a good show of righteousness. But God looks on the heart, seeing not only his public conduct but also his motivations and private conduct. The Laodicean is of the class that professes to know God but denies Him in works. God's judgment—the correct judgment—is that they are "wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked."
John W. Ritenbaugh Pride, Humility, and the Day of Atonement
Proverbs 29:18 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Proverbs 29:18 in the New Living Bible says, "When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild." It does not mean that those without vision were "screaming Mimi's" running around tearing their hair out or something of that nature. It simply means that those without the revelation of God, those without godly vision, live purposeless lives. Their lives are lived lawlessly and in vanity—without direction. Therefore, for a group to be unified, all must have the same vision of where to go in life. We cannot do that until we all believe the same things.
John W. Ritenbaugh Unity (Part 5): Ephesians 4 (B)
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Vanity is a word that we are familiar with in another form. It appears early in the Bible as the name given to the second person born on earth, Abel. Adam named him "Vanity." In its simplest form, it signifies a breath, which is comparitively nothing. That is what it means—nothing.
A breath has a short existence. We breath in and breath out, and then we take another one. It lasts for just a second. When we carry out the application of this word, temporariness begins to come to the fore because a person's breath is very temporary and quickly replaced by another and another and another. Vanity describes something that is nothing, impermanent, temporary. But that hardly exhausts its meaning.
This phrase "vanity of vanities" is written in the Hebrewsuperlative form. It is similar in its application as "holy of holies." Another one is the "Song of Songs," sometimes called Canticles or Song of Solomon. Modern translators tend to translate vanity of vanities as "meaningless." A single breath has no meaning to it. Some have gone so far as to translate it "absurd." In a way, this fits the context of Ecclesiastes best because absurd means "irrational," an affront to reason, something that does not fit the order and purpose we seek from life.
That is what Solomon means: Life is absurd. Why do we live? All of our life, we spend working, playing, relating, and at its end, what does a person have to show for what he has done? It is absurd, irrational, meaningless.
John W. Ritenbaugh Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1)
Ecclesiastes 1:3-11 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Overall, how do we, as Christians, perceive time? Every day we are witnesses to its progression. Daylight comes and passes, and night arrives only to be followed by daylight again. We can look at a clock and see that its hands are moving. But how—in what manner—is time moving?
As a culture, the Greeks have become known as a people sensitive to the rhythms of time, and this, though written by Solomon, a Hebrew, is a decidedly Greek view of life and of time's movement. This perception of life and time—their acute awareness of things like the perpetual ebb and flow of tides, the continuous cycle of the four seasons, and the constant repetition of weather patterns—became a major building block of Greek philosophy, leading them to develop the concept that time is cyclical.
They concluded that man's life is lived within a series of continuous, changeless recurrences. To them, time works like a wheel turning on an axis, and the events that mark time's progress repeat themselves endlessly. They believed that nothing could be done about it because such events will happen eternally. Thus, a person is born, lives his life on a stage, and when his part is done, he exits. Such belief inexorably leads to a fatalistic view of life.
Notice verse 8 especially. The Soncino Commentary opines that Solomon is saying that this inescapable repetition in life is such weariness that he lacked the words to describe it aptly. Despite what Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 1, the general Hebrew outlook is decidedly different. The Hebrew concept of time greatly benefited from God's revelation. In Jude 14-15, the apostle quotes an Old Testament personality, Enoch, whose pre-flood prophecy deflected Hebrew thought about time in a far different direction:
Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." (Jude 14-15)
This quotation shows that the Hebrews who believed God knew that time was headed on a very different path from the Greek view. Events do not just happen in a vacuum; they are moving in a definite direction. Enoch is warning that a time is coming when men will have to answer for what they have done during their lifetimes.
Even so, he is nowhere near the earliest indicator that time and the events within it are moving in a specific direction. Notice Genesis 3:14-15:
So the LORD God said to the serpent; "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel."
God had revealed Himself to the Hebrew descendants of Abraham, and some among them, like Moses, believed what He said. Thus, they knew that time was not cyclical, as the Greeks perceived it, but linear: The Creator is moving time and all that happens within it in a definite direction.
The prophet Amos receives credit for giving that "sometime" a general title, or at least the term is first used within his prophecy. He called it the "Day of the Lord." Generally, he appears to mean the time when God will intervene with a strong hand in the affairs of this world—an act that is definitely not repetitious.
However, it remained for the Christian church to define time and its right usage for its members. The church's conception of time blends the cyclical concepts of the Greeks and the linear concepts of the Hebrews. It is true that many things in life—things like wars, economic depressions, and political revolutions—do recur in an inexorable manner. Yet, as the New Testament shows, much of this happens as a result of man's self-centered nature. In other words, they do not have to happen, but they do happen because man's choices make them happen. Man continually makes bad choices because his nature is unchangingly anti-God.
Thus, in general, the Christian view is that time indeed contains stressful, repeating cycles, as Solomon describes, yet the New Testament calls these cycles "evil" (Galatians 1:4). However, it also shows that time is moving in a definite direction and that God Himself is orchestrating many of the events within its progress toward the return of Jesus Christ, the Day of the Lord (the seventh one-thousand-year day), and the establishment on earth of His Family Kingdom.
This led the church to develop, under the inspiration of Jesus Christ, an overall concept of time management unique to church members. It has its roots in the Old Testament: Isaiah 55:6 urges us to "seek the LORD while He may be found."
John W. Ritenbaugh Seeking God (Part Two): A Foundation
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The world shows a long history of oppression—the strong oppressing the weak. Regardless of when people live, their lives are only relatively better or worse. In other words, we really would not improve our lives by going back to the time of Solomon or Christ or the Renaissance or the Wild West.
There is no such thing as "the good old days." Life has always been the same. This is hard for us to grasp, it is true because people are driven by the same things: by envy, by lust, by vanity, by revenge—by human nature. Solomon goes into this in verses 4-7.
John W. Ritenbaugh Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 2)
Isaiah 2:6-18 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
In the vanity of our pride, we put our trust in material strengths. A sense of strength perverts our judgment, and soon we are in conflict with God and men. Twice in this brief section, God says He will bring low the haughtiness of men. Lucifer's pride hardly endeared him to God—it eventually brought him into open conflict with Him! He was cast down (brought low) to earth, but because his pride is still influencing him, the worst is yet to come. And in the interim, he is infecting us with his most dangerous attribute.
John W. Ritenbaugh Pride, Contention, and Unity
Hosea 10:1-2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The problem between God and Israel is clearly exposed. Hosea describes Israel as a luxuriant grapevine sending runners in every direction, indicating producing a bountiful crop. Great prosperity is indeed produced, yet it is consumed in self-indulgence.
Israel abused its prosperity by using it for purposes of idolatry. God is indicating that its prosperity played a part in corrupting the people's hearts. This is why the deceitful, divided, disloyal heart is mentioned in context with the multitude of its fruit.
Much of the world's appeal is that it seems to offer financial security. However, God shows there is a possible evil, secondary effect: As people become financially secure, their attention is diverted from His purpose to things that are vain and corrupting.
John W. Ritenbaugh Laodiceanism and Being There Next Year
Habakkuk 2:13-14 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
These two verses really form one thought, which is that God allows man to labor in futility, in vain, to prove a greater point and to show the tremendous contrast between man's way and His way. Verse 14 supplies the reason for this vast difference, as well as making a wonderful promise. God allows evil to go seemingly unpunished because He is showing the stark contrast between man's way and His way, and He promises that one day He will make things right by absolutely flooding this world with the knowledge of His way.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh Habakkuk
Matthew 16:6-12 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Jesus warns His disciples to "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees." Seeing their puzzlement, He explains further. "Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees" (verse 12). Both testaments use leaven as a symbol of sin because of what it does to a lump of bread dough. Once yeast enters the dough, it immediately begins to spread by breaking down in reaction to the dough's sugars and producing a gas that puffs the bread up.
Like leaven, when sin enters a person's life, it begins to corrupt and fill him with vanity. A person enslaved by habitual sin will have a difficult time growing in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ because of sin's corrupting influence. Sin defiles and can permanently destroy relationships with God and man.
Throughout the year we hear frequent exhortations to produce fruit and grow in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. During Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread, we give special emphasis to "getting the leaven out." These three actions are all parts of the same process. Though not technically the same, they are related closely enough to say they are simply different ways of describing the same process. "Getting the leaven out" is the most negative, "growing" is the most general, and "producing fruit" is the most specific. All three emphasize that a Christian should not stand still after entering the New Covenant. God expects him to take steps to ensure that these actions will occur in his life.
John W. Ritenbaugh Five Teachings of Grace
Matthew 16:24-27 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Our Savior is trying to explain the relative values of our physical lives and what we can humanly accomplish to what awaits us in what is commonly called the afterlife. In short, there is no comparison!
Notice the Bible's consistency on the value of human life apart from God:
» Ecclesiastes 1:2-4: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils under the sun? One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever.
» Job 14:1-2: Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; he flees like a shadow and does not continue.
» Psalm 90:10: The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
» Isaiah 40:6-8: All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
» James 4:14: For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
» I John 2:17: And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
The physical life we would live now is a bowl of lentils compared with eternal life. It is nothing more than a vapor, a breath, a shadow. The passing pleasures and cares of the world will only gratify and satisfy the immediate desires. If our only interest is the immediate gratification that the world has to offer, we are indeed saying, "What profit is the Kingdom of God to me now?" Like Esau, we will despise our inheritance and go our way apart from God.
Our inheritance is the Kingdom of God. By seeking it and His righteousness first (Matthew 6:33), we are telling God that we place high value on it, that we want it, that we want to be like Him and think like Him, and that we can be trusted to take care of His estate and to live and reign with Christ.
Jeff Volk What Is Your Lentil Soup?
Matthew 20:24 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
When the others heard of the mother of James and John asking Jesus for special consideration for her sons, they were indignant, angry. Why? From Jesus' reply we can infer that their vanity was pricked—they had been "beaten to the punch"! They had been thinking of the same request because in their vanity they thought they deserved special consideration too.
Their proud minds had pictured themselves as worthy of being served, and they were offended because they thought that chance might be slipping away. Jesus reminded them that, even to be in the Kingdom, one has to have a humble attitude of a servant.
Unlike love, pride is "touchy and fretful." When pride feels threatened, it broods against what it perceives to be hurting it or lessening its chances of "being on top," "coming out ahead" of another, "looking good," or "getting even." And so it competes against others. It looks for ways to elevate itself or put another down. It counts all the offenses, real or imagined, and puts them into a mental account book to justify its position until it finds an opportune moment to break out in "vindication" of itself.
Love does not do any of those things. I Corinthians 13:5 says it as simply as it can possibly be put. Love does not insist on its own way—it will not even become provoked in the first place. And it makes no accounting of the evil done against it! We all have a long way to go in this regard!
When love dominates a person's life, becoming offended either through hurt feelings or a strong temptation to sin is remote. When pride dominates, hurt feelings or strong temptations to sin seem to lie behind every bush.
John W. Ritenbaugh The Defense Against Offense
Romans 12:3 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Paul admonishes us not to esteem ourselves too much, an attitude that leads to vanity and arrogance.
Yet, is that not what is being pushed in our society today? A central premise in education and childrearing is instilling self-esteem in our youth, supposedly to give them confidence and motivation to succeed in life. There is no surer method to produce competition and strife! The Word of God, on the other hand, teaches us:
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself (Philippians 2:3).
This latter attitude produces peace, cooperation, and unity.
Martin G. Collins Celebrating Birthdays
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
I Corinthians 1:26-29 resounds through our minds as a constant reminder that we are the foolish, weak, base and despised of this world. In these verses God formally states that He has sought no particular advantage in carrying out His purpose by calling us.
This is humbling in both a present and future sense. We seem to fall short when we compare ourselves to those who have accomplished great things or seem to have strong and good character in today's world. When we consider the World Tomorrow and the daunting challenges that will face those reconstructing a world out of the chaos of the Tribulation and the Day of the Lord, it is enough to make us feel completely inadequate.
Vanity keeps telling us we are intelligent, beautiful, clever, talented, cultured, and unappreciated, but these verses should pull us back to reality. God's assessment is accurate because when we compare our accomplishments with people in the world, ours fade into near nothingness!
John W. Ritenbaugh Preparing to Rule!
1 Corinthians 8:1-2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
A cause of Corinth's divided congregation was that the members were flaunting their gifts, claiming they wanted to edify, but the fruits of division showed Paul the real motivation was intellectual vanity—pride.
John W. Ritenbaugh Pride, Contention, and Unity
1 Corinthians 12:4-26 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
In verses 4-11, Paul shows that each person God places in the body receives gifts for the benefit of the entire body. In verses 14-20, he explains that diversity in the body is necessary because, if the entire body was just one part, it could not function. The diversity in this context is in terms of gifts, not doctrine, nationality, sex, or race. Diversity enables the body to be much more effective, efficient, and versatile in performing its intended purpose. Each person has a specific function necessary to the whole.
In verses 21-25, Paul makes a veiled warning that we need to guard against both pride in our abilities and its opposite—equally vain—that we have nothing to give. We become useful members when we choose to set aside these vanities and begin doing what we should.
Verse 18, combined with verses 22-26, teaches us that God Himself has organized the body. We need to understand that the greatest Authority in all of creation has specifically placed us within it and given us gifts. If the body is to function as He has purposed, each part must recognize his individual dependence upon and concern for the whole. In addition, each must understand what the body is designed to accomplish. It is the responsibility of each part to subordinate himself to God to produce the unity that will enable the whole body to do its work.
God expresses these concerns for the body because He wants it to function efficiently and effectively in unity. Therefore, what happens to one part, or what one part does, affects the whole. What we do does indeed make a difference because we are individual parts of a living, spiritual organism. Our actions will produce an increase of good or evil, efficiency or inefficiency in the use of spiritual resources, effectiveness or ineffectiveness of our witness, and growth or backsliding in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
John W. Ritenbaugh Little Things Count!
2 Corinthians 4:4 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Satan, the "prince of the power of the air," influences mankind by "broadcasting" his moods and attitudes of vanity and selfishness to the human spirit in each individual. Humans unwittingly accept and express these attitudes as their own. "Human nature" is actually Satan's nature expressed in humans. Because they have been deceived, they are unaware of this spiritual broadcasting by Satan, and do not even know that they have been deceived.
Staff Is This the Only Day of Salvation?
2 Corinthians 6:1 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
In other words, "Do not receive the grace of God to no purpose." That is what vanity is. It has no purpose, no contact with reality. God is reality, and the Kingdom of God is reality. The law of God is reality because it is truth, and truth, by definition, is reality.
Again, Paul's appeal is, "Do something!" What are we to do? He replies, "Cooperate with God! Truly work with Him to accomplish His will in your life." Jesus says, "Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?" He is the One who says in Luke 16:29-31 that, if we want to know how to avoid the Lake of Fire, look to Moses and the prophets. This is why Paul says in II Corinthians 5:20, "Be reconciled to God through the repenting of sin. Quit breaking His law."
John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 16)
2 Corinthians 6:1-2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The church developed, under the inspiration of Jesus Christ, an overall concept of time management unique to church members. It has its roots in the Old Testament: Isaiah 55:6 urges us to "seek the LORD while He may be found."
Why should we seek Him? Because He has the power and the willingness, if we will trust Him, to give us a completely new nature, breaking the vain, frustrating, repetitious cycle. Isaiah 61:1-2 adds helpful understanding:
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God.
This is a prophecy that Jesus partially quoted as He began His ministry in the synagogue in Nazareth where He grew up (Luke 4:18-19). These passages suggest an element of movement toward something soon to happen. Isaiah 55:6 suggests we seek Him urgently because the Lord is moving on, and if we do not seek Him now, it will be too late. Time and events within it are moving. Isaiah 61:1-2 is similar: Now is an acceptable day for those called of God. If we wait, the acceptable day will pass, and the day of vengeance, even now moving toward us, will be here. It will be too late to avoid its destructive powers!
In Solomon's complaint about time (Ecclesiastes 1:3-11), God was nowhere mentioned. Events just go around and around endlessly, effectively describing Solomon's frustration. However, in the prophet Isaiah's description, God is involved in the movement of events that impact directly on His people's lives.
II Corinthians 5:20—6:2 from the Revised English Bible helps us to see the sense of urgency in a New Testament setting:
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors. It is as if God were appealing to you through us: we implore you in Christ's name, be reconciled to God! Christ was innocent of sin, and yet for our sake God made him one with human sinfulness, so that in him we might be made one with the righteousness of God. Sharing in God's work, we make this appeal: you have received the grace of God; do not let it come to nothing. He has said: "In the hour of my favor I answered you; on the day of deliverance I came to your aid." This is the hour of favor, this the day of deliverance.
These admonitions to "seek God now," "now is an acceptable time," and "do not let it come to nothing," all indicate a passing opportunity. The Christian is dealing with a specific period during which events are working toward the culmination of some process, and if he does not take advantage of the present opportunity, it will never come again. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins in Matthew 25:6-13 illustrates our need to make the most of this opportunity now. This parable's major lesson is that both life and time are moving. The precise time of Christ's return is unknown, so He urges us to take advantage of the knowledge and time we already have in hand. Those who reject His advice will find their way into the Kingdom blocked.
Recall that II Corinthians is written to Christians. Paul's message is a call to strike while the iron is hot! Both Jesus and Paul remind us that our calling is rife with possibilities, so much so that we can consider each moment as big as eternity. That is how important this "day of salvation" is to us! The New Testament's instruction to Christians is, "Now is the time!" Everything is in readiness for success. It is as though the New Testament writers are saying, "Don't be like the slave who refuses when presented with freedom, or the diseased person who rejects help when offered healing. God's door is open to us! Charge through it by cooperating with Him!"
John W. Ritenbaugh Seeking God (Part Two): A Foundation
Ephesians 2:2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
As prince of the power of the air, Satan broadcasts his attitudes of selfishness and vanity, of competition and strife. Satan's broadcasting can be compared to television and radio broadcasting. For example, your radio picks up the electromagnetic waves which radiate from transmitters of various radio stations. The human mind can pick up Satan's "broadcasts" because the human spirit in each individual is "in tune" with the devil's spiritual "wavelength"!
When Adam made his decision in the Garden of Eden, he rejected God, the Spirit of God, and immortal life. The human spirit in Adam became "tuned in" to Satan's spiritual wavelength from the time he first disobeyed God. And his descendants throughout time and into this twentieth century are still tuned in to Satan's wavelength.
What and Why the Church?
Ephesians 5:14-17 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Notice the encouraging reason Paul gives to wake up and carefully mind how we live: "Christ will give you light." This is an outright promise that He will give us the help to do what we must do. Backed by this promise, we are to redeem the time "because the days are evil." If his days were evil, what would Paul think of ours?
This passage reveals how the early church regarded time as it applies to a Christian. For us, all days—every period in which God's people have had to live their lives by their God-given understanding, thus by faith—are evil. God's truth has always run counter to the course of this world. Thus, the truth adds a peculiar, stressful difficulty to life regardless of when it is lived. Moreover, since each called-out individual has only one opportunity to lay hold on eternal life, and must overcome, grow, and prove his loyalty to God during that time, he must make use of every experience.
Galatians 1:3-4 confirms this perspective: "Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father." In terms of growing and overcoming, living in a particular period in history gives a Christian no advantage. Every era, every age, is against him, and within it, he must make the most of his calling. The times have always been evil.
To the church, then, because it must operate responsibly toward God within a highly specialized understanding of life and its purpose, every age is full of the cyclical, frustrating, repetitious events that Solomon called futile vanities. Such events lead nowhere and produce a discouraging fatalism.
However, a Christian also knows that God is directing time and events to His desired end. Thus, the church's view of time is an elegant combination of both realities, realizing that it has a work to accomplish as an organization and that each individual Christian must grow and overcome within it. So, as Christians, we must face the evil of repetitious vanity produced by sin, which history clearly records, with faith in the hope of a glorious victory for God's called-out ones, which God's Word prophesies.
Thus, Paul advises in Ephesians 5:17, "Therefore . . . understand what the will of the Lord is." As we live our lives each day, we should never let what God says slip from our minds. His point is that we need to make the most of every opportunity because time is inexorably moving toward God's desired end, and it will not stop and wait for us. We do not want to be left behind! No occasion is too insignificant to do the right thing. Time is precious! We, like God, must take it very seriously.
We must not make the mistake of relegating Christian living to a mere couple of hours on the Sabbath. Christianity involves every aspect of life. Personal study and prayer are times of clarifying God's will. But we must not neglect the doing of His will as occasions arise—and they will arise every day. Woe to us if we disregard them, for they comprise the very circumstances that challenge us to overcome and grow in our seeking of God.
John W. Ritenbaugh Seeking God (Part Two): A Foundation
Philippians 2:3 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Paul is getting to the heart of the problem. One or both of these ladies had a problem with pride, with vanity.
John W. Ritenbaugh Unity (Part 7): Ephesians 4 (D)
Hebrews 2:10 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Where did this suffering come from? It came as a result of having to live in this world of despair that Solomon lived in and wrote about. He had to be subject to circumstances that were beyond His control. If everything had been under the control of a righteous person like Jesus Christ, many events would never have happened. But surrounded by sin and despite His righteousness, He was subject to the futility, vanity, and meaningless of this world.
What did He do? He rose above it because He believed and lived the principle that is found in Romans 8:28.
John W. Ritenbaugh Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1)
James 4:1-3 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
This world is filled with wars of every size and magnitude, declared and undeclared. The strong attack the weak, and oppressed minorities fight to throw off the yoke of tyranny. Labor and management throw verbal bombs at each other. Husbands and wives do not divorce because they have peaceful, productive marriages! Increasingly, parents and children seem to look upon each other with scorn and sometimes break into open anger and fighting.
James shows ever so clearly that the root of these problems is lust, merely one expression of human nature. Human nature expresses itself in vanity, jealousy, lust, greed, murder, hatred, avarice, competition, lying, stealing, dishonoring parent, fornication, adultery, and—the most damaging of all—idolatry. In fact, we could say that all the above flow from idolatry!
John W. Ritenbaugh Preparing to Rule!
James 4:1-2 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The Bible clearly shows that war is a result of acting according to the inordinate lusts within man. Unrestrained human nature, with its pride, vanity, jealousy, lust and greed is plainly the cause of war.
Why Study the Bible in the Space Age?
1 John 2:17 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
If any New Testament verse summarizes the theme of Ecclesiastes, it is I John 2:17. God calls things that are not as though they are. To God, the world is already dead, so He says, "Love not the world, for it is passing away." "Passing away" is a euphemism of dying. To God, the world is a putrefying corpse, but it has not yet been buried. It is a system in the process of self-destructing as a result of the course of vanity and meaningless self-centeredness, and it cannot be any other way because men and demons are operating it.
Think of this in terms of the main conclusion of the book of Ecclesiastes, of the priority that a person ought to set in his life, which is to fear God and keep His commandments.
John W. Ritenbaugh Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1)

THE MYSTERY OF ANGELS

The Ministry of Angels
by Martin G. CollinsForerunner, October-November 1995
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Walk into any bookstore and you will find many books—perhaps even a whole section—on angels. One major network aired a prime-time, dramatic series called "Touched by an Angel." Other popular television shows, movies and print media deal with angels, demons and the supernatural on a regular basis.
In many religions, angels are gaining popularity as "personal guides and protectors." An increasing number of people—Christians of every stripe, New Agers, Hindus, Buddhists, even Jews—are calling upon their personal spirit or guardian angel for guidance during the course of their daily lives. Much of this popularity has come about as a result of the New Age religions' heavy emphasis on "spiritualism" and its frequent appearances in the media.
But are they really angels? Yes, but not the benevolent, holy angels who serve God. In reality, these spirit guides are demonic beings ready and willing to fill the empty place in the hearts and minds of misguided people, deceiving them into accepting them as angels of light (II Corinthians 11:14-15). Ultimately, this leads to the person rejecting the sovereignty of the true God.
In contrast, the angels who remained loyal to God are powerful, responsible, purposeful, faithful and obedient beings who have been given the responsibility of ministering to God's elect. As revealed in the Scriptures, God's angels work and act far differently than popularly expressed today by those who are fascinated with them.
The Angels' Function
Angels are personal spirit beings, each having a mind of greater capacity and ability than ours. They are capable of attitudes, purposes and intentions. But as wonderful and powerful as angels are, they have no authority apart from God. In Matthew 28:18, Christ said, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth." Our Savior has complete control over all spirit beings. We should, therefore, direct all our requests for our needs to God, not to angels.
As the chief servants of God Almighty, angels do His will in all things, whether toward His future sons or against the wicked. The Bible shows some of the ways God uses them to carry out His will. Against sinners, God used them to destroy Sodom for its perversions (Genesis 19:1, 13); to curse Meroz because the people refused to help Israel (Judges 5:23); to bring pestilence upon Israel when David numbered them (II Samuel 24:15-17); to kill Herod for not giving glory to God (Acts 12:23); and to avenge those who persecute the saints (Psalm 35:5-6).
Conversely, the ministry of the holy angels to the elect includes guiding, providing for, protecting, delivering, comforting and gathering. The author of Hebrews calls them "ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation" (Hebrews 1:14). To minister means "to do service for." Holy angels are sent forth to do service for the saints, the elect of God, those going on to perfection and inheriting eternal life. They are here to save us from accidents or premature death and to help us attain eternal life. The ministry of angels to the elect is an inspiring and encouraging proof of God's care and concern for us.
An analogy may help to explain how the holy angels minister to us today under God's direction. Consider the relationship between a wealthy man's young son and the man's servant. Being older and more knowledgeable, the servant is responsible for caring for the boy even though he has much less potential than the son. When the son has matured, he inherits his father's wealth, influence and power. But the guardian remains at the same stature. As servants, angels are older, more knowledgeable, more powerful, and since they are spirit, they are better developed mentally. Yet our potential as begotten sons of God is far greater than the angels (Hebrews 2:6-8; I Corinthians 6:2-3).
How Angels Serve
God has commissioned His angels to guide events for the benefit of the elect. When Abraham spoke to his servant about finding a wife for Isaac, he said, "He [God] will send His angel before you" (Genesis 24:7). Later, the servant repeated Abraham's instructions to Bethuel and Laban, Rebekah's father and brother: "The Lord, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way" (verse 40). Prosper in this context means "to make successful." Abraham knew that God would send one of His angels to oversee the servant's efforts of finding a wife for Isaac and make the trip a success. By using an angel to guide specific events, God provided Rebekah for Isaac.
The angels also provide for the elect, especially in times of need. In I Kings 19:1-8, Elijah escaped into the wilderness from Jezebel, who had just massacred most of the prophets of Israel. While the prophet slept, an angel appeared. "Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, ‘Arise and eat'" (verse 5). So Elijah ate the cake and drank the water that the angel provided for him. Then he laid down again. "And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, ‘Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you'" (verse 7). Elijah rose, ate and drank again and traveled a great distance on the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights. The angel was the instrument through which God provided for His prophet. He does the same for us, using angels to perform the specific tasks necessary to maintain our lives.
The angels sometimes have to comfort God's people. In Acts 27, Paul is taken to Rome to be brought before Caesar. While he was on a ship at sea, a tempestuous wind arose, and the situation became critical. Afraid that the ship would run aground or sink, the crew began lightening the ship, even to the point of throwing the ship's tackle overboard. After many days of unrelenting, torrential rain and rough seas, they thought they were going to die. But an angel appeared to Paul and said, "Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you" (Acts 27:24). The specific responsibility of assuring Paul that they would survive was performed by God's angel.
In the future, God will commission His angels to gather the elect to Christ at Jerusalem. When He returns in great power and glory, Jesus will "send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other" (Matthew 24:31). God plans ahead. He has already determined the specific duties the holy angels will perform at our Savior's return.
Protection and Deliverance
God often sends His angels to protect and deliver His elect. After David pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove David away, David wrote, "The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear [revere] Him, and delivers them" (Psalm 34:7). Here we see that God expects loyalty and obedience as a prerequisite to giving His protection. Similarly, Psalm 91 shows that God has given His angels charge over us:
For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. (Psalm 91:11-12)
When Daniel became one of the three main governors in the Medo-Persian Empire in the sixth century BC , he distinguished himself above the other governors and satraps. King Darius considered placing Daniel over the whole realm. The other governors became extremely jealous and conspired to have Daniel killed. These politicians played upon the king's vanity, convincing him to sign a decree demanding that whoever petitioned any god or man other than Darius during the ensuing thirty days must be cast into a den of lions.
Daniel knew about the decree, but as he had done most of his life, he continued praying and giving God thanks on his knees three times a day. The politicians very quickly reported Daniel to the king. Saddened by Daniel's predicament, but obligated to the law of the Medes and Persians, Darius commanded that the sentence be carried out. After spending a night in the lions' den, Daniel told an amazed Darius,
My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you. (Daniel 6:22)
Here, Daniel indicates two reasons why God sends his angels to protect and deliver His people: He was innocent of breaking God's law and he respected the leadership God had placed over him (Romans 13:1-5). God uses His angels to keep His faithful servants from harm.
God continues to deliver His servants through angels in New Covenant times. James, the son of Zebedee, had just been killed by King Herod Agrippa I, which pleased the Jews. Confident that he had the backing of the people, Herod seized Peter during the Days of Unleavened Bread and put him in prison to await execution. The church offered constant prayer to God for him (Acts 12:1-5).
On the night before Herod planned to execute him, Peter was awakened by an angel.
Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell off his hands. (verse 7)
As a parent would treat a child, the angel awakened Peter and instructed him in every detail. Knowing that Peter was groggy, the angel carefully instructed Peter to dress himself and tie on his sandals. Peter thought he was having a vision. Not until he saw that he was outside the city walls and that the angel had left him did he realize what had transpired. He said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod" (verse 11).
After this, Peter went to Mary's house, the mother of John Mark, where many of the brethren had gathered to pray. When Peter knocked at the door, a girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so startled that, instead of opening the door, she ran to tell the brethren that Peter was standing outside. Even though she insisted, they did not believe her. "So they said, ‘It is his angel'" (verse 15). Although they were praying for God to intervene, they were in disbelief that God had answered their prayers so miraculously. God had intervened, sending his angel to deliver Peter from certain death.
"Worship God"
Angels were created to be ministers, agents and helpers in God's creation. The holy angels who have remained loyal to God realize that He made them to be servants of the God Family. John writes in Revelation 22:8-9:
I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant. . . . Worship God."
Under God's direction the ministry of angels is to guide, provide for, protect, deliver, comfort and watch over the elect. These holy angels of God are greater beings than we are now but our potential is far greater. They are loyal and dedicated servants of God commissioned to help us attain salvation. Yet angels are helping us to attain levels in the God Family far greater than they have. They will remain servants while we become born sons of God! How many human beings could function with a pure attitude without jealousy toward those who will soon be in authority over them? We may have underestimated the loyalty and dedication of God's holy angels!
We should certainly appreciate the work of these "ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation." They do so much for us that we never see. Praise and thank God for His loyal angels!
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T. J. Ferguson (Anthropological Research, L.L.C.) Roger Anyon (Pima County)
Theme: Indigenous Archaeologies
Session: Monuments, Landscape, and Cultural Memory
Fifth World Archaeological Congress
Washington D.C., 21-26 June 2003

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The Role of Time and Space: A Matrix for Cultural Landscapes

(EXERT ?) (PERMISSION REQUESTED-so this is just a glimpse the best I can explain it(I cant by myself) So noted from chapter- American Indian histories of their ancestors’ lives frequently place asymmetrical emphasis
on time, space, and events. The passing of time is contracted or expanded, as in O’odham origin
stories where each break in time is said to be four years, a ritually significant number that is
recognized to signify a much longer time. Similarly, references to places may describe real and
specific locales, or be used as a narrative trope to symbolically mark movement, directionality,
context, or even time itself.

... many chronicles
shared with us in this project emphasize place over time, where “sequences in time are
represented only if they were spatially segregated and occurred at separate places in association
with separate features” (Morphy 1995:188). Furthermore, for our American Indian colleagues,
the people who lived in these places were not separated into distinct archaeological cultures but
are conceived as the ancestors who constitute the fathers and mothers of their modern world.
Thus, when American Indians talk about ancestral sites, there is a complex of memories that
links them to the landscapes of the past and present.
Archaeologists and ethnohistorians who work with the archaeological record and American
Indian oral traditions are faced with the challenge of fusing these two very different ways of
knowing the past....
....Relative time is entailed in an O’odham “calendar stick” that records only special events, each
one relative to the last and relative to what was important for the O’odham people. The concepts of relative space and time lie on a continuum between culturally independent and dependent
concepts. Relative space and time therefore mediate between attempts at complete “objectivity” and “subjectivity.”

Relative is the in-between of absolute and representational.
Lastly, representational space and time are encoded with rich cultural symbols and values.
An example of representational space is the map of the United States and Arizona, where the
very shape of the place allows it to become an emblem, like a flag that emits powerful
connotations if one knows the meanings assigned to these symbols. Representational time is
embodied in the notion of Camelot, which does not reference a “real” time, but a symbolic
Golden Age where knights were honorable and maidens fair.

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Acknowledgements
Funding for this research was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Salus Mundi Foundation, and Center for Desert Archaeology. We are tremendously grateful for the collaborative efforts of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Hopi Cultural Resource Advisory Task Team, San Carlos Apache Elder’s Council, Tohono O'odham Office of Cultural Affairs, Tohono O'odham Cultural Preservation Committee and their advisors, White Mountain Apache Tribe Heritage Program, Zuni Cultural Resource Advisory Team, and Zuni Heritage and Historic Preservation Office. The participation of the individuals who make up these offices was vital in making this project a reality. The authors can be reached at: chip@cdarc.org, (520) 882-6946, or Center for Desert Archaeology, 300 E. University Blvd., Suite 230, Tucson, Arizona 85705, U.S.A.
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