Good article I did not write

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/why-homosexuality-is-not-like-other-sins

My Last Day

For the past two years I have been working a part time job at Kmart (not Kmarts as some believe it to be called).  It  has been a neat experience working with people from some geographic, social economic, and areas of interest that I usually do not interact with. I have found that although many people are obnoxious, selfish, annoying, crude, and close minded; people are to be loved- i think maybe even liked. Sometimes it isn't enough to love people and act like you do not like them; to many being liked is just as important; being listened to, agreed with, empathized with, and struggling through some type of hardship together is how they view love.

Over these two years I have grown to like many of the people who are employed at Kmart. It gave me another perspective on people (my last experience in retail was in 1999). In honor of this perspective I am offering my Poetry book for free on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. Hopefully, someone will find something in there to relate to, to give them hope, and even help.

Get it at the link below.

Poems From a Helper

It saddens me

Well, it is dark out and it is mid day. It is steadily raining and the roof near my window makes each drop have its own distinct splash. The darkness and rain are making a cool breeze pass through the window. My computer is playing a youtube playlist of Lydia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O9vPPDvbT0&index=10&list=PLMq1i7XtOvZ5E_yJx8nWHTZWCIx2KyIXK) ; and of course I am blogging.

Last night I had a dream, that I was mostly doing normal things: walking around the house, walking around outside, talking to the sheep and goats,  Occasionally in my dream I would sit cross legged (what we used to refer to as Indian style). Except I wouldn't sit on the ground, in this particular dream, I sat cross legged to fly. It created a sense of lightness-like a floating sensation, obviously. But there was a greater sense; I was consciously choosing by a slight physical action, to defy the very forces of nature, the force of nature that holds each of us down at a specific rate; none of us float of our own will. In my dream, however I did. It was both very freeing and very empowering; not to mention fun.

Now at some point today, I realized that it was indeed just a dream. I had a sense, in the awake world, that I wasn't feeling particular free or empowered(of course I know in my head I am both); I was, in fact, in a store stocking shelves with candy when this realization hit me. It didn't particularly bring a happy feeling. It saddened me actually. While I was deep in thought, I stopped stocking for a moment and went to the bathroom. I flushed the silvery handle and water came into the bowl, and water came into the bowl, and water came into the bowl. Regardless of what I did to the handle or the other mechanisms, water came into the the bowl, onto the floor, and down into the drain in the floor. It was really a striking parallel to what I had just realized in my dream versus reality thought process.

I haven't quite shaken this feeling thought process, but the following quote I read today has helped.

"My blessing is this. I know a God who gives hope to the hopeless. I know a God who loves the unlovable. I know a God who comforts the sorrowful. And I know a God who has planted this same power within me. Within all of us."

Up on the google play store

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=d7kiAgAAQBAJ

Another blog about legislating morality

This blog has the title, keeping order in the midst of entropy.

Continually I notice people who have a post modern mindset (that is a mindset that has either not accepted that there is a constant set  standard of right and wrong or that there is no set standard of right and wrong) commenting, dialoguing, making statements regarding how others view order in society and how it effects them and how they therefore view it themselves. I would suggest that this view is an effect of entropy at work in society or a global consciousness throughout the ages; that is how the world is precieved by those who have had their understanding darkened or who have not seen the light.
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Entropy is a scientific theory, that I do believe has been scientifically proven, that tells us that the universe, planet, and our own bodies are continuously breaking down to a state of disorder. Things rot, decay, rust and people die. My experiences in this world (like the apple core I found in my jeep) tell me that entropy is real an active. I would suggest also that (as some medical data may suggest) not only is physical entropy at work in a person, but also mental, emotional, and perhaps even moral.

I would suggest further that the same is true in social structures. They are trending toward disorder and  chaos. Some examples ( that I do not have any specific empirical evidence about) are amount and of crimes, divorce rates, school dropout rates, acceptance of what used to be called disorders without looking for cures and government corruption.

We, as humans living in an organized society, have attempted to create structure in the form of laws (not mentioning social stimula) to curtail the effects of social entropy. Laws that govern such things as murder, stealing, littering (those are the important three) have been put in place by us to keep order in a society bent toward entropy. These laws help keep order in a world tending toward chaos, much like the rustoleum paint I put on my jeep keeps it from rusting (and about just as successfully). Without them the world would be in complete disarray except where the exception to entropy triumphs. The exception of entropy would be the instance where a force is able to bring order in the midst of chaos, or life in the midst of death. This force in our world is love, not in a general sense, but love in the person of Christ who though his act of dying and rising again has put into place an exception to entropy accessible to everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, believes in their heart and confesses with their mouth this truth.

In a world that tends to violence the believer can tend toward peace; where the world tends toward hatred the believer can give love; for death life; for sickness, health; for love of evil, love of righteousness; for depression, joy; for anger, gentleness; for mocking, encouraging; for giving up, steadfastness, for weakness, strength, for anxiety, patience; for cruelness and rudeness, kindness; for lack of commitment, faithfulness; selfishness, self control; for lies, trustworthiness; even for immorality, morality. These attitudes are not something that a believer must regulate themselves to pursue (though they might have to at first as the spirit is often willing but the flesh is weak). These are simply how a believer, who has the holy spirit of god living in them, will perceive the world verses entropy( or the sin nature if you would like that term).

I would simply say that without legislating morality a society is giving into social entropy. Immorality (though it may look like freedom, may not harm anyone, and may make a person feel good) is spiritual chaos; an undisciplined life that tends toward those elements that are anti-christ, per the list above: violence, death, sickness, hatred, evil, depression, anger, mocking, giving up, weakness, anxiety, cruelness, rudeness, lack of commitment, selfishness, lies, and immorality.

3 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. [Mat 5:3-16 KJV]

It's time

It is time for another blog,. I'm sure it will have something to do with people, changes, Christlikeness, maybe even technology.

Industrial Creativity

This is perhaps my first attempt at incorporating artistic aspects into something that is truly practical; without a doubt the first project in my "IDEAS" notebook that I have completed with some sort of satisfaction for functionality and ascetics. Finally, after a year of on and off research and planning, I acquired the correct parts through items that were meant to be added to the ever growing landfills nearby.  This is what I salvaged:

• one computer power supply case
• 2 CPU heat sinks
• 2 aluminum pipes from a set of chimes
• some random scrap copper wire
• one 1.5 volt motor from a "broken" coffee stirrer
• scrap metal strapping
• one fan from a broken freezer

Putting them together I created this monstrosity.

I bought a peltier element that operates at 90 watts max and some thermal adhesive that passes a charge through it. Completing the setup as to ensure the peltier element would be protected and the wire connections secure...

The next step was simply to get the stove roaring. When the temperature of the stove passing through the heat sink into the peltier element reached a hot enough temperature using the Peltier-Seebeck effect the motor starts spinning the fan starts moving. 

Heat activated stove fan 1.0 complete.

A Blog about fermented drinks

I am planning on writing a blog about the use of fermented drinks soon; however, i feel that i should blog about current circumstances instead, and i am almost certain that this blog title (see above) will get more attention than something like "Felling blessed".

As some people know, and some people do not know, the location that we have had The Refuge at for the past 7 years is changing. Due to some pretty strange circumstances with the federal government and funding etc. we do not have the funds to maintain the lease at our current location.

I did feel compelled to call a Pastor friend of mine a few weeks before our actual closing date. i simply told him what happened and straight forwardly asked him- "would you be able to house the Refuge at your church location?" He said that would be great. It worked out very well, as they say it was all god.

Last night was our first night open at the new place. It really seems like a great community of believers; they say they are southern baptist. They seem like great people who want to help others, who genuinely care for others, even at their own expense.

I'm feeling blessed to be becoming part of this group of believers, and blessed to have a job, helping people.

God is good.

Something i typed today

"Even the things/issues that seem utterly insignificant can mean the world to a young person; it's amazing how what is important to a youth  can make them someone great or break them. Find out what is important to them and you will have an avenue to influence them, to help them, to make then feel significant, to do whatever it is they need."

"You came down with imagination..."

"You were gassed with the masses and handed a magazine."

Do Something

if you have ever read my blog, well, if you have read it even a couple of times, you probably know that i do not have a television that gets stations that i can watch things on, like the news. this being the case i miss a lot of the global, national, and even local tragedy in the world. i know very little of people in other states going through hardships, getting, beaten, being stole from, or living on the streets- in fact i can hardly think of anyone that i don't know that is going through those circumstances.

i do, however, know several people who are going through these issues, personally.
i know the kid whose iphone was stolen.
i know the girl who is living with a guy she doesn't want to be with so she has a place to stay.
i know the 19 year old whose only friends are the old guys at the homeless shelter, the only guys he can relate to.
i know the kids who at age 9 and 11 are out until 9pm at night because no one cares where they are at.
i know the girl who sold her body to afford rent so she wouldn't lose her kids.
i know the kid whose friend was run over- i guess that was on the news.
i know the people who go up to random strangers and knock them out for no reason.
i know the girl who dances at night to pay for drugs, but works at Tim Horton's during the day.
i know the guy who only wakes up because he can not get high while sleeping.
i know a lot of kids with marked up arms, stds, and drug histories because there was no one they could trust when they needed it the most.

because i know them i know that if anything good happens in this world it is because of Jesus. but i know evil. i know there is good and bad; and i know that god values every one of these people and gave his life to save them, for it isn't is will that any single one should be lost. as his son his will is mine and i will do something to bring good to those who are surrounded by evil. i am no one special as a human; we are the same. i know that you and i can do something.

(if you pray specifically, pray for the people mentioned above they are real people)

Encouraging Quotes (for the most part)

Quotes From Curry Blake

If your gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you.
God will use you. Don’t think that he’ll just use you for headaches. He will use you to do ANYTHING that needs to be.
The power of God is mechanical.
You are God’s son, man’s servant, and the devil’s master.
The truth willl set you free, But first it will make you mad.
If you haven’t found a gospel worth dying for, you haven’t found a gospel worth living for.
When a son of God speaks, Heaven hears and agree. Hell hears and obey.
Healing isn’t a reward, it is a gift. You don’t work for it or earn it.
If your knowledge of the word of God exceeds your obedience to the word, you are a backslider
Be hard on self, easy on others. You can give them truth, but don’t expect others to consistently walk at a standard that you have set for yourself. If you set yourself with the standard of the Bible, that is good. But, give people mercy. Give them room to grow. Everybody doesn’t know what you know. Everybody hasn’t studied as much as you’ve studied. Everybody hasn’t been where you’ve been. So give them room.
People dont care how much you know, until the know how much you care.
True apostolic ministry doesn’t say ‘Come sit at my feet and let me be your father’…it says GO. Apostolic ministries don’t gather…they spread. When you gather, you build an empire. When you spread, you build the Kingdom of God.
Fasting doesn’t get you power. Fasting gets you out of the way so power can flow easier.
Healing is warfare!
A lot of people today would rather be lied to with a smile and soft words than to be told the truth without mincing words. They think that if their feelings get hurt then the person who hurt their feelings was not walking in love. This is the surest sign of spiritual immaturity.
Anything that prevents you from blessing of God is a devil for you to overcome and destroy.
Friends are like elevators, they will either take you up or bring you down, but they will never leave you in the same place.
Quit having faith in your faith.
God can’t say ‘No’ to a promise He’s already said ‘Yes’ to.
You will never be who you are supposed to be if you can’t forget who you used to be.
There is no reason why any person should not be healed.
You can’t have resurrection life until there is a death, and you won’t have a death until you decide that your old life is something you hate.
To the degree that your mind is renewed, is the degree that your life is transformed.
Exalt God…Exhort Men…Exhaust the devil.
The Name of Jesus and what it stands for and represents is ENOUGH to get ANY job done and ANY need met.
What we’ll give our eyes to, we’ll be doing.
Jesus only gave 2 reasons for failure, and every failure can be traced back to one of these: Unbelief or Traditions of Man.”
Jesus never said “gather up and sit” He said, “As you go, preach and heal”.
The reason why we’ll do greater works than Jesus is because we’re facing an enemy that’s already been defeated.
The Bible is a receipt of what was PAID FOR by Jesus.
You are not a leader if you will not say what you believe simply because you fear the consequences.
The fastest way to know what’s really in someone’s heart is to remove all restrictions.
Jesus said if you drink the water He gives, you will NEVER thirst again. You will never hunger or thirst. There is a difference between thirsting/ hungering and zeal. Thirsting keeps you waiting….Zeal gets you busy doing the Fathers will. If you thirst, you will be filled (no longer thirsting).
The church is so busy training people to go out, that they feel like they are doing something…when in fact, they are just staying busy but not going out to preach the Gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons!
If believing in God was the only requirement to get saved, then devils would be saved too. Devils believe and tremble when hearing His name and because they KNOW His power. Some Christians believe and don’t even tremble . Other Christians believe and obey. Which one are you?
If the harvest is ready, you are ripe!
You are made perfect as you work.
If you wake up on Sunday, and you do not go to Church, some Christians have a religious withdrawel because they are so addicted to their Sunday morning service and they are taught that if they do not go, then…… .
Train the way you want to fight, because that is the way you are going to fight!
No army ever won a war by showing how much it could suffer.
If you’re gonna talk it, live it.
Most people talk to God about their problems, when in reality, what you ought to do is talk to your problem about God.
Most people are trying to live a resurrected life without dying.
The greatest deliverance you ever get is from yourself. Forget yourself! Get over yourself!
The devil wants you on yourself.
Fasting is getting you out of yourself.
You are a Spirit, you have a soul, & you live in a body.
There is no part of you that is good. You have to die.
I don’t make decisions based on money. I go & know God will provide when I get there.
You can’t feed the hungry if you are hungry.
The fullness of God is him living IN us.
You do what you can where you are with what you’ve got.
A sin you will defend is a sin you are in. Jesus preached a gospel that made grown men walk away from everything they had.
There is no hinderance to God except YOU!
If you are HID IN CHRIST your life is hid in him, then the enemy can’t find you to put something on you.
Wherever you are the Kingdom of God is there.
God does NOT use the devil to spank you.
God has NEVER said anything negative about you.
When you make decisions based on money, then money is your God. Don’t make decisions based on money, make them based on God’s will for your life & the money will come.
If you want boldness, get sure.
Don’t hang on to the world. Touch the world, & hang on to God.
Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.
The devil in under our feet because he is under Jesus’ feet.
We are ordinary people who have an extraordinary God. The essence of Christianity is in the being, not in the doing.
Correction is for restoration, not for destruction. If you are going to error make one in His favor not against Him.
What is in you is BIGGER than what is outside of you.
Don’t follow signs. Let the signs follow you.
I don’t need revival. I am revived!
If you pray, believe, then receive.
Judge things. Not people.
To know the will of God, read the Bible. To be led by the Spirit, DO the Bible.
The first preacher of the gospel was a woman.
The world is waiting for us to grow up & show up.
My job, and the job of the five-fold ministry, is to work ourselves out of a job.
You find out what the Word of God says, you decide to agree with it and believe it. Then you begin doing it, you do it every time. You force yourself to do it, you force yourself to do it when you don’t feel like it. You never have to force yourself to do stuff you want to do. So discipline comes in when you don’t want to.
Training means doing what you’ve been taught; to practise and drill it, because when you get in the heat of the battle, you can’t THINK, you have to REACT, and you will react according to where the majority of your mind is.

A Dream in November

There was a lady, she was dressed in a business suit and had a grand plan to open up a portal to another world which would let the Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles into our world. i knew this was a bad idea, but wasn't sure how to stop her.

Somehow myself and my companions were locked in a different part of this factory complex, we could see here, but could not get out.

she had the world opening gizmo and opened a portal. It was blue and green, swirled and had some lightening in it. The Teenage mutant ninja turtles fell out of it.

 I'm not sure what happened to them, but i was aware that the presence of them in the real world would cause the real world to collapse; it would mess up it's integrity.
The group with me were people i didn't actually know, there was a large man with muscles, a guy with a tie on and a couple other people with no distinct features. At one point were were escaping from our portion of the factory by shimming along a large red pipe.
Before the dream ended, i dreamed that i was writing down the dream in specific detail, though the details escape me now.

OCTOBER 31ST

Halloween
As an American I do not celebrate many holidays of other nations, mostly because they mean nothing to me; to American national heritage. Just as I would guess independence day isn't so well celebrated in England, the day the cardinals won the world series by the many teams they have beaten or the conquering of Ethiopia to Mussolini by the Ethiopians.

Hypothetically...
Let's say you are a Jew in Hitler's Germany. The Nazis have sworn to destroy you and your kind. Let's say each year they celebrate the day they enrolled the Hitler youth. Every year They celebrate this with dressing as Hitler youth with swastika badges and candy given to everyone. As a Jew who has watched the Nazis burn, cage and destroy your family and relatives, would you celebrate this day with them? It is just dressing up and enjoying candy; no harm done. but would you celebrate with your enemy? Would you celebrate separately from your enemy in a different fashion?

Christians, we are in a war. Let's not join in celebrating a day that centers on our enemy, seemingly devised by our enemy. A day Certainly not promoting the love and life of our king. instead celebrate our king everyday.

P.s. If you have any left over candy send it my way.

Tess Wiley-Raise Your hand (+playlist)

GODISNOWHERE

Do  I "believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. .. mystical energy field control(ing) *my* destiny" ? Actually after 30 years of belief I sometimes ask myself this question-still. Even after having multiple metaphysical encounters and too many "coincidences" that have worked in my favor. After knowing that creation, entropy, the laws of nature, the multifaceted aspects of humankind are by grand design and that these effected by people speaking, people praying, and acts that should have no effect on them, do indeed effect them; I sometimes wonder can this be true (although brought up in a post-modern world, i do in fact believe that there is truth).

It happened again the other day, I was reading a passage in the Old Testament  of the bible something about the following: sacrificing your son, killing hundreds under the power of god, sacrificing goats, sheep, doves etc. and the similarities between what was causing the evil in the world and what was causing the good didn't appear so far apart. But when looking at the New Testament it's almost as if the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus saved God from this comparison; these similarities. I, for one, prefer things a little more clear; seeing the right and wrong. It reminds me of the season finale in Smallville; the conversation between Lex and Clark:



It is, and would be much easier to accept God in the New Testament  without knowing of him in the old testament. I realize that the old covenant was only a shadow of the new covenant  One could see the battles and victories over the armies in the old testament as a shadow of the victory of the Christian over the devil and spiritual forces of evil in the new covenant. In fact, we often do; i know it encourages my soul, maybe my spirit as well. Someone told me, "like they said 'Saul has slain his thousands,, but David his ten thousands' you will be like David". I took the meaning to mean that I would effect many lives for good and actually just briefly thinking about it i probably have effected about 3,000 people so far, so 10,000 wouldn't be far fetched. I just have to wonder, did those tens of thousands of people have to die so i could be encouraged with a prophetic word a few thousand years in the future? I don't know the answer to that, but I still believe and trust in God as described in the bible.


Another thing happened; I recently came across this explanation of our world:

To Sum Up

There are at least 27 dimensions and rays, and 7 solar planes.  Each plane in our solar system signifies higher levels of physical and etheric existence in our solar system.  The first Ray energises the 1st chakra to activate the 7th chakra, and so forth.  Chakras are components of the aura (electro-photo-magnetic field in seven layer or auric bodies surrounding a human), and the aura and chakras interpenetrate the other.  Each chakra feeds into one of the auric bodies. The civilisations are seven cycles of materialisation and spiritualisation on Earth, which activate the energies of the chakras. "

Truly my favorite part of the above was the "to sum up" as it went on with a confusing array of created terms and figments of realities. Truly, people are looking for an explanation to what they think, feel, and see around them. I do believe there is but one conclusion.

In PSALM 14:1 it says"
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

I'd like to say, that I am no fool, I know there is a God out there, in here somewhere. Lately I've been traveling down the highway/freeway at about 65 miles an hour and looking at the people next to me; the people passing me. There are so many of them, each of them know so many more people. Through my car, the tires on the pavement, i can feel a vibration connecting me to them to the people at the stores, the waitresses, the cooks, the robbers  the cops, the robbers and I see a world so large so many people, so many living organisms (sometimes i even sense the cats, dogs, frogs, worms, bees, the trees). The world is so connected in intricacies that we rarely realize or hardly fathom. I don't mean the connections that our internet, 3G, 4G, and social media have created; like most things in technology these mimic the natural world.  We are all so close; when we think we are alone. So close to God; when we are redeemed.

Certainly this post has done very little to explain or prove the existance of God here, or god no where, but it hopefully made us think about our lives; how we can impact each other; how we already do; why we do.

GREAT ARTICLE: Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism:

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disappointments abound

Isaiah 58 has been my life verse for nearly 15 years now, nearly half my life. Part of it says this:

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
    and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness[a] will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you always;
    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
    and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
    like a spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
    and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
    Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

This is how i have chosen to live; daily, almost daily, i invest in people hoping to bring them out of the darkness, give them some, hope, or just make their general day to day life better. I often do not see the results of this. I hope for the best and God does the rest. I rarely feel disappointed in any of the young people that I work with when they do not succeed to the level that I was hoping they would. Thee are some that have disappointed me; but most I view on a different level, and i am aware that they are making these decisions for success or failure. 

it is another event altogether when i have a perceived idea of someone, a friend, and they disappoint you. i only say perceived idea because i may assume they didn't change, but were always the way they now appear. As a christian we have many choices before us, many paths to choose, many items to take up, many items to put down, and a life to live for Christ. (i'd go so far as to oppose the view  that says God's ultimate joy is seeing humankind doing whatever they find brings them pleasure). 

by god's help i will not be a disappointment-(tell me if you think i am; i will do something to change it).

Trust in the Lord

I do my best not to lean on my own understanding and in all my way acknowledge God.

The Church on a Swaying Bridge

" people aren’t willing to embrace the challenges of a lifestyle of obedience to Jesus as emphasized by the sound teaching in the New Testament" -Mike Bickle



"Some believers don’t hunger to grow in righteousness in their daily life. Rather, they seek to know how far they can go in sin and how little they need to talk with Jesus to keep their salvation intact." -Mike Bickle