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Day 1 - 8 October 2006 |
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Menu item 4: Apologetics:
What is Apologetics? What does it have to do with the Faith? Is there any room in the Church of God for Apologetics? Note: see Day 5 for follow-up to this subject. |
00:00 | ||||
Menu item 12: Meditation --what is meditation? Why do we do it? What might be the best sequence with prayer and Bible Study? |
11:48 | ||||
Menu item 16: Second Chance:
Do humans ever get a second chance in the Plan of God? Is our calling to the Salvation Process, a second chance? Is the Second Resurrection a second chance? Is repentance a second chance? |
23:17 | ||||
Menu item 10: The perfect church:
Is it possible—probable that we could have a local ICG church or fellowship group in complete peace and harmony? See Diagram |
33:00 |
Day 2 - 9 October 2006 |
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63: Gambling:
Is gambling a sin? What is gambling? Why is this subject so volatile? Can a firstfruit buy a lottery ticket? What does this subject teach us about good and bad theology? |
00:00 | ||||
Open Subject: Feast Elders ...a few words about the
duties of the Feast Elder. |
16:08 | ||||
Menu item 19: The Spiritual Diary
Have you ever given thought to keeping a spiritual diary? How does it work? |
18:19 | ||||
Menu item 14: Achieving Peace and Contentment: 3 Rules for freeing up your life. |
23:56 | ||||
Menu item 2: Lying in the Body of Christ: How to eliminate it entirely using a prime Biblical example. |
30:12 | ||||
Menu item 49: Is worry a sin? | 43:55 |
Day 3 - 10 October 2006 |
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Menu item 31: What is our doctrine? -discussion One Is it our booklets or sermons or our doctrinal statements? Note: See Day 5, Menu item 64 for Discussion Two and Day 6, Menu item 65 Doctrine vs. Personal Element of Belief. |
00:00 | ||||
Menu item 24: Women: What will be the role of women in the spiritual Kingdom of God? See Diagram |
2:18 | ||||
Menu item 26: What is a biblical twig?
Why do we get involved with them? What are the pitfalls? |
14:45 | ||||
Menu item 3: Work of the ICG: Did the Work and Message of Garner Ted Armstrong die with him? |
27:07 | ||||
Menu item 9: Growth in the church: Is this proof of anything one-way or the other? Does the number of local churches, new churches or number of converts or baptisms have any bearing on God’s true church? What can we do about growth or the lack there of? |
34:03 |
Day 4 - 11 October 2006 |
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Menu item 1: Churches: Can Church A badmouth Church B? Example: A church, claiming to be in the Body of Christ recently came out with a full frontal attack against Garner Ted Armstrong and the ICG See Diagram |
00:45 | ||||
Menu item 27: Godly Correction
How does God correct the church? By what means would He bring the correction? What is the essential element that must be present in one to give or receive the correction? Who would God use to bring the correction? Who would He not use? See Diagram |
7:38 | ||||
Menu item 39: Self Promotion - Self-Serving Attitudes.
What is this? How does it manifest itself? Does it work? |
23:15 | ||||
Menu item 23: Is voting a sin? Can we vote? Should we vote? What is our doctrine on the subject? |
30:50 | ||||
Menu item 21: Self-Examination:
Before the Bread and Wine of Passover, just how do I examine myself? |
48:22 |
Day 5 - 12 October 2006 |
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Menu item 64:
What is our doctrine? -discussion Two Note: follow-up from day 3--item 31 See more on Day 6--item 65 Just how many doctrines do we have? What are the subject headings for these doctrines? That is, what is our doctrine about? How are our doctrines constructed? Where do doctrines come from? That is, who is the author of each one? |
00:00 | ||||
Menu item 45: Blessing on the meal in public places: —when, where, how—especially in public places such as restaurants. |
8:46 | ||||
Menu item 30: Good overcoming Evil. Many movies and television shows have a theme of good overcoming evil. Some justify the violence and other untoward elements [witchcraft, sorcery, gore, etc.] because of the good overcoming the evil. Is this a biblically or Godly justified theme? |
16:07 | ||||
Menu item 4: Apologetics:
follow-up from Day 1 What is Apologetics? What does it have to do with the Faith? Is there any room in the Church of God for Apologetics? |
34:10 | ||||
Menu item 28: The 24 Elders: Who or what are the 24 Elders of God? |
37:15 | ||||
Menu item 8: Legalism: ---what is it? Is the ICG legalistic? Is the entire Church of God legalistic? |
49:30 |
Day 6 - 13 October 2006 |
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Menu item 65:
What is doctrine vs. a personal element of belief?
Note: follow-up from Day 3--item 31 and Day 5--item 64 What is a personal element of belief? How does it differ from doctrine? Do we or can we have a personal element of belief within one of our doctrines? How do we deal with differing personal elements of belief |
00:00 | ||||
Open Subject: "Works"
...what is the biblical definition of works? |
6:00 | ||||
Menu item 7: Song service and prayer: Why do we have the opening prayer AFTER the song service? Doesn’t it sound more logical to enclose everything we do within prayer? |
8:28 | ||||
Menu item 36: Infallibility of the minister: Are ministers infallible? If the sermon is inspired does this mean the sermon will be perfect? Ditto Bible Studies and counseling. |
14:20 | ||||
Menu item 37: Minister & Member: Disagreements between minister and member on non-salvation subjects and various speculations or opinions on various subjects. |
22:00 | ||||
Menu item 43 and 44: Matthew 18 Process. Detailed step-by-step procedure. Goals and Purposes of the Process. What are the pitfalls? Matthew 18:20 “Where two or three of you are gathered”: Misused and misapplied scripture. What is this verse actually referring to? See Diagram |
28:20 |
Day 7 - 14 October 2006 |
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Menu item 5: Definition of "Independent Church”:
What is an independent church? Is there such a thing? |
00:00 | ||||
Menu item 6: The only true church of God? There are churches out there saying they are the only true church of God? Is it true that only one of the 350 groups from Worldwide is the true one? Problem is, several of them are saying it? Who are they saying it to? Must this be stated? |
4:27 | ||||
Menu item 15: Salvation:
What two spiritual elements will keep the most numbers of people out of the Kingdom of God? |
13:30 | ||||
Menu item 33: Matthew 7:15-20 What "fruit" means. |
21:19 | ||||
Menu item 35: Newly revealed knowledge: What is it? How is it imparted? What is usually given? Has Chris Cumming ever received such knowledge? |
33:40 | ||||
Menu item 13: The 3 Basic and Essential rules for every Christian and every
situation ---every word, every thought, every action and every deed. |
50:45 | ||||