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Darlene Davis

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12/10/2023 at 21:54 in reply to: Dr. Crabb talks about our tendency to keep relationships shallow using the image of “not turning our chairs toward one another.” Why is it so difficult for us to “turn our chairs”? In other words, why are we reluctant to let anyone really know us? As you think about your answer, consider these possible reasons: Don’t have time. Don’t want to get involved. Don’t care. Feel inadequate and awkward. Don’t know how to form deeper relationships. Not culturally acceptable. Explain several possible reasons (using your own or from the list above) and then give an example from your experience that demonstrates which reason most often keeps you from turning your chair towards others.

What keeps me from turning at times is not knowing what to say, or not wanting to say the wrong thing (if anything at all). For me, it’s not so much at times not wanting to turn the chair, it is not being all the way dialed in. There have been times when going through my struggles, I wasn’t quite dialed into what was being shared and I didn’t want to lessen those moments for those who were wanting to entrust me with their inner most. I had to learn to have a more listening ear and listening spirit as to what was happening in those moments.

Darlene Davis

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11/30/2023 at 22:49 in reply to: Dallas Willard said, “The challenge has been whether or not we were going to be god or allow God to be God. And to be god in a very important sense means I get to do what I want. And reason teaches me, inescapably, that I am not God. And so it all comes home right to the point where you find in the Gospels the talk about accepting the cross, giving up one’s life, and then finding a new life.” Describe a time in your life when you wanted to be in control of your life instead of letting God be in control. Were you happy at that time? Have you since allowed Christ to be Lord of your life?

That’s a very good question. For me it entailed not recognizing God being God; I’ve tried to take life by the reigns and attempt to steer it in the way I thought I knew what was best. As a result, I had to come to the realization that it was beyond me. I had to learn just because I might have thought I just needed to figure it out on my own, didn’t mean I was convincing myself of that. I came up against enough until I came to understand, even if, in limited capacity of my understanding, I needed God more, not less or at all. My understanding, moreover, of the voids that were needing to be filled, wouldn’t be filled, unless I humbled myself, asking God for forgiveness for not trusting Him and receiving God’s help, grace and mercy. In order to be, to do and to live in my life, to help me to know how to live with my dependence on God and no longer me trying to do it on my own.

Darlene Davis

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11/30/2023 at 22:23 in reply to: Ray Bolin said, “You pick a rock out of a stream bed, and it’s got little chisels and chips in it, an archaeologist would be able to come along and tell you whether that was done with a purpose, intelligently to make an arrowhead or some other stone tool, or whether it’s just the forces of water and rocks acting together. We can tell the difference between something which is intelligently designed and something that is not.” If this is the case, why do you think so many scientists look at design in creation and deny a Creator?

It may be to agree and stay with the stance that they may have towards not believing the existence of God and His design of creation. They study what is not fully recognized or understood which is the Creator and not be separated from His creation. It will not be in the science; that’s the awesomeness of Go; relating to what he created, so you have to have that belief to connect to God who gives us what is beyond what one thinks they can acquire on their own.

Darlene Davis

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11/30/2023 at 22:11 in reply to: Darrell Bock further stated, “I think that sometimes we give this portrait of the ancient person and this gullibility to miracles as the impression that there’s nothing too surprising happening in Scripture in the portrait of Jesus for an ancient person. When in fact all these accounts talk about the shock and awe and surprise and in fact it’s part of what drew attention to Jesus and what He was doing was so unusual.” Has anyone ever spoken to you about the miracles of Jesus as a fairy tale or myth that belongs to a simpler pre-scientific age? How would you respond to someone who made such a statement?

Read the bible, read it and then ask yourself that question or revisit the question again. The bible does lead to questions and/or arguments one can have, truths and proofs as well. I would welcome dialect from a place of the aforementioned.

Darlene Davis

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11/30/2023 at 21:57 in reply to: In his book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis points out that when someone makes the kinds of claims that Jesus made you can’t simply consider him a good moral teacher. He never left that option open to us. So He is either the Lord, a liar, or a lunatic. Do you agree with this line of reasoning? Why?

I agree. People will either believe or not. Accept certain tuts or not. However, Christ said who He is, was, and very well will be. Jesus Christ lived that faithfully and He died gracefully, only to leave us with a life to model after and exemplify. He is the risen and resurrected Savior of the world.

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