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It's Not Where You Start It's Where You Finish?

4/15/2016

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​My last couple of blog posts have been ideas for possible juggling routines. Last month’s idea felt different from the previous ideas primarily because I think it might actually happen. The other ideas;  the unjust stewert show, the prayer show, or the boast in weakness act, all started with a biblical idea. Whereas, last month’s idea started with a juggling trick.  Starting with a juggling trick seems much easier. After watching our Prodigal Fun show, I don’t know which way one would assume we came up with the show. We could have decided to do the Prodigal Son, and then tried to think of routines to go with inheritance, leaving, losing money, garbage, a party and so on. However that is not what we did at all. We thought of  routines about gold, saying bye bye bye, gambling, and so on before we ever thought about doing the prodigal son. We just figured out how to make it all fit after the fact.  Maybe it is good to trust in God’s providence and hope that everything will work out for good. However when trying to think about whatever it is that will come next , it would be nice to have more of a plan.
The last new thing that we did come up with was about the importance of having God's word as our foundation. Maybe that means we should start with the bible and build from there or maybe it is fine to come up with a bunch of random stuff and then relate it to a biblical principle or story at the end. It seems fine for juggling, but if I extend the process to something else it would seem worrisome. I imagining someone designing a VBS or something like that and picking a theme and then designing games, crafts, stories, snacks, and morality lessons that all fit into a safari or space or whatever. Then a week before the actual event remembering, snap we need to find some bible verses to go with everything we planned. Maybe that seems worse because a VBS is suppose to teach where as our show is largely entertainment.
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Maybe my real problem is that we can't seem to work the other way. We just did some shows for Easter, and were asked if we could have more of an Easter message to go with the show.  We didn't really come up with any juggling ideas to proclaim and rejoice in the resurrection of Christ.  Maybe if we had more time we could have come up with something, but it just seems hard to start with an idea and put juggling on it. However, not every idea for juggling routine we do starts with a juggling trick. Sometimes it starts with a song, Midas Touch in particular was all built off of the song. I am pretty sure that if I ever talk about Romans  7 in a juggling routine it probably won’t be because I have some sort of insight I want to share or even that I think it is an important passage for people to hear. It will probably be so I can have an excuse to play “Atomic Dog”

​Romans 7


 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.


​Atomic Dog


 Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Nothin’ but the dog in me.
I don't think we'll actually do that, but in my defense, there really aren’t any Christian funk bands for us to play, and George Clinton confessing to be a dog down to the atomic level probably fits into a juggling show easier than Paul concluding that he is a wretched man. I may be taking things out of context, but I think it is more likely that I am misinterpreting Atomic Dog than Romans.
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MARK MCCULLEY
4/18/2016 10:43:39 am

Nothing wrong with a plan, especially about getting your wife where she needs to be when the baby arrives!

Proverbs 19:21 Many plans are in a man’s heart,
but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

James 4: 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” 14 You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes. 15 You should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

http://www.mbird.com/2016/04/i-should-know-better-by-now-god-as-the-older-brother/

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MARK MCCULLEY
4/18/2016 11:13:01 am

Romans 7: 4---you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, in order to be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, in order to bring forth fruit unto God. ...
7: 6 But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us,

Once Christians start to be "in Christ", there is no more or less grace. This is interesting history, because everybody starts "in Adam" and only after imputation into Christ's death, do they finish being in Adam and become part of the "new creation" legally.

The math is interesting also. Once a person is condemned in Adam, one more or less sin does not cause a sinner to be any less guilty before God. And once a person is justified in Christ, sin makes a difference but not when it comes to being saints, holy and accepted before God.

Romans 6—“Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?”

There is not more and more grace, but either grace or no grace.

Romans 6:5—“For if we have been JOINED WITH Him in the likeness of HIS DEATH, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order to abolish sin’s dominion over the body.”

Gospel imputation is not only God counting the sins of the elect to Christ
Gospel imputation is God counting Christ’s death to the elect

Romans 6 calls this counting being “joined with Him in His death”

Romans 6:7 “a person who has died is justified from sin’s claims. We died with Christ…”

zero plus Christ’s death =grace reigns, not under the law

a million minus plus Christ’s death =grace reigns, not under the law

we cannot “multiply grace”

we cannot “increase grace”

we cannot make grace go up by sinning more

we cannot make grace go down by sinning less


100 percent grace enabling me to do enough to add to what Jesus did by death is NO GRACE AT ALL

not more or less
all or nothing

At the start Adam had no hope in death, because he would still be on probation as long as he was alive, and Adam would keep eating from the tree of life and be alive as long as he kept the royal probation and avoided the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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