Belief Does Not Change What Is.

There Needs To Be An Order Of Office, But In Every Single Office That Is Presented In The Scriptures There Is The Personal Emphasis Within That Legal Concept. In The Church The Elder Is An Office-bearer. But Both The Preaching Elders And The Ruling Elders Are "ministers," And The Word "minister" Is A Personal Relationship, It Does Not Speak Of Dominance. There Is To Be Order In The Church, But The Preaching Elder Or The Ruling Elder Is To Be A Minister, With A Loving Personal Relationship With Those Who Are Before Him, Even When They Are Wrong And Need Admonition.

As Christians, We Must See That Just Because An Artist-even A Great Artist-portrays A Worldview In Writing Or On Canvas, It Does Not Mean That We Should Automatically Accept That Worldview. Good Art Heightens The Impact Of That Worldview, But It Does Not Make It True.

The Reality Of Living By Faith As Though We Were Already Dead, Of Living By Faith In Open Communion With God, And Then Stepping Back Into The External World As Though We Are Already Raised From The Dead, This Is Not Once For All, It Is A Matter Of Moment-by-moment Faith, And Living Moment By Moment. This Morning's Faith Will Never Do For This Noon. The Faith Of This Noon Will Never Do For Suppertime . The Faith Of Suppertime Will Never Do For The Next Morning. Thank God For The Reality For Which We Were Created, A Moment-by-moment Communication With God Himself.

Christian Art Is The Expression Of The Whole Life Of The Whole Person As A Christian. What A Christian Portrays In His Art Is The Totality Of Life. Art Is Not To Be Solely A Vehicle For Some Sort Of Self-conscious Evangelism.

Modern Man Has No Real "value" For The Ocean. All He Has Is The Most Crass Form Of Egoist, Pragmatic Value For It. He Treats It As A "thing" In The Worst Possible Sense, To Exploit It For The "good" Of Man. The Man Who Believes Things Are There Only By Chance Cannot Give Things A Real Value. But For The Christian The Value Of A Thing Is Not In Itself Autonomously, But Because God Made It.