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Verbal communication is what drove the ministry. Why even have teachings at twig meetings if all that was needed was to read the written materials?

Hey, now! Don't be dissin' Snoopy.

Just a bit of a tangential observation: Excellor sessions fall in the category of TVTs.

He may have been napping during that "Christ in you, the hope of glory!" session and the "Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ" session.

Which is why you have no business pretending to have cornered the market on interpreting the complexities of scripture.

And, yet, this is precisely what you are doing in this very post.

Are you talking about infinitives, which are sometimes called the "to be" or "dictionary" form? Learning to use/conjugate them properly can be one of the most challenging aspects of learning a language. In fact, some languages even change the word completely, with the conjugation built in automatically. Cultural differences and etymology also play an important role in proper understanding Not surprisingly, it's also one of the reasons amateur "word studies" and word-for-word translations are somewhat of a fool's folly. Are you saying that God, who has supposedly made things "so simple even a fool need not err therein" has resorted to intentional ambiguity? That seems a bit devious for someone's who's depicted as being all benevolent. Wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, that's kinda what the postcard is implying.

You didn't answer my question. Why am I not surprised?

I have neither the resources nor the desire to listen to a tape from almost 60 years ago. Please expound on what it said that led you to this conclusion.

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Yeah, sure. It's totally my fault for not telling you to follow the bouncing ball.

I'm gonna take a wild guess here. Is it because they're undocumented and bogus?

Marsha, Marsha, bo-bar-sha Bo-na-na fanna, fo-far-sha Fee-fi-mo-ar-sha Marsha Isn't that wuuuuunderful!?

Revelation, of course.

Enlighten us, oh wise one.

I challenge ANYONE to provide some scriptural justification for excellor sessions. Edit: (I'm getting ready for the sound of crickets chirping.)

Fer cryin' out loud. The whole stinkin' ministry did this stuff.

Good Lord, Mike Do you think you're the only one here who ever led a twig or ran a class?

I was talking about the silent kind of stuff people do while riding the subway, sitting in the dentist's chair and so forth.

I think it's important to note that speaking in tongues, in and of itself, is harmless. If, on the other hand, you have unrealistic expectations of the results it will produce and base your behavior on those expectations, that's another matter entirely.

I must have dozed off. Can you briefly repeat it?

Fun Fact: A session participant who has the ability to spark interest with fiery enthusiasm is known as an "excellorant".

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Well, in retrospect, he wasn't too good at faking those either. Lo Shonta!