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- Updates will be coming but I'm stuck in a basement. More to come as soon as I can.

- I have tos top live blogging. Battery is dying! Sorry. I was waiting for Elkins and he is not about to dissapoint. He is making his way there now!

- Another guy gets up and appears to be reading from a card… maybe? And talks about working in jails. He then talks about stuff from discussions yesterday. He then rambles on for a while. He says let’s live within the boundaries and do the things that are lawful. He is talking about clapping.

- Earl speaks about the veils from the perspective of working in foreign countries. Nothing too important here just talks about cultural differences

- Another guy gets up… speaks of educated missionaries. Same stuff.

- A bunch of questions about Veils. He says it’s a matter of culture. If you live in a culture where there is a sign of authority you need to do it otherwise it is violating the meaning of the passage. He says people have a right to do it if they want but it’s a matter of choice like Romans 14. He also says that you cannot practice this passage in 1 Corinthians unless it wraps around and hangs down. The things you see on most heads of people in “covering churches” do not meet the definition of these words. I would tend to agree. I will also say we blow this discussion off way to easy instead of discussing it in more detail.

- Question is about questioning Christ’s doctrine. Ralph defines doctrine as teaching and says some think the word is a bad thing.

- Question about the necessity of needing a Bible degree to be a missionary. He says of course not. But you need to think about the world we live in and being professionally trained and you need to put yourself in a situation where you can minister to your fullest. It’s an expediency (matter of opinion) matter though. Sounds good. It’s still interesting to me that all of the great missionaries I can think of off the top of my head were not known as the most educated. Not to downplay education as I am someone who is continuing to pursue it. In my opinion I think we need to rethink how we educate not if we need to do it. The new covenant is an education one (Jer 31:31ff).

- The standard yadda yadda before the forum begins

- Waiting for the Ralph joke

- And he delivered

- How can so many people see the Bible differently? Ralph answers that some want to twist the Scriptures. He also notes that some is ignorance; some is willful, etc…. He then states that anytime the body of Christ is fragmented Christ is not happy. I don’t agree with this at all. It seems to me he is trying to play for pity on his hand clapping deal. Was Christ not happy when they had to fragment away the man from the church in Corinth in 1 Cor 5? Sometimes removing and division is good. Christ makes the division between good and evil.