QC and SG accountability (19/6/20)
I was sharing how I found in the book of Judges (Chapter 1) how t4he Israelites did not destroy the Cannanites from their midst but "put them to forced labour". Their lack of total obedience and single-mindedness led eventually to apostasy and oppression by their enemies. I can see how in my own life it would be possible to forgo total surrender simply because of the usefulness and convenience of certain things and situations, even though these things would be out of God's will. Winnie also shared her lesson about the ingratitude of the Israelites in the wilderness, who scorned manna from heaven and thought of the nice food they had in Egypt. I shared how a participant in last week's FTP had raised questions about alleged contradictions between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, about the wrongness of the NIV translation and about the inerrancy of Scripture. There was a claim that NIV had 'cheated' by using the tense 'had formed' (Gen 2:19) rather than ...