Comments are, of course, welcome. If you have seen demon possession serving on the mission field, etc., and are comfortable sharing about what countries/regions you have seen more of it than elsewhere, please do. For example, I have known missionaries to Haiti say it is frequent there.

What do I mean by “detailed” stand. I do not mean inclusion of heaven and hell and judgment. It is a given that almost all good churches would include those things in their doctrinal statement. But by fairly detailed, I mean a specific view on the Millennium and by very detailed an even more specific view about the timing of the Rapture in relation to the Tribulation (for those of us who believe in the Tribulation).

We are talking about patterns, not determinations. I’ll define a pattern as something true more than 50% of the time.

By personality types, we are speaking broadly (i.e, those who value deep feeling or those who view everything as black and white/get the job done or those who value order/control or those who value relationships more highly).

I am not asking if your church offers coffee, but does it offer expresso, latte, etc? Wondering how widespread this is, and how it is correlated to city/rural.

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Does your church have a coffee bar?

Not everyone accepts that the Old Testament “revivals” were all that deep, and many do not accept that they are a model for the church (or the present form of the Kingdom). Some look at the subject of “revival” as more of a national thing, when believers experience a time of special commitment and lost people embrace Judeo-Christian morality.

It is impossible to predict the future beyond what the Bible reveals about the End Times. But, assuming that the Lord does not return during the next 25 years, what will be the influence of Islam compared to the influence of Christianity in the west. By “the west,” we mean Europe (i.e., most of Europe, not necessarily every nation in Europe) and North America (US, Canada, Mexico).

I am of the opinion (but not conviction) that there was a star created to correspond to every angel, since both angels and stars are referred to as the “host of heaven.” I also take Isaiah 14:12-15 as referring to the King of Babylon prophetically, but also as a flashback/forward to Lucifer’s fall.

In Luke 10:18 (ESV), Jesus refers to the original fall of Satan, which seems to be directly connected to Isaiah 14:

1And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

What part of Scripture is your weakest spot? This may involve a guesstimate. For example, if you are weak in Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy but strong in Genesis and Exodus, are you weak in the Torah? That is for you to decide as you compare sections. Your comments are appreciated, as well as testimonies about how you “shored up” weak areas.

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Best Guess: Which category of Scripture is your weakest area (of fluency)?

In Joshua 22:10-34, the eastern tribes constructed an altar which they said reminded them of their unity with the other tribes. Was this a good thing, a bad thing, or what? Comments welcome.

(Thanks, Jim Peet, for the idea)

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Was the altar in Joshua 22 good, evil, neutral, or ambiguous?

Some folks at SI have been discussing Paul Henebury’s review of Chisholm’s new commentary on Judges, which I do not personally own (although I love Leon Wood’s, which Henebury also respects). The question came up about Jephthah’s daughter from Judges 11.