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content/A Doodle Rhythm.md

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 #🌱Seed   #😐Neutral   #🟡Consideration
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 # Drawing Exercises 
 - Draw a book cover 
 - Draw daily beauty around you 
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+- look at an object in the room and try to condense it down to the most basic shapes and colors that compose it 

content/Bible Book Notes/The Book of Obadiah.md

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+#🌱Seed   #🙂Agree   #📓Journal 
+****
+> `Importance`: 10%
+ 
+>[!Summary] The Big Idea
+> Obadiah deals with judgment toward Edom because of taking advantage of the downfall of Israel. Offers hope for Israel to return.
+
+****
+Obadiah is the shortest book in the Bible with only 21 verse
+
+Talks about Edom (the decedents of Esau as the archetype of prideful nations that have taken advantage of Israel)
+
+In bible study I have decided to read it eight times with the class to really let it sink in.
+
+[Bible Project Video Overview](https://bibleproject.com/guides/book-of-obadiah/#:~:text=The%20events%20described%20in%20Obadiah,south%20of%20the%20Dead%20Sea.)
+
+## Themes
+1. Family Relations
+	- Edom and Israel decedents of brothers.
+2. High vs Low and Pride vs Humble
+	- They thought they could raise themselves up or be safe because they lived in high places. 
+3. Mountains
+	- The two important mountains are Mount Zion and Mount Esau as kind of opposing places of authority and power but the end of the book pictures saviors going up to rule on both mountains under the authority of God alone.
+	- A short overview of [[Mountains of Scripture\|Mountains of Scripture]]
+4. All Nations
+	- Edom becomes an emblem of all the nations in the middle of the book in verse 15 where is switches to judgment against all nations for refusing to acknowledge God
+5. Justice
+	- Justice according to God's rule and definition of what is right not what the Edomites convinced themselves was right. 
+6. Rule of God
+	- Picture the rule of God as deliverance and restoration of Israel's proper place as well as the humbling of the proud nations. 
+7. Cup of Wrath
+	- Psalm 11:5-6
+	- Psalm 75:6-8
+	- Ezekiel 23:31–33
+	- Isaiah 51:17
+	- Jeremiah 25:15-17 
+	- Matthew 26:39 - Jesus asking that the cup would pass from Him.
+	- Revelation 14:10
+	- Revelation 16:1–17 - The seven bowls. 
+8. Day of the Lord
+	- Amos 5:18–24 - warning about desiring the day of the lord
+	- Isaiah 2:11–12
+	- Joel 2:30–31
+	- Joel 3:14–16
+	- 2 Peter 3:10–13
+	- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6
+	- 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 - Description of coming of the Lord from the perspective of believers.

content/Church Health Metrics (Other than Butts in Pews).md

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-#🌱Seed  #🙂Agree
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+#🌱Seed  #🙂Agree   #🟢Conviction 
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 > `Importance`: 50%
  
 > [!summary] The Big Idea
-> Being obsessed with the number of people in worship can be a very unhealthy way to measure a churches health. While it is a valid metric here are a few others that can give a different perspective.
+> Being obsessed with the number of people in worship can be a very unhealthy way to measure a churches health. While it is a valid metric that can be informative in certain ways. Here are a few others that can give a different perspective.
 
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 - Percentage of congregation involved in Bible Study - From Kober, _Built on the Rock_.
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-- The number of distinct cultural groups represented in congregation. This can be called the [[Cultural Diversity Metric]].
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-- Mission focus and outreach
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-- Leaders in apprenticeship or mentor relationships/program or think about the “bench” of leaders that is in our congregation
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+- The number of distinct cultural groups represented in congregation. This can be called the [[Cultural Diversity Metric\|Cultural Diversity Metric]].
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+- How many activates or meetings focus on mission and outreach.
+
+- How many members and leaders are in apprenticeship or mentor relationships/programs or think about the “bench” of leaders that are in our congregation.

content/Cultural Diversity Metric.md

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 #🌱Seed  #🙂Agree  #🟡Consideration 
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 > `Importance`: 20%
  
-***The Big Idea***: the idea that a church has a bigger impact or footprint when more cultural groups are involved and a part of the group. This is because two people that go home to vastly different parts of the surrounding community will see and interact with many more distinct people than two people who live in the same neighborhood and go to the same stores, etc.
+> [!summary] The Big Idea
+> The idea that a church has a bigger impact or footprint when more cultural groups are involved and a part of the group. This is because two people that go home to vastly different parts of the surrounding community will see and interact with many more distinct people than two people who live in the same neighborhood and go to the same stores, etc.
 
+***
 Therefore you can measure the exponential impact of a church by the number of cultures represented.
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content/Solo Scripture vs Sola Scriptura.md

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 > The idea that in many parts of Christendom there has been a shift toward reading and interpreting scripture alone or "solo" which is a departure from the Reformation's emphasis on Sola Scriptura or reliance on only scripture but as a community. The avoidance of learning in community is a not great trend that serves to only isolate our lonely culture even more. 
 
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+It is so tempting to want to just go off and learn on your own away from interpersonal drama or the other things that tend to drag Christian communities down. 
+
+This seems to also be connected with a trend I see forming for a [[New Monasticism\|New Monasticism]].

content/The Preservation of Tail Knowledge.md

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-#🌱Seed  #🙂Agree
+#🌱Seed  #🙂Agree   #🟢Conviction 
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 >`Importance`: 10%
  
 > [!summary] The Big Idea
-> With the rise of AI and the deterioration of search engines (i.e. you can pay enough to be the first result), preserving knowledge that can not be easily accessed because it is not in the main distribution  (i.e. [[Tail Knowledge and Knowledge Collapse\|Tail Knowledge and Knowledge Collapse]]) will be increasingly important. Because realistically, good solid theology will most likely find itself in the tail.
+> With the rise of AI and the deterioration of search engines (i.e. you can pay enough to be the first result), preserving knowledge that can not be easily accessed because it is not in the main distribution  (i.e. [[Tail Knowledge and Knowledge Collapse\|Tail Knowledge and Knowledge Collapse]]) will be increasingly important. Because, realistically, good solid theology will most likely find itself in the tail. Being less accessed and more easily forgotten and pushed aside.
 
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-Can’t always trust search engines 
+It is important to differentiate between consensus truth vs real truth. 
 
-Consensus truth vs real truth 
+Search engines show you things based on who has paid more or has the most traffic. You can’t always trust the search engine to actually show you what you need or are looking for as the most accurate information or resource. 
 
-Ai will serve up stuff from the center of the normal distribution 
+Ai works similarly with responding using the most statistically likely response to the request. More complicated models have other mechanics and rail guards in between but the basic mechanic is till spitting out things it has seen the most often in training. In other words, Ai will serve up stuff from the center of the normal distribution of data it was trained on.
 
-How do we as a community preserve truth when it sits in the tails of the distribution?
+This leads to what we are talking about as "tail knowledge." That is stuff that is hard to access because you have to ask for it specifically or even know it exists in order to access it through ai or search engines. But if it is so hard to access it will be accessed less and less and in new generations of ai and search which only reinforces the difficulty to find it. If this goes on too long or is reinforced too much that tail knowledge will be lost and forgotten leading to a constriction of available material and "knowledge collapse" over time.
+
+> [!question]
+> Therefore, how do we as a community preserve truth when it sits in the tails of the distribution?